Download or read book Perfectly Normal written by Sandra Pertot and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2005-02-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A challenge to assumptions about sex in our society confronts the unrealistic expectations that leave many couples disappointed in their love lives, and explores a new view of sex in relationships that allows intimates to stop berating themselves over what they do not have. Original. 30,000 first printing.
Download or read book Reclaiming Desire written by Andrew Goldstein and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm so busy and tired, how can I find time for sex? How can I go from mommy one minute to passionate lover the next? What medicines or natural herbs can I take to improve my libido? At some point in their lives, most women experience a decline in their sexual desire. Yet despite the vast number of books devoted to sex, surprisingly few focus on the problem of low libido. Fewer still offer any practical advice to the woman who has lost her sex drive and longs to find it again. Reclaiming Desire presents the holistic approach that gynecologist Andrew Goldstein and clinical psychologist Marianne Brandon—co-founders of the Sexual Wellness Center in Annapolis, Maryland—use to successfully treat women with low libido. Capitalizing on their combined medical and psychological expertise, they reveal how a complex set of physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual factors—as well as specific life-changing events such as marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, divorce, and menopause—can affect female sex drive. Reading this book, women will come to understand that low libido isn't "all in their heads"—or all in their bodies, for that matter. The problem is real and it's diverse—but it's curable.
Download or read book Peak Libido written by Dominic Pettman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the carbon footprint of your libido? In this highly original book, Dominic Pettman examines the mutual influence and impact of human desire and ecological crisis. His account is premised on a simple but startling observation: the decline of libido among the world’s population, the loss of the human sex drive, closely tracks the destruction of environments worldwide. The advent of the Anthropocene leads to the decline of eros, the weakening of the link between sexual pleasure and human reproduction, and thus, potentially, to human extinction. Our capacity to care for one another in any meaningful way is being replaced by a restless, technologically-enhanced zombie drive. The environmental crisis of our time is also, and simultaneously, a crisis of human reproduction and of interpersonal intimacy. What Freud called ‘libidinal economy’ has morphed into libidinal ecology. Drawing on the work of a wide range of thinkers from Georges Bataille to Donna Haraway, Pettman explores the implications of peak libido, linking this development to the new cultural interest in eco-sexuality, polyamory, and other cases of the ‘greening of the libido’. Peak Libido is a forceful reminder that our hearts and loins are primarily ecological organs, beholden to their wider environments, and, as such, they share the same fate.
Download or read book When Your Sex Drives Don t Match written by Sandra Pertot and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - What libido type are you?: People have different sexual tastes and preferences, which, according to Dr. Sandra Pertot, can be traced to 10 basic libido types--each with a unique set of feelings, desires, and expressions. By learning to recognize them, couples can better understand and work through their sexual conflicts. - A complete guide to a mutually satisfying sexual relationship: Once couples have identified their libido types, Pertot offers useful ways to manage sexual incompatibilities and, in most cases, achieve a mutually satisfying sex life. Her clear advice emphasizes a combination of increased communication, understanding of differences, and building upon previously established aspects of the relationship. - Authoritative information based on more than thirty years of clinical expertise: Pertot was compelled to write this book because in over thirty years of experience counseling couples, she's found that mismatched libidos is one of the most common issues with which couples struggle. She's learned to recognize that most sexual problems are not the result of complicated psychological or relationship issues, but rather have completely sensible causes that can be identified and worked out.
Download or read book Form Follows Libido written by Sylvia Lavin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How modern architecture came to embrace the urges and fears of the affective unconscious. "Eight million Americans a year cool their heels in psychiatric waiting rooms. Design can help lower this nervous overhead."—Richard Neutra, 1954 Sylvia Lavin's Form Follows Libido argues that by the 1950s, some architects felt an urge to steer the cool abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the production of more erotic, affective environments. Lavin turns to the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970) to explore the genesis of these new mood-inducing environments. In a series of engaging essays weaving through the designs and writings of this Vienna-born, California-based architect, Lavin discovers in Neutra a sustained and poignant psychoanalytic reflection set in the context of a burgeoning psychoanalytic culture in America. Lavin shows that Neutra's redirection of modernism constituted not a lyrical regression to sentimentality but a deliberate advance of architectural theory and technique to engage the unconscious mind, fueled by the ideas of psychoanalysis that were being rapidly disseminated at the time. In Neutra's responses to a vivid range of issues, from psychoanalysis proper to the popular psychology of tele-evangelical prayer, Lavin uncovers a radical reconstitution of the architectural discipline. Arguing persuasively that the received historical views of both psychoanalysis and architecture have led to a suppression of their compelling coincidences and unorthodoxies, Lavin sets out to unleash midcentury architecture's hidden libido. Neither Neutra nor psychoanalysis emerges unscathed from her investigation of how architecture came to be saturated by the intrigues of affect, often against its will. If Reyner Banham sought to put architecture "on the couch," then Lavin, through Neutra, leaps beyond Banham's ameliorative aim to lure contemporary architecture into the lush and dangerous liaisons of environmental design.
Download or read book Lucy Libido Says There s an Oil for That written by Lucy Libido and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Lucy Libido, your new best friend who will guide you through using essential oils between the sheets. Based on the smashingly popular Lucy Libido class, this hilarious yet informative book will teach you natural hormone balancing, oils that increase libido, and oils that increase your man's performance. She even includes her best oil recipes that have left her fans starry-eyed and smiling. Developed by a woman for a woman, "There's an Oil for THAT" gives you all the tips, tricks, and fun in one easy to read book that you'll want to store at your bedside.
Download or read book Healthy Sex Drive Healthy You written by Diana Hoppe and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies show that having a healthy sex life can:- Boost your immune system- Promote heart health- Alleviate stress- Increase longevityIn easy-to-understand text, Dr. Hoppe explains:- The expected life patterns of a woman's sex drive- How-and why-libido is different in men and women-and what to do about it- Ways-medical, psychological, emotional, sensual-to boost your desire and get-and stay--focused on sexual intimacy- Doctors' emerging understanding of sexual dysfunction in womenOverflowing with ideas and tips for what you can do tonight to light the fire, this book is at once reassuring and effective.
Download or read book Reclaiming Desire written by Andrew Goldstein, M.D. and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A holistic approach to the problem of low libido in women explains how a variety of physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual factors, as well as such events as pregnancy, marriage, childbirth, menopause, and divorce, can affect a woman's sex drive and offers a variety of medical and psychological treatment options to help women reinvigorate their intimate relationships. 35,000 first printing.
Download or read book Where Did My Libido Go written by Rosie King and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting your sex life back on track! Low libido is the most common sexual problem experienced by women. In fact every woman will experience low sexual desire at some time in her life, either in the short term (after the birth of a baby, during a stressful life period, when her relationship is rocky) or in the long term. When a woman's partner wants sex and she's no longer in the mood significant problems can occur in the relationship. Differing sex drives can lead couples down a path paved with frustration, resentment, misunderstanding and despair - a path that may lead to separation and divorce. This book will be helpful for women who: have lost of interest in sex have a partner who wants more sex than they do and it's creating a strain on their relationship would like to increase their level of sexual desire, sexual frequency and sexual pleasure In this book you will learn: how your sexual desire works how to maximise your libido how to increase your sexual enjoyment strategies that will help you to enjoy a regular, satisfying sex life with your partner
Download or read book Libido Dominandi written by E. Michael Jones and published by . This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sex Drive Solution for Women written by Jennifer Landa and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents advice for women over forty years of age on restoring their sex drive, covering such topics as balancing hormones, overcoming stress and fatigue, improving nutrition, and increasing exercise, with real life examples from the author's patients.
Download or read book Libido Significandi Or the Lust for Meaning written by Johann Ge Moll and published by . This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIBIDO SIGNIFICANDI intrudes itself into the center of the key intellectual discussions of our time. It does nothing less than propose a new way of thought, of cognizing, a new intellectual sensibility. Written in an appealing style, aphoristic yet transgressive, it is an attempt to unify linguistic, unconscious and quantum paradigms. It predicts a new direction of evolution and could be instrumental in changing the future of mankind.
Download or read book The Economics of Libido written by Trevor C. Pederson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines three shibboleths of psychoanalysis: psychic bisexuality, the Oedipus complex, and social ontology. It affirms the centrality of the Oedipus complex and illustrates the characterological functioning of the pre-phallic superego.
Download or read book Sex Again written by Jill Blakeway and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite what you see on movies and TV, Americans have less sex than people in any other country. One in three women, of all ages, reports a lack of interest in sex, and more than 40 million Americans in relationships are having no sex at all. But rather than feeling complacent about it, most couples would like to have that interest back. The desire for desire is a feeling few women forget—or abandon. Combining Eastern wisdom and techniques with a Western medical perspective, Jill Blakeway—called a “fertility goddess” by The New York Times for her bestseller, Making Babies—shows women how to revive their libidos and rekindle their sex lives. Assessments and quizzes help the reader place herself and her partner on the scale of yin and yang. Jill then shows how to keep these opposites—passive/active, accepting/initiating, cool/hot—in correct balance. Specific meditations and breathing techniques help unblock qi (pronounced chee), the essential energy that flows through the body. There are chapters on specific elements of love-making: massage, kissing, positions, orgasms—having them, holding them, making them last. And finally, “Sex in Six,” a six-week program of reclaiming an active, satisfying, and possibly better-than-ever-before sex life. The book is full of case studies, fun “Do It Now” suggestions, and “He Said” boxes written by the author’s husband and medical partner, Noah Rubinstein. It addresses common sexual dysfunctions, healthy hormones, and herbal remedies. Sex Again provides a path to balance and emotional wisdom—individually and as a couple.
Download or read book The Naughty Nineties written by David Friend and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sexual history of the 1990s when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. A definitive look at the captains of the culture wars -- and an indispensable road map for understanding how we got to the Trump Teens. The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed decade when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality television, and the wholesale tabloidization of pop culture. In this comprehensive and often hilarious time capsule, David Friend combines detailed reporting with first-person accounts from many of the decade's singular personalities, from Anita Hill to Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt to Heidi Fleiss, Alan Cumming to Joan Rivers, Jesse Jackson to key members of the Clinton, Dole, and Bush teams. The Naughty Nineties also uncovers unsung sexual pioneers, from the enterprising sisters who dreamed up the Brazilian bikini wax to the scientists who, quite by accident, discovered Viagra.
Download or read book Desire written by Lauren Fogel Mersy and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically inclusive, sex-positive guide to managing the inevitable libido differences in our relationships, authored by two certified sex therapists who are passionate about good sex 2024 Distinguished Book Award Winner, selected by the American Psychological Association’s Division 44 Desire invites readers of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, and relationship structures to shed the shame and misinformation that surround the topic of sex and instead learn from 2 certified sex therapists about how libido really works. Desire differences are one of the most common relationship issues, yet, with fewer than 1,100 certified sex therapists in the country, it can be difficult to find help. This essential book breaks the mold of the sex self-help genre, which typically focuses only on cisgender women. Through the authors’ expert guidance readers will learn about embracing a more expansive definition of sex, identifying various factors that can impact libido, managing anxiety around sex (one of the biggest libido killers), the structural oppressions—from cisnormativity to heteronormativity to compulsory sexuality to minority stress—that affect our libido, and much, much more. It rejects the narrow, heteronormative, “staircase” model of sex—a way of thinking where many relationships get stuck. It integrates evidence-based relationship therapy techniques for better communication around sex. Included are dozens of techniques, exercises, checklists, and journal prompts for readers to use at their own pace to fit their needs, including mindfulness, body mapping, and sensate focus. Whatever your identity, sexual practices, or reason for picking up this book, Desire will help you reach your personal sexual health goals.
Download or read book Libido written by Alphonso Lingis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alphonso Lingis's engaging book studies the phenomenological and postphenomenological theories of sexuality of six contemporary French philosophers: Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari. After centuries of philosophical silence on the matter, these writers, during the last fory years, have undertaken the first extended exploration of human sexuality in Western philosophical literature. Lingis presents the arguments developed by the six philosophers, critically assesses them, and offers his own explanation of how the libidinal body can be characterized, what the libidinal drive is, and what alterity commands in the erotic imperative.
