Sexuality

269 Amazing Sex Games

This little book is just a list of erotic ideas for couples, along with some black and white pictures of men and women engaged in intimate behavior. …

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American Eugenics

It is often the case that peopleprefer to deal with the symptoms of social problems rather than the cause ofthese problems.  Eugenicists attempt to sav…

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Anthony Goicolea

Anthony Goicolea's collection of photographs for Twin Palms is bizarrely sexual and fetishistic while never being explicit.  It features younger teenage…

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Ars Erotica

Richard Shusterman first coined the term, "somaesthetics," in the 1990s and wrote two book length studies of the concept: Body Consciousness (2008), and Thinking through the Body (2012). As he explains it in Ars Erotica, somaesthetics is "the critical st

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Becoming Orgasmic

Becoming Orgasmic is a fictional story made as a way to help women to have orgasms, based on the book…

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Best Sex Writing 2005

Edited by the appropriately named Violet Blue, this collection brings together a diverse range of topics and authors around the theme of sex. Readers sho…

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Better Than Ever

A guide to reigniting the sexual spark once you hit your 50's, this book is a well-written manual that covers a broad range of sexual problems facing man…

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Beyond Diversity Day

This is a valuable resource for teachers and school counselors who want to adopt a positive attitude to gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and other sex…

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Beyond Tolerance

In Beyond Tolerance, Philip Jenkins explains how the Internet has meant that child pornography has become freely available to an unprecedented nu…

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Boys & Sex

Peggy Orenstein wrote Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape in 2016. Her new book, Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity, is similar in its approach.…

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Camming

Camming: Money, Power and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry by Angela Jones is devoted to exploring the online world of "camming" as a form of sex work. Camming is online sex work in the erotic webcam industry. Cammers typically use various online platfor

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Christy Report

In the first few pages of this heavy and lavishly illustrated 600+  page book, there is paragraph about the principal creator of  The Christy Report, Kim…

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Clay's Way

Clay's Way is set in Hawaii, not the world of tourists, but among the islanders.  Sam is 15, gay, and in love with punk skateboarder Cl…

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Clumsy

While this graphic work is subtitled "A Novel," it is a memoir.  It tells in drawings the story of a relationship between the artist, Jeffrey B…

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Confessions of the Other Mother

My immediate reaction after reading Confessions of the Other Mother was to describe it as a type of Chicken Soup for the Soul for lesbi…

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Cyborgasm

Collected here are 15 soundpieces with explicit erotic content.  Compared, for example, to the somewhat bland and conventional erotic of the short storie…

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Debating Sex Work

In Debating Sex Work, Lori Watson and Jessica Flanigan present opposing view regarding criminalization or decriminalization of prostitution or sex work. Watson endorses the Nordic model and believes that prostitution is oppressive to women, whereas Flanig

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Departing from Deviance

Over a decade ago, I conducted survey research about the psychological consequences of anti-gay politics on lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals (LGB persons…

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Dilemmas of Desire

In Dilemmas of Desire, Deborah Tolman discusses themes that emerged from her interviews with teenage girls about their experience of sexual desire…

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Dirty Stories

Dirty Stories Volume 3 is a collection of about 30 black & white pieces of widely different styles by graphic artists. The theme, of course, i…

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Disorders Of Desire

In 1970 I was a sophomore in a small-town Midwestern high school.  The only things to do on weekends were to get into trouble, hang out at the Burger Che…

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Doing It Down Under

Exactly who this book might appeal to is moot, but the cover has a man’s hands undoing the bra on a female with her back to the camera, the amount…

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Down and Dirty Sex Secrets

Down and Dirty Sex Secrets (titled  Pucker Up in the hardback edition) is a guidebook to improving people's sex life by both facilitating c…

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Early Embraces III

32 stories of women's first times with other women. The authors describe their experiences at ages ranging from high school to their fifties. The entries…

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Emerald City Blues

This is a work of fiction separate from the author’s previous science fiction…

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Enjoying Guilty Pleasures

Enjoying Guilty Pleasures is an educational, sexually explicit DVD about sexual activities that some people have reservations about, or that are…

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Erotic Innocence

James Kincaid, a thorough researcher and an engaging writer, has produced a baffling book about child abuse and pedophilia, Erotic Innocence: The Cult…

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Exploring Transsexualism

Exploring Transsexualism is a title well-chosen for Colette Chiland's most recent book on the subject of gender identity disorder. The author, a p…

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Gender in the Mirror

Diana Myers' Gender in the Mirror is an eloquent, insightful, and sustained plea for feminists to adopt a new, or perhaps more accurately, radical…

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Geography Club

Geography Club by Brent Hartinger is a ground breaking coming-of-age novel. It frankly details the struggles of coming to terms (and not coming t…

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Going Down

With 135 pages devoted to the art of fellatio, Going Down can't help but be thorough.  Clearly devoted practitioners of oral sex, Rogers and Perry…

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Hardcore from the Heart

Dedicated to "academics, whores, and academic whores everywhere," Annie Sprinkle's Hardcore from the Heart: The Pleasures, Profits and Polit…

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Heterosyncracies

In Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality when Normal Wasn't, Karma Lochrie seeks to shake our faith in the supposed naturalness of heterosexuality. S…

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Homosexualities

Private homosexual conduct has changed in it perception so much in the seventeen years that it took to definitively declare the Bowers v. Hardwick ruling…

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How Sex Changed

To give a history of transsexuality means discussing the development of medical opinion, popular culture, and some trends in how people described themsel…

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How to Give Her Absolute Pleasure

An educational approach to teaching men how to provide sexual pleasure to the women in their lives. Lou Paget presents very explicit and informed conce…

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How to Make Great Love to a Man

This self-help book is written clearly and seems to contain sensible advice.  It starts off with some general observations about male and female psycholo…

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How to Make Love Like a Porn Star

When this book arrived I took one look at it and tried to surmise just how long it was going to take me to read.  At almost 600 pages, I was a bit intimi…

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Hypnography for Men

Hypnography for Men is a curious audiobook with a guided meditation with erotic content.  It starts out as a relaxation exercise with familiar ele…

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Hypnography for Women

Hypnography for Women has an exactly parallel structure to Hypnography for Men, and many of the comments I made about the latter apply to t…

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In the Mood, Again

In the last few years, there has been increasing media attention of the "problem" of low-sex and no-sex marriages.  Apparently, there is an epi…

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Intense Games DVD

As you might expect, I want to start with a qualification, or rather, an unqualification.    I've never played sex party games with anyone, and I don't i…

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Jane Sexes It Up

Feminism and sexuality are two subjects that ought to go hand in hand, right? If the goal of feminism is increased freedom for women, that should mean in…

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Kama-Sutra--The Secrets to the Art of Love

This DVD is one hour and a quarter of demonstrations of 50 sexual positions between a man and a woman, taken from the Kama Sutra.  There are differe…

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Losing Matt Shepard

Most people who are concerned about LGBT issues or about hate-crimes would recognize a picture of Matthew Shepherd: the diminutive, blonde college studen…

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Love and Desire

William Ewing’s earlier collection of photographs for Chronicle Books, The Body (1994) (…

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Love Sick

Addiction is by its very nature a tricky thing, as most people realize. It is, psychologically speaking, extremely difficult to identify a true need (air…

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Medicalized Masculinities

The premise of this collection of writings is that medicalization theory, so prominent in problematizing women's health, has ignored the medicalizati…

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Mental Health Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities

I find it extremely difficult to offer a review of this book, for any commentary on its merits is contingent on its prospective use(s).  At first reading…

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Middlesex

Middlesex is a long family saga about Calliope Stephanides, who is raised as a girl but who has male biological traits.  The story reaches back se…

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My Horizontal Life

Chelsea Hander is New Jersey comedian with a show on the E! channel, who has appeared on a number of other TV s…

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New Sex Now DVD

New Sex Nowis a 58-minute DVD in which Clint Arthur explains and demonstrates to men how to give women G-spot orgasms and ejaculations.  For much…

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Oedipus Wrecked

Oedipus Wrecked is a gut-wrenchingly funny and rather sad, being a collection of stories of a compulsive masturbator. If you read it in a public…

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On Getting Off

The philosopher Robert Nozick once noted that sex is not merely a matter of frictional force. There is much more to it than a mere reductionist materialism can explain. This isn't to deny that sex can and often does (one hopes) involve physical pleasure,

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One Hot Second

In spite of the suggestive title, and the lurid cover illustration of a woman's lips seductively parted with tongue peeking out, One Hot Second is…

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Over 100 Truly Astonishing Sex Tips

This pocket book is aimed at women, and contains, as its title suggests, over 100 tips about how to improve one’s sex life. However, one might raise…

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Pin-up Grrrls

Pin-Up Grrrls documents the relationship between the pin-up as cultural icon of the sexualized woman and the feminist politicization of female rep…

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PINS

Joey Nicci, a fifteen-year-old wrestler who has recently transferred from an all-male Catholic school in Newark to a suburban public high school in Littl…

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Pornified

In Pornified (an awful choice of title for an interesting book), Pamela Paul builds a sustained argument showing the detrimental effect of pornogr…

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Pornography, Sex, and Feminism

Soble’s Pornography, Sex, and Feminism is written in a brash, trash-talking mode the mirrors the text of pornography. It certainly constitute…

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Predators

     The pages of this book are fraught with red flags and sounding alarm bells. Salter wants us all to wake up and do something about the sexual predato…

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Private Dicks - Men Exposed

Following up from their Breasts documentary, Thom Powers and Meema Spadola…

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Psychopathia Sexualis

Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis was first published in German in 1886, and continued to be regarded as one of the primary te…

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Sex

This is a book of mostly paintings, accompanied by a number of photographs, and a few sculptures, and quotations, making a total of 296 illustrations. The p…

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Sex & Single Girls

This book invokes its title from Helen Gurley Brown's 1962 Sex and the Single Girl, an advice book (Cosmopolitan magazine style) for the newly…

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Sex and Spirit

The sub-title, "Discover and enjoy new realms of sexual intimacy and ecstasy... " truthfully announces the inter-active listening in this progr…

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Sex Positions

Compared to the other books in Lisa Sussman’s series on sex tips for women, Sex Positions is the most informative. In fact, the title is misl…

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Sex Q & A

This manual on sex is filled with questions and answers, and is illustrated with a number of mildly erotic photographs. The book is organized into eight…

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Sextasy

This sexual self-help book inspired by Eastern practices of Tantra, Tao, and the Kama Sutra is mildly informative and entertaining.  It is illustrated wi…

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Sexual Art

In one of the tamer pictures in this collection, "Lily, 1991," a woman with bleached blond hair, the roots showing as her head is down, sits on…

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Sexual Deviance

A few years ago, I was a participant/observer of an eight-week series of educational therapy sessions for sex offenders in a men's prison.  My objec…

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Sexual Ecstasy

Also author to The Art of Sexual Ecstasy and The Art of Sexual Magic, Margot Anand brings to us an illustrated step by step guide to personall…

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Sexual Intelligence

Sexual Intelligence is a coffee table book about sexuality.  It is divided into five main chapters, on Desire, Messaging, Arousal, Fantasy, and Re…

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Sexual Orientation and School Policy

This book is the published outcome of a large part of the doctoral work undertaken by the author in the School of Education at the University of Colorado…

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SexyBook

Esther Haase is a high-fashion photographer who makes images for international glossy magazines.  Her photographs exemplify a sense of elegant yet decade…

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Shameless

Shameless is a collection of short stories in the literary erotica genre. Literary erotica involves higher standards of writing than, say, the let…

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Stir-Fry

This story of seventeen-year-old Maria's first term at university is a charming coming-of-age tale. Maria (rhyming with pariah) moves from her home in th…

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Straight to Jesus

Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement provides a fascinating yet ultimately unsatisfying look at a less writt…

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Talk

In February of this year in Fulton, Missouri, the local high school put on a production of the play "Grease."  After the production, some compl…

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The Babies

There are some books that I want to review, and I pester and plead with publishers to send review copies. Then there are other books that I get sent, which…

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The Blue Moon Erotic Reader III

What's the difference between pornography and erotica?  Porn -- quick and dirty, sex with a little bit of story.  Erotica -- long and dirty, euphemistic…

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The Breast Book

This little 4"x6" book has over 450 pages, full of photographs and illustrations.  In its twelve main chapters, it surveys all sorts of ideas a…

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The Breath of Tantric Love

In the introduction to this DVD, Steve and Lokita Carter explain the benefits of breathing as a way of bringing couples together.  His has gray hear…

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The Busy Couple's Guide to Great Sex

The central question of this book is; "...we are no longer worried about getting all the sex we desire, now we're desperately wondering how to…

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The Erotic Lives of Women

In a society filled with sexual imagery, advertising, and exploitation, we see photographs of beautiful, sexy women everywhere. Most of those photos, how…

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The Fear of Child Sexuality

The Fear of Child Sexuality, by Steven Angelides, demonstrates that children are sexual beings and writes about an environment where children should be protected but also allowed to express their sexuality. The author discusses sex panics in Anglo-Saxon s

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The Gay Baby Boom

Any analytical work is fraught with the curse of too many tables, too complex charts and more data than we need for extraction. The authors commendably u…

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The Happy Hook-Up

I knew I was going to love this book the minute to saw the leopard print cover.  I read it from cover to cover in one night and all I can say is that the…

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The Hite Report

Originally published in 1976, The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality was a landmark in feminist studies due to its emphasis on…

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The Illustrated Guide to Extended Massive Orgasm

First, a word about the authors.  Vera and Steve Bodansky claim to hold Ph.D. degrees in "sensuality" from More University.  A Google search tu…

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The New Gay Teenager

"To Middle America, gay teens are arrogant aliens from another culture, at the margins of society with multiple body piercings, purple hair, and poi…

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The Other Hollywood

I've always been a fan of Legs McNeil, so I was definitely psyched when this book arrived.  Seven years in the making and over 600 pages long nothing and…

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The Other Place

In The Other Place, Jeff Burton shows some of the workings of the porn industry.  In contrast to the recent collection of posed portraits of porn…

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The Perils of Masculinity

Perhaps the definitive work on males came from feminism, in the form of Susan Faludi. In meeting and talking with men from various failed or successful b…

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The Politics Of Lust

Why are we afraid of sex or rather, why is it that the sight of genitals, nudity and sexuality is subject to legal and other limitations in many societie…

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The Pornification of America

The Pornification of America: How Raunch Culture is Ruining our Society by Bernadette Barton focuses on the question of what raunch culture is and why it matters? Simply put, raunch culture is sexist, not sexy. Raunch culture is everywhere and has basical

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The Psychodynamics of Gender and Gender Role

This is the tenth volume in Masling and Bornstein’s effort to wed psychoanalytic theory with empirical research. For those familiar with the history…

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The Secret Lives of Girls

The sub-title of this book provides a concise summary of its key point:  Even "good" girls engage in sex play and aggression, and they quite c…

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The Sex Addiction Workbook

On the cover of The Sex Addiction Workbook, it proclaims "The only scientifically supported treatment method for sex addicts."  T…

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The Sex Lives of Teenagers

The rather sensationalist title of this book might mislead potential readers; this is not an exposé of all the shocking sex acts that teens perform…

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The Shared Heart

The Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People, edited and photographed by Adam Mastoon, is the initi…

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The Transformations of Gwen

The novelty has worn off a bit after the first volume of The Transformations of Gwen. This second volume contains more photoshoots of 26-year old Gwen on her own or with other people. My favorite is “Punishment Shave for Truen Elizabeth,” which…

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The Transformations of Gwen

The novelty has worn off a bit after the first volume of The Transformation…

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The Vagina Monologues

It’s great to be able to hear Eve Ensler perform her well-known work The Vagina Monologues on CD. For years, she has written plays in which s…

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Trans Medicine

Trans Medicine is a brilliant book that can be of much benefit to a number of different professionals such as psychologists, counsellors, social workers and basically anyone who wants to challenge their own biases and gain a greater understanding of the g

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Ultimate Sex

Let me preface my review by noting that I am probably the last person you would want to ask for advice about sex, and I make no claims to be a sexpert. S…

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Unlikely

Jeffrey Brown specializes in writing graphic novels about his tortuous relationships with messed up women.  He is notorious for his crude drawings and oc…

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Untangling the Web

Untangling the Web is aimed at general readers who are themselves struggling with Internet sexual addictions, or who know someone who is damagin…

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Virginity Lost

In this book based on her sociological research, Laura Carpenter sets out the contemporary meanings of virginity and its loss.  She identifies three…

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What Women Want

This book was an absolute blast to read.  As a single thirty-something, I enjoyed every single page.  The entire book consists of interviews with women w…

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Wilhelm Reich

Yes, you have heard of him. Wilhelm Reich was the certified nut case who joined a mutilated Freudianism with a mutilated Marxism to create the kooky idea…

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Women and Madness

Women and Madness is the reissued, revised edition of a book first published at the height of second wave feminism in 1972. The Female Eunuch…

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Written in the Flesh

The focus of this book is the history of sexual desire, a broad subject, and one that is not easy to research given the almost ubiquitous nature of taboo…

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Zen Sex

When this book came across my desk, I was pretty psyched.  I thought I was going to learn some new positions to enhance my pretty demure sex life.  Howev…

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