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A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
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Include books by the same authorSex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
Eleanor Herman · 322 pages
Explores the sexual lives of some of the most beloved and infamous female rulers, including Catherine the Great, Marie Antoinette, and the bastion of virtue, Queen Victoria.
The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
Rachel P. Maines · 181 pages
The author explores hysteria in Western medicine throughout the ages and examines the characterization of female sexuality as a disease requiring treatment. Medical authorities, she writes, were able to defend and justify the clinical production of orgasm in women as necessary to maintain the dominant view of sexuality, which defined sex as penetration to male orgasm - a practice that consistently
The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure
Michel Foucault · 304 pages
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
Voluptuous Panic: The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin
Mel Gordon · 305 pages
"Weimar Berlin has been immortalized as the nastiest, wickedest, and most debauched place on earth. Novels, plays, and films have told the story of the erotic Mecca and its descent into Nazi rule. Voluptuous Panic, however, is the first book to actually document the madcap world of the sexual metropolis during the interwar years. Mel Gordon's detailed survey explores the lost paradise from the per
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
Eric Berkowitz · 352 pages
Whores in History: Prostitution in Western Society
Nickie Roberts · 380 pages
'If prostitution is the world's oldest profession, then men writing about it is certainly the second oldest.' It was to retrieve an important part of women's history from the hands of male writers - who have defined prostitution from their own point of view as the client sex - that Nickie Roberts undertook this invigorating blend of social history and sexual politics. In her far-reaching narrative
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
Therese Oneill · 313 pages
"A scandalously honest guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood. "If Unmentionable does not secure the Pulitzer Prize for Most Fascinating Book Ever, the whole gig is rigged. Therese Oneill opens the doors to everything we secretly wanted to know about the Victorian era, but didn't think to ask. Knickers with no crotches? Check. Arsenic as a facial scrub? Check. The infrequency of bathing and t
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,
The Sexual History of London: From Roman Londinium to the Swinging City---Lust, Vice, and Desire Across the Ages
Catharine Arnold · 384 pages
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
Jonathan Eig · 408 pages
Immersed in radical feminist politics, scientific ingenuity, establishment opposition, and, ultimately, a sea change in social attitudes, this is the fascinating story of one of the most important scientific discoveries of the twentieth century.
Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
Katie Hickman · 384 pages
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
Elaine Pagels · 189 pages
Discusses the concepts of original sin and the historical meaning of Christianity.
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
When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
Gail Collins · 471 pages
Tells how American women got from there to here, in politics, fashion, economics, sex, families and work in the past five decades.
This Book is Gay
James Dawson, Juno Dawson · 288 pages
"Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who's ever dared to wonder"--Back cover.
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
Cleopatra: A Life
Stacy Schiff · 441 pages
From back cover: Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons; her supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order.
Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz
Ron Jeremy, Eric Spitznagel · 352 pages
Dear Reader,You probably think you already know me because you've seen one of my two thousand porn movies, or maybe you caught me on VH1's The Surreal Life, or rented my movie Pornstar, or heard me rapping in someone's music video. . . . Yeah, that's me. But believe it or not, that's not the real me. The real me is just an average guy trying to make it in the world like everyone else. Well . . . s
The Mating Game: Why Men Want Sex and Women Need Love
Allan Pease, Barbara Pease
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.
Love, Lust & Faking It: The Naked Truth About Sex, Lies, and True Romance
Jenny McCarthy · 244 pages
Inveterate truth teller McCarthy providesa funny, often poignant, and no-holds-barred look at the essence of relationships: love and sex. Jenny explores the intensity of first love, introducing us to Tony, the boy of her teenage dreams, and Tubby, her dirty, sexy stuffed teddy bear. She takes us on a whirlwind tour of the world of aphrodisiacs and fetishes, explains the importance of playing docto