Out of Touch

Out of Touch
Author: Michelle Drouin
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0262046679

A behavioral scientist explores love, belongingness, and fulfillment, focusing on how modern technology can both help and hinder our need to connect. A Next Big Idea Club nominee. Millions of people around the world are not getting the physical, emotional, and intellectual intimacy they crave. Through the wonders of modern technology, we are connecting with more people more often than ever before, but are these connections what we long for? Pandemic isolation has made us even more alone. In Out of Touch, Professor of Psychology Michelle Drouin investigates what she calls our intimacy famine, exploring love, belongingness, and fulfillment and considering why relationships carried out on technological platforms may leave us starving for physical connection. Drouin puts it this way: when most of our interactions are through social media, we are taking tiny hits of dopamine rather than the huge shots of oxytocin that an intimate in-person relationship would provide. Drouin explains that intimacy is not just sex—although of course sex is an important part of intimacy. But how important? Drouin reports on surveys that millennials (perhaps distracted by constant Tinder-swiping) have less sex than previous generations. She discusses pandemic puppies, professional cuddlers, the importance of touch, “desire discrepancy” in marriage, and the value of friendships. Online dating, she suggests, might give users too many options; and the internet facilitates “infidelity-related behaviors.” Some technological advances will help us develop and maintain intimate relationships—our phones, for example, can be bridges to emotional support. Some, on the other hand, might leave us out of touch. Drouin explores both of these possibilities.

My Life in Phone Sex

My Life in Phone Sex
Author: Damiana Cate Stone
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2002-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595248616

Her customers know her as Luxe, but her lovers call her Ian, and she is one very passionate, very interesting woman! My Life In Phone Sex guides you through Ian's adventures in phone sex and in her life. Walk with her through her relentless search for personal fulfillment as she buries past sexual trauma beneath her sexual addiction in striving for a secure existence. This book reveals the most personal thoughts and activities of a sexual celebrity who seems to be nothing other than every man's fantasy...vibrantly alive, and in the flesh. This tender story of a beautiful woman, and how she really feels about sex and love will move you long after you read the final chapter. It will change how you feel about phone sex, and about love.

How I Made $10,000 A Month As A Phone Sex Operator

How I Made $10,000 A Month As A Phone Sex Operator
Author: Amberly Rothfield
Publisher: Amberly Rothfield
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2018-01-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Amberly Rothfield breaks down how started in the phone sex industry and began making $10,000 a month consistently talking dirty on the phone. Using such websites as Niteflirt, IWantPhone and the famous Clips4Sale, Amberly became one of the top fetish content producers as well as phone sex operators in a matter of just a year with her innovative take on marketing where others in the field were not. While the book does not guarantee success, it is the first of it's kind to offer a blueprint on how to leverage popular websites to create a lucrative work from home business that is not a scam. Detailing not only how to make phone sex sound effects, Amberly talks about how to use adult friendly websites such as Twitter, Tumblr and even Medium.com to create content that will attract new clients to a budding phone sex business. Working independently sound too scary for you? Amberly also discusses how to join in already established phone sex companies. Tips ranging from newbie to experienced dirty talker, Amberly helps perfect those who take this industry seriously. The biggest take away is learning that the phone sex industry has evolved far from it's early 1990s days. Amberly shows how you can develop offline sales and not solely rely on the money from a phone that is ringing. Building sales funnels and applying business principals that few would think could ever apply. No you do not need a four year college degree as it is all laid out in an easy to digest format.

I Kissed Dating Goodbye

I Kissed Dating Goodbye
Author: Joshua Harris
Publisher: Multnomah
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-01-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1588601579

Joshua Harris's first book, written when he was only 21, turned the Christian singles scene upside down...and people are still talking. More than 800,000 copies later, I Kissed Dating Goodbye, with its inspiring call to sincere love, real purity, and purposeful singleness, remains the benchmark for books on Christian dating. Now, for the first time since its release, the national #1 bestseller has been expanded with new content and updated for new readers. Honest and practical, it challenges cultural assumptions about relationships and provides solid, biblical alternatives to society's norm.Clear, stylish typeset, with user-friendly links to referenced Scripture.

You Will Never Be Forgotten

You Will Never Be Forgotten
Author: Mary South
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2020-03-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374720568

In this provocative, bitingly funny debut collection, people attempt to use technology to escape their uncontrollable feelings of grief or rage or despair, only to reveal their most flawed and human selves An architect draws questionable inspiration from her daughter’s birth defect. A content moderator for “the world’s biggest search engine,” who spends her days culling videos of beheadings and suicides, turns from stalking her rapist online to following him in real life. At a camp for recovering internet trolls, a sensitive misfit goes missing. A wounded mother raises the second incarnation of her child. In You Will Never Be Forgotten, Mary South explores how technology can both collapse our relationships from within and provide opportunities for genuine connection. Formally inventive, darkly absurdist, savagely critical of the increasingly fraught cultural climates we inhabit, these ten stories also find hope in fleeting interactions and moments of tenderness. They reveal our grotesque selfishness and our intense need for love and acceptance, and the psychic pain that either shuts us off or allows us to discover our deepest reaches of empathy. This incendiary debut marks the arrival of a perceptive, idiosyncratic, instantly recognizable voice in fiction—one that could only belong to Mary South.

How to Break Up with Your Phone

How to Break Up with Your Phone
Author: Catherine Price
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0399581138

This evidence-based, user-friendly guide presents a 30-day digital detox plan that will help you set boundaries with your phone and live a more joyful and fulfilling life. “I wrote The Anxious Generation to help adults improve the lives of children. Many readers have asked me for a version of the book aimed at helping adults and teens help themselves. Catherine Price has written the best such book.”—Jonathan Haidt Do you feel addicted to your phone? Do you frequently pick it up “just to check,” only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Does social media make you anxious? Have you tried to spend less time mindlessly scrolling—and failed? If so, this book is your solution. Award-winning health and science journalist and TED speaker Catherine Price presents a practical, evidence-based 30-day digital detox plan that will help you break up—and then make up—with your phone. The goal: better mental health, improved screen-life balance, and a long-term relationship with technology that feels good. This engaging, user-friendly guide explains how our smartphones and apps are designed to be addictive and how the time we spend on them is increasing our anxiety and damaging our abilities to focus, think deeply, form new memories, generate ideas, and be present in our most important relationships. Next, it walks you through an effective and easy-to-follow 30-day plan that has already helped thousands of people worldwide break their phone addictions and feel more fully alive. Whether you need help for yourself or for your family, friends, students, colleagues, clients, or community, How to Break Up with Your Phone is the ultimate guide to digital detoxing. It’s guaranteed to help you put down your phone—and come back to life.

The Dash Between the Numbers

The Dash Between the Numbers
Author: Michael Kurardian
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2011-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1465370307

"The Dash Between the Numbers" is a powerful story of love, romance, heartbreak and dealing with adversity. It sheds light on one important addiction that exists in our society that is mostly ignored or swept under the rug: Mens sex addiction. This powerful story takes us on a journey that chronicles the birth and progression of sex addiction, which started fairly innocently with our Hero (Michael) and his struggle to overcome it by being in love with a woman whom he loved very passionately. The story has a couple of twists to it that take the reader in an unexpected direction.

No More Mr Nice Guy

No More Mr Nice Guy
Author: Dr Robert A Glover
Publisher: Sanage Publishing House Llp
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-11-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9789391560485

Originally published as an e-book that became a controversial media phenomenon, No More Mr. Nice Guy! landed its author, a certified marriage and family therapist, on The O'Reilly Factor and the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Dr. Robert Glover has dubbed the "Nice Guy Syndrome" trying too hard to please others while neglecting one's own needs, thus causing unhappiness and resentfulness. It's no wonder that unfulfilled Nice Guys lash out in frustration at their loved ones, claims Dr. Glover. He explains how they can stop seeking approval and start getting what they want in life, by presenting the information and tools to help them ensure their needs are met, to express their emotions, to have a satisfying sex life, to embrace their masculinity and form meaningful relationships with other men, and to live up to their creative potential.

Coming Attractions

Coming Attractions
Author: Robert J. Stoller
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1996-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780300066616

What do porn films tell us about our own erotic impulses? What can we learn about our culture's sexual attitudes, fears, and fantasies from the ways that porn films are designed and produced? In this book, Dr. Robert J. Stoller, one of the world's leading experts on human sexual behavior, joins with I. S. Levine, a professional writer with long experience in X-rated video making, to examine the ideas and psychological makeup of the participants in an adult heterosexual X-rated video, Stairway to Paradise. Their interviews with performers, writers, directors, producers, and technicians provide extraordinary insights into the technical aspects of this type of video, the motivations and backgrounds of the people involved, and the porn industry's view of the video's intended audience. Stoller, Levine, and the porn filmmakers have wide-ranging discussions about the aesthetics, ethics, and etiquette of the porn industry; the hostility that Dr. Stoller claimed underlies all erotic excitement; the liberating—and educational—function of porn in a puritanical culture; the misconceptions of antiporn crusaders; the impact of aids on the participants; and the future of the porn film industry. The authors hope that if we understand how and why a pornographic work is created, we will be better able to understand the implications of the legal and moral issues it raises.

Running for My Life

Running for My Life
Author: Nicki
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2020-01-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1796083720

Grandma always said experience as the world's best teacher it can make you or it can break you. Looking back on my life experience. It made me the person I am today. I have my self-esteem back. No longer will I ever be a victim of any kind of abuse. I know now that I'm someone special. I no longer feel guilty about the things I have no control over.