ISBN-13: 978-0-465-00214-6
Writer: Dagmar Herzog
Title: Sex in Crisis
Subtitle: The New Sexual Revolution and the Future of American Politics
Place of publication: New York
Publisher: Basic Books
Year of publication: 1/7/2008
Format: 145x220 mm
Pages: xiv+249
Binding: red black boards in colour dust jacket by Rodrigo Corral
Inside back jacket of writer's colour photograph: Michael Staub
Weight: 444 gr.
Original price: USD 26.95 / CAD 28.95
Supplier: Anybook Ltd
Order Number: 67218864
Order Shipped: 10th August 2020
Entry Number: 2020014
Entry Date: 24th August 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The Religious Right has fractured, the pundits tell us, and its power is waning. Is it true - have evangelical Christians lost their political clout? When the subject is sex, the answer is definitively no.
Only three decades after the legalization of abortion, the broad gains of the feminist movement, and the emergence of the gay rights movement, Americans appear to be doing the time warp again. It's 1950s redux. Politicians - including many Democrats - insist that abstinence is the only acceptable form of birth control. Fully fifty percent of American high schools teach a "sex education" curriculum that includes deceptive information about the prevalence of STDs and the failure rates of condoms. Students are taught that homosexuality is curable, and that premarital sex runs future marital happiness. Afraid of sounding godless, American liberals have failed to challenge these retrograde orthodoxies.
The truth is Americans have not become ant-sex, but they have become increasingly anxious about sex - not least due to the strategems of the Religious Right. There has been a war on sex in America - a war conservative evangelicals have in large part already won.
How has the Religious Right scored so many successes? Historian Dagmar Herzog argues that conservative evangelicals have appropriated the lessons of the first sexual revolution far more effectively than liberals. With the support of a multimillion-dollar Christian sex industry, evangelicals have crafted an astonishingly graphic and effective pitch for the pleasures of "hot monogamy" - for married, heterosexual couples only. This potent message has enabled them to win elections and seduce souls, with disastrous political consequences.
Fierce, witty, and brilliant, Sex in Crisis challenges America's culture of sexual dysfunction and calls for a more sophisicated national conversation about the facts of life.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-251423
Writer: Sarah Schrank
ISBN-10: 0-385-00632-2
Writer: Gay Talese
Title: Thy Neighbor’s Wife
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Place of Publication: Garden City, New York
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
Year of Publication: 1980
Format: 158x239mm
Pages: 568; Index, 549
Jacket Photo:1 black and white picture of the writer by Thomas Victor
Jacket Design: Alex Gotfryd
Binding: Boards in duotone dust jacket
Original Price: price clipped
Weight: 860gr.
Entry No.: 2012011
Entry Date: 20th April 2012
BOOK DESCRIPTION
This is a book about America and about sex. It is about the men and women who shaped our sexual revolution. It is about the men and women who have lived it and are living it right now.
In a narrative as absorbing as a novel, Gay Talese intimately describes many of the people and events that in recent decades have influenced the redefinition of morality in America. We meet the prophets of the new sexuality: Hugh Hefner, Alex Comfort, and others. We meet couples whose buttoned-down lives were transformed by sexual liberation. We are privy to their thoughts, their fantasies, their actions as that transformation is played out against a changing sexual landscape. A landscape that includes the halls of government and the Supreme Court, as well as that remarkable sexual spa, Sandstone; the Playboy mansion; and the living rooms and backyards of suburban ranch houses.
In THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE, one of the supreme reporter-authors tells one of the big stories of our time-a story in which we are all characters. A story that is surprising and revealing. A story that is told with extraordinary skill and drama in a book that is as entertaining and controversial as it is important.
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-33199-4
Writer: Emily Witt
Title: Future Sex
Subtitle: A New Kind of Love
Place of publication: London
Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd
Year of publication: 2016
Format: 128x198 mm (trimmed)
Pages: 210
Binding: paperbound in colour cover by Keenan
Weight: 180 gr.
Original price: GBP 8.99
Supplier: Books2anywhere
Order Number: 67218858
Order Shipped: 10th August 2020
Entry Number: 2020013
Entry Date: 22nd August 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Emily Witt is single and in her thirties. Until recently she had always imagined she would meet the right person and fall in love. But, as we all know, things are more complicated than that. Love is rare and frequently unreciprocated, sexual acquisitiveness is risky and can be hurtful. Having experienced the familiar disappointments that come with online dating and one-night stands, Witt decides to find her own path. The result is an honst account of the contemporary pursuit of connection and pleasure – open-minded, forgiving and unafraid.
ISBN-13: 978-1-788-650151
Writer: Richard Deerton
Title: Love Trinity On The Open Road. A Novella
Subtitle: A novella about friendship and love with a twist. A novella about Polyamory
Place of publication: N/A
Publisher: Zoodoo Publishing
Year of publication: 2017 [reprint 10/8/2020]
Format: 128x198 mm (trimmed)
Pages: 114
Binding: paperbound in colour cover
Weight: 138 gr.
Original price: N/A
Supplier: Paperbackshop International
Order Number: 67218869
Order Shipped: 10th August 2020
Entry Number: 2020012
Entry Date: 22nd August 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Emily, Grace and Eli have been inseparable since they were children - the three of them practically joined at the hip all the way through high school.
Until now.
With the news that Grace will not be following them to San Francisco for college, Emily and Eli cook up a plan. One final send-off - a road trip to see a meteor shower at the Grand Canyon!
Though there is one problem. Emily has been nursing feelings for her two friends. Feelings she didn't even know existed until recently - and they are flaring up. Although she might not be alone in this.
Will their friendship survive this trip? Will any of them find love?
One of them?
All of them?
One thing is certain......their relationship will never be the same again.
ISBN-13: Ν/Α
Writer: Burgo Partridge
Title: A History of Orgies
Place of publication: London
Publisher: Spring Books
Year of publication: 1966 (second impression)
Format: 143x220 mm
Pages: 224
Binding: hardbound in colour dust jacket
Cover photograph by Poussin's Bacchanal by permission of The Trustees of The National Gallery
Weight: 585 gr.
Original price: GBP 8/6
Supplier: Watermill Books
Order Number: 67123462
Order Shipped: 28th July 2020
Entry Number: 2020011
Entry Date: 14th August 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION
There has never been a History of Orgies. Sexologists have detailed the behaviour of many societies, from the Ancient Greeks to the modern aborigine, but for examples of mankind pursuing sexual enjoyment in its most pure and exaggerated from we must turn to the Orgy.
Mr. Partridge evaluates the motives behind orgies and examines to what extent social environment and individual psychology overlap to produce these phenomena, The sincerest exponents of Hedonism were of course the Greeks and it was their naive concept of sexuality which led, with or without religious pretext, to the orgy. Their celebrations of the Aphrodisia, the Dionysia and the Thesmophoria here described, were feasts in honour of the grape, the human form and fertility, and they form one pattern for subsequent imitators.
The Romans, more sophisticated but less wholesome, improved these Greek festivals but infected them with an alien spirit of mysticism and cruelty. Thus though Nero, Caligula and Tiberious arranged orgies on a more massive scale, their attitude was complicated by a guilt complex which demanded scapegoats. So licence and blooshed became inseparable in the Roman mind. At the decline of the Roman Empire, orgies, whether on the Greek or Roman model, became the cloistered pastime of the rich. So their performance becomes a matter of private, rather than public enterprise.
Those medieval ecclesiastics, Popes John XII and Benedict IX were orgy minded as was Pope Alexander VI who arranged a gumkhana course of lighted candles and obliged a troupe of naked girls to pick up the hot chestnuts scattered between them. There are the peculiar parties of Michelangelo described by Benvenuto Cellini and the almost nightly junketings of the Restoration of which the mock marriage between Louise de Quérouaille and Charles II was an example.
The succession of eighteenth-century Hell-Fire clubs with their absurd and intricate solemnities employed the leisure of aristocrats like the Earl of Sandwich and the poet Charles Churchill and of course the entire energies of Sir Francis Dashwood. In Scotland ther was 'The Most Ancient and Puissant Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland' and its sister organisation 'The Wig Club' which used an amazing (and still extant) apparatus and regalia.
Even in Victorian England there were outlets for the orgy minded, witness Ciora Pearl, courtesan of the 'sixties, who had herself served up naked in anchovy sauce at one of her own dinner parties.
Mr. Partridge has to conclude the History of Orgies with Alister Crowley at his temple of Cefalu in Sicily but no doubt some later chronicler will be able to describe the debauches of the twentieth century.
Although orgies cannot be neatly labelled 'good' or 'bad', the author condemns those who have regarded sex as a demon to be exorcised or placated, but equally, as a hedonist, he cannot object to those who have enjoyed sexual pleasure to the full as a gift of life itself.
ISBN-13: 978-1-944934-13-2
Writer: Louisa Leontiades
Title: Necessary to Life
Subtitle: A Memoir of Devotion, Cancer and Abundant Love
Foreword: Michón Neal
Place of publication: Portland, OR
Publisher: Thorntree Press
Year of publication: 2017
Format: 132x203 mm (trimmed)
Pages: 233
Binding: paperbound in colour cover designed by Franklin Veaux
Cover photograph by Bolot/Vetta/Getty Images
Weight: 287 gr.
Original price: USD 14.95
Supplier: Revaluation Books
Order Number: 67057391
Order Shipped: 20th July 2020
Entry Number: 2020010
Entry Date: 7th August 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION
A memoir of family, devotion and non-monogamy in the face of cancer and heartbreak.
Villified by the media and threatened with the loss of her children for her outspoken non-monogamous lifestyle, Louisa Leontiades is, unbeknownst to the outside world, being defeated by mundanity. Four years of caring for toddlers and living in tracksuits has left her anxious, exhausted and virtually celibate. Her partner, Morten, fails in love with Yasmin, whose conservative Muslim family will never allow them to be together unless he leaves Louisa. Louisa herself falls for Janus, a terminal cancer patient looking for a mother for his children before he dies.
As Louisa and Morten seem poised to be torn apart, Louisa learns she has a potentially fatal tumour. Should she start a family with Janus (is she lives)? Escaping the prosaic ache of the commonplace will put Louisa and her family through heartbreak, tragedy and confrontation with the ever-present spectre of death.
A sequel to A World in Us: A Memoir of Open Marriage, Turbulent Love and Hard-Won Wisdom, Necessary to Life takes an unflinching look at the importance of seizing the moment and the costs of following your heart.
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-55085-5
Writer: Laird Harrison
Title: Fallen Lake
Place of publication: Rutland VT
Publisher: Verdant Books
Year of publication: 2012, reprinted 03/07/2020
Format: 140x213 mm (trimmed)
Pages: 201
Binding: paperbound in colour dust wrapper designed by Pattie Lee
Weight: 260 gr.
Original price: USD 15.95
Supplier: AwesomeBooksUK
Order Number: 66984873
Order Shipped: 1stJuly 2020
Entry Number: 2020009
Entry Date: 5th August 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The year is 1971, the place is California, and what never seemed possible sudden;y becomes irresistible. Camping on the shores of Fallen Lake in the high Sierra, two couples swap partners and glimpse paradise. That night changes the course of their lives and their children's as the two marriages become one. The families move in together in suburban Pleasant Valley, the exhilarated adults pursuing their four-sided relationship and their dreams careers. At first resentful of this upheaval, the children find unexpected advantages. But the door flung open by the sexual revolution is starting to close. Too late the lovers realize what they will have to pay for living out their fantasies.
