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Sex, Power, Control

Author : Fiona Gardner

Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand

Page : 214 pages

File Size : 34,35 MB

Release : 2021-01-01

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0718895622

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Given their rhetoric on safeguarding, the response of religious organisations to abuse by the clergy - sexual, physical and spiritual - has been inept, thoughtless, mean, and without any sense of urgency. Sex, Power, Control explores the underlying reasons for the mishandling of recent abuse cases. Using psychoanalytical and sociological insights, and including her own experiences as shown in the BBC documentary Exposed: The Church’s Darkest Secret, Gardner asks why the Churches find themselves in such a crisis, and how issues of power and control have contributed to secrecy, deception and heartache. Drawing on survivor accounts and delving into the psychology of clergy abusers, she reveals a culture of avoidance and denial, while an examination of power dynamics highlights institutional narcissism and a hierarchical structure based on deference, with defensive assumptions linked to sex, gender and class. Sex, Power, Control is an invaluable resource for all those in the church or similar institutions, and for anyone concerned about child abuse.



Power in Close Relationships

Author : Christopher R. Agnew

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 295 pages

File Size : 35,47 MB

Release : 2019-02-28

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1107192617

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An outline of how power, an inherent feature of social interactions, operates and affects close relationships.



Control and Protect

Author : Jennifer Musto

Publisher : Univ of California Press

Page : 251 pages

File Size : 34,10 MB

Release : 2016-07-05

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0520957741

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Control and Protect explores the meaning and significance of efforts designed to combat sex trafficking in the United States. A striking case study of the new ways in which law enforcement agents, social service providers, and nongovernmental advocates have joined forces in this campaign, this book reveals how these collaborations consolidate state power and carceral control. This book examines how partnerships forged in the name of fighting domestic sex trafficking have blurred the boundaries between punishment and protection, victim and offender, and state and nonstate authority.



True Love Dates

Author : Debra K. Fileta

Publisher : Zondervan

Page : 212 pages

File Size : 45,7 MB

Release : 2013-10-08

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 0310336805

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It is possible to find true love through dating. In True Love Dates, Debra Fileta encourages singles not to "kiss dating goodbye" but instead to experience a season of dating as a way to find real love. Through powerful, real-life stories and Fileta's personal journey, this book offers profound insights from the expertise of a professional counselor. Christians are looking for answers to finding true love. They are disillusioned with the church that has provided little practical application in the area of love and relationships. They're bombarded by Christian books that shun dating, idolize courting, fixate on spirituality, and in the end, offer little real relationship help. True Love Dates provides honest help for dating by providing a guide into vital relationship essentials. Debra is a professional Christian counselor who reaches millions with her popular blog, Truelovedates.com, and her book offers sound advice grounded in Christian spirituality. She delivers insight, direction, and counsel when it comes to entering the world of dating and learning to do it right the first time around. Drawing on the stories and struggles of hundreds of young men and women who have pursued the search for true love, Fileta helps readers bypass unnecessary pain while focusing on the things that really matter in the world of dating.



Transgressive Sex

Author : Hastings Donnan

Publisher : Berghahn Books

Page : 291 pages

File Size : 47,78 MB

Release : 2012-03

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 0857456377

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Sex is often regarded as a dangerous business that must be rigorously controlled, regulated, and subjected to rules. Sexual acts that defy acceptable practices may be seen as variously defiling, immoral, and even unnatural. They may challenge and subvert both cultural preconceptions and the social order in a politics of sexual transgression that threatens to transform permissible boundaries and restructure bodily engagements. This collection of essays explores acts of sexual transgression that have the power to reconfigure perceptions of bodily intimacy and the social norms of interaction. Considering issues such as domestic violence, child prostitution, health and sex, teenage sex, and sex with animals across a range of settings from contemporary Oceania, the Pacific, South Africa, and southeast Asia to Euro-America, this book should interest all those who question the "naturalness" of sex, including public health workers, clinical practitioners and students of sex, sexuality, and gender in the humanities and social sciences.



Going Public

Author : Julie Macfarlane

Publisher : Between the Lines

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 42,73 MB

Release : 2020-09-14

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1771134763

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It took Julie Macfarlane a lifetime to say the words out loud – the words that finally broke the calm and traveled farther than she could have imagined. In this clear-eyed account, she confronts her own silence and deeply rooted trauma to chart a remarkable course from sexual abuse victim to agent of change. Going Public merges the worlds of personal and professional, activism and scholarship. Drawing upon decades of legal training, Macfarlane decodes the well-worn methods used by church, school, and state to silence survivors, from first reporting to cross-examination to non-disclosure agreements. At the same time, she lays bare the isolation and exhaustion of going public in her own life, as she takes her abuser to court, challenges her colleagues, and weathers a defamation Lawsuit. The result is far more than a memoir. It’s a courageous and essential blueprint on how to go toe-to-toe with the powers behind institutional abuse and protectionism. At long last, Macfarlane’s experiences bring her to the most important realization of her life: that only she can stand in her own shoes, and only she can stand up and speak about what happened to her.



Sex, Priests, and Power

Author : A. W. Richard Sipe

Publisher : Psychology Press

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 45,1 MB

Release : 1995

Category : Celibacy

ISBN : 9780876307694

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Richard Sipe examines the continuing sexual crisis facing the Catholic Church today. Has the storm of publicity and controversy caused the church to acknowledge any of the accusations? Will the church accept statistical evidence or alter the way it trains its clergy? How has it come to grips with reforming or retraining abusers? Has it acknowledged the spread of AIDS among its ranks? Why does the church oppress women and react with hostility and fear towards them? Sex, Priests, and Power: Anatomy of a Crisis addresses these and other questions.



The Pleasure Gap

Author : Katherine Rowland

Publisher : Seal Press

Page : 312 pages

File Size : 37,23 MB

Release : 2020-02-04

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1580058345

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American culture is more sexually liberal than ever. But compared to men, women's sexual pleasure has not grown: Up to 40 percent of American women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire. Between this low desire, muted pleasure, and experiencing sex in terms of labor rather than of lust, women by the millions are dissatisfied with their erotic lives. For too long, this deficit has been explained in terms of women's biology, stress, and age. In The Pleasure Gap, Katherine Rowland rejects the idea that women should settle for diminished pleasure; instead, she argues women should take inequality in the bedroom as seriously as we take it in the workplace and understand its causes and effects. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with more than one hundred women and dozens of sexual health professionals, Rowland shows that the pleasure gap is neither medical malady nor psychological condition but rather a result of our culture's troubled relationship with women's sexual expression. This provocative exploration of modern sexuality makes a case for closing the gap for good.



ADHD After Dark

Author : Ari Tuckman

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 283 pages

File Size : 14,61 MB

Release : 2019-07-03

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1000084701

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This pioneering book explores the impact of ADHD on a couple’s sex life and relationship. It explains how a better sex life will benefit your relationship (and vice versa) and why that’s especially important for couples with one partner with ADHD. Grounded in innovative research, ADHD After Dark draws on data from a survey of over 3000 adults in a couple where one partner has ADHD. Written from the author’s unique perspective as both an expert in ADHD and a certified sex therapist, the book describes the many effects of ADHD on couples’ sex lives and happiness, covering areas such as negotiating sexual differences, performance problems, low desire, porn, making time for sex, infidelity, and more. The book outlines key principles for a great sex life for couples with ADHD and offers strategies and treatment interventions where specific issues arise. Written in a readable and entertaining style, ADHD After Dark offers clear information on sexuality and relationships and is full of valuable advice on how to improve both. This guide will be an essential read for adults with ADHD, as well as their partners or spouses, and therapists who work with ADHD clients and couples.



Adventures In Sex Magick

Author : Damon Brand

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 50,49 MB

Release : 2014-08-24

Category :

ISBN : 9781500940591

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This book lays bare a fast, thrilling method for getting the results you deserve. Whatever you lust for can be yours. Sex magick works whether you are single or in a relationship. Adventures In Sex Magick offers you a no-nonsense approach to make your vision a reality.This is not a book about sexual technique or seduction. It's about attracting money, power, love and success. Please only proceed with this book if you have an extremely open mind when it comes to magick and to sexual practice.Most sex magick methods compel you to learn obscure breathing techniques, and train yourself in sexual denial, but this book is smoldering with the pleasures of the flesh. Damon Brand reveals an approach to magick that can work for you the very first time.You will discover:How to achieve several magickal goals at once.A secret sigil that gives access to angelic sexual power.The unique secret of The Major Process.The deep power of sigil magick.If you enjoy sex, and have an open mind, take the first step to a more rewarding life.