Unlimited Intimacy

Unlimited Intimacy
Author: Tim Dean
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009-06-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN:

This work explores how barebackers think about transmitting HIV, especially the idea that deliberately sharing it establishes a new network of kinship among the infected.

Unlimited Intimacy

Unlimited Intimacy
Author: Tim Dean
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2009-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226139409

Barebacking—when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex—has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe for Unlimited Intimacy, Tim Dean’s riveting investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture that has grown around it. Audacious and undeniably provocative, Dean’s profoundly reflective account is neither a manifesto nor an apology; instead, it is a searching analysis that tests the very limits of the study of sex in the twenty-first century. Dean’s extensive research into the subculture provides a tour of the scene’s bars, sex clubs, and Web sites; offers an explicit but sophisticated analysis of its pornography; and documents his own personal experiences in the culture. But ultimately, it is HIV that animates the controversy around barebacking, and Unlimited Intimacy explores how barebackers think about transmitting the virus—especially the idea that deliberately sharing it establishes a new network of kinship among the infected. According to Dean, intimacy makes us vulnerable, exposes us to emotional risk, and forces us to drop our psychological barriers. As a committed experiment in intimacy without limits—one that makes those metaphors of intimacy quite literal—barebacking thus says a great deal about how intimacy works. Written with a fierce intelligence and uncompromising nerve, Unlimited Intimacy will prove to be a milestone in our understanding of sexual behavior.

RAW

RAW
Author: Ricky Varghese
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2019-11-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786998491

RAW addresses the question of sex without condoms, or barebacking, in the age of PrEP, a drug that virtually eliminates the transmission of HIV. Writing out of the history of the AIDS crisis, the authors in RAW expand the study of barebacking into new areas, such as its appearance within lesbian, heterosexual, and BDSM communities and its implications for teaching critical sexology.

Reclaiming Pleasure

Reclaiming Pleasure
Author: Holly Richmond
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1684038448

Go beyond surviving to reclaim your sexual self. If you have experienced sexual abuse, assault, harassment, or rape, you may feel disconnected from your sexual self—even if you’ve overcome the initial trauma of your experience. You are a survivor; but surviving is just the beginning. This book explores what comes next. Written by a psychotherapist and grounded in cutting-edge research, Reclaiming Pleasure picks up where other sexual trauma recovery books leave off. It offers practical tools to help you cultivate a sense of safety, security and trust in order to reclaim the vitality, pleasure and great sex you deserve. The book will also serve as your compass on a journey toward the rediscovery of desire, letting you explore what you want from others and for yourself. This groundbreaking book will help you: Understand the lasting mental, physical, sexual, and relational impacts of sexual trauma Move beyond feelings of shame Reclaim pleasure and reignite passion in your life Surviving is merely the first step in the process of recovery from sexual trauma. With this sex-positive and empowering guide, you are invited to take your recovery to the next level. You’ll feel emboldened by the desire for better sex, healthier relationships, and a more connected, pleasurable life.

Beyond Sexuality

Beyond Sexuality
Author: Tim Dean
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2000-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0226139352

Beyond Sexuality points contemporary sexual politics in a radically new direction. Combining a psychoanalytic emphasis on the unconscious with a deep respect for the historical variability of sexual identities, this original work of queer theory makes the case for viewing erotic desire as fundamentally impersonal. Tim Dean develops a reading of Jacques Lacan that—rather than straightening out this notoriously difficult French psychoanalyst—brings out the queer tensions and productive incoherencies in his account of desire. Dean shows how the Lacanian unconscious "deheterosexualizes" desire, and along the way he reveals how psychoanalytic thinkers as well as queer theorists have failed to exploit the full potential of this conception of desire. The book elaborates this by investigating social fantasies about homosexuality and AIDS, including gay men's own fantasies about sex and promiscuity, in an attempt to illuminate the challenges facing safe-sex education. Taking on many shibboleths in contemporary psychoanalysis and queer theory—and taking no prisoners—Beyond Sexuality offers an antidote to hagiographical strains in recent work on psychoanalysis, Foucault, and sexuality.

If He Had Been with Me

If He Had Been with Me
Author: Laura Nowlin
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1402277849

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...

After Sex?

After Sex?
Author: Janet Halley
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2011-01-18
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0822349094

Prominent participants in the development of queer theory explore the field in relation to their own intellectual itineraries, reflecting on its accomplishments, limitations, and critical potential.

The 6 Pillars of Intimacy

The 6 Pillars of Intimacy
Author: Alisa Dilorenzo
Publisher: One Extraordinary Marriage
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2022-02-07
Genre:
ISBN:

Is it really possible to rekindle the spark and restore the "like-new" connection in your marriage?Can you strengthen your bond, grow together, and enjoy deeper levels of love and intimacy that rival your newlywed days? And can you do any or all of that without having to digest mountains of self-help books, or pouring your hearts out to a total stranger in endless counseling sessions?Yes, it is possible-and as you read, you'll see how easy it can be!Authors Alisa and Tony DiLorenzo are passionate about helping couples create their own extraordinary marriage. They do this through books, coaching, and through their #1 marriage podcast, "The ONE Extraordinary Marriage Show" where they connect with an audience of over 50,000 listeners around the world.Their newest book, The 6 Pillars of Intimacy: The Secret to an Extraordinary Marriage, is based on their personal experience and from seeing the marriages of countless people they have worked with improve. They have learned some hard knock life lessons and discovered key principles that have kept their marriage (and sex life) alive and flourishing? and they did it together. Let them do the same for you!Inside, you'll discover:- The six intimacies (pillars), and how to use them.- That, if the pillars are solid and straight, they will keep your marriage thriving and ensure everything goes along smoothly, and how to do this.- How, if the pillars become damaged, your marriage can start to collapse.- The author's real-life story, experience, and relationship struggles.- And more.Even the best marriages can have cracks in their relationships. The difference is that extraordinary couples take action when they see those cracks happening.Get The 6 Pillars of Intimacy today to experience the extraordinary marriage you desire and deserve.

Intimacy

Intimacy
Author: Steven Burger
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2012-12-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1449779646

INTIMACY is about the greatest love story ever told, a true love story, one of mystery and intrigue from another world, dramatically affecting the very reality you and I currently experience on Earth in everyday life. It is a spiritual adventure of unimaginable splendor and grandness, bringing lasting, miraculous change to all life on the planet. A divine love story, as revealed by the Creator of all existence, born of heaven and poured out for all humanity to receive freely, yet given at great price. The greatest love imaginable experienced through the willing surrender of its Creators life for you, that all of mankind may live in intimate relationship with God, from the present to eternity. Intimacy takes you on a supernatural journey from heaven to Earth and back again, only to supernaturally return to Earth a very different world. Heaven on Earth for one thousand years, the millennium, far greater than the garden of Eden, growing into the ultimate miraculous grand finale. Discover the true meaning of intimacy and relationship with Almighty God, His original purpose for creating intimacy and mankind, the meaning of life on Earth, where it all leads and why. The mysteries of life revealed by God Himself, in preparation for our comprehension of Gods divine window to the future. A future consumed and embraced by the greatest love gift imaginable as the millennium comes to an end, where eternity begins. True intimacy with God on a supernatural spiritual adventure of exploration. Astounding, truly stunning on a grand God scale, Gods love gift to His children that grows and lasts forever! As you read Intimacy, you will experience the end from the beginning, the beginning from the end, revelation of divine design and purpose, all in preparation to accept and flourish in your never-ending, intimate love gifteternity!