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Why Him? Why Her?: Understanding Your Personality Type and Finding the Perfect Match (Audiobook)
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Robert A. Glover · 192 pages
Debunks the "nice guy syndrome," the need to please others at one's own expense with the hope of receiving happiness, love, and fulfillment, and offers advice for how to rediscover oneself, revive one's sex life, and build better relationships with others.
My Mother/My Self: The Daughter's Search for Identity
Nancy Friday · 464 pages
My Mother/My Self examines the first, most lasting--and most crucial--time of every woman's life, and shows how, in all the passages of a woman's life--with men, with other women, on the job, and with her own daughters--every woman can begin to change the childhood patterns of the mother/daughter bond, and become the vital, independent, fully sexual woman she wants to be.
The Art of Seduction
Robert Greene · 468 pages
This mesmerizing exploration of the most subtle, elusive, and effective form of power is a masterful analysis of civilization's greatest seducers, from Cleopatra to JFK, as well as the classic literature of seduction from Freud to Kierkegaard and Ovid to Casanova. Robert Greene once again identifies the rules of a timeless, amoral game and explores how to cast a spell, break down resistance, and,
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus
John Gray · 304 pages
Once upon a time Martians and Venusians met, fell in love, and had happy relationships together because they respected and accepted their differences. Then they came to Earth and amnesia set in: they forgot they were from different planets.Based on years of successful counseling of couples and individuals, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus has helped millions of couples transform their relat
The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
Alan Downs · 238 pages
The most important issue in a gay man’s life is not “coming out,” but coming to terms with the invalidating past. Despite the progress made in recent years, many gay men still wonder, “Are we better off?” The byproduct of growing up gay in a straight world continues to be the internalization of shame, rejection, and anger—a toxic cocktail that can lead to drug abuse, promiscuity, alcoholism, depre
The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating
David M. Buss · 267 pages
How we choose - and lose - our mates has always been a source of fascination. This controversial book is the first to present a unified theory of human mating behavior. The Evolution of Desire is based on the most massive study of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide. If we all want love, why is there so much conflict
Your Brain On Porn
Gary Wilson · 183 pages
When high speed internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began to worry that their porn use was running out of control. Far from preparing them for fulfilling relationships, viewing an endless stream of porn videos led to unexpected symptoms. Perhaps most surprisingly, for the first time in history erectile dysfunction was becoming a significant problem for young
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
Getting the Love You Want : A Guide for Couples
Harville Hendrix · 311 pages
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"--
Why Women Have Sex: Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge
Cindy M. Meston, David M. Buss · 306 pages
" ... Do women have sex simply to reproduce or display their affection? When University of Texas at Austin clinical psychologist Cindy M. Meston and evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss joined forces to investigate the underlying sexual motivations of women, what they found astonished them. Through the voices of real women, Meston and Buss reveal the motivations that guide women's sexual decisi
The Mating Game: Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love
Allan Pease, Barbara Pease
Soul Mates: Honouring the Mysteries of Love and Relationship
Thomas Moore · 288 pages
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
Esther Perel · 272 pages
Why does great sex so often fade for couples who claim to love each other as much as ever? Can we want what we already have? Why does the transition to parenthood so often spell erotic disaster? Does good intimacy always make for good sex? Ether Perel takes on these tough questions, grappling with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit
A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire
Sai Gaddam, Ogi Ogas · 414 pages
Two maverick neuroscientists use the world's largest psychology experiment--the Internet--to study the private activities of millions of men and women around the world, unveiling a revolutionary and shocking new vision of human desire that overturns conventional thinking. For his groundbreaking sexual research, Alfred Kinsey and his team interviewed 18,000 people, relying on them to honestly repor
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.
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find -- and Keep -- Love
Amir Levine, Rachel Heller · 294 pages
Introduces the theory of adult attachment as an advanced relationship science that can enable individuals to find and sustain love, offering insight into the roles of genetics and early family life in how people approach relationships.
The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
Geoffrey Miller · 533 pages
"Evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller shows the evolutionary power of sexual choice and the reasons why our ancestors became attracted not only to pretty faces and healthy bodies, but to minds that were witty, articulate, generous, and conscious. The richness and subtlety of modern psychology help to reveal how the human mind evolved, like the peacock's tail and the elk's antlers for courtshi
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.
Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg · 288 pages
From NYU Wagner: At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep connection. This seems standard now, but it’s wildly different from what people did even just decades ago. Single people today have more romantic options than at any point in human history. Wit
How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
David Richo · 276 pages
The Function of the Orgasm
Wilhelm Reich · 400 pages
For Women Only: What You Need to Know about the Inner Lives of Men
Shaunti Feldhahn · 202 pages
What's going on in a man's mind? Feldhahn's research reveals the inner lives of men and will open women's eyes to what the men in their life are really thinking and feeling.