Author: Hallie Lieberman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681775980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In the vein of Mary Roach's Bonk, a brilliant microhistory of the sex toy that ultimately tells the story of our changing sexual mores and evolving cultural values. Once only whispered about in clandestine corners, vibrators have become just another accessory for the suburban soccer mom. But how did these once-taboo toys become so socially acceptable? The journey of the devices to the cultural mainstream is a surprisingly stimulating one. In Buzz, Hallie Lieberman traces the tale from lubricant in Ancient Greece to the very first condom in 1560 to advertisements touting devices as medical equipment in 19th-century magazines. She looks in particular from the period of major change from the 1950s through the present, when sex toys evolved from symbols of female emancipation to tools in the fight against HIV/AIDS to consumerist marital aids to today's mainstays of pop culture. The story is populated with a cast of vivid and fascinating characters including Dell Williams, founder of the first feminist sex toy store; Betty Dodson, whose workshops helped 1960s women discover vibrators; and Gosnell Duncan, a paraplegic engineer who invented the silicone dildo. And these personal dramas are all set against a backdrop of changing American attitudes toward sexuality, feminism, LGBTQ issues, and more. Both educational and titillating, Buzz will make readers think quite differently about those secret items hiding in bedside drawers across the nation.
Buzz
Author: Hallie Lieberman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681775980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In the vein of Mary Roach's Bonk, a brilliant microhistory of the sex toy that ultimately tells the story of our changing sexual mores and evolving cultural values. Once only whispered about in clandestine corners, vibrators have become just another accessory for the suburban soccer mom. But how did these once-taboo toys become so socially acceptable? The journey of the devices to the cultural mainstream is a surprisingly stimulating one. In Buzz, Hallie Lieberman traces the tale from lubricant in Ancient Greece to the very first condom in 1560 to advertisements touting devices as medical equipment in 19th-century magazines. She looks in particular from the period of major change from the 1950s through the present, when sex toys evolved from symbols of female emancipation to tools in the fight against HIV/AIDS to consumerist marital aids to today's mainstays of pop culture. The story is populated with a cast of vivid and fascinating characters including Dell Williams, founder of the first feminist sex toy store; Betty Dodson, whose workshops helped 1960s women discover vibrators; and Gosnell Duncan, a paraplegic engineer who invented the silicone dildo. And these personal dramas are all set against a backdrop of changing American attitudes toward sexuality, feminism, LGBTQ issues, and more. Both educational and titillating, Buzz will make readers think quite differently about those secret items hiding in bedside drawers across the nation.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1681775980
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In the vein of Mary Roach's Bonk, a brilliant microhistory of the sex toy that ultimately tells the story of our changing sexual mores and evolving cultural values. Once only whispered about in clandestine corners, vibrators have become just another accessory for the suburban soccer mom. But how did these once-taboo toys become so socially acceptable? The journey of the devices to the cultural mainstream is a surprisingly stimulating one. In Buzz, Hallie Lieberman traces the tale from lubricant in Ancient Greece to the very first condom in 1560 to advertisements touting devices as medical equipment in 19th-century magazines. She looks in particular from the period of major change from the 1950s through the present, when sex toys evolved from symbols of female emancipation to tools in the fight against HIV/AIDS to consumerist marital aids to today's mainstays of pop culture. The story is populated with a cast of vivid and fascinating characters including Dell Williams, founder of the first feminist sex toy store; Betty Dodson, whose workshops helped 1960s women discover vibrators; and Gosnell Duncan, a paraplegic engineer who invented the silicone dildo. And these personal dramas are all set against a backdrop of changing American attitudes toward sexuality, feminism, LGBTQ issues, and more. Both educational and titillating, Buzz will make readers think quite differently about those secret items hiding in bedside drawers across the nation.
A Sex Journal for Couples
Author: Levina Li
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578505831
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A simple tool for extraordinary sex.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578505831
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A simple tool for extraordinary sex.
Oh Joy Sex Toy Vol. 4
Author: Erika Moen
Publisher: Limerence Press
ISBN: 9781620104446
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Erika & Matthew think the world of sex is fantastic. Using comedy, real-life experiences, and research, they create some the best educational, informative, sex-positive comics around. (The puns are an added bonus!)
Publisher: Limerence Press
ISBN: 9781620104446
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Erika & Matthew think the world of sex is fantastic. Using comedy, real-life experiences, and research, they create some the best educational, informative, sex-positive comics around. (The puns are an added bonus!)
Let's Talk About It
Author: Erika Moen
Publisher: Random House Graphic
ISBN: 1984893149
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Is what I'm feeling normal? Is what my body is doing normal? Am I normal? How do I know what are the right choices to make? How do I know how to behave? How do I fix it when I make a mistake? Let's talk about it. Growing up is complicated. How do you find the answers to all the questions you have about yourself, about your identity, and about your body? Let's Talk About It provides a comprehensive, thoughtful, well-researched graphic novel guide to everything you need to know. Covering relationships, friendships, gender, sexuality, anatomy, body image, safe sex, sexting, jealousy, rejection, sex education, and more, Let's Talk About It is the go-to handbook for every teen, and the first in graphic novel form.
Publisher: Random House Graphic
ISBN: 1984893149
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Is what I'm feeling normal? Is what my body is doing normal? Am I normal? How do I know what are the right choices to make? How do I know how to behave? How do I fix it when I make a mistake? Let's talk about it. Growing up is complicated. How do you find the answers to all the questions you have about yourself, about your identity, and about your body? Let's Talk About It provides a comprehensive, thoughtful, well-researched graphic novel guide to everything you need to know. Covering relationships, friendships, gender, sexuality, anatomy, body image, safe sex, sexting, jealousy, rejection, sex education, and more, Let's Talk About It is the go-to handbook for every teen, and the first in graphic novel form.
Drawn to Sex Vol. 1
Author: Erika Moen
Publisher: Limerence Press
ISBN: 9781620105443
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first volume in a planned, 3-volume, sex-education series. Erika and Matthew are ready to talk about sex! Have you ever had a question about sex, but didn't know who to ask? Well, Erika and Matthew have spent years learning, talking, and creating informative comics about all aspects of sex. Using comics, jokes, and frank communication, they're here to demystify the world of sex and answer your questions—including ones you might not even know you had! In this first book of the Drawn to Sex series, they explore the practical side of sex, from the basics of what defines sex, to barriers and testing, masturbation, and the ins-and-outs of having sex with other people. Pick up this fun book if you’re looking to learn something new, understand sexuality better, or know someone (maybe you!) who might benefit from some judgment-free education. Erika and Matthew are here to help you out
Publisher: Limerence Press
ISBN: 9781620105443
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The first volume in a planned, 3-volume, sex-education series. Erika and Matthew are ready to talk about sex! Have you ever had a question about sex, but didn't know who to ask? Well, Erika and Matthew have spent years learning, talking, and creating informative comics about all aspects of sex. Using comics, jokes, and frank communication, they're here to demystify the world of sex and answer your questions—including ones you might not even know you had! In this first book of the Drawn to Sex series, they explore the practical side of sex, from the basics of what defines sex, to barriers and testing, masturbation, and the ins-and-outs of having sex with other people. Pick up this fun book if you’re looking to learn something new, understand sexuality better, or know someone (maybe you!) who might benefit from some judgment-free education. Erika and Matthew are here to help you out
The Sex & Pleasure Book
Author: Carol Queen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986150432
Category : Sex
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986150432
Category : Sex
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Beautiful You
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385538049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
"A billion husbands are about to be replaced." From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of a new product that gives new meaning to the term "self-help." Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed-of heights of gratification for days on end. What's not to like? This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of feminine products to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called Beautiful You. So potent and effective are these devices that women by the millions line up outside the stores on opening day and then lock themselves in their room with them and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for battery-powered world domination must be stopped. But how?
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0385538049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
"A billion husbands are about to be replaced." From the author of Fight Club, the classic portrait of the damaged contemporary male psyche, now comes this novel about the apocalyptic marketing possibilities of a new product that gives new meaning to the term "self-help." Penny Harrigan is a low-level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C. Linus Maxwell, a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. After dining at Manhattan's most exclusive restaurant, he whisks Penny off to a hotel suite in Paris, where he proceeds, notebook in hand, to bring her to previously undreamed-of heights of gratification for days on end. What's not to like? This: Penny discovers that she is a test subject for the final development of a line of feminine products to be marketed in a nationwide chain of boutiques called Beautiful You. So potent and effective are these devices that women by the millions line up outside the stores on opening day and then lock themselves in their room with them and stop coming out. Except for batteries. Maxwell's plan for battery-powered world domination must be stopped. But how?
Eco-Sex
Author: Stefanie Iris Weiss
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1580084125
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Join the Eco-Sexual Revolution Leaving a smaller carbon footprint in the bedroom is easy with Eco-Sex, a green sex guide that will inspire both sexual and ecological excitement. Renew your passion for the environment while you recharge your love life—with green sex toys, low-impact lingerie, fair-trade condoms, bamboo bed linens, conflict-free diamonds, and much more. Eco-Sex will help you avoid the sins of greenwashing while you probe the deeper underpinnings of healthy, chemical-free sex. You’ll also tap into the emerging eco-sexual community while shopping for organic aphrodisiacs or logging onto green dating sites. Eco-Sex will open new avenues for the health of the planet and your body. So go ahead: stock your sexual toolbox, reinvigorate your passions, get serious about sustainability—and join the next (and best!) sexual revolution.
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
ISBN: 1580084125
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Join the Eco-Sexual Revolution Leaving a smaller carbon footprint in the bedroom is easy with Eco-Sex, a green sex guide that will inspire both sexual and ecological excitement. Renew your passion for the environment while you recharge your love life—with green sex toys, low-impact lingerie, fair-trade condoms, bamboo bed linens, conflict-free diamonds, and much more. Eco-Sex will help you avoid the sins of greenwashing while you probe the deeper underpinnings of healthy, chemical-free sex. You’ll also tap into the emerging eco-sexual community while shopping for organic aphrodisiacs or logging onto green dating sites. Eco-Sex will open new avenues for the health of the planet and your body. So go ahead: stock your sexual toolbox, reinvigorate your passions, get serious about sustainability—and join the next (and best!) sexual revolution.
Supersex
Author: Tracey Cox
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 1405349247
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Everything you need to know to become a supersexpert from Tracey Cox Hang onto your headboard your sex life is about to get superhot thanks to sexpert Tracey Cox. Witty, fresh, clever and loads of fun, it's packed with practical and realistic advice to skyrocket your sex life to supersex status. Learn how to kiss, lick, stroke and nibble your way to great sex. Discover why snogging yourselves stupid is a very good idea. Learn sexual positions you'll both adore and take lots of time over the six-part guide to super foreplay! Real-life, reveal all accounts from Tracey Cox and her posse of road-testing couples give a refreshing reality to each sexy subject. Your sex life will never be the same again.
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 1405349247
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Everything you need to know to become a supersexpert from Tracey Cox Hang onto your headboard your sex life is about to get superhot thanks to sexpert Tracey Cox. Witty, fresh, clever and loads of fun, it's packed with practical and realistic advice to skyrocket your sex life to supersex status. Learn how to kiss, lick, stroke and nibble your way to great sex. Discover why snogging yourselves stupid is a very good idea. Learn sexual positions you'll both adore and take lots of time over the six-part guide to super foreplay! Real-life, reveal all accounts from Tracey Cox and her posse of road-testing couples give a refreshing reality to each sexy subject. Your sex life will never be the same again.
The Joy of Sex
Author: Alex Comfort, M.D., D.SC.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671626921
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
After 30 years--with more than eight million copies sold--"The Joy of Sex" is still considered the quintessential sex manual by millions of readers. Featuring an exuberant combination of newly updated text and illustrations, this classic sex manual tells readers everything they want--and need--to know about sex in the 21st century. 20 full-color photos. 80 line illustrations.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671626921
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
After 30 years--with more than eight million copies sold--"The Joy of Sex" is still considered the quintessential sex manual by millions of readers. Featuring an exuberant combination of newly updated text and illustrations, this classic sex manual tells readers everything they want--and need--to know about sex in the 21st century. 20 full-color photos. 80 line illustrations.