269 Amazing Sex Games
269 Amazing Sex GamesThis 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. …
American Eugenics
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Anthony Goicolea
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Ars Erotica
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Becoming Orgasmic
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Best Sex Writing 2005
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Better Than Ever
Better Than EverA 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…
Beyond Diversity Day
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Beyond Tolerance
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Boys & Sex
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Camming
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Christy Report
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Clay's Way
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Clumsy
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Confessions of the Other Mother
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Cyborgasm
CyborgasmCollected here are 15 soundpieces with explicit erotic content. Compared, for example, to the somewhat bland and conventional erotic of the short storie…
Debating Sex Work
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Departing from Deviance
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Dilemmas of Desire
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Dirty Stories
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Disorders Of Desire
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Doing It Down Under
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Down and Dirty Sex Secrets
Down and Dirty Sex SecretsDown and Dirty Sex Secrets (titled Pucker Up in the hardback edition) is a guidebook to improving people's sex life by both facilitating c…
Early Embraces III
Early Embraces III32 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…
Emerald City Blues
Emerald City BluesThis is a work of fiction separate from the author’s previous science fiction…
Enjoying Guilty Pleasures
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Erotic Innocence
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Exploring Transsexualism
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Gender in the Mirror
Gender in the MirrorDiana Myers' Gender in the Mirror is an eloquent, insightful, and sustained plea for feminists to adopt a new, or perhaps more accurately, radical…
Geography Club
Geography ClubGeography 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…
Going Down
Going DownWith 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…
Hardcore from the Heart
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Heterosyncracies
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Homosexualities
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How Sex Changed
How Sex ChangedTo give a history of transsexuality means discussing the development of medical opinion, popular culture, and some trends in how people described themsel…
How to Give Her Absolute Pleasure
How to Give Her Absolute PleasureAn educational approach to teaching men how to provide sexual pleasure to the women in their lives. Lou Paget presents very explicit and informed conce…
How to Make Great Love to a Man
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How to Make Love Like a Porn Star
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Hypnography for Men
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Hypnography for Women
Hypnography for WomenHypnography for Women has an exactly parallel structure to Hypnography for Men, and many of the comments I made about the latter apply to t…
In the Mood, Again
In the Mood, AgainIn 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…
Intense Games DVD
Intense Games DVDAs 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…
Jane Sexes It Up
Jane Sexes It UpFeminism 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…
Kama-Sutra--The Secrets to the Art of Love
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Losing Matt Shepard
Losing Matt ShepardMost people who are concerned about LGBT issues or about hate-crimes would recognize a picture of Matthew Shepherd: the diminutive, blonde college studen…
Love and Desire
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Love Sick
Love SickAddiction is by its very nature a tricky thing, as most people realize. It is, psychologically speaking, extremely difficult to identify a true need (air…
Medicalized Masculinities
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Mental Health Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities
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Middlesex
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My Horizontal Life
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New Sex Now DVD
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Oedipus Wrecked
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On Getting Off
On Getting OffThe 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,
One Hot Second
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Over 100 Truly Astonishing Sex Tips
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Pin-up Grrrls
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PINS
PINSJoey 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…
Pornified
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Pornography, Sex, and Feminism
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Predators
PredatorsThe 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…
Private Dicks - Men Exposed
Private Dicks - Men ExposedFollowing up from their Breasts documentary, Thom Powers and Meema Spadola…
Psychopathia Sexualis
Psychopathia SexualisKrafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis was first published in German in 1886, and continued to be regarded as one of the primary te…
Sex
SexThis 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…
Sex & Single Girls
Sex & Single GirlsThis book invokes its title from Helen Gurley Brown's 1962 Sex and the Single Girl, an advice book (Cosmopolitan magazine style) for the newly…
Sex and Spirit
Sex and SpiritThe sub-title, "Discover and enjoy new realms of sexual intimacy and ecstasy... " truthfully announces the inter-active listening in this progr…
Sex Positions
Sex PositionsCompared 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…
Sex Q & A
Sex Q & AThis 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…
Sextasy
SextasyThis sexual self-help book inspired by Eastern practices of Tantra, Tao, and the Kama Sutra is mildly informative and entertaining. It is illustrated wi…
Sexual Art
Sexual ArtIn 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…
Sexual Deviance
Sexual DevianceA 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…
Sexual Ecstasy
Sexual EcstasyAlso 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…
Sexual Intelligence
Sexual IntelligenceSexual Intelligence is a coffee table book about sexuality. It is divided into five main chapters, on Desire, Messaging, Arousal, Fantasy, and Re…
Sexual Orientation and School Policy
Sexual Orientation and School PolicyThis 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
SexyBookEsther Haase is a high-fashion photographer who makes images for international glossy magazines. Her photographs exemplify a sense of elegant yet decade…
Shameless
ShamelessShameless is a collection of short stories in the literary erotica genre. Literary erotica involves higher standards of writing than, say, the let…
Stir-Fry
Stir-FryThis 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…
Straight to Jesus
Straight to JesusStraight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement provides a fascinating yet ultimately unsatisfying look at a less writt…
Talk
TalkIn February of this year in Fulton, Missouri, the local high school put on a production of the play "Grease." After the production, some compl…
The Babies
The BabiesThere 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…
The Blue Moon Erotic Reader III
The Blue Moon Erotic Reader IIIWhat's the difference between pornography and erotica? Porn -- quick and dirty, sex with a little bit of story. Erotica -- long and dirty, euphemistic…
The Breast Book
The Breast BookThis 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…
The Breath of Tantric Love
The Breath of Tantric LoveIn 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…
The Busy Couple's Guide to Great Sex
The Busy Couple's Guide to Great SexThe 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
The Erotic Lives of WomenIn a society filled with sexual imagery, advertising, and exploitation, we see photographs of beautiful, sexy women everywhere. Most of those photos, how…
The Fear of Child Sexuality
The Fear of Child SexualityThe 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
The Gay Baby Boom
The Gay Baby BoomAny 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…
The Happy Hook-Up
The Happy Hook-UpI 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…
The Hite Report
The Hite ReportOriginally published in 1976, The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality was a landmark in feminist studies due to its emphasis on…
The Illustrated Guide to Extended Massive Orgasm
The Illustrated Guide to Extended Massive OrgasmFirst, 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
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…
The Other Hollywood
The Other HollywoodI'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…
The Other Place
The Other PlaceIn 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…
The Perils of Masculinity
The Perils of MasculinityPerhaps 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…
The Politics Of Lust
The Politics Of LustWhy 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…
The Pornification of America
The Pornification of AmericaThe 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
The Psychodynamics of Gender and Gender Role
The Psychodynamics of Gender and Gender RoleThis 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 Secret Lives of GirlsThe 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…
The Sex Addiction Workbook
The Sex Addiction WorkbookOn the cover of The Sex Addiction Workbook, it proclaims "The only scientifically supported treatment method for sex addicts." T…
The Sex Lives of Teenagers
The Sex Lives of TeenagersThe rather sensationalist title of this book might mislead potential readers; this is not an exposé of all the shocking sex acts that teens perform…
The Shared Heart
The Shared HeartThe Shared Heart: Portraits and Stories Celebrating Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young People, edited and photographed by Adam Mastoon, is the initi…
The Transformations of Gwen
The Transformations of GwenThe 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…
The Transformations of Gwen
The novelty has worn off a bit after the first volume of The Transformation…
The Vagina Monologues
The Vagina MonologuesIt’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…
Trans Medicine
Trans MedicineTrans 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
Ultimate Sex
Ultimate SexLet 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…
Unlikely
UnlikelyJeffrey Brown specializes in writing graphic novels about his tortuous relationships with messed up women. He is notorious for his crude drawings and oc…
Untangling the Web
Untangling the WebUntangling the Web is aimed at general readers who are themselves struggling with Internet sexual addictions, or who know someone who is damagin…
Virginity Lost
Virginity LostIn this book based on her sociological research, Laura Carpenter sets out the contemporary meanings of virginity and its loss. She identifies three…
What Women Want
What Women WantThis 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…
Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm ReichYes, 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…
Women and Madness
Women and MadnessWomen and Madness is the reissued, revised edition of a book first published at the height of second wave feminism in 1972. The Female Eunuch…
Written in the Flesh
Written in the FleshThe 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…
Zen Sex
Zen SexWhen 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…