Perverted Realities

Perverted Realities
Author: Jennifer Caress
Publisher: StoneGarden.net Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2005-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780976542650

Sammy wants to be a cartoon character and live in the cartoon realm forever, but that isn?t as easy as it sounds. One cartoon in particular will do whatever it takes to keep Sammy out for good. But can Sammy destroy what he himself created?Frankie is a paranormal buff. He and his friends investigate an abandoned insane asylum in the hopes of capturing ghostly activity on film, but not all of the asylum?s residents are welcoming to the idea. In fact, some are down right mean about it. Soon it becomes less about getting good pictures and more about just getting out.Cree must carry out a dangerous plan already put into motion. When she disappears, Sammy and Frankie set out to find her and soon her mission becomes their mission. Though they are too late to save Cree, it isn?t too late for her to save them.

Smut

Smut
Author: Murray S. Davis
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2016-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022616246X

This unique study of sexuality and society offers a provocative reframing of the subject—including what the author calls a periodic table of perversions. In Smut, Murray S. Davis investigates sex in a way that differs from nearly all previous books on the subject. Discarding the simplistic theory of sex as a natural instinct, he sets out to develop new explanations for its universal appeal. Drawing on a wide variety of literary forms, including the work of novelists, poets, and even comedians—and exploring everything from theology to pornography—Davis recaptures sex for the social sciences. First, Davis examines the difference between sexual arousal and ordinary experience, arguing that arousal alters a person's experience of the world. Positing an erotic reality distinct from everyday life, he demonstrates how different perceptions of time, space, human bodies, and other social types occur in each realm. Davis then asks why some people find this alternation between realities dirty, and offers a periodic table of perversions that summarizes the social elements out of which those who find sex dirty construct their world. Finally, Davis considers other conceptual grids affected by the alternation between everyday and erotic realities: the pornographic, which portrays individual, social relations, and social organizations being disrupted by sex; and the naturalistic, which conceives of them in a way that cannot be disrupted by sex. Throughout history these ideologies have battled for control over Western society, and, in his conclusion, Davis offers a prognosis for the future of sex based on these historical ideological cycles.

Sexual-Realities of Our Modern Age

Sexual-Realities of Our Modern Age
Author: Robert John
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2006-05-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1467812358

Are you feeling insecure, unfulfilled in the sexual pursuits that life has to offer? If you are down and confused, cant remember the last time you had a meaningful sexual relationship, then this book is for you. There should be no compromise when it comes to your true desires and awareness. Being well informed is the key to happiness and harmony in your life. Do your batteries need to be recharged? Dont pass up this opportunity to reconnect with your true potential. This book can assist you in avoiding any pitfall or setback that can short-circuit your true sexual capacity for complete gratification, regardless of your present circumstances. It is also a good road map for young adults. Dont shut yourself off from achieving quality sexual orientation techniques that may very well enhance your lifestyle in many ways. This book will enlighten your mind in a very positive way.

The Sex Myth

The Sex Myth
Author: Rachel Hills
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-08-04
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1451685807

From a bold new feminist voice, a book that will change the way you think about your sex life. Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom; that if anything, we are too free now. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journalist Rachel Hills argues that we are controlled by a new brand of sexual convention: one which influences all of us—woman or man, straight or gay, liberal or conservative. At the root of this silent code lies the Sex Myth—the defining significance we invest in sexuality that once meant we were dirty if we did have sex, and now means we are defective if we don’t do it enough. Equal parts social commentary, pop culture, and powerful personal anecdotes from people across the English-speaking world, The Sex Myth exposes the invisible norms and unspoken assumptions that shape the way we think about sex today.

The Sexual Century

The Sexual Century
Author: Ethel Spector Person
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1999-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780300147278

Over the course of the past century, sexual liberation has transformed the way in which most of us regard our bodies and live our sexual lives. Now a preeminent psychoanalytic theoretician on sex and gender discusses what has gone into this unquiet revolution-the roles played by sexologists and psychoanalysts, antibiotics and birth control, the liberation movements, and Freud’s insight that sex has as much to do with the mind as with the genitals.In this collection of new and previously published papers, Ethel Person writes of the centrality of sexuality to our identity. She describes the role of fantasy in desire, its different expression in the sexes, and the way in which desire is inevitably intertwined with power. Her classic papers on transvestism, transsexualism, and cross-dressing homosexuals, written with Lionel Ovesey, help us to understand how gender and sex develop in all of us. The public acceptance of the transsexual, says Person, is emblematic of the profound scientific and intellectual shifts that have taken place in the past hundred years. The way that sex and gender develop and are experienced and expressed is the resultnot only of nature and nurture but also of the cultural zeitgeist, its unspoken values and biases.

Catholic Sexual Theology and Adolescent Girls

Catholic Sexual Theology and Adolescent Girls
Author: Doris M. Kieser
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2015-06-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1771120800

This book explores the intersection in contemporary Western culture of Catholic sexual theology and adolescent female developmental and sexual experiences. The voices of adolescent females, so long silent in sexual theologies, are given privilege here in the articulation of a normative theology. Applying a feminist natural law framework, the book engages both theoretical scholarship and practical evidence from psychological and other social sciences to inform sexual theology in the Catholic tradition. Attending to gendered, developmental, and social contexts, Doris Kieser explores adolescent females’ experiences of puberty, menarche, various sexual activities, communities of support, sexual desire, and the pleasure and danger these realities reap. She critically explores historical and traditional sexual theologies and prevailing social patriarchal and androcentric sexual attitudes through a feminist lens. The author’s attention to the voices of girls and women, and her aim to see their sexual flourishing in particular and diverse social contexts, yields a theology mindful of the rich complexities of female sexual desire, pleasure, and well-being. The result is an integrated sexual theology that grapples with the Catholic theological tradition, feminist theory and theology, and the embodied experiences of females. For anyone who is invested in the lives and well-being of adolescent females, this work uncovers both barriers and boons to their sexual flourishing.

Conversations about Psychology and Sexual Orientation

Conversations about Psychology and Sexual Orientation
Author: Janis S. Bohan
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 243
Release: 1999-08
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0814713254

In "conversation" with six other contributors, Bohan (psychology, Metropolitan State College of Denver) and Russell (psychology and women's studies, U. of Colorado) discuss the implications of existentialist and constructivist approaches to sexual orientation for clinical practice, research, theory, and public policy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Conspiracy Against Divine Sexuality

Conspiracy Against Divine Sexuality
Author: Moran M. Judson
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2004-02-02
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1410798186

Whether you believe in a Creator or not, human sexuality affects every layer of your spirit and life. You are either tickled to your hearts delights by the streams of fiery passions of your sexuality, or are aimlessly drifting through the doldrums of the monotonous waves of life -as a shipwreck. In this graphic and honest discussion on the complexity and history of human sexuality and its purpose and impact on us all, the author is boldly delving into this stormy topic with these aims in mind: How did it all start and where to find the answers? Was there an original pure teaching of this dynamic human phenomenon? Who was interested in fouling the atmosphere of human sexuality? How and by whom was it perpetuated on innocent lives throughout history? What were the results of this conspiracy on you personally? How to reverse it? What is The Song of Solomon the master lover all about, and how to achieve the ideal spiritual and sexual intercourse? In this work, the Biblical and historic narratives concerning human sexuality will enlighten us, one step at a time, until we reach the sparkling and inviting lights at the end of our sexual journey.

Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics

Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics
Author: Karen Peterson-Iyer
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2022
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1647122287

In Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics, Karen Peterson-Iyer's profound feminist Christian reframing of sexuality examines contemporary social practices and ethical sex, facilitating meaningful discussion about sexual agency and flourishing.

The Sexual Politics of Black Churches

The Sexual Politics of Black Churches
Author: Josef Sorett
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0231547773

Winner, 2022-2023 Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Award for chapter 5 "Everybody Knew He Was 'That Way': Chicago’s Clarence H. Cobbs, American Religion, and Sexuality during the Post-World War II Period" by Wallace Best This book brings together an interdisciplinary roster of scholars and practitioners to analyze the politics of sexuality within Black churches and the communities they serve. In essays and conversations, leading writers reflect on how Black churches have participated in recent discussions about issues such as marriage equality, reproductive justice, and transgender visibility in American society. They consider the varied ways that Black people and groups negotiate the intersections of religion, race, gender, and sexuality across historical and contemporary settings. Individually and collectively, the pieces included in this book shed light on the relationship between the cultural politics of Black churches and the broader cultural and political terrain of the United States. Contributors examine how churches and their members participate in the formal processes of electoral politics as well as how they engage in other processes of social and cultural change. They highlight how contemporary debates around marriage, gender, and sexuality are deeply informed by religious beliefs and practices. Through a critically engaged interdisciplinary investigation, The Sexual Politics of Black Churches develops an array of new perspectives on religion, race, and sexuality in American culture.