Sex for One

Author: Betty Dodson
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0307953645
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
The classic guide to fully enjoying the pleasures of self-love, full of warmth, intelligence, and informative line drawings—from a renowned sex educator featured on Netflix’s the goop lab with Gwyneth Paltrow Confronting one of our last and most deeply rooted taboos—masturbation—noted sex expert and pro-sex feminist Betty Dodson, Ph.D., takes the shame out of self-love by creating a straightforward and appealing guidebook that reveals masturbation as a satisfying, vital form of sexual expression. Dr. Dodson demonstrates how anyone can learn to make love alone with feelings of guilt or loneliness, and explains why masturbation is sexually and spiritually fulfilling for both men and women. Not only is it the safest sex, but sharing masturbation can also be a sensual treat for couples who want to learn more about each other’s sexual responses. Sex for One demonstrates that self-loving is not just for times in-between lovers or for social misfits. Masturbation is the joyful and ongoing love affair that each of us has with ourselves throughout childhood, adulthood, and the golden years of old age.

This Sex which is Not One

Author: Luce Irigaray
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801493317
Category : Femininity (Philosophy)
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
In eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts that are relevant to current discussion of feminist theory and practice.

Making Sex

Author: Thomas Laqueur
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674543553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342

Book Description
History of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns by describing the developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology.

Because of Sex

Author: Gillian Thomas
Publisher: Picador USA
ISBN: 1250138086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
A compelling look at ten of the most important Supreme Court cases defining women’s rights on the job, as told by the brave women who brought the cases to court

Sex Object

Author: Jessica Valenti
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062435108
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 133

Book Description
New York Times Bestseller - An NPR Best Book of the Year “Sharp and prescient… The appeal of Valenti’s memoir lies in her ability to trace objectification through her own life, and to trace what was for a long time her own obliviousness to it…Sex Object is an antidote to the fun and flirty feminism of selfies and self-help.” — New Republic Author and Guardian US columnist Jessica Valenti has been leading the national conversation on gender and politics for over a decade. Now, in a darkly funny and bracing memoir, Valenti explores the toll that sexism takes from the every day to the existential. Sex Object explores the painful, funny, embarrassing, and sometimes illegal moments that shaped Valenti’s adolescence and young adulthood in New York City, revealing a much shakier inner life than the confident persona she has cultivated as one of the most recognizable feminists of her generation. In the tradition of writers like Joan Didion and Mary Karr, this literary memoir is sure to shock those already familiar with Valenti’s work and enthrall those who are just finding it.

The One-Sex Body on Trial: The Classical and Early Modern Evidence

Author: Helen King
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317022394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
By far the most influential work on the history of the body, across a wide range of academic disciplines, remains that of Thomas Laqueur. This book puts on trial the one-sex/two-sex model of Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud through a detailed exploration of the ways in which two classical stories of sexual difference were told, retold and remade from the mid-sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Agnodike, the 'first midwife' who disguises herself as a man and then exposes herself to her potential patients, and Phaethousa, who grows a beard after her husband leaves her, are stories from the ancient world that resonated in the early modern period in particular. Tracing the reception of these tales shows how they provided continuity despite considerable change in medicine, being the common property of those on different sides of professional disputes about women's roles in both medicine and midwifery. The study reveals how different genres used these stories, changing their characters and plots, but always invoking the authority of the classics in discussions of sexual identity. The study raises important questions about the nature of medical knowledge, the relationship between texts and observation, and the understanding of sexual difference in the early modern world beyond the one-sex model.

Sex for One

Author: Betty Dodson
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 9780517886076
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 212

No-one Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday

Author: Tracy Bloom
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473506042
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
A very funny romantic novel (... and no. 1 ebook bestseller) Childhood sweethearts Matthew and Katy agree they must never see each other again following a school reunion. So all is forgotten ... until eight months later when a shock meeting at an antenatal class forces them to confront the fact that Matthew could be the father of Katy's baby. Love and life are messy, but Katy and Matthew take things to a whole new level as deep emotions begin to resurface and hormones run riot. Never has a one-night-stand led to such chaos!

Having Sex, Wanting Intimacy

Author: Jill P. Weber
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442220201
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
This book, in a step-by-step progression, shows a better way to breaking the cycle and cultivating better relationships. It teaches women how to recognize when they are in a Sextimacy event as opposed to the beginning of a mutually fulfilling relationship that won't leave them racked with morning-after regrets.

Sex Drive

Author: STEPHANIE. THEOBALD
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800183322
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Arriving in New York with a failing relationship and a body she felt out of touch with, Stephanie Theobald set off on a 3,497 mile trip across America to re-build her orgasm from the ground up. What started as a quest for the ultimate auto-erotic experience became a fantastic voyage into her own body. She takes us from 'body sex' classes with the legendary feminist Betty Dodson to an interview with the former US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who was fired for suggesting that masturbation should be talked about in schools. Along the way, we are immersed in a weird, countercultural America of marijuana farms and 'ecosexual sexologists'. Sex Drive is a memoir about desire and pleasure, merging sexuality and spirituality, eighteenth-century porn and enlightenment philosophy. A new sexual revolution has begun - and this time round, it's all about the women.