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.
ISBN-13: 978-0-399-57966-0
Writers: Janet H. Hardy and Dossie Easton
Title: The Ethical Slut
Subtitle: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love
Third Edition, Updated & Expanded
Place of publication: California/New York
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Year of publication: 2017
Format: 148x228 mm (trimmed)
Pages: 311
Illustrations: N/A
Binding: paperbound in colour dust covers designed by Chloe Rawlins
Weight: 432 gr.
Original price: USD 18.99, CAD 24.99
Supplier: Books2AnywhereAlb
Order Number: 67057378
Order Shipped: 17th July 2020
Entry Number: 2020008
Entry Date: 31stJuly 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic guide to polyamory, open relationships, and finding freedom in sex and love.
The guide of choice for people curious to move beyond conventional monogamy, and for anyone interested in learning better sklils for love, sex, and intimacy, The Ethical Slut will open you up to the adventure and freedom that comes from redefining the way you relate to friends and lovers. Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton offer the techniques, skills, and ideals they have developed for practicing successful and ethical polyamory through open communication, emotional honesty, and managing jealousy. This updated and expanded edition includes more than fifteen practical exercises, new topics such as consent and overcoming sexual shame, tributes to poly pioneers, and interviews with contemporary sluts who are making this way of loving a reality. Whether you're a card carrying slut or just testing the waters, you'll learn how to find your desires and discover romance and friendship beyond your dreams.
CONTENTS
01 - Michael P. Moore, From the editor
02 - Letters
04 - New Zealand and world news
06 - Michael Moore, Everyone loves June
08 - Donna Miller, Love the skin you're in
11 - Michael P Moore, Sally Jackson, Exploring New Zealand's Thermal pools au naturel
17 - Glenda Kane, Classic paintings expose breast cancer awareness
20 - Kiwis and their friends
22 - Leon Jackson, Kiwis invade Spain!
24 - Clive Hyde, Nude adventures in Northern Australia
26 - Trevor Shanahan, Life in the wet lane
28 - Kay Hannam, Nude with Attitude
30 - Miniten: our own game!
32 - Around the country
40 - NZ Naturist Directory
41 - What's on - Calendar
ISBN-13: 978-0-316-03930-6
Writer: David Allyn
Title: Make Love, Not War
Subtitle: The Sexual Revolution: an unfettered history
Place of publication: Boston, New York, London
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year of publication: 2000
Format: 155x241 mm
Pages: xii+381
Illustrations: 18 black and white
Binding: hardbound in colour dust covers designed by Michael Ian Kaye
Jacket photograph: Eric McNattRhonnell M. Adalin
Writer's photo on the inside back cover: David Rodgers
Weight: 665 gr.
Original price: USD 26.95, CAD 37.95
Supplier: Awesome BooksUSA
Order Number: 66807358
Order Shipped: 28th May 2020
Entry Number: 2020007
Entry Date: 24th July 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The invention of the pill, the end of censorship, the advent of feminism, the rise of commercial pornography - dozens of changes to daily lives in the 1960s and 70s stimulated an unprecedented time of sexual openness in American society, a season of optimism and experimentation remembered as the sexual revolution.
Make Love, Not War is the first serious treatment of the complicated events, ideas, and personalities that drove the sexual revolution forward. Based on firsthand accounts, diaries, interviews, and period research, it traces changes in private lives and public discourse from the fearful '50s to the first tremors of rebellion in the early '60s to the heady heyday of the revolution.
This history tells the stories of the major figures of the period -sexual freedom fighters, feminists, scientists, pornographers, gay activists, First Amendment layers, and others who made the headlines. But it is based equally on the testimony of ordinary people: men and women who dared to take risks in their private lives and share their experiences with others. They yearned for a freer, more open society. Their stories of spouse swapping, swinging, group sex, and other erotic adventures reveal an era in which "the pursuit of happiness: took on new meaning in American life.
Bringing a fresh perspective on the '60s and '70s, author David Allyn argues hat the sexual revolution was a deeply American revolution and reflected a revival of the energetic spirit that gave birth to the nation itself. And it was filled with the contradictions of American life -"spiritual yet secular, idealistic yet commercial, driven by science yet colored by a romantic view of nature'. These tensions ultimately left Americans unequipped to cope with the electrifying social changes of the ra and te organized counter-revolution that brought it to a dramatic close in the mid-70s.
Written with a serious historian's attention to nuance and detail, and with a narrative drive appropriate to such a compelling subject, Make Love, Not War is a thoughtful, engaging and provocative account of one of the most colorful and controversial episodes in American history.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Make Your Fantasy of Your Wife or Girlfriend Swinging Become Reality! Coming straight from their own experience along with the help of hundreds of other wives and girlfriends, Nicole Evans offers help from the other side and reveal the secrets and inside tips that only wives and girlfriends who are swingers would know. You'll Learn How To:
- Change Her Sexual Programming
- Unleash Her Inner Sex Goddess
- Get Her To Want To Be A Swinger
- And Much More...
"The only true guide that takes you through every step. Nothing Compares!" - Joyce Wanger, Creator of TV Series "Sexual Adventures"
Nicole Evans, From Boring to Swinger: Getting Your Wife or Girlfriend to Say YES to Swinging. Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. soft cover. 252pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0-374-29021-4
Writers: Robin Rinaldi
Title: The White Oats Project
Subtitle: One Woman's Midlife Quest in Passion at Any Cost
Place of publication: New York, NY
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss and Girroux (Sarah Crighton Books)
Year of publication: 2015
Format: 140x315 mm
Pages: ix_287
Binding: hardbound in colour dust covers designed by Jennifer Carrow
Jacket lettering: Esther Wu
Jacket photograph: woman by Phillip Suddick/Getty Images; sky by Johnner Images/Getty Images
Writer's photo on the inside back cover: Rhonnell M. Adalin
Weight: 426 gr.
Original price: USD 26.00
Supplier:ThriftBooks - Motor City
Order Number: 66729630
Order Shipped: 14h May 2020
Entry Number: 2020006
Entry Date: 16th July 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The project was simple: Robin Rinaldi, a successful magazine journalist, would move to a San Francisco apartment, join a dating site, and get laid. Never mind that she already owned a beautiful flat a few blocks away, that she was forty-four, or that she was married to a man she'd been in love with for eighteen year. What followed –a year of abandon, heartbreak, and unexpected revelation - is the topic of the riveting memoir, The Wild Oats Project.
Monogamous and sexually cautious her entire adult life, Rinaldi never planned on an open marriage – her priority as she approached midlife was to start a family. But when her husband insisted on a vasectomy, something snapped. If I'm not going to have children, she told herself, then I'm going to have lovers. During the week, she would live alone, seduce man (and women), attend erotic workshops, and have wall-banging sex. On the weekend, she would go home and be a wife. Her marriage provided safety and love, but she also needed passion, and she was willing to go outside her marriage to find it.
At a time when the bestseller lists are topped by books about erotism and the shifting role of women, this brave, brutally honest memoir explores how our sexuality defines us, how it relates to maternal longing, and how we must walk the line between loving others and staying rue to ourselves. Like the most seating memories – Cherly Strayed's Wild, Mary Karr's The Liars ' Club – The Wild Oats Project challenges our sensibilities, yielding truths that we all can recognize but that few would dare write down.
