Author: Ayn Carrillo-Galley Publisher: Running Press Adult ISBN: 0762434066 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 255
Book Description
When Ayn Carrillo-Gailey confronted her boyfriend about his porn habit, he pronounced her “pornophobic.” Determined to prove she wasn't phobic, simply more enlightened, Ayn set out to learn all she could about this phenomenon. Like any good researcher, she added her new quest to her daily To-Do list: 1. Drop off dry cleaning 2. Call Mom 3. Visit sex toy store on Melrose Acting as an amateur anthropologist introduced Ayn to a world populated by everyday people. Her quest aroused the curiosity of her female friends: her knitting group quickly turned into informal information sessions, as the women-single or married, involved or not-were desperate for information. What does XXX mean vs. un-rated? What's the difference between topless dancers and strip clubs? Why is some of it actually not that stimulating? And why are men obsessed with it? Along the way, Ayn ditched the porn-obsessed boyfriend, and learned that one should not try to make change from a stripper's G-string tips, nor is the Hustler store the best place to make a first impression on a hot guy. Pornology is the result of one woman's quest to pierce the veil that modestly covers something many women actually want to know about. Suprising, hilarious, informative, and ultimately non-judgmental, this narrative is one readers won't put down-once they admit they're curious enough to pick it up!
Author: Margot Norris Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 1421431335 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
Originally published in 1985. Beasts of the Modern Imagination explores a specific tradition in modern thought and art: the critique of anthropocentrism at the hands of "beasts"—writers whose works constitute animal gestures or acts of fatality. It is not a study of animal imagery, although the works that Margot Norris explores present us with apes, horses, bulls, and mice who appear in the foreground of fiction, not as the tropes of allegory or fable, but as narrators and protagonists appropriating their animality amid an anthropocentric universe. These beasts are finally the masks of the human animals who create them, and the textual strategies that bring them into being constitute another version of their struggle. The focus of this study is a small group of thinkers, writers, and artists who create as the animal—not like the animal, in imitation of the animal—but with their animality speaking. The author treats Charles Darwin as the founder of this tradition, as the naturalist whose shattering conclusions inevitably turned back on him and subordinated him, the rational man, to the very Nature he studied. Friedrich Nietzsche heeded the advice implicit in his criticism of David Strauss and used Darwinian ideas as critical tools to interrogate the status of man as a natural being. He also responded to the implications of his own animality for his writing by transforming his work into bestial acts and gestures. The third, and last, generation of these creative animals includes Franz Kafka, the Surrealist artist Max Ernst, and D. H. Lawrence. In exploring these modern philosophers of the animal and its instinctual life, the author inevitably rebiologizes them even against efforts to debiologize thinkers whose works can be studied profitably for their models of signification.
Author: Exie Kiehn Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 102
Book Description
The risk for developing an addiction is exceptionally high during the adolescent and young adult years, and worldwide families and communities are suffering because of addiction's widespread impact. This book uses non-denominational Christian principles and stories to empower youth and parents with the knowledge to avoid pornography and other addictions. The opportunity for deep discussions on temptation, addiction, pornography, moral boundaries, spirituality, spiritual defense, and empowerment will be created for youth and adults as they read their own versions of the book together. The author teaches these principles with examples from biblical leaders, history, and his own life stories. With engaging storytelling, thought-provoking ideas, and easy action steps, this book is a must-read for every family! Learn how to help yourself with this amazing book!
Author: Vivienne Cass Publisher: ISBN: 9780975077702 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
Are you one of the thirty percent of women who has difficulties with orgasm? Do you want to experience greater sexual satisfaction? In easy to read language, The Elusive Orgasm provides a full overview of women's sexual pleasure, covering sexual triggers, stages of arousal, the power of mind, and how women differ from men. Longtime clinical psychologist and sex therapist Dr. Vivienne Cass reveals all the causes of women's orgasm difficulties-and how to remedy them. In The Elusive Orgasm, you'll learn: What an orgasm is, How the clitoris is much more than "a little button", The five types of orgasm difficulties, The twenty-five causes of those difficulties, Self-awareness via quizzes and questionnaires, Step-by-step plans to help you and your partner. An extraordinarily thorough, all-inclusive exploration of every possible reason why women have orgasm challenges, The Elusive Orgasm gives you the tools to discover the source of your own orgasm difficulties, along with straightforward remedies. Book jacket.
Author: C. Kocela Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230109985 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 445
Book Description
This study explores the concept of fetishism as a strategy for expressing social and political discontent in American literature, and for negotiating traumatic experiences particular to the second half of the twentieth century.
Author: Cleo Lempka Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 102
Book Description
The risk for developing an addiction is exceptionally high during the adolescent and young adult years, and worldwide families and communities are suffering because of addiction's widespread impact. This book uses non-denominational Christian principles and stories to empower youth and parents with the knowledge to avoid pornography and other addictions. The opportunity for deep discussions on temptation, addiction, pornography, moral boundaries, spirituality, spiritual defense, and empowerment will be created for youth and adults as they read their own versions of the book together. The author teaches these principles with examples from biblical leaders, history, and his own life stories. With engaging storytelling, thought-provoking ideas, and easy action steps, this book is a must-read for every family! Learn how to help yourself with this amazing book!
Author: Pasi Falk Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 1848609728 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 259
Book Description
This is a fascinating examination of the relationship between consumption, the idea of the body and the formation of the self. In tracing these connections, The Consuming Body develops a profile of individuality in the late twentieth century - in both its bodily and mental aspects. Pasi Falk offers a major synthesis and critical assessment of the debates surrounding the body, the self and contemporary consumer culture. He explores two fundamental issues for modern social theory - the delineation of modern consumption and the body′s historically changing position in various cultural orders. In the course of his argument he examines both metaphors of consumption and investigates the issues of representation in advertising and pornography.
Author: David H. Fleming Publisher: ISBN: 9781783207763 Category : ART Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Unbecoming Cinema constitutes a welcome addition to texts that provide a film-philosophical perspective on films that otherwise take on and involve difficult subject matter, including in this case suicide, autistic worldviews, hallucinatory aesthetics and vomit-gore. The book in effect argues successfully and intelligently that even though hard to watch, many of these films can provide for viewers an opportunity to come to a renewed understanding of self and world. As a result, the author takes on difficult topics, but brings them to life in an exciting, philosophical fashion that also asks readers to rethink what it is that constitutes cinema
Author: Ayn Carrillo-Galley
Author: Bruce L. Regan
Author: Margot Norris
Author: Exie Kiehn
Author: Vivienne Cass
Author: John F. McCarthy
Author: C. Kocela
Author: Cleo Lempka
Author: Pasi Falk
Author: David H. Fleming