Download or read book Chasing Adonis written by Tim Bergling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about some men that makes them an object of our deepest desires? And how far are we willing to go in pursuit of those desires? Chasing Adonis: Gay Men & the Pursuit of Perfection delves into one of the most central mysteries of gay life: What is it gay men find attractive in other men, and why? How much is nature, how much is nurture . . . or maybe just clever marketing? This unique book examines steroid use, body image disorders, gym culture, Internet hook-ups, obsession, stalking, porn, erotic Web sites, strip clubs and everything else that makes gay men act a little bit nutty when they meet someone who drives them crazy! Frank, sexy, and controversial, it uses a light touch to examine a serious subject: how gay society objectifies the male body. Tim Bergling, author of Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior and Reeling in the Years: Gay Men’s Perspectives on Age and Ageism, surveys gay men about their individual concepts of beauty and desire and about the almost unattainable Adonis standard many of them set for themselves. Teenagers, senior citizens, and the guys stuck in the middle discuss the idea of perfection, how much it changes or evolves over time, and whether the exterior package outweighs what’s inside. From the author: It never ceases to amaze me just how powerful the ’d-word’’(desire) can be, how it can take control of our lives and shut everything out, sometimes for just a few moments, sometimes for days or weeks at a time, depending on how badly we’re smitten. Ask just about anybody, and they can likely pull up a story from their pastor their presentwhen they’ve done something incredibly stupid or ill-advised, or maybe just something completely out of character, in pursuit of their heart’s desire. Chasing Adonis examines: obsession and rejection self-esteem issues the allure of youth preferences in body shapes, types, and sizes designer genes vs. first impressions assessing body parts narcissism or comfort level-why men chase after guys who look like them AIDS and HIV gay porn adult book stores and the Internet the Calvin Klein ad campaign featuring Marky Mark Wahlberg the Abercrombie & Fitch ads Tom of Finland gay icons weight training and fitness clubs steroids and plastic surgery circuit parties body dysmorphia and much more! Chasing Adonis: Gay Men and the Pursuit of Perfection is an entertaining and enlightening read for gay men of all ages.

Download or read book Chasing Adonis written by Adam Gallari and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chasing Adonis written by Gina Ardito and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every girl sees her thirtieth birthday as a milestone, but in Adara Berros's case, her entire life has turned upside-down. She may not know it, but Adara is actually the reincarnation of Greek mythology's Adonis. And she's about to be drawn into a centuries-old game between the gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus, with her eternal love as the grand prize.Detective Shane Griffin senses trouble when he investigates an accident involving Adara and a mysterious stranger named Ted. Having lost his sister to domestic abuse, Shane suspects Ted is not the charming guy he appears to be. After he discovers Adara is the key witness for a murder trial, Shane vows to put his life and career on the line to protect her. When Adara's life is threatened, she and Shane go on the run. Now, mortals and immortals alike are all......Chasing Adonis.

Download or read book Control written by Warren Mcfadden and published by Warren Mcfadden. This book was released on with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Adonis written by Carlo Caruso and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this detailed treatment of the myth of Adonis in post-Classical times, Carlo Caruso provides an overview of the main texts, both literary and scholarly, in Latin and in the vernacular, which secured for the Adonis myth a unique place in the Early Modern revival of Classical mythology. While aiming to provide this general outline of the myth's fortunes in the Early Modern age, the book also addresses three points of primary interest, on which most of the original research included in the work has been conducted. First, the myth's earliest significant revival in the age of Italian Humanism, and particularly in the poetry of the great Latin poet and humanist Giovanni Pontano. Secondly, the diffusion of syncretistic interpretations of the Adonis myth by means of authoritative sixteenth-century mythological encyclopaedias. Thirdly, the allegorical/political use of the Adonis myth in G.B. Marino's (1569-1625) Adone, published in Paris in 1623 to celebrate the Bourbon dynasty and to support their legitimacy with regard to the throne of France.

Download or read book Chasing Shakespeares written by Sarah Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an author the San Francisco Chronicle hails as "daring and splendid" comes an exhilarating novel of passion and ideas that cuts to the heart of one of literature's most fascinating and enduring mysteries: the enigma of Shakespeare. Meet Joe Roper, tough-minded young graduate student, who has been lucky enough to land a job cataloging the famed Kellogg Collection of Elizabethan texts and curiosities. Joe's been passionate about Shakespeare since he read a duct-taped paperback at age nine and found the witches, warriors, murders, and ghosts as much fun as Stephen King, but his working-class roots make him a fish out of water in the academic world. He is seemingly as far from adventure as it's possible to be -- until the delicious Posy Gould enters, stage right. A glamorous rising star at Harvard, she insists that a letter Joe has found, signed by one W. Shakespeare of Stratford, is a career-making discovery for them both -- because the letter says Shakespeare didn't write the plays. To Joe's mind, the letter is a forgery. When Posy insists they test it, the two literary sleuths head for England to prove their clashing theories. But they find themselves in a world where the London Eye looks out over Shakespeare's city, Hollywood producers rub elbows with Elizabethan spies, and mystery shadows the heart of Westminster Abbey and the lanes of rural England. And Joe and Posy find that, when you start chasing Shakespeares, what you find is not only who he was, but who you are, and how far you're willing to go.... A first-rate mystery from one of the masters of the genre, Chasing Shakespeares is also a literary shell game, a love story, and a profound meditation on identity and ownership. Sarah Smith has created a novel that rivals A. S. Byatt's Possession in its rich and fast-moving blend of literary history and page-turning suspense.

Download or read book The Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poems Shakespeare’s greatest achievement in nondramatic verse was his collection of 154 magnificent sonnets that portray a tumultuous world of love, rivalry, and conflict among a poet, an aristocratic young man, a rival poet, and a mysterious “dark lady.” More profound than other Elizabethan sonnet sequences and never surpassed as archetypes of the form, these poems explore almost every imaginable emotional complexity related to love and friendship. Some poems are dark, bitter, and self-hating, others express idealism with unmatchable eloquence–and all are of quintessential beauty, part of the world’s great literary heritage. In addition to his sonnets, Shakespeare published two long poems early in his career: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. Immediately popular in Shakespeare’s time, they display a richness that can also reward us with insights into the powerful imagery of his plays. Rounding out this volume are two minor poems, “A Lover’s Complaint” and “The Phoenix and Turtle,” thought to be part of Shakespeare’s early writings.

Download or read book Breaking Out II written by Kevin Alderson and published by Insomniac Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on the heels of the first edition, Breaking Out II expands its coverage by including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) individuals. While some societies have become more tolerant and accepting of sexual and gender diversity, LGBTI people continue to suffer psychological damage caused by growing up in largely heterosexist, homophobic, biphobic, and transphobic milieus. How can LGBTI individuals learn to love themselves when many or most of the signals society sends out denigrate their very being? Dr. Kevin Alderson has developed a method of building a positive LGBTI identity based on extensive research and the best of what we know about self-help psychology.

Download or read book Hard Work written by Roy Williams and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most respected basketball coaches in the country relates the story of his life, from his turbulent childhood to the North Carolina Tar Heels' national championship in 2009, and discusses the coaching philosophy that has made him successful.

Download or read book Painkiller written by Warren Mcfadden and published by Warren Mcfadden. This book was released on 2023-04-20 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 The Early Signs of Monkey Branching I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Maya Angelou The definition of a monkey-branching relationship is similar to cheating. Monkey-branching occurs when people are considering other options while they are still in a relationship with their partner. They do this to place down a safety net and secure a backup plan in case something goes wrong in their current relationship. Essentially, a dumper that monkey-branches emotionally cheats on his or her current partner and eventually leaves for someone else. 1.They start gaslighting you. This is the definition of gaslighting: manipulate someone by psychological means, be aware when someone start's gaslighting you.When someone gaslighting you they are accusing you of something they are doing.They will accuse you of cheating because they themselves are cheating and monkey branching. 2.They change hobbies and activities. They don’t want to be around you too much, the things you used to do together to Bond together they don’t want to do it no more. Because they start losing interest in you and their mind is focusing on the new person that's taking your place. 3.They change their appearance. They start dressing better and smelling better, they start going to the gym and taking care of themself, because with you they start to get complacent and become a couch potato. With you they didn’t care how they got their hair fixed, they walked around in their dirty ass underwear or dirty black leggings or basketball shorts people have on for a long ass time.They probably walked around the house with that stank ass weave and that nasty hair bonnet on. They do not wash their hair,then all of a sudden they start improving their appearance.They start eating healthy and going on a diet .The reason for this is because they lose interest in you, you become boring and complacent. Nobody wants a boring relationship. 4.You catch them on dating apps This should be a dead giveaway, what you think they get on dating apps to do, they're not looking for a prince in shining armor on a dating app or Mr. Right on a dating app, they're looking for somebody to stretch out their vagina walls a little further. Nobody really goes on dating apps looking for love they go on dating apps looking for sex and in today's time it just like ordering pizza.

Download or read book Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws written by Chris Kendall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A candid re-examination of what it means to be a gay man Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws: Sexual Oppression and Gender Hierarchies in Queer Men’s Lives explores the impact and effects of sexual oppression and power relationships within the gay male community. This controversial book features thoughtful and provocative essays from authors, educators, and activists who challenge the stigmatization and issues of power they face as gay men who don’t fit the masculine mold formed by the gay porn industry and the media. Their poignant words reveal the sting of finding discrimination and alienation where least expected as the rise of sexualized hyper-masculinity, racism, and femiphobia among gay men has created a need to re-examine appropriate gay male identity and sexuality. Editors Christopher Kendall and Wayne Martino, who have written about and researched the negative side of gay male pornography, the links between sexism and homophobia, gay male suicide, and the impact of masculinity and sexuality on gay men, divide the book’s powerful essays into two sections: “The Dynamics of Sex/Gender Oppression” and “When Gender Harms and Oppression Becomes the Norm.” The first section challenges the assumptions that form the basis of gay male identity. Relying on the work of radical feminists and cultural theorists, the authors explore the meaning of “gender” in a society that expects men to act according to a masculine ideal—and punishes them when they don’t. The book’s second section analyzes the reality of gender oppression caused by inequality and sexualized gender hierarchies. Contributors discuss what can happen when gay men take seriously the sexual role models that are offered and what happens if they dare to reject them. Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws examines: effeminacy in gay men’s lives the idealization of the gay male body straight-acting masculinities and the rejection of the feminine narcissism, masculinity, and body absorption racialized masculinity the feminization of the Asian gay male in gay pornography gay male rape domestic violence and much more! Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws is an eye-opening re-evaluation of what being “gay” means, why being gay is still considered socially unacceptable, and how the gay male community can respond to systemic stigmatization and hate.

Download or read book Guardian Heroes Heart of Magic written by Tang Xiao and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-01-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a decisive magical battle, they naturally suffered huge damage. And the Magic Element on the continent also hated humans because of this, and were no longer willing to be driven by human magician. Adonis, who possessed the Heart of Magic and was able to continue to use magic, gradually discovered that after the magic disappeared, evil forces continued to appear. Adonis had also grown into a hero who protected the continent against the evil forces."

Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakspeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Element of Surprise written by Mr. Ish and published by Mr. Ish. This book was released on 2019-03-09 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ♥Addictive, Humorous, Romance, Mystery, Action packed Urban Fiction Drama ♥ Known for his loyalty and commitment to those that he holds close to his heart, thirty-year-old Adonis Davis proves that being authentic in nature isn't always recognized. After the Newark, New Jersey native is betrayed by his childhood best friend, Mustaheem, Adonis finds out that it was the deceitful actions of Mustaheem that ultimately led to the nationwide manhunt of his little sister Chaz. Chaz is a sexy twenty-eight-year-old female that had lost everything When her brother Adonis went to prison five years ago. However, it was the promise to Adonis that Mustaheem failed to make good on, in terms of looking out for Chaz which pushed her to migrate to Atlanta, Georgia. Which eventually put her in a predicament that leads to her being on the run for a triple homicide. The unknown elements of a crime that took place fifteen years ago prior, connects Adonis and Chaz in a way that no one could have ever imagined, Things get grittier in grimier than the mind could fathom. - Element of Surprise Author's Note: ❝𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.❞

Download or read book Dicks Complete Edition of Shakespeare s Works written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: