Download or read book Pleasure Bound Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism written by Deborah Lutz and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London. At the height of the Victorian era, a daring group of artists and thinkers defied the reigning obsession with propriety, testing the boundaries of sexual decorum in their lives and in their work. Dante Gabriel Rossetti exhumed his dead wife to pry his only copy of a manuscript of his poems from her coffin. Legendary explorer Richard Burton wrote how-to manuals on sex positions and livened up the drawing room with stories of eroticism in the Middle East. Algernon Charles Swinburne visited flagellation brothels and wrote pornography amid his poetry. By embracing and exploring the taboo, these iconoclasts produced some of the most captivating art, literature, and ideas of their day. As thought-provoking as it is electric, Pleasure Bound unearths the desires of the men and women who challenged buttoned-up Victorian mores to promote erotic freedom. These bohemians formed two loosely overlapping societies—the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes—to explore their fascinations with sexual taboo, from homosexuality to the eroticization of death. Known as much for their flamboyant personal lives as for their controversial masterpieces, they created a scandal-provoking counterculture that paved the way for such later figures as Gustav Klimt, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Genet. In this stunning exposé of the Victorian London we thought we knew, Deborah Lutz takes us beyond the eyebrow-raising practices of these sex rebels, revealing how they uncovered troubles that ran beneath the surface of the larger social fabric: the struggle for women’s emancipation, the dissolution of formal religions, and the pressing need for new forms of sexual expression.
Download or read book Only Pleasure written by Lora Leigh and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He would fulfill her every desire . . . Since Chase Falladay came to her rescue two years ago, Kia Rutherford-Stanton has never been able to forget the powerful man or the kind of life he leads. Two years later, when she runs into him again, she ends up exactly where she has always dreamed of being-in his arms. Kia is a dream Chase has not allowed himself to entertain. He can't help feeling, though, that with her body already won it is her heart that he most desires. And even though they both agreed it would only be for pleasure, the pull of love is getting stronger.
Download or read book Secret Pleasure written by Lora Leigh and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret is out: #1 bestselling author Lora Leigh’s Bound Hearts series is so hot, it should come with a warning... Sebastian and Shane De Loren were born to love Alyssa Hampstead. No other woman on earth can burn for them, ignite with passion between them, the way Alyssa does. But after three sensual months of pleasure come to a crashing halt, Sebastian and Shane are left fighting with everything they’ve got, risking it all to have Alyssa one more time... Alyssa has closed off her heart. A senator’s daughter in the political spotlight, she’d rather be quiet and safe than feel the emotional intensity Sebastian and Shane roused within her years ago. But when the sexy cousins blaze their way back into her life, Alyssa cannot help but succumb to the heady pleasures the two men can give her. And as an unknown enemy draws near, Alyssa will need Sebastian and Shane to protect her...and satisfy every forbidden craving.
Download or read book Forbidden Pleasure written by Lora Leigh and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have heard of fleeting rumors about The Club. Located just outside Washington, D.C., only its members know where men go when they want to indulge the desire to share their women with a carefully selected male partner. John "Mac" McCoy resigned his membership from The Club when he married Keiley Hardin. Tempting and innocent, sweet and sexy, she would never accept Mac's desire to share her with another man. However, Mac's fantasies of sharing his wife haunt his dreams. And his passions. Unable to wait any longer to draw his best friend Jethro Riggs into his marriage, Mac invites Jethro to their home with the intention of drawing Keiley into the pleasures that only be achieved when two men love the same woman. But there's more going on in Mac's neck of the woods than a little additional pleasure. A past case, a stalker that likes to playing games and his wife is now in the middle of it all. Passion and erotic pleasure, danger and desire combine as forbidden pleasure becomes an addiction none of them can escape.
Download or read book Guilty Pleasure A Bound Hearts Novel written by Lora Leigh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh has captivated millions with her sizzling tales. When FBI agent Marty Matthews is assigned to shadow Khalid, a dangerous, forbidden man who has haunted her dreams for years, she struggles against her desires for him. That is, until Khalid is cleared and Marty freed from her assignment. Now all bets are off . . . The beautiful, fierce Marty Matthews is the one woman Khalid hungers for like no other and is the one woman he dare not let himself have. His past dogs his every step and danger lurks around every corner. To save her he must keep away. But the power of their desire is something they cannot deny - and once Marty is his, Khalid will do whatever it takes to keep her in his arms forever.
Download or read book The Politics of Pleasure in Sexuality Education written by Louisa Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pleasure and desire have been important components of the vision for sexuality education for over 20 years. This book argues that there has been a lack of scrutiny over the political motivations that underpin research supportive of pleasure and desire within comprehensive sexuality education. In this volume, key researchers in the field consider how discourses related to pleasure and desire have been taken up internationally. They argue that sexuality education is clearly shaped by specific cultural and political contexts, and examine how these contexts have shaped the development of pleasure’s inclusion in such programs. Via such discussions, this volume incites a re-configuration of thought regarding sexuality education’s approach to pleasure and desire.
Download or read book Dangerous Pleasure A Bound Hearts Novel written by Lora Leigh and published by Pan. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh has captivated millions with her sizzling tales. Paige Galbraithe has always wondered if the dark, cool and mysterious Abram Mustafa is hiding a wicked side... a side that will allow her to explore the kind of pleasure she has only dreamed of. For Abram, Paige is the only woman he has ever loved. But Abram faces the greatest test of his life when his father kidnaps Paige. With Paige's life now in danger, Abram knows that his plans for escape from the only home he has ever known have become more imperative than ever. And for Paige, with her freedom taken from her, she must learn to trust Abram with more than her fantasies. She must trust him with her life... and her heart.
Download or read book Pleasure Bound written by Alison Tyler and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most prolific editors and writers of erotica today, Alison Tyler has assembled Pleasure Bound, 22 steamy stories of partners in the throes of pleasurable restraint. Intricately secured by ropes, locked in handcuffs, wrapped in leather, or bound simply by a lover's command, these men and women crave control, whether given or received. From start to finish, this solid collection of BDSM stories earns its kinky merit badge for its explicit tales of pleasure and pain. Featuring work by Thomas Roche, Diana St. John, Sommer Marsden, Shanna Germain, and other erotic masters, the stories grab the reader and leave them begging for more — and bound and determined to turn their own bondage fantasies into tightly-controlled reality.
Download or read book Wicked Pleasure A Bound Hearts Novel written by Lora Leigh and published by Pan. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Lora Leigh has captivated millions with her sizzling tales. Expect nothing less than complete surrender . . . Jaci Wright has been running from the Falladay twins, Chase and Cam, for seven years now. Fears of the desires they arouse in her, and the knowledge of the relationship they wanted with her, spurred her to run and seek a life travelling the globe. But now life has come full circle. A new job has placed Jaci in the Sinclair mansion with Chase and Cam. And they're tired of waiting. It's hard enough to face accepting a relationship with two men rather than just one, but gossip and juicy secrets fill the society she now moves within. Can she face the world knowing she's a lover to both men, or will her hesitancy and fears destroy her chance of happiness forever?
Download or read book Bound Hearts written by Lora Leigh and published by Ellora's Cave Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Submission: Ella allows James to stay the week in her new home. James. Dominating. Sexy. Younger. James is determined Ella won't escape him. Seduction: In a bold and risky turn, Jess dares Terrie to seduce him. Challenges her to accept her needs, to push her own boundaries.
Download or read book Pleasure Bound written by Belle Alyson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bound written by Lorelei James and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIRST IN A NEW SERIES In the new Mastered series by New York Times bestselling author Lorelei James, a woman’s desire to shatter her inhibitions leaves her unprepared for where that erotic journey will take her…. Former small-town girl Amery Hardwick is living her dream as a graphic designer in Denver, Colorado. She’s focused on building her business, which leaves little time for dating—not that she needs a romantic entanglement to fulfill her. When her friend signs up for a self-defense class as part of her recovery after an attack, Amery joins her for support. That’s where she meets him. Ronin Black, owner of the dojo, is so drawn to Amery that he takes over her training—in public and in private. The enigmatic Ronin pushes Amery’s boundaries from the start, and with each new tryst, Amery becomes addicted to the pleasure and to him. But when Amery senses Ronin is hiding something, she questions her total trust in him, despite the undeniable thrill of his possession….
Download or read book Pleasure Activism written by adrienne maree brown and published by AK Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "Pleasure Activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work. Drawing on the black feminist tradition, including Audre Lourde's invitation to use the erotic as power and Toni Cade Bambara's exhortation that we make the revolution irresistible, the contributors to this volume take up the challenge to rethink the ground rules of activism. Writers including Cara Page of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice, Sonya Renee Taylor, founder of This Body Is Not an Apology, and author Alexis Pauline Gumbs cover a wide array of subjects—from sex work to climate change, from race and gender to sex and drugs—they create new narratives about how politics can feel good and how what feels good always has a complex politics of its own. Building on the success of her popular Emergent Strategy, brown launches a new series of the same name with this volume, bringing readers books that explore experimental, expansive, and innovative ways to meet the challenges that face our world today. Books that find the opportunity in every crisis!
Download or read book Pleasure Bound written by Anne Rainey and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHEN DESIRE BURNS THIS HOT. . . With his sexy smile and rock-hard body, P.I. Jonas Phoenix is used to having women flock to his bed. But these days, there's only one woman Jonas wants—and she won't give him the time of day. THE ONLY CHOICE. . . Deanna Harrison knows she can't fight her attraction to Jonas forever, but she's looking for more than a fling. So Jonas issues Deanna a challenge: give him one weekend at his Miami beach house to win her over. No strings attached. No limitations. IS SURRENDER. . . Once in Miami, the sexual tension erupts as Deanna finally lets go—and lets Jonas pleasure her in ways she's only dreamed of. But while their bond grows stronger, danger lurks close by—and it could be deadly for them both. . . Praise for Anne Rainey's Body Rush "Deliciously naughty, smokin' hot. . .read if you dare!" --Janice Maynard "With red-hot sex, hot and heavy BDSM, and three alpha males to make this book almost dangerous. You will not be disappointed!" --Coffee Time Romance, 4 Cups "Supremely sexy and beautifully emotional, Anne Rainey's writing is intensely relevant for today's woman." –Lucy Monroe *This book contains adult content*
Download or read book Forbidden Pleasure written by Lora Leigh and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Club is private, exclusive, and only for those men whose fantasies run tothe more forbidden side, in this title of "New York Times"-bestselling authorLeigh's outrageously sexy Bound Hearts series.
Download or read book Snowbound written by Ladd Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1893, three New Yorkers, their guide, and a camp cook were caught by an early winter in the Bitterroot Mountains, and forced by their own ill luck and bad judgment to a decision that shocked the nation. Snowbound is the scandalous, true tale of the Carlin party, whose adventure of a lifetime became an unthinkable tragedy.
Download or read book Pleasure Bound Cartoon Illustrated written by PLEASURE BOUND. and published by . This book was released on 1964* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
