Human Sexuality

Social workers engage with sex and sexuality in all kinds of practice settings and with a variety of client populations. However, conversations about healthy sexuality and sexual well-being are all but absent from social work literature, education, and...

What do we do in the bedroom? Do other people do the same? How often? Who with? Movies and the internet seem saturated in sex, but it's difficult to separate fact from fiction, and real talk about our own sexual lives can feel uncomfortable. Sex in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826504326Author L. L. WynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Scholars and social critics are looking at gender and sexuality, as well as masculinity, in new ways and with more attention to the way cultural ideologies affect men's and women's lives. With the rise of an online "incel" (involuntarily celibate)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316419352Author David BussFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Little, Brown SparkPublisher Little, Brown SparkWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality-the first volume of which was published in 1976-exerts a vast influence across the humanities and social sciences. However, Foucault's interest in the history of sexuality began as early as the 1960s, when he...

What is the ace lens?Is my relationship queerplatonic?Am I sex-favorable, sex-averse or sex-repulsed?As an ace or questioning person in an oh-so-allo world, you're probably in desperate need of a cheat sheet. Allow us to introduce your new asexual best...

This book considers the concept of consent in different contexts with the aim of exploring the nuances of what consent means to different people and in different situations. While it is generally agreed that consent is a fluid concept, legal and social...

What can a cultural history of the heartthrob teach us about women, desire, and social change? From dreams of Prince Charming or dashing military heroes, to the lure of dark strangers and vampire lovers; from rock stars and rebels to soulmates,...

A renowned sexologist shows us we're not alone when it comes to problems of sex and love. Ann-Marlene Henning has improved the sex lives of thousands through her TV show and advice blog. Now, readers can experience her sought-after talk therapy in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306832567Author Tina HornFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 503g

In a book that completely changes the terms of the pornography debate, Laura Kipnis challenges the position that porn perpetuates misogyny and sex crimes. First published in 1996, Bound and Gagged opens with the chilling case of Daniel DePew, a man...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621382874Author Stephen BaskervilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

What is expected of 21st Century egg and sperm donors, and how does being a donor impact on men and women's own personal lives and relationships? How do donors navigate connections and relationships created by donation? What do these connections mean to...

This volume examines crucial questions about human sexuality through the lens of BDSM: What is sexuality? What makes an experience sexual or not? What role do communities play in shaping sexual identities? How are BDSM communities similar to and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982120634Author Logan UryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm *...

Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593316283Author Laura KipnisFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Tantra is a vital path toward full interior development through sex, love, and meditation. Its origin dates back to ancestral India, and from there has enlightened many generations of lovers who have penetrated the secret that leads to ultimate happiness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593765255Author Thomas HickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull PressWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

An eye-opening exploration of the medical origins of gender in modern US history. Today, a world without "gender" is hard to imagine. Gender is at the center of contentious political and social debates, shapes policy decisions, and informs our everyday...

At the height of the Victorian era, a daring group of artists and thinkers defied the reigning obsession with propriety, testing the boundaries of sexual decorum in their lives and in their work. Dante Gabriel Rossetti exhumed his dead wife to pry his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940761381Author Jennie JarvisFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Beating Windward Press LLCPublisher Beating Windward Press LLCWeight(grams)...

Harry Benjamin (1885–1986), a German-born endocrinologist, was a pivotal figure in the development of transgender medicine. He was physician to transgender pioneers such as Christine Jorgensen, the 1950s "Ex-GI" turned "Blonde Beauty" media sensation,...

Finding Your Sexual Voice promotes the genuine understanding of strong female sexuality and empowers women to value desire, pleasure, eroticism, and satisfaction. The book confronts myths and misunderstandings about female sexuality, especially desire,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048514Author Stephanie HaerdleFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Medieval Sex Lives examines courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the relationship between artistic production and the everyday lives of the elites for whom this music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046589Author Emmanuelle PouydebatFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The Middle East has long been something of a mystery to Westerners, and in particular, the sexual mores of the region continue to fascinate. Arabs are often described as being in a state of Islam-induced sexual anxiety and young Muslims' frustrations are...

Offering an entryway into the distinctive worlds of sexual health and a window onto their spillover effects, sociologist Steven Epstein traces the development of the concept and parses the debates that swirl around it. Since the 1970s, health...

Historians of ancient Greece and Rome are sometimes hesitant to engage with the well-documented fact that Greek and Roman men regularly engaged in same-sex sexual relations with younger men. In a similar vein, scholars have constructed elaborate social...

Now in a third edition, the authoritative classic text Male, Female evaluates both foundational and recent scholarship on the evolution of human sex differences, including how males and females differ in modern contexts. In comprehensive detail, David C...

Is it wrong for a man to buy sex from a woman? In this book, Holly Lawford-Smith argues that it is wrong: commercial sex is quintessentially hierarchical sex, and it is wrong both to have, and to perpetuate a market in, hierarchical sex. Angie Pepper...

Can the orgasm be explained in historical terms? An almost incommunicable individual emotion yet also a cultural reality, the orgasm is part of, but also escapes, collective experience. The history of the orgasm is that of the hidden body, of forbidden...

In the late 1970s, the adult film industry began the transition from celluloid to home video. Smutty Little Movies traces this change and examines the cultural and legal efforts to regulate, contain, limit, or eradicate pornography. Drawing on a wide...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505112450Author Jennifer Roback MorseFormat HardbackPage Count 420Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644040010Author Amir SaidFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Superchamp BooksPublisher Superchamp BooksWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593762414Author David Henry SterryFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 403gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...