Sex and sexuality, social aspects

'A brilliant testament to those reclaiming their sexual power' - RUBY RARE'Searingly honest .

Were the 1960s really a great time of liberation and joyful experimentation?

The moving, gripping, and tell-all autobiography of Traci Elizabeth Lords, a former child porn queen, electronica maven, and cult movie and TV star.

A joyful collection of the most popular, provocative, and unforgettable essays from the New York Times 'Modern Love' column, featuring stories from the upcoming anthology series starring Tina Fey, Andy Garcia, Anne Hathaway, Catherine Keener, Dev Patel, and John Slattery.

Happiness: as elusive as a working inkjet printer, and as slippery as an eel covered in baby oil.

'If you read the papers, you'd think that the only girls to get hooked are from dysfunctional families.

Much has been written about the work of William Blake and some of the religious beliefs that influenced him, but there is a secret history which, until now, has been kept deep beneath the surface in the mystical underground of England in the eighteenth-century.

Everywhere you look, for heaven's sake, there are ladies.

Following on from his bestselling study of violence, The Football Factory, John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex.

Startlingly erotic and immensely powerful, Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You tells an unforgettable story about the ways our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love.

In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E.

From the New York Times-bestselling author.

The handy guide to the HUSBAND makes the PERFECT GIFT for any long-suffering wife or prospective bride to give to their beloved husband.

The PERFECT GIFT for your long-suffering wife or prospective bride.

He's the porn world's Everyman.

An estimated twenty million American men and women are in relationships in which the man has stopped being sexually intimate.

What does it mean to be naked in public?

WATERSTONES BEST POLITICAL BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL'I am absurdly excited for this book' Caroline Criado PerezBestselling author Katrine Marcal reveals the shocking ways our deeply ingrained ideas about gender continue to hold us back.

How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectualsphilologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social criticsdeployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society.

Emily Witt is single and in her thirties.

An Uncensored Conversation About Sex and Self from the Creators of the Top-Rated Guys We F*cked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast'They are the voices of a new generation of women for whom no sexual encounter is off limits' Times MagazineComedians Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson started Guys We F*cked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast in 2013, intending to interview guys they'd slept with to learn more about themselves and squash the stigma so often associated with sexual women.

Marina Lewycka returns to the characters from A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, with a hilarious erotic twist, in this laugh-out-loud short story, A Shorter History of Tractors in Ukrainian with Handcuffs.

Balance mind, body, and spirit with your own essential Ayurvedic self-care toolkit.

Understand the menopause with all its changes and challenges and choose practices and treatments, brought to you by a team of experts, to make this next stage in your wellness journey healthy and positive.

If you could share one lesson from your life with every woman, what would it be?

Would you like it in bed, Madam?

Ice-cream, donkeys, and all those lovely bikinis - oh I do like to be beside the seaside!

Hilarious miscellany of sex advice throughout the ages from seven-week long Balinese foreplay and Victorian Viagra to swinging tips from the 1970s.

Take this down, please, Miss Dixon.

Are you a sensual horse, an amorous goat or a quiet, seductive snake?

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSarah K has a secret.

This book explores why, in these post-feminist days, otherwise confident and assertive women spend hours waiting for the phone to ring when they meet a man they like.

The essential guide to using and enhancing Tantric sexual energy.

The story of the sexual revolution that brought Freud's couch to the explosion of the 60s, and the left-field pioneer Wilhelm Reich who made it all happen.

'My Secret Life' is a dark work of Victorian erotica, and an explicit memoir of unspoken desires in the English class system - encapsulating the joy of hidden sins in an age of moral fervour.

'The Autobiography of a Flea' was initally published in 1887, and inspired a film directed by one of the first female pornographic directors from the 1970s.

First published in 1870, the author of 'Venus in Furs' defined - and unwittingly gave his own name to - that sexual proclivity we know as masochism in this understated, charged erotic classic.

'Fanny Hill' scandalised thousands of Victorians with its vivid descriptions of sexual pleasure, and landed its author in court a year after publication on charges of 'corrupting the King's subjects'.

'The Way of a Man with a Maid' is a foray into pleasure, pain, lesbianism and etiquette - told from the viewpoint of a quintessential Edwardian gent.

During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expansive informal economy.

For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination.

Contemporary popular culture stereotypes Filipina women as sex workers, domestic laborers, mail order brides, and caregivers.

The unquenchable thirst of Dracula.

Period positivity starts with asking questions.

Whether you've barely recovered from spending lockdown with your other half or desperately heading back to the clubs to meet 'the one', SH**GED.

Explore the psychological function and meaning of dreams, and unlock their power for self-improvement.

The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth centuryIn the fourth and final volume of his far-reaching and influential study of human sexuality, Foucault turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure were modified into the notion of the 'flesh'.

The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor local women by privileged North American men-men who are in a position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical inequalities that make Latin American women into suppliers of low-cost sexual labor.

Despite continued public and legislative concern about sex trafficking across international borders, the actual lives of the individuals involved-and, more importantly, the decisions that led them to sex work-are too often overlooked.