Technical Virgin

Technical Virgin
Author: Hayley DiMarco
Publisher: Revell
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780800730857

Every teenage girl craves male attention. But how does she know when and where to draw the line? What if she's already stepped over that line? And how can she find her way back? In a culture where hookups and friends-with-benefits are commonplace, how far is too far when it comes to the physical? The technical virgin, a term becoming all too familiar with Christian teens, is someone who believes in abstinence but allows loopholes in their physical relationships, thereby compromising true purity. In this new book, Hayley DiMarco takes a look at what purity really is. With her straightforward, in-your-face writing, she shows girls - what they are really saying about themselves through their sexy actions - what happens when purity is reduced to a technicality - what words like abstinence and commitment really mean - what God says on the subject of purity With candid advice, personal insight, and tough truth from God's Word, Hayley DiMarco will help teen girls understand who they are so they can make informed, godly decisions about purity and sex.

Virgin

Virgin
Author: Hanne Blank
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2008-03-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1596910119

A provocative social history examines the history of virginity and of noted virgins in Western culture, describing the unique fascination civilization has had for virginity from a social, political, economic, philosophical, medical, and legal standpoint. Reprint.

Virgin Territory

Virgin Territory
Author: Tamar Jeffers MacDonald
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2010-03-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0814336957

Scholars of film and television history as well as cultural studies will enjoy this significant volume.

Sexual Deviance and Society

Sexual Deviance and Society
Author: Meredith G. F. Worthen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2016-06-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317593367

In a society where sexualized media has become background noise, we are frequently discouraged from frank and open discussions about sex and offered few tools for understanding sexual behaviors and sexualities that are perceived as being out of the norm. This book encourages readers to establish new ways of thinking about stigmatized peoples and behaviors, and to think critically about gender, sex, sexuality and sex crimes. Sexual Deviance and Society uses sociological theories of crime, deviance, gender and sexuality to construct a framework for understanding sexual deviance. This book is divided into four units: Unit I, Sociology of Deviance and Sexuality, lays the foundation for understanding sex and sexuality through sociological frameworks of deviance. Unit II, Sexual Deviance, provides an in depth dialogue to its readers about the sociological constructions of sexual deviance with a critical focus on contemporary and historical conceptualizations. Unit III, Deviant Sexual Acts, explores a variety of deviant sexual acts in detail, including sex in public, fetishes, and sex work. Unit IV, Sex Crimes and Criminals, examines rape and sexual assault, sex crimes against children, and societal responses to sex offenders and their treatment within the criminal justice system. Utilizing an integrative approach that creates a dialogue between the subjects of gender, criminology and deviance, this book is a key resource for students interested in crime and deviance, gender and sexuality, and the sociology of deviance.

The End of Sex

The End of Sex
Author: Donna Freitas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0465002153

Hookup culture dominates the lives of college students today, and many feel great pressure to engage in it. But how do these expectations affect students themselves? Freitas uses students' own testimonies to define hookup culture and propose ways of opting out.

Reading from Behind

Reading from Behind
Author: Jonathan A. Allan
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1783607572

'A serious work of theory.' The Guardian ‘Jonathan Allan has come up with a whole theory of the arsehole.’ Dazed and Confused In a resolute deviation from the governing totality of the phallus, Reading from Behind offers a radical reorientation of the anus and its role in the collective imaginary. It exposes what is deeply hidden in our cultural production, and challenges the authority of paranoid, critical thought. A beautiful work that invites us beyond the rejection of phallocentricism, to a new way of being and thinking about sex, culture and identity.

The Consummate Virgin

The Consummate Virgin
Author: Jodi McAlister
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3030550044

This book is a study of female virginity loss and its representations in popular Anglophone literatures. It explores dominant cultural narratives around what makes a “good” female virginity loss experience by examining two key forms of popular literature: autobiographical virginity loss stories and popular romance fiction. In particular, this book focuses on how female sexual desire and romantic love have become entangled in the contemporary cultural imagination, leading to the emergence of a dominant paradigm which dictates that for women, sexual desire and love are and should be intrinsically linked together: something which has greatly affected cultural scripts for virginity loss. This book examines the ways in which this paradigm has been negotiated, upheld, subverted, and resisted in depictions of virginity loss in popular literatures, unpacking the romanticisation of the idea of “the right one” and “the right time”.

The Virgin's Promise

The Virgin's Promise
Author: Kim Hudson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781932907728

The Virgin's Promise demystifies the complexities of archetypes and clearly outlines the steps of a Virgin's Journey to realize her dream. Audiences need to see more than brave, self-sacrificing Heroes. They need to see Virgins who bring their talents and self-fulfilling joys to life. The Virgin's Promise describes this journey with beats that feel incredibly familiar but have not been illustrated in any other screenwriting book. It explores the yin and yang of the Virgin and Hero journeys to take up their power as individuals, and includes a practical guide to putting this new theory into action.

JASE

JASE
Author: Megyn Ward
Publisher: Whitepoint Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2023-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

If there’s anything I know for sure, it’s this: The world is full of saviors. People who want to save you from the world. From your life. From yourself. And here’s something else I know—saviors are dangerous. Because they claim to care—to love you even—until it gets hard. Because they make promises they never intend to keep. Because the person they’re really trying to save isn’t you. It’s themselves. Because they’re liars. Weak, selfish liars. Every. Single. One of them. No one in this world is worth saving—least of all me. I believed that to my core. Until I met Ophelia. I was seventeen and she was too young. Too young to protect me. Too trapped to save me. But she tried anyway. She tried, even though she knew that saving me would mean destroying herself. And knowing the price she paid for me killed me—kept killing me, every time I thought about it. So I stopped thinking about it. I stopped thinking about her. Stopped wondering what happened to her. Where she was. If she survived… I never thought I’d see her again. But then I did. Suddenly, she’s right in front of me—marked as another man’s property but it doesn’t matter. None of it matters because Ophelia needs a savior—a real savior—and this time, it’s going to be me who’s doing the saving. ***Warning: This book deals with dark, sensitive subject matter and depicts graphic scenes that may trigger those who have dealt with or experienced trauma due to stalking, human trafficking, child abuse, physical abuse/violence and childhood sexual assault. While CSA is not depicted on the page it is talked about. Please read with caution.***

The Christ of the Butterflies

The Christ of the Butterflies
Author: Ardythe Ashley
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2014-06-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1497623375

Two interconnected tales of a love affair that began amid the timeless beauty of Venice from the author of In the Country of the Great King. Romance naturally emanates from Venice, a city of passion and eroticism. This was the case for Mara, a Nebraskan writer who had emigrated from the United States fourteen years previously. One of her newly-published novels brings passion to her, when the son of an ex-lover comes looking for resolution. Having read the book, which Mara based on her and her lover’s real-life interlude, James finds Mara and they are instantly enamored with each other. As the story unfolds, they encounter sensuality, love, and danger.