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How to Think More About Sex

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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

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Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

Sigmund Freud · 130 pages

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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.

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Everything Is F*cked: A Book about Hope

Mark Manson · 288 pages

We live in an interesting time. Materially, everything is the best it’s ever been—we are freer, healthier and wealthier than any people in human history. Yet, somehow everything seems to be irreparably and horribly f*cked—the planet is warming, governments are failing, economies are collapsing, and everyone is perpetually offended on Twitter. At this moment in history, when we have access to techn

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Paying for It

Chester Brown · 286 pages

"Brown calmly lays out the facts of how he became not only a willing participant in but also a vocal proponent of one of the world's most hot-button topics--prostitution. Paying For It offers an entirely contemporary exploration of sex work--from the timid john who rides his bike to meet his escorts, wonders how to tip so as not to offend, and reads Dan Savage for advice, to the modern-day transac

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More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

Franklin Veaux, Eve Rickert · 480 pages

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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

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Why is the Penis Shaped Like That?: And Other Reflections on Being Human

Jesse Bering · 352 pages

"Titillating and provocative essays from one of the freshest voices in science today -- Why do testicles hang the way they do? Is there an adaptive function to the female orgasm? What does it feel like to want to kill yourself? Does "free will" really exist? And why is the penis shaped like that anyway? In Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?, the research psychologist and award-winning columnist Je

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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

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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

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Men In Love

Nancy Friday · 531 pages

"An extraordinary, explicitly masculine journey, Men In Love develops a startlingly honest portrayal of what it means to be a man in contemporary America. Here are the unexpurgated dreams, fantasies and fetishes that excite and obsess men today. In creating this historic study, Nancy Friday listened -- without disapproval, apology or censorship -- to the candid responses of thousands of men aged f

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The Function of the Orgasm

Wilhelm Reich · 400 pages

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The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism

Octavio Paz · 276 pages

"In The Double Flame, Nobel Laureate Octavio Paz explores the intimate connection between sex, eroticism, and love - themes that have been a constant in his writing, from his first published poems to the great works of his maturity. Beginning with Plato's Symposium, he gives a short history of love and eroticism in literature throughout the ages: from the influence of the great cities Alexandria a

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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

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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

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Erotism: Death and Sensuality

Georges Bataille · 232 pages

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