If one street in America can claim to be the most infamous, it is surely 42nd Street. Between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, 42nd Street was once known for its peep shows, street corner hustlers and movie houses. Over the last two decades...
Sex customs
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Auteur:Foucault, MichelSommaire:Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillfully explores the whole corpus of...
- Auteur:Foucault, MichelSommaire:
In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.
Throughout The Use of Pleasure...
- Auteur:Foucault, MichelSommaire:
Michel Foucult offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us to direct the questions of what we are to what our...
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Auteur:Saʻdāwī, NawālSommaire:A classic of modern Arab writing, Nawal El Saadawi’s shocking account of female oppression in the Muslim world is as powerful today as it was when it was first published. El Saadawi’s experiences working as a doctor in Egyptian villages...
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Auteur:Harvey, Sarah N.Sommaire:Harriet is a donor-conceived child who is connecting with her half-siblings in this work of young adult fiction.
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Auteur:Johnston, LyndaSommaire:"This book provides a critical geography of sex and sexuality from the body to the globe. Drawing on queer, feminist, gender, social, and cultural studies, Lynda Johnston and Robyn Longhurst highlight the complex nature of sex and...
- Auteur:Bushnell, CandaceSommaire:
Here is the collection of columns that inspired the addictive and multiple award-winning HBO series! Sex and the City offers a tantalizing glimpse of the openings, launch parties, and celebrity affairs that keep society amused....
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Auteur:Bushnell, CandaceSommaire:Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, Is There Still Sex in the City? gathers Bushnell's signature short, sharp, satirical commentaries on the love and dating habits of middle-aged men...
- Auteur:Waugh, Thomas, Arroyo, BrandonSommaire:
In the postwar decades, sexual revolutions - first women's suffrage, flappers, Prohibition, and Mae West; later Alfred Kinsey, Hugh Hefner, and the pill - altered the lifestyles and desires of generations. Since the 1990s, the...
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Face it, Canada, we're SEXY! Our men offer more minutes of foreplay to their partners than Americans, and that's just for starters. When it comes to sex in the Great White North, we've definitely mastered the art of staying warm. We've...
- Auteur:Zeitz, JoshuaSommaire:
Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade. The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston,...
- Auteur:Hyacinth BooksSommaire:
Vanilla can be a delicious flavor, but wouldn't it be exciting to add some new spices into your bedroom—and beyond? Perhaps you have read the Fifty Shades trilogy, followed the sexual adventures of Christian and Anastasia and are...
- Auteur:Farrow, RonanSommaire:
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine...
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Auteur:Fisher, HelenSommaire:First published in 1992, Helen Fisher's Anatomy of Love quickly became a classic. Since then, Fisher has conducted pioneering brain research on lust, romantic love, and attachment; gathered data on more than 80,000 people to explain why...
- Auteur:Lister, KateSommaire:
The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only...
