Ο Διόνυσος αναλαμβάνει να φέρει εις πέρας μια τιτάνια αποστολή με αβέβαιο αποτέλεσμα. Στόχος του, να εξολοθρεύσει τον μεγαλύτερο εχθρό της ερωτικής ελευθερίας και αυτοδιάθεσης που γνώρισε ποτέ η ανθρωπότητα. Ρίχνεται αποφασισμένος στο κατόπι του Ταμπού, ελπίζοντας να σταθεί τυχερός απέναντι σε έναν αήττητο εχθρό, ευχόμενος να μην προστεθεί και αυτός στη μακριά σειρά των ηττημένων που τόλμησαν να προκαλέσουν μια θεότητα φτιαγμένη από τα πανίσχυρα υλικά του δόγματος και της προκατάληψης. Το φόντο της σύγκρουσης αποτελεί μια τολμηρή φαντασίωση του Διόνυσου. Στο πλευρό του στέκεται η Μεσσαλίνα, η γυναίκα που θα τον συντροφέψει στο τελευταίο ταξίδι της ζωής του.

Αλέξανδρος Βαλσαμίδης (2018) Ο Αυνανιστης. Θεσσαλονίκη: Εκδόσεις Τριτωνίδα. Μαλακό εξώφυλλο με πτερύγισ. 119 σελίδες. 1 έγχρωμη φωτογραφία και 8 μονόχρωμα εικόνες της Νάσιας Στυλίδου. Σχήμα: 120x170mm. Βάρος: 141gr. ISBN-13: 978-618-83918-5-7. Τιμή πώλησης: €12,50Λ.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Men and women have always bargained for sex. In Hard Bargains, philosopher-lawyer Linda Hirshman and legal historian Jane Larson provide the first complete analysis ofpower in heterosexual relationships, combining an eye-opening legal history of sexual regulation with thought-provoking predictions of what the future might bring.
Hirshman and Larson tell a riveting tale that spans the centuries--from early accounts of adulterers hanging from the gibbet, to the impact of the Kinsey Reports and Hugh Hefner's playboy philosophy, to the Swinging Sixties judge who argued in favor of sex with eleven year-olds. The book examines the factors that have shaped our notions of sex, from Catholic teaching to the theories of Sigmund Freud, and it explores the Supreme Court decisions of the last few decades that revolutionized the politics of sex. And Hard Bargains not only provides a deep understanding of historical and current disputes, it also offers striking predictions of what sexual bargaining will look like in the future—rape laws replaced by laws of sexual autonomy, adultery subjected to breach of contract action, fornicators responsible for each other's rent, prostitution considered an unfair labor practice. These are a few of the surprising—and surprisingly workable—solutions the authors foresee in the 21st century.
Hard Bargains takes a forthright and level-headed look at all aspects of one of the biggest controversies in contemporary American society—heterosexual sex--and delivers a radically new perspective on the sexual lives of women and men.

Linda R. Hirshman, and Jane E, Larson (29/10/1998). Hard  Bargains: The Politics of Sex. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hardcover. viii+312 pages. Format: 160x243mm. Weight: 613gr. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-509664-9.

BOOK DESCRIPTION

One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2024 • A Washington Post Notable Book of 2024 • A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2024 • A 2025 finalist for the Lambda Literary Lammy Award in LGBTQ+ nonfiction

From an esteemed scholar, a richly textured, authoritative history of sex and sexuality in America―the first major account in three decades.

Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a “tradwife” is gaining adherents on the right while polyamory wins converts on the left. It may seem as though debates over sex are more intense than ever, but as acclaimed historian Rebecca L. Davis demonstrates in Fierce Desires, we should not be too surprised, because Americans have been arguing over which kinds of sex are “acceptable”―and which are not―since before the founding itself.

From the public floggings of fornicators in early New England to passionate same-sex love affairs in the 1800s and the crackdown on abortion providers in the 1870s, and from the movements for sexual liberation to the recent restrictions on access to gender affirming care, Davis presents a sweeping, engrossing, illuminating four-hundred-year account of this nation’s sexual past. Drawing on a wealth of sources, including legal records, erotica, and eighteenth-century romance novels, she recasts important episodes―Anthony Comstock’s crusade against smut among them―and, at the same time, unearths stories of little-remembered pioneers and iconoclasts, such as an indentured servant in colonial Virginia named Thomas/Thomasine Hall, Gay Liberation Front cofounder Kiyoshi Kuromiya, and postwar female pleasure activist Betty Dodson.

At the heart of the book is Davis’s argument that the concept of sexual identity is relatively novel, first appearing in the nineteenth century. Over the centuries, Americans have shifted from understanding sexual behaviors as reflections of personal preferences or values, such as those rooted in faith or culture, to defining sexuality as an essential part of what makes a person who they are. And at every step, legislators, police, activists, and bureaucrats attempted to regulate new sexual behaviors, transforming government in the process.

The most comprehensive account of America’s sexual past since John D’Emilio and Estelle Freedman’s 1988 classic, Intimate Matters, Davis’s magisterial work seeks to help us understand the turmoil of the present. It demonstrates how fiercely we have always valued our desires, and how far we are willing to go to defend them.

Revecca L. Davis (3/9/2024). Fierce Desires: A New Study of Sex and Sexuality in America. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company. First Edition. Hardcover. 480 pages. 35 illustrations.ISBN-13: 978-1-63149-657-8.

CONTENTS

(03) - Editorial
(04) - Guy A. Hayman, Introduction
(06) - Stanley M. Clark, Prelude To Better Sex
(12) - How Women Make Love To Men
(18) - Staff, Intercourse
(26) - Susan McFadden, Naked Encounter: sex at sensitivity group
(32) -  Felicia Beamer. Bed,,, and The Liberated Woman
(44) - Michelle Haliloran, Wife-Swapping: The Modern Parlor Game
(50) - Alan Delamar, Racism In The Bedroom
(64) - William Syms, Group Marriage: Its Evolution, Essence and Future
(72) - WillIiam Billings, Girls Who Love Girls
(78) - Julia Barnright, Group Sex: Facts and Fantasies