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Free Download Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America by Rebecca L. Davis
English | September 3rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1631496573 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 16.69 MB
From an esteemed scholar, a richly textured, authoritative history of sex and sexuality in America-the first major account in three decades.

Free Download A Dirty, Filthy Book: Sex, Scandal, and One Woman’s Fight in the Victorian Trial of the Century by Michael Meyer
English | February 8th, 2024 | ISBN: 0753559927 | 400 pages | True EPUB | 10.17 MB
London, 1877. A petite young woman stands before an all-male jury, about to risk everything. She takes a breath, and opens her defence.

Free Download Lillian Schlissel, "Three Plays: Sex / The Drag / The Pleasure Man"
English | 1997 | pages: 348 | ISBN: 0415909333, 0415909325 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Mae West, wise-cracking vaudeville performer, was one of the most controversial figures of her era. Rarely, however, do people think of Mae West as a writer. In Three Plays By Mae West, Lillian Schlissel brings this underexplored part of West’s career to the fore by offering for the first time in book form, three of the plays West wrote in the 1920s-Sex (1926), The Drag (1927) and Pleasure Man (1928). With an insightful introduction by Schlissel, this book offers a unique look into to the life and early career of this legendary stage and screen actress.

Free Download Lillian Schlissel, "Three Plays: Sex / The Drag / The Pleasure Man"
English | 1997 | pages: 348 | ISBN: 0415909333, 0415909325 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Mae West, wise-cracking vaudeville performer, was one of the most controversial figures of her era. Rarely, however, do people think of Mae West as a writer. In Three Plays By Mae West, Lillian Schlissel brings this underexplored part of West’s career to the fore by offering for the first time in book form, three of the plays West wrote in the 1920s-Sex (1926), The Drag (1927) and Pleasure Man (1928). With an insightful introduction by Schlissel, this book offers a unique look into to the life and early career of this legendary stage and screen actress.

Free Download Virginia Burrus, "The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography "
English | ISBN: 081222020X | 2007 | 224 pages | AZW3 | 673 KB
Has a repressive morality been the primary contribution of Christianity to the history of sexuality? The ascetic concerns that pervade ancient Christian texts would seem to support such a common assumption. Focusing on hagiographical literature, Virginia Burrus pursues a fresh path of interpretation, arguing that the early accounts of the lives of saints are not antierotic but rather convey a sublimely transgressive "countereroticism" that resists the marital, procreative ethic of sexuality found in other strands of Christian tradition.

Free Download Eileen Myles, "Stripped Down: Lesbian Sex Stories"
English | 2012 | pages: 302 | ISBN: 1573447943 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Where else but a Tristan Taormino erotica collection can you find a femme vigilante, a virgin baby butch, and a snake charmer jostling for your attention? The salacious stories in Stripped Down draw you in like honeyed voices from an upstairs room. In Peggy Munson’s "Into the Baptismal," two farmgirls decide to test their virginity pledges one rainy summer night. Quinn Vertiz’s "Jubilee" describes a classic American rite of passage – a trip to a trailer brothel in the Nevada desert – but with a truck full of butch dykes in place of the local boys. In Skian McGuire’s "Phoebe’s Undercover Bon Voyage," a group of well-equipped tops indulge a friend’s cop fetish before she – a real cop – goes undercover. And Kathleen Warnock’s "After Lunch" makes it clear that the best dish in a small-town restaurant isn’t on the menu. Guest editor Eileen Myles adds her street smarts and lyrical dynamism to Tristan Taormino’s powerful collection of riveting girl-girl erotica.

Free Download Eileen Myles, "Stripped Down: Lesbian Sex Stories"
English | 2012 | pages: 302 | ISBN: 1573447943 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Where else but a Tristan Taormino erotica collection can you find a femme vigilante, a virgin baby butch, and a snake charmer jostling for your attention? The salacious stories in Stripped Down draw you in like honeyed voices from an upstairs room. In Peggy Munson’s "Into the Baptismal," two farmgirls decide to test their virginity pledges one rainy summer night. Quinn Vertiz’s "Jubilee" describes a classic American rite of passage – a trip to a trailer brothel in the Nevada desert – but with a truck full of butch dykes in place of the local boys. In Skian McGuire’s "Phoebe’s Undercover Bon Voyage," a group of well-equipped tops indulge a friend’s cop fetish before she – a real cop – goes undercover. And Kathleen Warnock’s "After Lunch" makes it clear that the best dish in a small-town restaurant isn’t on the menu. Guest editor Eileen Myles adds her street smarts and lyrical dynamism to Tristan Taormino’s powerful collection of riveting girl-girl erotica.

Free Download Richard Warren, "Sex, Symbolists and the Greek Body "
English | ISBN: 135004234X | 2019 | 280 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
This book explores Symbolist artists’ fascination with ancient Greek art and myth, and how the erotic played a major role in this. For a brief period at the end of the 19th century the Symbolist movement inspired artists to turn inwards to the unconscious mind, endeavouring to unveil the secrets of human nature through their symbolic art. But above all their greatest interest, and fear, was man (and woman’s) sexuality. Building upon the traditions of Academic neoclassicism, but fired with a new zeal, they turned back to Greek art and myth for inspiration.

Free Download Robert H. von Thaden Jr., "Sex, Christ, and Embodied Cognition: Paul’s Wisdom for Corinth "
English | ISBN: 0884142280 | 2017 | 358 pages | PDF | 25
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Free Download Claire Weinhold, "Sex as Work: Decriminalisation and The Management of Brothels in New Zealand "
English | ISBN: 3031192591 | 2023 | 275 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book examines the ways that brothels are managed under decriminalisation in New Zealand. New Zealand decriminalised sex work in 2003 with the passage of the Prostitution Reform Act, making it the first country to do so. Decriminalisation situates brothels as ‘businesses like any other’ and creates a legislative platform for better working conditions for sex workers. Nevertheless, we have limited understanding of how brothels are managed in New Zealand. Drawing on interviews with brothel operators and sex workers, this book explores how the law is understood and implemented, how brothel operators position their businesses, and how they seek legitimacy in a historically stigmatised sector. It also examines the rules and norms by which operators manage their businesses and the possibilities for sex workers to consent to commercial sexual services in the context of neoliberal norms of work and of managers who expect them to be professionalised, responsibilised and productive.