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Book Bachelors and Bunnies

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carrie Pitzulo
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2011-05
  • ISBN : 0226670066
  • Pages : 252 pages

Download or read book Bachelors and Bunnies written by Carrie Pitzulo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a surprising new take on a twentieth-century icon, Bachelors and Bunnies goes beyond the smoking jacket and the centerfold to uncover an unlikely ally for the feminist cause.

Book Playboy Mansion Memoirs

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  • Author : Patricia Wentworth
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-06-01
  • ISBN : 9780996233439
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Playboy Mansion Memoirs written by Patricia Wentworth and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Playboy Sex

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  • Author : C. J. Edwards
  • Publisher : CreateSpace
  • Release : 2015-09-24
  • ISBN : 9781517447892
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book Playboy Sex written by C. J. Edwards and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three stories in the Younger Women series follow middle-aged billionaire Jeremy as he serial seduces women half his age and persuades them to do a string of perverted sex acts for his gratification; and their own pleasure! Cradle Snatcher (previously published as Sex Predator) - Jeremy was a billionaire. A self-made man, he didn't bother working for money any more, his money worked for him. That left him plenty of time to pursue his other great interest in life - women. On the hunt in one of his favourite locations, a coffee shop in town, he spies his latest conquest. He hunts, traps and seduces Sara in a chain of events that completely blows her mind. Pony Girl Party - Bored billionaire Jeremy loved nothing more than corrupting younger women. His latest conquests, nineteen year old student Michelle and twenty-something shy civil servant Sara, were about to experience something that would blow there minds. Jeremy had been invited to a very exclusive party and he would take all three of his women. The Student's Mother - Jeremy, the middle-aged millionaire is about to take his relationship with his student 'kept woman' Michelle to a new level. Her divorced mother is visiting and she is hot! Leveraging his influence over the daughter, he quickly coerces the yummy mummy into the sack.

Book Pornotopia

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  • Author : Paul Preciado
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2014-10-01
  • ISBN : 1942130260
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Pornotopia written by Paul Preciado and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the first time in 1953, Playboy was not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America; it also came to embody an entirely new lifestyle through the construction of a series of utopian multimedia spaces — from the Playboy Mansion and fictional Playboy’s Penthouse of 1959 to the Playboy Clubs and hotels appearing around the world in the 1960s. Simultaneously, the invention of the contraceptive pill provided access to a biochemical technique that separated (hetero) sexuality and reproduction. Addressing these concurrent cultural shifts, Paul Preciado investigates the strategic relationships between space, gender, and sexuality in popular sites related to the production and consumption of pornography that have tended to reside at the margins of traditional histories of architecture: bachelor pads, multimedia rotating beds, and design objects, among others. Combining historical perspectives with contemporary critical theory, gender and queer theory, porn studies, the history of technology, and a range of primary transdisciplinary sources — treatises on sexuality, medical and pharmaceutical handbooks, architecture journals, erotic magazines, building manuals, and novels — Pornotopia explores the use of architecture as a biopolitical technique for governing sexual relations and the production of gender in the postwar United States.

Book Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America

Download or read book Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America written by Elizabeth Fraterrigo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched by Hugh Hefner in 1953, Playboy promoted an image of the young, affluent, single male-the man about town ensconced in a plush bachelor pad, in constant pursuit of female companionship and a good time. Spectacularly successful, this high-gloss portrait of glamorous living and sexual adventure would eventually draw some one million readers each month. Exploring the world created in the pages of America's most widely read and influential men's magazine, Elizabeth Fraterrigo sets Playboy's history in the context of a society in transition. Sexual mores, gender roles, family life, notions of consumption and national purpose-all were in flux as Americans adjusted to the prosperity that followed World War II. Initially, Playboy promised only "entertainment for men," but Fraterrigo reveals that its vision of abundance, pleasure, and individual freedom soon placed the magazine at the center of mainstream debates about sex and freedom, politics and pleasure in postwar America. She shows that for Hugh Hefner, the "good life" meant the "playboy life," in which expensive goods and sexually available women were plentiful, obligations were few, and if one worked hard enough, one could enjoy abundant leisure and consumption. In support of this view, Playboy attacked early marriage, traditional gender arrangements, and sanctions against premarital sex. The magazine also promoted private consumption as a key to economic growth and national well-being, offering tips from "The Playboy Advisor" on everything from high-end stereos and cuff-links to caviar and wine. If we want to understand post-war America, Fraterrigo shows, we must pay close attention to Playboy, its messages about pleasure and freedom, the debates it inspired, and the criticism it drew--all of which has been bound up in the popular culture and consumer society that surround us.

Book Sex and the Office

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  • Author : Julie Berebitsky
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2012-03-27
  • ISBN : 0300183275
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book Sex and the Office written by Julie Berebitsky and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging book—the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace—Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans’ attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed from the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S. Treasury office, to the present. Berebitsky recounts the actual experiences of female and male office workers; draws on archival sources ranging from the records of investigators looking for waste in government offices during World War II to the personal papers of Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown and Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem; and explores how popular sources—including cartoons, advertisements, advice guides, and a wide array of fictional accounts—have represented wanted and unwelcome romantic and sexual advances. By giving sex in the office a history, she provides valuable insights into the nature and meaning of sexual harassment today.

Book True Sexual Morality

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  • Author : Daniel R. Heimbach
  • Publisher : Crossway
  • Release : 2004-11-09
  • ISBN : 1433516020
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book True Sexual Morality written by Daniel R. Heimbach and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Heimbach examines the biblical teachings on sexual morality as well as four counterfeit views that have crept into our "sexually revolutionized" society. He gives us an in-depth look at the moral relativism that has spread through our culture and opens our eyes to the effects that nonbiblical sexual choices have on individuals, the family, the church, and the culture.

Book The Sexual Scene

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  • Author : John H. Gagnon
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9781412834001
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Sexual Scene written by John H. Gagnon and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The new morality" has excited coun­tless public and private, formal and in­formal, scientific and non-scientific, sober and frankly provocative discus­sions. Those aspects related to sexual relationships and sexual behavior and the meaning of our "moral break­down" have been much discussed. The essays in this volume address themselves to a more subtle and po­tentially more meaningful question: What is the extent of deviance from traditional patterns of sexual rela­tionships, and what have been the legal and political implications of widespread transgression of legal and, for many, personal codes or mo­rality? This volume confronts the myths and the realities of the sexual revolution in America. As such it helps explain the limits as well as the goals of a new generation in search of new standards of conduct.

Book Sex Scene

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  • Author : Eric Schaefer
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2014-03-21
  • ISBN : 0822376806
  • Pages : 517 pages

Download or read book Sex Scene written by Eric Schaefer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sex Scene suggests that what we have come to understand as the sexual revolution of the late 1960s and early 1970s was actually a media revolution. In lively essays, the contributors examine a range of mass media—film and television, recorded sound, and publishing—that provide evidence of the circulation of sex in the public sphere, from the mainstream to the fringe. They discuss art films such as I am Curious (Yellow), mainstream movies including Midnight Cowboy, sexploitation films such as Mantis in Lace, the emergence of erotic film festivals and of gay pornography, the use of multimedia in sex education, and the sexual innuendo of The Love Boat. Scholars of cultural studies, history, and media studies, the contributors bring shared concerns to their diverse topics. They highlight the increasingly fluid divide between public and private, the rise of consumer and therapeutic cultures, and the relationship between identity politics and individual rights. The provocative surveys and case studies in this nuanced cultural history reframe the "sexual revolution" as the mass sexualization of our mediated world. Contributors. Joseph Lam Duong, Jeffrey Escoffier, Kevin M. Flanagan, Elena Gorfinkel, Raymond J. Haberski Jr., Joan Hawkins, Kevin Heffernan, Eithne Johnson, Arthur Knight, Elana Levine, Christie Milliken, Eric Schaefer, Jeffrey Sconce, Jacob Smith, Leigh Ann Wheeler, Linda Williams

Book Mr  Playboy

Download or read book Mr Playboy written by Steven Watts and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spans from Hefner's childhood to the launch of Playboy magazine and the expansion of the Playboy empire to the present Puts Hefner's life and work into the cultural context of American life from the mid-twentieth-century onwards Contains over 50 B/W and color photos, including an actual fold-out centerfold

Book Animals  Deviance  and Sex

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carmen M. Cusack
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Release : 2015-10-13
  • ISBN : 1443884707
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Animals Deviance and Sex written by Carmen M. Cusack and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals, Deviance, and Sex proposes that “deviance” is a fluid term that advances cultural, gender, human, and societal norms, but “deviant” labels that presume unequivocally to segregate superior human morality from animal sexuality may fail to see the forest for the trees. A plain reading of the word “deviance” may suggest scientific or quantitative classifications. Indeed, animal species may be grouped and analyzed according to generalized norms for each species. However, “deviance” may indicate moral relativism, which is fundamentally tied to historical and contemporary understandings of human sexuality and human-animal relationships. Animals, Deviance, and Sex argues that traditional and progressive classifications, analyses, and implications of human deviance could authentically be reworked in consideration of animals’ anatomy, breeding, copulation, gender, mating, nonconsent, and sexuality. Morally and ethically gray areas voluntarily and knowingly traversed by human-animal sexual linkages have expanded and become increasingly normalized by popular culture. Animals, Deviance, and Sex’s treatment of these trends is amusingly complex, yet unpretentious, truthfully proficient, and careful. Each chapter assiduously and succinctly tethers animal science, anecdotes, behavior and social science, current events, human-animal relationships, law, and theory throughout dozens of exotically-themed subchapters. Animals, Deviance, and Sex is a well-organized oeuvre demonstrating professional expertise and experience.

Book Just Sex

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicola Gavey
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780415310727
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Just Sex written by Nicola Gavey and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a valuable contribution to feminist and social constructionist work on rape that will be of interest to those studying psychology, gender studies, cultural studies and sociology.

Book Playboy Swings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia Farmer
  • Publisher : Beaufort Books
  • Release : 2015-09-14
  • ISBN : 0825307171
  • Pages : 403 pages

Download or read book Playboy Swings written by Patricia Farmer and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You already know about the Bunnies, now learn about the music that helped shape Playboy. Playboy—the magazine, the empire, the lifestyle—is one of the world's best known brands. Since the launch of Playboy magazine in 1953, two elements have been remarkably consistent: the first, is the celebration of the female form. The second, readers may be surprised to learn, is Playboy's involvement in the music scene. The playboy experience has never been just about sex, but about lifestyle. Hugh Hefner's personal passion for music, particularly fine jazz, has always been an essential component of that. Full of interviews with hundreds of people who were on the scene throughout the rise, fall, and on-going renaissance, Playboy Swings carries readers on a seductive journey. Farmer focuses on Playboy's involvement in the music scene and impact on popular entertainment, and demonstrates how the empire helped change the world by integrating television and festivals. Join Patty Farmer as she guides the reader through the first inception of the Playboy empire through the 1959 Jazz Festival, and club opening after club opening. With 60 pages of photos and a complete reference guide, readers will associate music, not just Bunnies, when thinking about Playboy after reading this enthralling look into the history of one of the world's most infamous brands.

Book Sex and Social Justice

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martha C. Nussbaum
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2000-08-24
  • ISBN : 0199880492
  • Pages : 804 pages

Download or read book Sex and Social Justice written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-24 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to respect the dignity of a human being? What sort of support do human capacities demand from the world, and how should we think about this support when we encounter differences of gender or sexuality? How should we think about each other across divisions that a legacy of injustice has created? In Sex and Social Justice, Martha Nussbaum delves into these questions and emerges with a distinctive conception of feminism that links feminist inquiry closely to the important progress that has been made during the past few decades in articulating theories of both national and global justice. Growing out of Nussbaum's years of work with an international development agency connected with the United Nations, this collection charts a feminism that is deeply concerned with the urgent needs of women who live in hunger and illiteracy, or under unequal legal systems. Offering an internationalism informed by development economics and empirical detail, many essays take their start from the experiences of women in developing countries. Nussbaum argues for a universal account of human capacity and need, while emphasizing the essential role of knowledge of local circumstance. Further chapters take on the pursuit of social justice in the sexual sphere, exploring the issue of equal rights for lesbians and gay men. Nussbaum's arguments are shaped by her work on Aristotle and the Stoics and by the modern liberal thinkers Kant and Mill. She contends that the liberal tradition of political thought holds rich resources for addressing violations of human dignity on the grounds of sex or sexuality, provided the tradition transforms itself by responsiveness to arguments concerning the social shaping of preferences and desires. She challenges liberalism to extend its tradition of equal concern to women, always keeping both agency and choice as goals. With great perception, she combines her radical feminist critique of sex relations with an interest in the possibilities of trust, sympathy, and understanding. Sex and Social Justice will interest a wide readership because of the public importance of the topics Nussbaum addresses and the generous insight she shows in dealing with these issues. Brought together for this timely collection, these essays, extensively revised where previously published, offer incisive political reflections by one of our most important living philosophers.

Book Sliding Into Home

Download or read book Sliding Into Home written by Kendra Wilkinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KENDRA BARES ALL Fans of the E! smash hit series The Girls Next Door fell in love with sporty Playboy beauty Kendra Wilkinson’s care- free spirit, infectious laugh, and down-to-earth nature. Now that she’s moved out of the world’s most famous bachelor pad and into her own delightfully chaotic world on Kendra as wife to NFL star Hank Baskett and mother to their newborn son, we’ve watched her hilarious antics as she adjusts to domestic life. But how much do we really know about the fun-loving star? In this humorous and optimistic, sometimes heartbreaking, but always unfailingly honest memoir, Kendra reveals the highs and lows of her extraordinary journey. She wasn’t always the quintessential girl next door. Before she was a reality television superstar, Hugh Hefner’s girlfriend, or one of the most popular Playboy cover models ever, Kendra was an athletic tomboy whose father walked out on her family when she was a little girl. She grew into a rebellious teenager with a serious drug habit before she quit cold turkey and beat the odds to graduate from a high school that almost didn’t give her a second (or third, or fourth) chance. Following her rocky teenage years, an out-of-the- blue phone call from Hugh Hefner changed everything. Kendra dishes candidly about life in the Playboy Mansion: the sex, the parties, the show, and even her relationships with her Girls Next Door costars—Hef, Holly, and Bridget. She tells the true story about how she and Hank met and built a relationship in secret while she was still Hef’s girl- friend and a public face of Playboy. Finally, she reflects on the slew of unexpected changes in the short space of a year that have brought her sliding into home from Playboy party girl to wife and mother with a blooming Hollywood career. If you think you’ve seen all of Kendra, think again. She’s only warming up. . . .

Book Messages Men Hear

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian M. Harris
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2004-08-02
  • ISBN : 1135748101
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Messages Men Hear written by Ian M. Harris and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do men behave the way they do? The "science" of gender studies is less than 25 years old and it is only recently that scholars and popular authors interested in gender have started to examine the issues associated with masculinity.; This text is based on over 10 years research, and constructs a comprehensive theory of masculinity by exploring in great detail how men form their gender identities and how those identities influence their behaviour. The book examines the influence of 24 male messages, or gender norms - such as "be like your father", "faithful husband", "superman", and "nurturer" - that represent cultural expectations for masculinity in western societies. Drawing on a diverse sample of over 500 men from different classes, backgrounds, races and ethnic groups, the author describes how men learn these messages, how individual men respond to them, and how their influence changes over the course of a man's life.; This accessible text presents a general framework for masculinity and breaks new ground in understanding the construction of male gender identity.

Book Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law written by Robert L. Maddex and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether the issue is sexual predators, abortion, same-sex marriage, sexual harassment, or internet pornography, stories relating to sexual matters regularly make headlines in the news and provoke strong emotions. But until now, researchers looking for policy information on these issues have been limited to reading books that often express particular points of view, or to searching multi-volume professional legal resources. Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law is a single comprehensive volume, written specifically for the non-lawyer, that addresses sexual policy in the United States, as shaped by federal laws, state laws, and court cases. This unique new resource provides balanced, reliable treatment to some of the most important, highly publicized topics in society today. In approximately 150 encyclopedic entries, Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law addresses: Broad policy areas, including entertainment industry regulations, laws for teenagers, as both victims and perpetrators, and the legal aspects of marriage Significant laws, including the Child Online Protection Act, Megan′s law, and rape shield laws Medical and health policies and issues, including DNA evidence, stem-cell research, and genetic information The role of government agencies and institutions, including the Food and Drug Administration and the FBI′s Crimes against Children unit Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law also covers significant court cases, private organizations and institutions, significant people, and many more relevant subjects. This new volume will serve as a useful guide to this complicated subject for researchers in university, community college, high school, and public libraries.