Tag: Sex

The City and Sex Private Vice and Public Scandal in the American Republic


Free Download Mary Beth McConahey, "The City and Sex: Private Vice and Public Scandal in the American Republic"
English | ISBN: 1498518281 | 2015 | 208 pages | EPUB | 977 KB
The City and Sex examines American political sex scandals at the national level. Studying these events over time with an emphasis on the evolving responses of both statesmen and citizens reveals the republic’s deteriorating moral health and illuminates the country’s dangerous tendency toward servitude. Using scandals as a window through which to glimpse our deterioration, the book identifies a trajectory of decline beginning in the twentieth century, by which Americans became less tutored in virtue, less spirited in citizenship, less agreed on questions of moral significance, and ultimately less dexterous in exercising the skills of self-government. It seeks to show that the freedom from virtue won through the collapse of moral standards has produced an American citizenry increasingly prone to the kind of dependence and enslavement Alexis de Tocqueville cautioned against in the 1830s.

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Comedy Sex God


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English | 2019 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 0062803972, ASIN: B075WT6QDK | EPUB | 1,1 mb
Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, part sacred quest – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck for the spiritual seeker – a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of standout stand-up comedian, host of the hugely successful podcast You Made It Weird, and star of HBO’s Crashing Pete Holmes.

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Sex Without Stress A Couple’s Guide to Overcoming Disappointment, Avoidance, and Pressure [Audiobook] (2024)


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English | May 26, 2020 | ASIN: B0886M4SM2 | MP3@64 kbps | 5h 34m | 153.14 MB
Author: Jessa Zimmerman MA LMHC CST
Narrator: Suzie Althens

Isn’t sex supposed to be easy? Do sexual problems mean I’m in the wrong relationship? How do we get to the point where sex is fun again? Am I broken? Is there any hope?

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The Boudoir Bible The Uninhibited Sex Guide for Today [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CCGFW21H | 2023 | 11 hours and 41 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 334 MB
Author: Betony Vernon
Narrator: Betony Vernon

A comprehensive and instructional guide to the new sexual landscape, covering "new territories" such as bondage, role playing, and sex toys that would make your parents blush. Since the publication of The Joy of Sex, the sexual landscape’s boundaries have been expanded to include a host of practices that are unthinkable in that classic tome. Although it also covers the basics, The Boudoir Bible fills those niches missing from other sex guides nicely, with full elaborated chapters on rope bondage, restraints of sound and sight, erotic flagellation, and the stimulation of new erogenous zones, among innumerable other offerings. Well-researched, The Boudoir Bible is written from a joyful, sex-positive point of view. Going beyond the "lovemaking" of older guides, this witty and uninhibited tome expands the sexual act to encompass "verboten" topics, with chapters entitled "The Genital Gym," "Nipple Tease," "Male Ejaculation Control," and "The Anthems of Anal Sex. The Boudoir Bible provides a fresh view of sexuality in the twenty-first century.

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Naked On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0BXBJHNQT | 2023 | 6 hours and 30 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 364 MB
Author: Fancy Feast
Narrator: Fancy Feast

In Naked, a celebrated burlesque performer, sex educator, and social worker bares it all, with incisive and hilarious essays about selling, performing, and consuming desire. Fancy Feast draws back the curtain to reveal a world that most denizens of the daytime never see. Part exclusive backstage pass, part long-form literary striptease, these essays confront our culture’s tightly held beliefs-like so many clutched pearls-about sex, communication, power, and the messiness of life on the margins of respectability. In "Dildo Lady," Fancy recounts her time compensating for the failures of the American sex education system while working retail at a sex toy store. In "Doing Yourself," Fancy tackles fatphobia and dating, self-love, and fantasies. In "Yes/No/Maybe," Fancy brings the reader from sex parties to polyamorous relationships as she contrasts the undeniable sexiness of enthusiastic consent with the devastating effects of miscommunication and entitlement. Fancy Feast does this all as a fat woman who makes a living taking off her clothes-a triumphant punch-back at a culture that wants fat people to be self-hating or sexless. Naked is by turns splashy, vulnerable, and always powerful.

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Reproductive Politics in India The Case of Sex-Selective Abortion


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 270 Pages | ISBN : 3031441753 | 6.4 MB
This monograph explores the full context of sex-selective abortion (SSA) in India by examining the historical forces, political movements, government policies, and gender regimes that shape this reproductive practice. Using qualitative research methods within a feminist methodology, including in-depth interviews with service providers and professionals in New Delhi and a content analysis of Indian newspapers, the study engages the following areas of analysis: the social structures and determinants of SSA in India, the potential for women’s agency in SSA, and the representations of SSA and SSA-seeking women in the Indian media. This research expands the discourse and analysis of SSA by facilitating a nuanced and multilayered exploration of a profoundly contextual, personal, and gendered reproductive issue by grounding data and interpretation in the lived experiences of research participants with systems-wide knowledge of SSA. Further, the feminist theory-informed analysis moves away from normative victimhood frameworks. Lastly, the book contributes to the understudied area of media discourse analysis on the intersections of gender and SSA in national news coverage.

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Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptability Essays in Honour of Linda M. Fedigan


Free Download Primate Life Histories, Sex Roles, and Adaptability: Essays in Honour of Linda M. Fedigan by Urs Kalbitzer
English EPUB (True) | 2018 | 398 Pages | ISBN : 3319982842 | 23.6 MB
Professor Linda M. Fedigan, Member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, has made major contributions to our understanding of the behavioural ecology of primates. Furthermore, Linda Fedigan pioneered and continues to advance scholarship on the role of women in science, as well as actively promoting the inclusion of women in the academy.

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Illicit and Unnatural Practices The Law, Sex and Society in Scotland since 1900


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English | ISBN: 147444119X | 2018 | 240 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinating insight into the relationship between the law, sex, and society in modern Scotland. Case studies of sex-related offences, including abortion, bestiality, brothel-keeping, child sexual assault, and wilful HIV transmission, reveal how far the legal process both reflected and reinforced contemporary moral panics and how far it was shaped by the interplay between law officers and forensic experts, by the prejudices of the local community and civic leaders, and by Scotland’s distinctive legal and moral identity. The law in practice is seen to have sustained important norms of sexual behaviour and masculinity along with an enduring double moral standard with respect to female sexuality. This volume thus affords a remarkable new perspective on the sexual behaviours and ideologies of Scottish society across the twentieth century and into the new millennium.

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Edward II and a Literature of Same-Sex Love The Gay King in Fiction, 1590-1640


Free Download Michael G. Cornelius, "Edward II and a Literature of Same-Sex Love: The Gay King in Fiction, 1590-1640"
English | ISBN: 1498534589 | 2016 | 302 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The narrative re-tellings of the life, reign, and death of the English King Edward II (reigned 1307-1327) present a unique opportunity for scholars of sexuality in the early modern era. This is because the works of authors like Christopher Marlowe, Michael Drayton, Sir Francis Hubert, Elizabeth Cary, and Richard Niccols were all inspired by the public, cultural memory fashioned from Edward’s same-sex love affair with Piers Gaveston. As such, each of them presents a particular representation of and a specific discourse about male-male sexual relations in the Renaissance. In other words, what these works present is a concentrated body of literature about same-sex love in the early modern era: works that openly and frankly explore the possible origins of the love, the reasons and causes for it; works that explore the ramifications of male-male romantic relationships; works that explore the sexual politics and sociocultural dynamics of same-sex romantic partnerships; and works that describe and denote same-sex love from an English Renaissance perspective. This study looks at each of the major Renaissance texts about Edward II and examines the means through which each text understands and analyzes the nature of male-male same-sex love. From Marlowe’s crafting of a lover-identity for Edward to Drayton’s obsession with Marlowe’s version of (gay) history; from Hubert’s Augustinian construction of Edward’s nature to Cary’s identification with the fallen king to Niccols’ inspired exemplum, what each of these works demonstrates is that the "love that dare not speak its name" would not be silenced, at least not in the case of Edward and Gaveston. When one sees the name Edward II, one also sees his same-sex loves. The correlation has become ingrained into our public recall of history. Thus, as far as the world is concerned, Edward II was-and ever will be-the gay king.

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