Category: Sexuality

By Daniel A. Hart

ISBN-10: 1475793685

ISBN-13: 9781475793680

ISBN-10: 1475793707

ISBN-13: 9781475793703

Here, Daniel A. Hart analyzes the result of a radical twenty-year longitudinal learn of men's improvement. Integrating quite a lot of study methods, Hart assesses character trait, structural-developmental, and crisis-transformational elements within the examine of lives over the years. the writer then develops an unique framework for knowing the mental similarities and ameliorations in men's lives.

By Sarah Earle

ISBN-10: 0754636690

ISBN-13: 9780754636694

ISBN-10: 0754683958

ISBN-13: 9780754683957

"Sex in our on-line world" deals a daring and provocative, but sensitively written, account of an under-investigated quarter of sociological enquiry. whereas there's a substantial volume of analysis documenting the studies of intercourse staff, little or no facts exists on their male consumers. the 1st empirically-based learn at the studies of guys who pay for intercourse, this paintings offers an important new resource of information. The e-book is predicated upon an in depth examine of online boards during which either the shoppers of sexual prone and the employees themselves can alternate info and perspectives - info that is in a different way super tough to procure. Sarah Earle and Keith Sharp argue that such websites characterize an important swap within the social association of intercourse paintings and people who search and use the prone of intercourse employees. laying off new mild on men's sexual identification, "Sex in our on-line world" makes a massive contribution to the learn of sexuality.

By Sara Schatz

ISBN-10: 9402409378

ISBN-13: 9789402409376

ISBN-10: 9402409394

ISBN-13: 9789402409390

This quantity specializes in the categorical courting among the institutional impunity, loss of public security and public area in failing to avoid prepared sexual homicide. The homicide of ladies at the U.S.-Mexican border is a posh phenomenon with a number of geographic, monetary, political, sociological, and mental causes.

By A. Revathi, V. Geetha

ISBN-10: 0143068369

ISBN-13: 9780143068365

We received stared at much. humans requested out loudly—some out of interest, others out of malice—whether we have been males or girls or ‘number nines’ or devadasis. numerous males made daring to the touch us, on our backs, on our shoulders. a few tried to snatch our breasts. ‘Original or duplicate?’ they shouted and hooted. At such moments I felt melancholy and questioned if there could ever be a fashion for us to stay with dignity and make an honest residing. Revathi used to be born a boy, yet felt and behaved like a lady. In telling her existence tale, Revathi conjures up marvellously the deep unease of being within the mistaken physique that plagued her from adolescence. To be precise to herself, to flee the consistent violence visited upon her through her relations and neighborhood, the village-born Revathi ran away to Delhi to hitch a home of hijras. Her lifestyles turned an immense sequence of harmful actual and emotional trips to develop into a lady and to discover love. the reality approximately Me is the unflinchingly brave and relocating autobiography of a hijra who fought ridicule, persecution and violence either inside of her domestic and outdoors to discover a lifetime of dignity.

By Alan Whiteside

ISBN-10: 0192806920

ISBN-13: 9780192806925

HIV/AIDS is definitely the worst epidemic to hit humankind because the Black dying. As of 2004 an envisioned forty million humans have been residing with the disorder, and approximately 20 million had died. regardless of quick medical advances there's nonetheless no healing and the medicine are pricey and poisonous. within the constructing global, specifically in elements of Africa, lifestyles expectancy has plummeted to under 35 years, inflicting a significant decline in monetary development, a pointy bring up in orphans, and the upcoming cave in of well-being care platforms. the inside track isn't all bleak even though. there were extraordinary breakthroughs in figuring out illnesses and constructing medicinal drugs. as the illness is so heavily associated with sexual intercourse and drug use, the necessity to comprehend and alter habit has prompted us to think again what it capability to be human and the way we must always function within the globalizing international. This Very brief creation tackles the technological know-how, the overseas and native politics, the attention-grabbing demographics, and the devastating effects of the sickness, and indicates how we needs to respond.

Reviews:

Packed with information and convenient factors of technological know-how. It won't make you a professional. yet you'll recognize what you're conversing approximately and you'll have a greater suggestion of the entire paintings we nonetheless need to do to combat this monster to the floor. Aids-free international web site. a vital read... Readers will achieve figuring out of the scientific, social, political and moral matters all in favour of this tragic epidemic. AIDSportal web site

By Pessoa, Fernando; Pessoa, Fernando; Sabine, Mark; Klobucka, Anna

ISBN-10: 0802091989

ISBN-13: 9780802091987

he multifaceted and labyrinthine oeuvre of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is special through having been written and released less than greater than seventy diversified names. those weren't mere pseudonyms, yet what Pessoa termed 'heteronyms,' totally discovered identities possessed not just of wildly divergent writing types and reviews, but additionally of specific biographies. in lots of circumstances, their self sufficient existences prolonged to their e-book of letters and demanding readings of every other's works (and these of Pessoa 'himself').

Long acclaimed in continental Europe and Latin the United States as a towering presence in literary modernism, Pessoa has extra lately began to obtain the eye of an English-speaking public. Embodying Pessoa responds to this new development of curiosity. The collection's twelve essays, preceded by way of a normal creation and grouped into 4 themed sections, observe various present interpretative types either to the extra generic canon of Pessoa's output, and to much less regular texts - in lots of instances only in the near past released. As a complete, this paintings diverges from conventional Pessoa feedback through attesting to the significance of corporeal physicality in his heteronymous scan and to the prominence of representations of (gendered) sexuality in his work.

By Monica Mayhem, Gerrie Lim

ISBN-10: 1616080914

ISBN-13: 9781616080914

“Do you really need to grasp what it’s wish to be a porn superstar? Brace your self, simply because I’m unlikely to drag any punches. here’s what a ‘busy day on the office’ may well suggest for me...”
So starts off the no-holds-barred autobiography of Monica Mayhem—a porn famous person and pleased with it. In her humorous and disarmingly candid voice, she finds the fine details of creating it colossal in l. a., the pornography capital of the area. simply how did a woman who used to be taunted in class simply because her eyes have been “too big,” and who carved out a decent occupation for herself buying and selling oil futures within the monetary markets of Sydney and London, move directly to make over 400 hardcore grownup videos (and counting), win quite a few awards, or even land herself a task within the first Sex and the City motion picture? From her afflicted early life to her first express on the recognized Spearmint Rhino in London to her favourite intercourse toys, Monica unearths how she equipped her empire—which now contains 1000's of movies, an internet site, and profitable burlesque performances.

Absolute Mayhem lifts the lid at the intercourse, rock, and mayhem of Monica’s really remarkable specialist lifestyles and unveils the personal individual in the back of all of it. 60 colour images

By David R. Champion

ISBN-10: 1593320299

ISBN-13: 9781593320294

ISBN-10: 1931202494

ISBN-13: 9781931202497

Champion examines the basis that sexually competitive males own detailed, cognitively dependent trust platforms. To discover those trust structures he specializes in entitlement. Entitlement was once measured via current scales for Machiavellianism and narcissism. Sexual aggressors are typically extra narcissistic, Machiavellian and sexually skilled than different males. opposite to well known notions and a few prior examine, athletic and fraternity club had no dating with sexual aggression. Champion postulates that entitling character constructions are linked to sexual aggression and speculates at the implications of this for destiny criminological learn.

By Alain de Botton

ISBN-10: 1250030668

ISBN-13: 9781250030665

We don't imagine an excessive amount of approximately intercourse; we're purely wondering it within the flawed way.

So asserts Alain de Botton during this rigorous and supremely sincere ebook designed to aid us navigate the intimate and exciting—yet usually complicated and difficult—experience that's intercourse. Few people are inclined to consider we're solely basic in terms of intercourse, and what we're purported to be feeling hardly suits up with the truth. This publication argues that twenty-first-century intercourse is finally fated to be a balancing act among love and hope, and experience and dedication. protecting subject matters that come with lust, fetishism, adultery, and pornography, Alain de Botton frankly articulates the dilemmas of recent sexuality, providing insights and comfort to aid us imagine extra deeply and correctly in regards to the intercourse we're, or aren't, having.

By Lotte van de Pol

ISBN-10: 019921140X

ISBN-13: 9780199211401

Amsterdam was once, after London and Paris, the 3rd greatest urban in early glossy Europe, and used to be well known all through Europe for its common and visual prostitution. Delving deep right into a wide selection of resources, yet making specific use of the transcripts of hundreds of thousands of trials, The Burgher and the Whore reconstructs Amsterdam's whoredom intimately. the vibrant and interesting descriptions of the prostitutes, their bawds, their consumers, and the police shed new mild at the cultural, social, and monetary stipulations of the lives of negative girls in a seafaring society. Lotte van de Pol explores how the vice exchange used to be embedded in Amsterdam's society, economic climate, and judicial procedure, and the way laws and policing have been formed via misogynist attitudes in the direction of ladies and worry of God's wrath and venereal ailments in the direction of intercourse. the tale concentrates at the humans residing on the margins of a wealthy city, within which there has been a wide surplus of ladies, a lot of them terrible immigrants with little prospect of marriage. Many adjustments are seen within the a hundred and fifty years lower than scrutiny, together with the view of prostitution from immorality to exchange, and of prostitutes from whores and criminals to paupers. the result's a publication that may be learn because the historical past of the Dutch Golden Age from under.