As globalization erodes national borders and the Internet spawns online communities for every conceivable interest or fetish, sex tourism is surging. Around the World in 80 Lays is the first book to explore the emergence of the online sex tourist subculture and its mounting impact on the world's flesh trade. The author, Joe Diamond, is himself an enthusiastic sex tourist, and an expert. In this groundbreaking travelogue, he traverses the globe to put sex tourism under the microscope. Through col...
Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity: A Psychoanalytical Perspective
Is the reform we have seen in the wake of the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church meaningful? Have our conversations about the causes of these scandals delved as deeply as they need to? For those questioning the relations between hierarchical power, secrecy, and sexuality in institutional religion, Mark D. Jordan's eloquent meditations on what truths about sexuality need to be told in church-and the difficulty of telling any truths-will be a balm and a revelation.
Arriving in New York with a failing relationship and a body she felt out of touch with, Stephanie Theobald set off on a 3,497 mile trip across America to re-build her orgasm from the ground up. What started as a quest for the ultimate auto-erotic experience became a fantastic voyage into her own body. She takes us from ‘body sex’ classes with the legendary feminist Betty Dodson to an interview with the former US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who was fired for suggesting that masturbation sho...
Why Women Have Sex (No Ficcion)
by Cindy M. Meston and Professor of Psychology David M Buss
Let the mister take the lead. Move your passionate fantasies off the page and into the bedroom with Pleasure from the Mister: Sex Secrets for Unbridled Passion. This bedside companion is perfect for any E. L. James devotee or Fifty Shades of Grey madam or mister, complete with how-tos and inspiration for couples on how to recreate the passion and spice of beloved books. Open a door to a world of pleasure with hot erotic tips to fulfill your deepest desires, from sweet nothings for your sens...
We must assume that sexual intercourse was irregular and haphazard up to the dawn of history. Every woman-within the limits of her own tribe, probably-belonged to every man. Whether this assumption is universally applicable or not, must remain doubtful; later ethnologists, more particularly von Westermarck, deny it because it does not apply to every savage tribe of the present day. Herodotus tells us that promiscuity existed in historical times in countries as far removed from each other as Ethi...
During a period of enormous public interest in porn and censorship, Pornocopia's lucid mix of reportage and critical analysis has made it the definitive text on the subject. This new edition considers the increasing sexualisation of mainstream culture and contrasts the growing acceptability of porn in the USA with the censorious New Labour era in Britain. Including numerous interviews with porn figures like Paul Thomas, John 'Buttman' Stagliano, Juli Ashton and Chasey Lain, porn activists and t...
Gay Pornography (Library of Gender and Popular Culture)
Gay pornography, online and onscreen, is a controversial and significantly under-researched area of cultural production. In the first book of its kind, Gay Pornography: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity explores the iconography, themes and ideals that the genre presents. Indeed, John Mercer argues that gay pornography cannot be regarded as one-dimensional, but that it offers its audience a vision of plural masculinities that are more nuanced and ambiguous than they might seem. Mercer...
Being Gorgeous explores the ways in which extravagance, flamboyance and dressing up can open up possibilities for women to play around anarchically with familiar stereotypical tropes of femininity. This is protest through play - a pleasurable misbehaviour that reflects a feminism for the twenty first century. Willson discusses how, whether through pastiche, parody, or pure pleasure, artists, artistes and indeed the spectators themselves can operate in excess of the restrictive images which sat...
Images of Sex Work in Early Twentieth-Century America (Criminal Practice)
by Mollie LeVeque
Storyville was the infamous red-light district of New Orleans. It was a world where normative social values didn't apply and was shrouded in mystery and myth until the photographs of E.J. Bellocq were rediscovered. Bellocq's depictions of Storyville's sex workers have typically been treated as tragic, ominous and emblematic of New Orleans' singularity. Yet, such interpretations have projected gendered stereotypes of frailty and victimhood onto the women they portrayed. In Images of Sex Work, Mol...
Dictatorship of Sex (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
by Frances Lee Bernstein
The Dictatorship of Sex explores the attempts to define and control sexual behavior in the years following the Russian Revolution. It is the first book to examine Soviet "sexual enlightenment," a program of popular health and lifestyle advice intended to establish a model of sexual conduct for the men and women who would build socialism. Leftist social theorists and political activists had long envisioned an egalitarian utopia, and after 1917, the medical profession took the leading role in solv...
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 different from other kinds of sexuality and identity-based communities? This book presents a thoughtful study of BDSM experiences in diverse communities across geographic boundaries to examine crucial questions about human sexuality. Featuring cutting-e...
From the first, brief moving images of female nudes in the 1880s to the present, the motion picture camera made the female body a battleground in what we now call the culture wars. Churchmen feared the excitation of male lust; feminists decried the idealization of a body type that devalued the majority of women. This history of Hollywood's treatment of women's bodies traces the full span of the motion picture era. Primitive peepshow images of burlesque dancers gave way to the "artistic" nudity...
A true story of how one woman went from mother to escort, escort to madam. Dawn Annandale tells all in this shocking and yet poignant memoir of her life on and off the game. 'Call Me Madam' continues Dawn Annandale's fascinating journey from wife and mother to high class call girl and then proprietor of her own escort agency. After the breakdown of her marriage which left her with six children and a mountain of debts, Dawn Annandale took the only route she believed she had left and became an e...
This is the true story of an 18-year career in prostitution that began in a seedy massage parlour in Dublin's Thomas Street. By 1994, Marese O'Shea was the owner of one of the world's leading escort agencies. So famous and successful had she become that she was known as "The Vice Queen", and her agency was recognized by the national print media and Irish television. Marese O'Shea changed the face of prostitution in Ireland, instituting the vetting of customers, protecting escorts for whom she ac...