Penthouse Forum 6.2 (1976)

 

 


ISSN: 0015-833X
Τitle: Penthouse Forum, Volume 6, Number 2, November 1976
Publisher: Forum International Ltd, 21st Floor, 909 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022
Editor: Albert Z. Freedman
Language: English
Country of Origin: U.S.A
Format: 145x210mm (trimmed)
Pages: 98 single colour excluding covers
Illustrations: 21 black and white pictures and line drawings
Cover Illustration: Les Underhill
Frequency: Monthly
Βinding: Saddle-stapled magazine
Weight: 143gr.
Single Copy: USD1.00 / CAD9.95
Subscription rates (12 issues): USD10.00

CONTENTS

(4) Forum International

(8) Wardell B. Pomeroy,  A New Look At Incest
(14) Carole Altman, Temporary Impotence: Don't Let it Stop You!
(20) Linda Murray,  For The Diabetic: A Better Sex Life
(26) Robert Kooder, Swinging, East & West
(32) Leon Zussman, Shirley Zussman, and Linda Murray, How  to Save the Middle-age Marriage
(38) Mary S. Calderone, What Parents Should Know About Children and  Masturbation
(42) Sheila Weller, It's Smell: The Sexiest  Sense of Them All
(47) Female Sexuality Study
(52) Introducing One of America's Top Erotic Sculptors: Doug Cousins
(54)  The Forum 
 

Intimate Life Styles

 

 
ISBN-10: 0-87620-447-7
Editors: Joann S. and Jack R. DeLora
Title: Intimate Life Styles
Subtitle: Marriage and Its Alternatives
Printing: First Printing
Language: English
Place of Publication: Pacific Palisades, CA
Publisher: Goodyear Publishing Company, Inc.
Year of Publication: 1972
Format: 155x235mm
Pages: xv+421
Binding: blue boards in colour dust jacket designed by Diane MacDermott
Weight:705gr.
Original Price: N/A
Entry No: 2015016
Entry Date: 8th May 2015


BOOK DESCRIPTION


This book analyzes traditional forms of courtship and marriage in the United States along with emerging patterns of interaction involving intimacy and sex.

The editors ascertain the reasons for these innovative life-styles and speculate as to the forms which sexual and erotic behavior will take in the future.

Traditionally, such emotion-oriented behavior supposedly occurred only within the context of marriage. Today lovers, friends and strangers are experimenting and re-defining the word love.

In place of sexual exclusiveness married couples are now “swinging”; others choose to “live-together” rather than to marry. In covering this broad spectrum of behavior Jack and Joann DeLora have gathered their material from scientific research journals as well as from the publications of the popular and underground press, plus women liberation, homosexual and singles organizations. The variety of the selected readings are illustrative of the important trends shaping our new intimate life-styles.

Smut Ban Efforts Debated

Back in 1932, the police in Los Angeles closed a play called “Lysistrata” because a highly emotional group of ladies decided that it was an affront to decency. The play was being staged by an amateur company and the cops went out looking for the author. In an effort to serve him with a warrant and bring him to durance vile. No one had bothered to explain to them that Aristophanes, the Greek author, had been dead for more than 2,000 years.


In our boyhood, a group of aroused moralists decided that Shakespeare's plays should be rewritten with all of the vile words removed. Since they had but a limited acquaintance with the classics they did not know that such a task would require a virtual re-write of everything the immortal playwright had penned.


Currently, a New Jersey city councilman is trying to get a law passed to eliminate undraped manikins from department windows on the grounds that a nude dress form awakened lascivious desire in the minds of 16-year-old boys.

 

(Source: The Nudist Newsletter No. 123/1963)

 

Swingland

 
 
 
 
ISBN-13: 978-1-4767-3253-4
Writer: Daniel Stern 
Title: Swingland
Subtitle: Between the Sheets of the Secretive, Sometimes Messy, but Always Adventurous Swinging Lifestyle
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York, NY
Publisher: Touchstone/A Division of Simon & Shuster, Inc.
Year of Publication: 2013
Format: 143x220mm
Pages: xiv+296
Illustrations: one single colour of the writer on back flap by Cheryl Christensen
Jacket Photographs: Andrea Guardavilla
Binding: red boards in colour dust jacket designed by Laurie Carkeet
Weight:4176gr.
Original Price: USD26.00 / CAD29.99
Entry No: 2015007
Entry Date: 25th February 2015
 

BOOK DESCRIPTION
 
A wry and revealing story of one man's journey into the swinger lifestyle that pulls back the curtain on one of our most fascinating - and private- subcultures.

An estimated fifteen million strong worldwide, swingers are everywhere -a huge community hiding in plain sight whose erotic pastime remains a complete mystery to the rest of us. In Swingland, Daniel Stern outs himself and the secretive society he loves, recounting his transformation from a bumbling neophyte terrified of all things carnal into a veteran sexual adventurer.

Once confined to suburban key parties and private clubs, "swinging" has transformed, via the Internet, into a free-for-all. Today only a few mouse clicks locates your perfect couple (or couples), far easier and less riskily than ever before (no worrying about running into them at PTA meetings). There are plenty of bumps and bruises along the way for Stern, including countless rejections, missed opportunities, and one particular AARP orgy. But slowly and surely, through an impressive series of threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes, this "Vanilla" newbie becomes a much sought-after partner for couples looking to spice up their relationships. During his exploits, he learns a whole new lexicon (there aren't many single women swingers, or "Unicorns,", but plenty of MFMs, FMFs, MFMFs, and GBs), as well as invaluable advice (be honest, open, and know your limits).

But Swingland is much more than a titillating expose. Stern's wit and infectious enthusiasm make Swingland as improbably safe as it is fun -and impossible to put down. All are welcome, but bring flip-flops (it can get messy).

The Extra-Marital Sex Contract (2015017)

 

 



ISBN-10: 0-8402-1307-7
Writers: Jay Ziskin and Mae Ziskin
Title: The Extra-Marital Sex Contract

Printing: Second Printing
Language: English
Place of Publication: Los Angeles, CA
Publisher: Nash Publishing Corporation
Year of Publication: 1973
Format: 142x222mm
Pages: xiv+257; bibliography, 255
Illustrations: 1 single colour picture of the writers on back flap by Willard
Binding: light blue boards in duotone dust jacket designed by Ron Rubenstein
Weight: 464gr.
Original Price: N/A (clipped)
Entry No: 2015017
Entry Date: 8th May 2015


BOOK DESCRIPTION

Is marriage become obsolete?  The authors, who describe their own marriage as “durable, loving and exciting,” are strong believers in the institution of marriage, but they also believe that marriage as it is today will become obsolete unless an alternative is found to sexual exclusivity. This is the first book addressed to an evaluation of the possibilities for reducing one of the negatives of marriage – the problem of obtaining sufficient sexual satisfaction in marriage while sustaining and even enhancing the relationship itself.

Even in the happiest marriages, say the Ziskins, there eventually comes a time when the romance and “spice” dwindle, when a couple falls into a “rut.” Sex is the area in which dissatisfaction and frustration are most likely to be felt – often resulting in unnecessary conflicts and feelings of guilt – and a basically good marriage may end in divorce.

Such a marriage can be saved! It can continue to grow with new vitality when the couple agrees to enter into an extramarital  sex contract It can and has been done; and the authors present  remarkably candid interviews, with couples who have successfully entered into agreements of this nature, as proof. Of the 124 couples they interviewed, an overwhelming majority have found that their marriages are not only more open and happier, but their sex life with one another has been enhanced.

The Ziskins go on to describe what they call the various “sex modes in new fidelity” – swinging, group sex, independent sex, partial living apart, and the durable affair – and they tell the pros and cons of each. They examine the moral, legal, and religious aspects involved, and provide answers for every other question that will be asked about the extramarital sex contract – how to  initiate a discussion of the idea, how to work out the timing and establish “limits” once an agreement is made;  what to do about children; how to handle friends, relatives, and neighbors; and , for those who feel the need, how to put the contract in writing!

Open challenges our notions of wath traditional marriage looks like, and presents one woman's journey down an uncertain path that ultimately proves that open marriage is a viable option - even one that suits some couples better than conventional marriage.

Exploring Intimate Life Styles

 

 



















ISBN-10: 0-8261--2380-5
Εditor: Bernard I. Murstein
Title: Exploring Intimate Life Styles
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Year of Publication: 1978
Format: 152x235mm
Pages: xxviii+302
Jacket Design: Mina Greenstein
Binding: boards in duotone dust jacket
Pages: xv+312
Weight: 612gr.
Original Price: N/A
Entry Date: 2014031
Entry Date: 15th October 2014

BOOK DESCRIPTION

The institution of marriage has been in evidence since the onset of recorded history, and, no doubt, long preceded it. Currently, however, marriage is under attack - accused of perpetuating inequity between the sexes, limiting the personal development of external relationships, and frustrating the realization of interpersonal freedom and growth. Though marriage is still preferred by a vast majority of people, it is evident that there is increasing discontent with the traditional style of marriage that assigns sex roles, erodes singular identity, and restricts opportunities for individual interaction.

Dr. Murstein and contributors examine the alternatives to that discontent: intimate life styles that further individual growth, allow for adequate socialization of children, and meet societal needs. Exploring Intimate Life Styles treats variants within marriage - marriage contracts, androgeny, open marriage, and communes, variants involving unmarried persons - swinging or comarital sex, group marriage and multilateral relations, singlehood, cohabitation, and homosexuality; and offers a forecast for the future.

Written by established authorities in the field and by individuals who have participated in the variant forms, the book examines the different life styles from theoretical and review perspectives as well as on the experential level, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of each form to estimate
 both their present day function and future viability.

Exploring Intimate Life Styles is unanimous on one central issue - traditional marriage complete with nonworking wife, no divorce, and sexual exclusivity is losing its ideological appeal. Murstein and contributors invite the reader - whether student, professional, or layman - to look ahead into the future to see what form it may take or what may be waiting to take its place.

John and Mimi

 

 


Writers: John and Mimi Lobell
Title: John and Mimi
Subtitle: A Free Marriage
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Year of Publication: 1972
Format: 140x215mm
Pages: 159
Illustrations: 2 single colour pictures of the couple on front and back dust jacket
Binding: Boards in duotone dust jacket
Weight: 307gr.
Original Price: USD5.95
Entry No.: 2010029
Entry Date: 
5th September 2013

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Today, in the midst of the sexual revolution, millions of people are robbing themselves of complete sexual fulfillment. Their greatest desire -often hidden even from themselves- is for variety: variety in sexual experience, in sexual partners, and in types of sexual acts. Most people never fulfill this desire, held back by fear, timidity and the conventions of monogamy. John and Mimi Lobell have achieved it.

Their books tells everything: their former sexual conventionality, what changed their living patterns, what their new life has meant to them. They speak in loving detail of their encounters with friends, together or separately. Often their new lovers reacted first in astonishment and disbelief, only to find themselves gaining similar fulfillment by broadening their sexual horizons, increasing their capacity for love. The effect of all this is joyful and liberating. John and Mimi, in showing how sexual openness can result in fuller and richer lives, have given the world a stirring and important book.

Swinging for Beginners

 

 


ISBN-13: 978-1-932420-71-5
Writer: Kaye Bellemeade
Title: Swinging for Beginners
Subtitle: An Introduction to the Lifestyle
Forward: Kaye Bellemeade
Edition: Revised Edition
Language: English
Place of Publication: Milton Keynes
Publisher: New Tradition Books
Year of Publication: 2013 (print-on-demand)
Format: 126x204mm (trimmed)
Pages: 195
Binding: paperback in duotone printed wrappers
Weight: 260gr.
Original Price: USD16.95 / CAD22.00 / GBP10.27
Entry No.: 2013032
Entry Date: 2nd October 2013


BOOK DESCRIPTION

Are you interested in couple swapping? Sex parties? Group sex? Threesomes? Anonymous sex? Girl/Girl? Orgies? Then Swinging for Beginners: An Introduction to the Lifestyle - the Revised Edition is a book you definitely need to read.

It's been said that the couple who plays together stays together and this sizzling how-to book tells everything you need to know to get started in this sexy lifestyle. This includes information on dating, what to wear, what to do at clubs and parties, single men, jealousy, threesomes, how to meet other swingers and how to  deal with it all and much more.

In Swinging for Beginners: An Introduction to the Lifestyle - the Revised Edition, you'll not only find out the basics, but also read about steamy real-life experiences that will give you a real taste of what to expect once you get started.

So are you prepared to delve more deeply into the secret world of the swinging lifestyle? Do you think you're ready to join in on the fun? Are you ready to see just what the Swinging Lifestyle is all about? If so, this book can help you you get started.

C'mon. You know you're curious.
Το λογότυπο των Ελλήνων Διαπροσωπικών Swingers. Ένα σχέδιο πεταλούδας με μοβ και φούξια φτερά.

Διατήρηση ερωτικών σχέσεων μεταξύ ζευγαριών, με ειλικρίνεια και συναίνεση όλων.

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