First published more than twenty years ago, Sexual Politics is one of the most important books ever written on the relationship between the sexes. It has become a classic and world bestseller, enduring not only for its power as a feminist statement but also a superbly reasoned and gracefully written work of literary and cultural analysis. In it Millett brilliantly and wittily writes about, amongst other things, sexual theroy, history, psychoanalysis - Freud and after - and analysis the writings of DH Lawrence, Jean Genet, Norman Mailer and Henry Miller. This revolutionary work shows how patriarchal bias is operated in our history and culture and is reflected in our mythology, religion, social mores and literature.

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What is the true nature of female sexuality? The noted psychiastrist, Mary Jane Sherfey (1918-1983), suggests the startling possibility that female sexuallty is literally an insatiable phusical drive that has been powerfulyl repressed for the sake of orderly human relations.

On the findings of Masters and Johnson and her own research, Dr, Sherfey proposes that "the more orgasms a woman has, the stronger they become: the more orgasms she has the nosre she can have." From her studies, of the sexuality of the higher primates, she argues that "somthing akin to the behavior of these primates, who perform coitus from twenty to to fifty times a day during periods of heat, could be paralleled by the human female," if her  society permitted it.

In a major departure from conventional studies, Dr. Sherfey contends that the suppression of this powerful sexuality was a prerequisite for the establishment of civilized agrarian society, that until her primitive sexuality was forcibly repressed, archaic woman could not be socilaized, and civilized patters of behavior could not arise.

What Masters and Johnson did to clarify the physioological aspecta of the fenale orgasm, Dr. Sherfey has now done for the cultural and historical, as well as the psychological, aspects of this complicated process.

The results of years of research, Dr. Sherfey's extraordinary study has already provoked great attention within the psychiatric profession and has been compared, in its originality and insgight, to the discoveries of Freud with respect to sexuality itself.

Mary Jane Sherfey (6/1972). The Nature and Evolution of Female Sexuality. New York: Random House, Inc. First Edition. Hardcover.  188 pages. X figures. Format: 142x215mm. Weight: 419gr. ISBN-10: 0-396-46539-3

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.

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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.