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FORUM [Penthouse Forum]; The International Journal of Human Relations Vol. 13, No. 03, December 1983
Featuring reader letters and articles on the topics of sex and erotica, with illustrations and photographs in black and white, duotone and color. Contents include: Interview with sex therapist and sex surrogate Dr. Barbara Read. The Riddle of Male Promiscuity, by Theodore Fischer. When Women Rape Men, by Linda Murray. The Case for Pentagon Prostitutes, by Eric Nadler. Does Homosexuality, as William Buckley Argues, 'Mock' Natural Law? by Dr. C.A. Tripp. Imagine and Affair with John Lennon, by Natasha Sarnoff. Great Moments in Swinging. Letter of the Year, and more. 132pp.
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Founded by Hugo Gernsback; published by M. Harvey Gernsback. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photos. Includes: Diary of a Swinging Couple, by Joe Lovell. Swinging: A Professional Viewpoint, by Stephen Mason & Ida Mason. You Don't Ned a Sex Therapist, by Carole Altman. The Highly Sexed Female: What Men Should Know, by Marion Meade. Parents and Children - Handling the Inevitable Attraction, by Jane Gilgun. The Homosexual and His Wife: Do They Make It? by David Sonenschein. A School That Teaches Women Masturbation, by Arthur Frank (Lonni Barbach at the University of California Medical Center). A Compendium of Shocking. Events in the Annals of Sex. Will My Husband Become a Fetishist? by Robert A. Harper. Plus: Your Sex Questions Answered. 84pp.
Edited by Hugo Gernsback. Illustrated throughout with drawings and photos. Includes: Nudism and Wife-Swapping: A Reply to 'Gail Dennis,' by Reid Schumacher. What the Rapist Is Like, by Bernard J. Oliver, Jr. Birth Control and the Supreme Court, by John Warren Giles. Doctors Say: 'Reform Abortion Law!' Unsuspected VD, by Nathaniel Shafer, Sex for Rich, Sex for Poor, by Richard Stiller. Plus: 'Curiosities' column. Your Sex Questions Answered. 67p.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The first history of polyamory, this work examines the roots of sexual non-monogamy in political thought and countercultural spiritualism and traces its path to mainstream practice and cultural discussion today.
Recent studies have found that as many as one in five Americans have experimented with some form of sexual non-monogamy, and approximately one in fifteen knows someone who was or is polyamorous. Although gathering statistics on polyamorous people is challenging, there has clearly been a growing interest in and normalization of relationship practices defined by emotional intimacy and romantic love among multiple people. Over the past decade, the mainstream media has increasingly covered polyamorous lifestyles and the committed relationships of throuples, and popular dating apps have added polyamory as a status option.
This book is the first history to trace the evolution of polyamorous thought and practice within the broader context of American culture. Drawing on personal journals and letters, underground newsletters, and publications from the Kinsey Institute Archives, among other sources, it reconstructs polyamory's intellectual foundations, highlighting its unique blend of conservative political thought and countercultural spiritualism. Christopher M. Gleason locates its early foundations in the Roaring Twenties among bohemians. In the 1950s and 1960s it surprisingly emerged among libertarian science fiction writers. The next wave of polyamorists belonged to countercultural communities that rejected traditional Christianity; some were neo-Pagans and New Age tantric practitioners who saw polyamory as intrinsic to their spirituality. During the 1980s polyamory developed as a coherent concept, faced backlash from conservatives, and tried to organize into a social and political movement with a national network. Throughout the 1990s, polyamorists utilized the internet to spread their ideas, often undermining any remaining religious or spiritual significance their ideas held. Polyamory now encompasses a diverse set of people, from those with libertarian leanings seeking unlimited freedom from government interference in their consensual partnerings to those who pursue legal recognition of their relationships, especially issues revolving around children.
Offering an original perspective on sexuality, marriage, and the family, American Poly reveals the history of polyamory in the United States from fringe practice to a new stage of the sexual revolution.
Christopher M. Gleason (1/11/2023). American Poly: A History. Oxford University Press. Hardcover. 298p. ISBN-13: 978-019-76514-4.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Molly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids’ bedtime—again—she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At a bar, she met Matt, a flirtatious younger man. When Molly told her husband that Matt had asked her out, she was surprised that Stewart encouraged her to accept.
So began Molly’s unexpected open marriage and, with it, a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Molly signs up for dating sites, enters into passionate flings, and has sex in hotels and public places around New York City. For Molly it’s a mystery why she wants what she wants. In therapy sessions, fueled by the discovery that her parents had an open marriage, too, she grapples with her past and what it means to be a mother and a whole person.
Molly and Stewart, who also begins to see other people, set ground rules: Don’t date an ex. Don’t date someone in the neighborhood. Don’t go to anyone’s home. And above all, don’t fall in love. In the years that follow, they break most of their rules, even the most important one. They grapple with jealousy, insecurity, and doubts, all the while wondering: Can they love others and stay true to their love for each other? Can they make the impossible work?
More is an electric debut that offers both steamy fun and poignant reflections on motherhood, daughterhood, marriage, and self-fulfillment. With warmth, humor, and style, Molly Roden Winter delivers an unputdownable journey of a woman becoming her most authentic self.
Molly Roden Winter (16/1/2024). MORE: A Memoir of Open Marriage. New York: Doubleday. Hardcover in colour dust cover. 290p. ISBN-13: 978-0-365-54945-6.
