Download or read book Deserving Desire written by Beth Montemurro and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women experience considerable changes in their bodies, lives, and identity between the ages of twenty and seventy, including marriage, motherhood, the dissolution of relationships, and menopause, all of which often impact sexuality. In Deserving Desire, Beth Montemurro takes a wide-ranging look at the evolution of women’s sexuality over time, with a specific focus on the development of sexual subjectivity—that is sexual confidence, agency, and a sense of entitlement to sexual desire. Detailed stories of the ninety-five women in this study explore how they become more comfortable with their bodies, when most begin to enjoy sex, feel confident and positive about engaging in it, and how they become sexual subjects in control of their bodies. Deserving Desire explores the complex multi-stage process in which sexual subjectivity evolves over a woman’s lifetime. As girls, they learn about sex and how those around them—parents, peers, religion and media—regard sex. Physical and emotional transitions such as having a baby or ending a relationship further affect women’s sexual confidence and desire. Montemurro emphasizes that sexual subjectivity is about feeling in control of sexual decision making and acting purposefully and confidently. Though adolescent sexuality has been a major focus of sociological research, few studies have examined, as Montemurro does here, the development of sexuality through women’s lives and the events that change the way women feel about themselves, their bodies, and their relationships.
Download or read book Tales of Sexual Desire written by graf Leo Tolstoy and published by Stacey International. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tolstoy wrote some of the most disquieting short stories the world has known--these three are no exception. Here, the duels and duality of man and woman are played out in tortured--and sometimes tragic--drama. Above all, the characters featured in these pages bring to life universal truths for the human condition; truths that Tolstoy weaves with an almost unrivaled skill. "Father Sergius" is preoccupied with the material desire for the flesh, while "The Kreutzer Sonata" caused a public sensation for its scathing indictment of marriage. Tolstoy had become convinced that "Christian marriage" was an impossibility, and in both "Sonata" and "The Devil" he launches a tirade against human sexuality and the humiliating sexual ties that bind men to women. Together these three stories provide a picture of a man obsessed with questions of moral, sexual, and religious ambiguity, his treatment of female sexuality still having a resonance today.
Download or read book Glitter written by Lauren Marie Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glitter is about the female sexual experience, which contrary to what the media would have you believe, is not all bubble baths and chick flicks. Women are constantly judged as slutty, or uptight, but the reality is somewhere in between those two, and sometimes, no where near either. We have secret shames and private desires and we all feel we are the only one. We are good churchgoing girls with a penance for the paddle, PTA moms who hire escorts, feminists who like to bottom in the bedroom, slutty virgins, bi curious married ladies and women with a past. We are gay, straight and undecided. We are all over the map, and we are amazing. The contributors to this anthology discuss everything from masturbation to fetishes, from sexy to sad. Not every story will sit well with you for a variety of reasons. I hope you can still read it and be supportive of the writers.
Download or read book The Right to Sex written by Amia Srinivasan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021Essential lessons on the world we live in, from one of our greatest young thinkers - a guide to what everybody is talking about today'Unparalleled and extraordinary . . . A bracing revivification of a crucial lineage in feminist writing' JIA TOLENTINO'I believe Amia Srinivasan's work will change the world' KATHERINE RUNDELL'Rigorously researched, but written with such spark and verve. The best non-fiction book I have read this year' PANDORA SYKES-------------------------How should we talk about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart. To grasp sex in all its complexity - its deep ambivalences, its relationship to gender, class, race and power - we need to move beyond 'yes and no', wanted and unwanted. We need to rethink sex as a political phenomenon. Searching, trenchant and extraordinarily original, The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the politics and ethics of sex in this world, animated by the hope of a different one.SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE 2022
Download or read book Producing Desire written by Dror Zeʼevi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book The Pleasure Gap written by Katherine Rowland and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American culture is more sexually liberal than ever. But compared to men, women's sexual pleasure has not grown: Up to 40 percent of American women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire. Between this low desire, muted pleasure, and experiencing sex in terms of labor rather than of lust, women by the millions are dissatisfied with their erotic lives. For too long, this deficit has been explained in terms of women's biology, stress, and age. In The Pleasure Gap, Katherine Rowland rejects the idea that women should settle for diminished pleasure; instead, she argues women should take inequality in the bedroom as seriously as we take it in the workplace and understand its causes and effects. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with more than one hundred women and dozens of sexual health professionals, Rowland shows that the pleasure gap is neither medical malady nor psychological condition but rather a result of our culture's troubled relationship with women's sexual expression. This provocative exploration of modern sexuality makes a case for closing the gap for good.
Download or read book The Bedbugs Night Dance and Other Hopi Tales of Sexual Encounter written by Michael Lomatuway'ma and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysteries and complexities of sex-the wonder of sexual initiation, the discomfort of sexual desire, the penalties of indulgence, and the power of erotic love-have all found expression in Hopi tales. Sometimes cast in animal fables, sometimes presented in monstrous exaggeration to emphasize the power of sexual appetite, and sometimes as wildly bawdy as Shakespeare, the tales evoke the candor of Hopi imagination and the vitality of Hopi culture. This volume gives each tale in the original Hopi and in English translation on facing pages. The tales include Bedbug Boy and his constantly interrupted dinner, how the Hehey'as tricked the Itsivus and took advantage of their wives, and how the Horned Lizard girls found a new use for chili powder. Ekkehart Malotki's preface and glossary clarify terms and concepts and provide background for the stories and the storytelling. E. N. Genovese's introduction puts the collection in the broad context of classical Greek and Latin literature and describes how the Hopi stories are distinct in their own right. Michael Lomatuway'ma, Lorena Lomatuway'ma, Sidney Namingha Jr., Leslie Koyawena, and Herschel Talashoma, all gifted Hopi storytellers, have contributed to this collection. Ekkehart Malotki is a professor of languages at the University of Northern Arizona. He has compiled and translated many other books about Hopi language and culture, including Hopi Coyote Tales, available as a Bison Book, and Hopi Ruin Legends. E. N. Genovese is a professor and chair of the Classics and Humanities Department at San Diego State University. His articles have appeared in Classical Journal, MAIA, and Latomus.
Download or read book Erotika Hot Stories written by Diane Rausch and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book is the Second Volume of Diane Rausch's series. The Book is for adults. The book is a very hot, direct, sexually stimulating, nicely verbalized narration, consisting of a few separate stories addressing the beloved man, the sexual beautiful woman's self-satisfaction, and the sexual satisfaction of the both. The book is written to bring up the best person's feelings of the sexual desire. It is a well-known medical fact that satisfied sexual desires lead to relaxation of our minds and bodies. The sexual satisfaction liberates our senses, thoughts, and contributes to the person's confidence. The books like this one can trigger our intellect and senses in a wonderful direction of love and sexual passion. Reading it, you will enjoy the opened passionate intellectual woman's soul pouring on you its secret sensations and deepest thoughts and experiences. It will touch your finest sexual strings to the utmost satisfaction. The book will arouse your senses, while opening the door into a woman's inner secret world of passion that she has to hide because of the traditional ways of life she lives (and many of us live), that do not exactly accept this kind of openness. She loves to share the sexual openness with the object of her passion. The reader is invited to the wonderful world of relaxation, arousal, deeper investigating of their own sexuality, as well as the rewarding sexual and intellectual satisfaction. We all are humans, and we are craving for satisfaction of our minds and bodies. Sex is a wonderful exercise for mind and body: healthy, stimulating, exciting, and energizing.
Download or read book Women and Desire written by Polly Young-Eisendrath and published by Chiron Publications. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polly Young-Eisendrath´s Women and Desire: Beyond Wanting to Be Wanted was first published by Harmony Books in 1999. Since then, it has become a classic read for those readers– to use a cinematographic expression – who want to use analytical psychology to shed light on what women want. This book, when first published, was described (and still is) as “provocative and vital.” More than 20 years after its publication, this book still shows effectively “how to break out of this double bind so that” women “can encounter the challenges of choice and responsibility for our own desires.” The author “wisely uses mythological and personal stories to help us take control of our sexual, relational, material, and spiritual lives.” Therefore, “If you feel confused, resentful, or trapped in a life that does not seem to be fully yours, then you can find a clear path to your true self, once and for all, with the help of Women and Desire.” This book is the second of the series titled Jungianeum: Re-Covered Classics in Analytical Psychology curated by Stefano Carpani.
Download or read book Quiver written by Tobsha Learner and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thinking Woman's Erotica Quiver's twelve interlinked short stories explore desire in all its complexity, and transport us into a world of love, power, pain, pleasure and obsession. Experience the excitement of the new, sexual friction at its most primal, and the lingering fingers of a past that refuses to let go. Tobsha Learner's passionate short story collections, Quiver, Tremble and Yearn, will consume you . . . and have you begging for more. Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.uk
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Download or read book Pleasure Zone written by Darren G. Burton and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleasure Zone: Vivid Sex Tales is book two in a hot new erotica series! From couples to threesomes and groups, squirting and sexual instruction, this collection has something to arouse everyone's sexual desire. So dim the lights, get naked and indulge yourself. Adults only 18+
Download or read book Desire written by Susan Cheever and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've all felt the giddy flutter of excitement when our new lover walks into the room. Waited by the phone, changed our plans...But are we in love, or is there something darker at work? In Desire: Where Sex Meets Addiction, Susan Cheever explores the shifting boundaries between the feelings of passion and addiction, desire and need, and she raises provocative and important questions about who we love and why. Elegantly written and thoughtfully composed, Cheever's book combines unsparing and intimate memoir, interviews and stories, hard science and psychology to explore the difference between falling in love and falling prey to an addiction. Part one defines what addiction is and how it works -- the obsession, the betrayals, the broken promises to oneself and others. Part two explores the possible causes of addiction -- is it nature or nurture, a permanent condition or a temporary derangement? Part three considers what we can do about it, including a provocative suggestion about how we describe and treat addiction, and a look at the importance of community and storytelling. In the end, there are no easy answers. "A straight look about some crooked feelings," Desire shows us the difference between the addiction that cripples our emotions, and healthy, empowering love that enhances our lives.
Download or read book Love Map written by Alice Ellison and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this erotic adventure based on a true story, two lovers indulge in their darkest, sexiest fantasies. The story begins innocently enough when Sara, a fifty-something career woman, posts a profile on a dating website. She is hoping to start afresh and erase memories of her last failed relationship. When Declan replies to her profile, Sara can't believe it. Why would a handsome, sexy thirty-four-year-old be interested in her? Nevertheless, Sara decides to take a chance on him. As the two get to know each other-via texts, phone calls, and face-to-face encounters-they build a foundation of trust and an emotional connection that allows them to indulge in their secret fantasies. From exhibitionism to voyeurism, Sara and Declan discover new pleasures and passions over the course of their tryst. Behind the sizzling sex lies an attraction that neither one can deny or escape. The book includes detailed descriptions of six role plays that Sara creates for Declan's and her own pleasure, including "The Student and the Professor," "Mommy's Home," and "The Plumber." This contemporary erotic novel offers a refreshing look at a modern relationship and the emotional and sexual pleasures of two people who are perfectly in sync.
Download or read book The Story of Sexual Identity written by Phillip L. Hammack and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles a diverse group of scholars working within a new, pathbreaking paradigm of sexual science, fusing perspectives from history, sociology, and psychology. The contributors are united in their commitment to the idea of "narrative" as central to the study of sexual identity, offering an analytic approach to social science inquiry on sexual identity that restores the voices of sexual subjects. The result is a rich examination of lives in context, with an eye toward multiplicity and meaning across the life course. Central to the chapters in this volume is the significance of history, generation, and narrative in the provision of a workable and meaningful configuration of identity.
Download or read book Virgin and Other Stories written by April Ayers Lawson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A confident and mesmerizing fiction debut, from the winner of the Plimpton Prize Set in the South, at the crossroads of a world that is both secular and devoutly Christian, April Ayers Lawson's stories evoke the inner lives of young women and men navigating sexual, emotional, and spiritual awakenings. In "The Negative Effects of Homeschooling," Conner, sixteen, accompanies his grieving mother to the funeral of her best friend, Charlene, a woman who was once a man. In "The Way You Must Play Always," Gretchen, who looks young even for thirteen, heads into her weekly piano lesson in nervous anticipation of her next illicit meeting with her teacher's brother, Wesley. Thin and sickly, wasting from a brain tumor, Wesley spends his days watching pornography and smoking pot, and yet Gretchen can only interpret his advances as the first budding of love. And in the title story, Jake grapples with the growing chasm between him and his wife, Sheila, who was still a virgin when they wed. At a cocktail party thrown by a wealthy donor to his hospital, he ponders the intertwining imperatives of marriage--sex and love, violation and trust, spirituality and desire--even as he finds himself succumbing to the temptations of his host. Self-assured and sensual, Virgin and Other Stories is the first work of a young writer of unusual mastery.
Download or read book Explicit Erotic Sex Stories 4 Books in 1 written by Jessica Dominate and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are a step away from finding the best collection of hot, steamy, and passionate sex stories that will keep you entertained, relaxed, curious, excited, and very horny for hours on end! We all have wild sexual fantasies that we wish could come to life. Some are taboo, though, so we know they can't happen in our real world, but we still can't help but think about them, if presented with the opportunity to fantasize about them! That's what this book aims to achieve - push the boundaries of what's possible in your world so that you get a peek of the taboo wild sex fantasies that are deeply embedded in your mind! The sizzling hot erotic stories in this book will help unleash your wildest fantasies by freeing you of the guilt and pushing your sexual desires to the limit. Studies show that 30 to 45 minutes of listening to erotic sex stories results in a good mood, healthy sexual communication between partners, and increased arousal. People who listen to sex stories have 74 percent more chances of having sex than those who don't. And this book will help you achieve all that and much more. Do you have some wild sex fantasies that you would rather let them live in the fantasy world because they are so much of a taboo? Would you rather let your imaginations do the work rather than watch the same old repetitive crap in the name of X-rated movies? Are you looking for sex stories that will keep you entertained, horny, and looking forward for a possible release? Are you looking for hot sex ideas to try out with your partner? Are you excited and curious to know the dirty doings, naughty romps, and rough poundings of other people? If so, this book is for you! Start listening, as it covers erotic taboo stories that will literally rock your world with pure lust, desire, and anticipation as you wet your pants! Literotica or erotic fiction allows you to be in control of your fantasies by giving you the freedom to set the pace, choose what kind of story to listen to, and indulge your imagination to picture what's happening exactly in the stories. Whether you're into sexy fan fiction, queer sex, or you are just looking for steamy sex scenes to get you in the mood, this book is perfect for you. These stories describe a world of forbidden desires and delicious aches that provide true explicit stories, true desires and true passion. Get a chance to indulge in your wildest fantasies. What are you waiting for?
