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Redefining Our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships
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Include books by the same authorMore Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
Franklin Veaux, Eve Rickert · 480 pages
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt · 288 pages
> The guide of choice for people curious to move beyond conventional monogamy, and for anyone interested in learning better skills for love, sex, and intimacy, *The Ethical Slut* will open you up to the adventure and freedom that comes from redefining the way you relate to the adventure and freedom that comes from redefining the way you relate to friends and lovers. Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easto
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha · 400 pages
"A controversial, idea-driven book that challenges everything you know about sex, marriage, family, and society"--Provided by publisher. Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. But this narrative is collapsing. Here, renegade thinkers Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá, while debunking almost everything we "know" about sex, offer a bold alternati
The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality
Julie Sondra Decker · 216 pages
"In 'The invisible orientation,' Julie Sondra Decker outlines what asexuality is, counters misconceptions, provides resources, and puts asexual people's experiences in context as they move through a very sexualized world. It includes information for asexual people to help understand their orientation and what it means for their relationships, as well as tips and facts for those who want to undersa
Promiscuities: An Opinionated History of Female Desire
Naomi Wolf · 286 pages
Promiscuities follows a group of adolescent girls as they gradually become aware of themselves as sexual beings and discover what our culture tells them being female means. Drawing on her own experiences as well those of her contemporaries, Naomi Wolf reveals the secrets of our coming of age: the sexual games, forbidden crushes, losses of virginity, and rites of initiation. She also uncompromisin
Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
Inga Muscio · 277 pages
An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a positive and powerful force in their lives. With humor and candor, she shares her own history as she explores the cultural forces that influence women's relationships with their bodies. Sending o
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
Elizabeth Prioleau · 366 pages
"[A] glossy, steam-heated analysis of temptresses and their tactics." —The New York TimesIn this road map to restoring feminine sexual power, Betsy Prioleau introduces and analyzes the stories and stratagems of history's greatest seductresses. These are the women who ravished the world—from such classic figures as Cleopatra and Mae West to such lesser-known women as the infamous Violet Gordon Wood
Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
Mark Manson · 353 pages
Models is a book on becoming an attractive man. But it does not promote tricks, techniques, and tactics to manipulate the laws of attraction. Instead, Manson encourages men to partake in self-development to attract women in an honest way.
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Peggy Orenstein · 319 pages
The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women
Jessica Valenti · 267 pages
The United States is obsessed with virginity — from the media to schools to government agencies. In The Purity Myth Jessica Valenti argues that the country's intense focus on chastity is damaging to young women. Through in-depth cultural and social analysis, Valenti reveals that powerful messaging on both extremes — ranging from abstinence curriculum to "Girls Gone Wild" infomercials — place a you
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Shereen El Feki · 345 pages
A groundbreaking examination of changing sexual attitudes and behaviors in the Middle East identifies the sexual factors behind key political, economic, social, and religious trends impacting the region.
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
Michel Foucault · 176 pages
Sexuality and the Psychology of Love
Sigmund Freud · 218 pages
Freud's discovery of the preeminent role of sex in creating neuroses resulted in theories that changed the thinking of the world. He was a champion of greater sexual understanding in a society that only whispered the words he used out loud. This pioneering study of the nature of sexuality and love remains a monumental achievement. The importance of sexuality and infantilism in shaping individual d
Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex
Judith Levine · 301 pages
The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality
Rachel Hills · 272 pages
"Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journalist Rachel Hills argues that we are in the grip of a new brand of sexual control. Cosmopolitan meets Foucault in this full-scale investigation of the role that sex plays in today's culture. Coming of age in the early 2000s, Rache
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists
Neil Strauss · 452 pages
The author and his friends become preoccupied with perfecting their techniques in seducing women, until an unexpected meeting with a female guitarist makes him question his lifestyle.
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
Carol Queen, Lawrence Schimel · 199 pages
PoMo: short for PostModern; in th earts, a movement following after and in direct reaction to Modernism; culturally, an outlook that acknowledges diverse and complex points of view. PoMoSexual: the queer erotic reality beyond the boundaries of gender, separatism, and essentialist notions of sexual orientation.
The Function of the Orgasm
Wilhelm Reich · 400 pages
Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
David Schnarch · 444 pages
With a new preface by the author, this updated edition explores the ways in which passion can be kept alive and how the height of sexual and emotional fulfillment can be reached in later life.
Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us
Jesse Bering · 276 pages
"A look at our complex relationship with our carnal urges and the way we disguise, deny, and shame the sexual deviant in all of us"--