Sexy Encounters


Book Description

How can today's busy couples have more passionate sex, more erotic sex, and more innovative sex? Now, therapist Carole Pasahow offers a stimulating program of 21 days of unforgettable "passion fixes" to bring partners everywhere to new heights of satisfaction. Dr. Carole Pasahow, a marriage and family counselor for more than twenty years, knows that great sex is vital to keep intimate relationships alive. In response to requests from couples across the country, she has developed a unique program that: -- Gets both partners involved in the solution -- Opens up communication about sex -- Avoids making a partner feel rejected when one isn't in the mood -- Helps set goals to improve erotic dialogue -- Invites experimentation without fear -- Shows partners how to be more thoughtful and considerate in bed -- Teaches couples how to be sexy with each other again . . . And all in just 21 days! Sexy Encounters turns a busy schedule and a pile of commitments into an asset, rather than a liability. What's hotter than stealing ten minutes to live out a special fantasy?




Sexy Pleasures


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Sexy Pleasures is the first short story collection from author Portis Newman. The collection features twelve delightfully dirty tales involving erotic temptation, romance and desire.There is a wide variety to choose from, containing seven M/F couples' stories, two lesbian stories and three stories with multiple partners. Follow stories of erotic obsession, teasing spouses and unexpected encounters. Working Overtime 28-year-old Yvette Pena has been at odds with herself since starting her new job. The feelings she has for her boss has gone much further than a simple crush; it has become an obsession. What can she do in the face of such lusty temptation? Moving In At her new job, Amber's first assignment is to find a romance manuscript to publish. Pickings are slim, though, and the only one that's even decent is a lesbian love story that makes Amber more than a little uncomfortable. Things get interesting when Amber finds a visitor in bed with the manuscript. The Anniversary Gift When Sheila went to the lingerie store looking for something sexy to wear for her husband on their anniversary, she got a little more than she bargained for. Sheila discovers that the best gift is something you would want to receive yourself. Who Needs The Quarterback? Mark is everything a girl could want -he is the object of many fantasies, including those of Jennifer Brighton, cheerleader extraordinaire. When Jennifer gets a few minutes alone in the locker room one day after practice, she lets her fantasies get the better of her in the shower. Sexy Spanish Maria Contreras is a bright, successful college student working toward her Master's degree.In a moment of weakness, Maria loses herself in a brief fantasy while tutoring Jason, a regular student of hers. Doing The Roomie Evelyn couldn't sleep and decided to watch some television. As she walks down the hall, she hears some suspicious moans. When she went into the den, she discovered a new side to her roommate Carina. Not only is Carina alone, she's having fun while watching porn. A Sweet Surprise When Linda Branstrom comes home early one day, she discovers that her keys no longer work in the locks. She follows a trail of not-so-subtle notes from Parker, leading her on a romantic treasure hunt deeper into the house. Sexy Massage Rosie works hard as a project manager, but lately the stress of her job is wearing her down.Thinking a relaxing massage could be just what she needs, her husband gets her a gift certificate and sends her to Mrs. Luy's day spa. Customer Service Belinda Carmichael has worked the same 9-to-5 bank teller job for over three years. There's one customer Belinda always looks forward to seeing - rich businessman Chance Laggo. When he comes in on a particularly bad day at the bank, Belinda finally decides to make her move on him. Smoking The Bear Rose Schilling is a prissy, well-to-do young woman who may be in over her head when she goes camping in the mountains with some college friends. Her only solace on the trip is Ranger Jones. Rose sets her sights on him and decides that, mountains or not, she's going to bed him. A Is For Aide Mindy has managed to snag the much-desired position of aide to Professor Todd Grant. She and the professor have more than just work in common - they are both deeply unsatisfied with their sex lives. Sextual Pleasure After a hard day at work, all Martha wants to do is come home and relax in a hot tub of water. Her coworker Steve sends her an intriguing text full of naughty potential. Steve educates her completely on the term "sexting."




Black and Sexy


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This book offers a unique understanding of African American populations and their articulation of sexuality and race by introducing a comprehensive sexological model, Black Sexual Epistemology. Tracie Q. Gilbert draws from theoretical perspectives of anti-Blackness, ethno-sexuality, Performative Blackness and African-centered epistemology to implicate race as an inextricable factor in the sexual structures and schema of African American people. Chapters identify and introduce a sex-positive and comprehensive sexological model, Black Sexual Epistemology, through which Black sexuality can be understood and navigated in the contemporary era. This model presents empirical data for effectively applying previous critical race perspectives and uniquely demonstrates how Black sexual experience can be better understood and reimagined for greater community development and healing. This book is essential reading for practicing sex therapists, marriage and family therapists and clinical social workers working with these populations as well as for academics and students of sexology, sex education, sex therapy, social work, marriage and family therapy, public health, Black/African American studies and LGBTQ studies. It will also be of interest to general audiences who appreciate culturally centered sexological scholarship.




One Night Only


Book Description

Some temptations are just too tantalising to ignore - the hot guy at the Apple Genius Bar, the mysterious stranger in the train station, the nameless, faceless stranger at the club. From quickies to lost weekends, three-ways and nights that readers will want to last forever, One Night Only is a collection of delightfully dirty bon mots edited by Violet Blue. Always surprising, sometimes sweetly romantic and more than a little shocking, these stories of sudden sex are designed to get readers' juices flowing and inspire their own tales of love, lust and fantasy.




Sexy Like Us


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Sexy Like Us: Disability, Humor, and Sexuality takes a humorous, intimate approach to disability through the stories, jokes, performances, and other creative expressions of people with disabilities. Author Teresa Milbrodt explores why individuals can laugh at their leglessness, find stoma bags sexual, discover intimacy in scars, and flaunt their fragility in ways both hilarious and serious. Their creative and comic acts crash, collide, and collaborate with perceptions of disability in literature and dominant culture, allowing people with disabilities to shape political disability identity and disability pride, call attention to social inequalities, and poke back at ableist cultural norms. This book also discusses how the ambivalent nature of comedy has led to debates within disability communities about when it is acceptable to joke, who has permission to joke, and which jokes should be used inside and outside a community’s inner circle. Joking may be difficult when considering aspects of disability that involve physical or emotional pain and struggles to adapt to new forms of embodiment. At the same time, people with disabilities can use humor to expand the definitions of disability and sexuality. They can help others with disabilities assert themselves as sexy and sexual. And they can question social norms and stigmas around bodies in ways that open up journeys of being, not just for individuals who consider themselves disabled, but for all people.




Transgressive Sex


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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.




Close Encounters


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Close Encounters: Communication in Relationships helps students learn about their own relationships with romantic partners, friends, and family members by focusing on issues that are central to describing and understanding close relationships. Best-selling authors Laura K. Guerrero, Peter A. Andersen, and Walid A. Afifi present research-based insights and content illustrated with engaging scenarios to show how state-of-the-art research and theory can be applied to specific issues within relationships. The updated Sixth Edition includes fresh content reflecting current research and trends in relationships, balanced with coverage of classic research, and continues to empower readers to be more critical consumers of information about relationships.




Taking Sexy Back


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“Taking Sexy Back is going directly on my top list of recommended sexuality readings.” —Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs It is time for a new sexual revolution. It’s time to take sexy back. As women, we’re expected to be sexy, but not sexual. We’re bombarded with conflicting, shame-inducing, and disempowering messages about sex, instead of being encouraged to connect with our true sexual selves. Sexy gets reduced to a performance, leaving us with little to no space to reckon with the complexities of sexuality. In a culture intent on telling you who and how to be, standing in your truth is revolutionary. From relationship expert Alexandra Solomon—author of Loving Bravely—Taking Sexy Back is a groundbreaking guide to deepening your connection to yourself, honoring your desires, and cultivating authentic intimate connections. On these pages, you’ll discover how to deepen your sexual self-awareness, and use that awareness to create experiences that not only pleasure, but elevate, expand, and heal you. You’ll learn to understand your boundaries, communicate what feels good, and bring mindfulness and self-compassion to sex. Most importantly, you’ll embrace your sexuality as an evolving, essential, and beautiful part of your life. Sex is about more than what your partner enjoys or finds sexy. It’s about more than having an orgasm or finding the “right” positions. It’s about you. It’s time to take your sexy back! Named one of Cosmopolitan's Best Nonfiction Books of 2020! 2020 Consumer Book Honorable Mention from The Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR) As featured on The Morning Show—Australia's top-rated morning program




Pornography and Sexual Deviance


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Does pornography represent "a clear and present danger' to our society? This issue is being debated in the courts with increasing frequency, and is intimately tied to the broader issue of censorship and the voiding of first amendment protection which it implies. This volume deals both with the psychological effects of exposure to erotica and with the legal implications of censorship of pornography. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Erotic Romance


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Erotic romance reigns supreme as a big category of women's fictions; a billion-dollar business serviced by a new breed of uninhibited writer. This book is the necessary how-to for first-timers and a terrific guide for seasoned professionals as well, who are putting their racy (and lucrative) fantasies to paper. Now, for the first time, a veteran erotic romance author shows exactly what to do and how. The first book to guide writers to succeed in this mutli-million dollar genre. Explores how to set up a plot and write good, steamy sex scenes. From a best-selling experienced author. Includes resource section for research tools and further reading. Interviews with top editors in the field. Foreword by Kate Duffy, editorial director at Kensington Publishing and founding editor of the genre.