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ΠΕΡΙΓΡΑΦΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΥ
…Τι είναι ο έρωτας για τον περισσότερο κόσμο; Ένα συναίσθημα; Μια ανάγκη για την απόλυτη επαφή, την ένωση σε ένα και μοναδικό σώμα; Μια εναρμόνιση με τους αιώνιους συμπαντικούς νόμους; Ή ο δρόμος προς την αιωνιότητα; Τι είναι το σεξ; Μια λειτουργική ανάγκη του σώματος; Μια συναισθηματική παρόρμηση; Ή μια πολύπλοκη πνευματική ενέργεια με συναισθηματική συμμετοχή; Οι παραπάνω έννοιες είναι διαφορετικές ή είναι ταυτόσημες, ακόμη και σήμερα; Ή μήπως αποτελούν όψεις διαφορετικές του ίδιου νομίσματος, που λέγεται ανθρώπινη επικοινωνία. Με αυτά τα ερωτήματα, όπως εξάλλου συμβαίνει και στη φιλοσοφία, ο αναγνώστης προσκαλείται σε ένα ταξίδι με αφετηρία την κοινωνία, σε μια περιπλάνηση όπου αναγνωρίζεται το ερωτικό στοιχείο και η ανθρώπινη σεξουαλικότητα, με ενδιάμεσους σταθμούς τις πιστοποιημένες γνώσεις των ερευνητών… …Τι ακριβώς συμβαίνει στις μέρες μας; Στην εποχή μας υπάρχει πραγματικά έρωτας ή μόνο αναζητείται σαν μια ανέφικτη προσδοκία; Και το σεξ τι αντιπροσωπεύει σήμερα με τα νέα κοινωνικά δεδομένα.; Είναι μήπως ένα είδος συμβιβασμού μεταξύ ιδεατού και εφικτού; Στο βιβλίο αυτό, η διερεύνηση του μυστηρίου του έρωτα και της ανθρώπινης σεξουαλικότητας ως μιας κορύφωσης του μεγαλείου της ερωτικής σχέσης ανάμεσα σε έναν άνδρα και μια γυναίκα γίνεται μέσα από τη διαπροσωπική σχέση. Συγχρόνως οριοθετούνται και οι παρενέργειες της ερωτικής σχέσης μέσα από την αναγνώριση της απιστίας και της παράλληλης σχέσης που στις μέρες μας παίρνουν διαστάσεις κοινωνικού φαινόμενου…
Ιωάννης Μανωλιάδης (1/2009). Έρωτας και Σεξ στη Ζωή μας. Θεσσαλονίκη: Εκδόσεις ΕΠΙΚΕΝΤΡΟ Α.Ε. Πρώτη έκδοση. Χαρτόδετο με πτερύγια. 261 σελίδες, Σχημα: 140x206mm. Βάρος: 404gr. ISBN-13: 978-960-458-198-6
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BOOK DESCRIPTION (Wikipedia)
The book quickly introduces the theme, with group sex taking place from the fourth page. Despite this explicit content, critics have identified other aspects in the work, with a review in salon.com stating:
...the most shocking thing about “The Sexual Life of Catherine M.,”... is that it isn’t particularly shocking at all. A good quarter of the time, it works as pornography (and I use the term in a descriptive sense, not a judgmental one); the rest of the time it’s a rumination on the nature of desire and pleasure and the experience of living a life that is specifically arranged to let desire and pleasure have their way with you. It’s titillating, explicit, dryly funny and sometimes exceedingly puzzling. The only truly shocking thing about it is that it was written by a straight woman and not a gay man.[2]
In the book, Millet writes of orgies attended by up to 150 people, at which she would have sex with around a quarter of those in attendance. She also debates whether sex outdoors is better in country or urban settings, and why she could never be a prostitute.
Millet writes that she has been in an open marriage with one man since the 1970s, who understands her love of sex with multiple partners.
Catherine Millet (4/2001+6/(2002). La Vie Sexuelle de Catherine M, Paris: Editions du Seuil. Softcover. 233 pages, ISBN-13: 2-02-055130-6. Format: 102x181mm (trimmed)
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The urge to censor is as old as the urge to speak. From the first Chinese emperor's wholesale elimination of books to the Vatican's suppression of pornography from its own collection, and on to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the advent of Internet troll armies, words, images and ideas have always been hunted down by those trying to suppress them.
In this compelling account, Eric Berkowitz reveals why and how humanity has, from the beginning, sought to silence itself. Ranging from the absurd - such as Henry VIII's decree of death for anyone who 'imagined' his demise - to claims by American slave owners that abolitionist literature should be supressed because it hurt their feelings, Berkowitz takes the reader on an unruly ride through history, highlighting the use of censorship to reinforce class, race and gender privilege and guard against offence.
Elucidating phrases like 'fake news' and 'hate speech', Dangerous Ideas exposes the dangers of erasing history, how censorship has shaped our modern society and what forms it is taking today - and to what disturbing effects.
Eric Berkowitz (29/6/2021). Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West from the Ancients to Fake News. London: The Westbourne Press. Hardcover. 376 pages. Format: 157x240 mm. Weight: 631 gr. ISBN-13: 978-1-908906-42-7.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Sex and Punishment tells the story of the struggle throughout millennia to regulate the most powerful engine of human behaviour: sex. From the savage impalement of an ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde for 'gross indecency' in 1895, Eric Berkowitz evokes the entire sweep of Western sex law.
The cast of Sex and Punishment is as varied as the forms taken by human desire itself: royal mistresses, gay charioteers, medieyal transvestites, lonly goat-lovers, prostitutes of all stripes and London rent boys. Each of them had forbidden sex, and each was judged – and justice, as Berkowitz shows – rarely had anythng to with it.
Eric Berkowitz (2013), Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire. London: The Westbourne Press. Softcover. 476 pages. ISBN-13: 978-1-908906-10-6. Format: 128x198 mm (trimmed), Weight: 452 gr
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
FREE LOVE, NUDISM, POLYGAMY, VOODOO
⇐ Ancient fertility rites and naked goddesses riding white bulls in the moonlight
⇐ Sexual orgies in a station wagon bleonging to pseudo Christ and his twelve apostles
⇐ Mate swapping in an exclusive club where membership is limited to sterile husbands and brod-minded wives
All the were part of the ritual in one or another of the off-beat cults that have flourished in America, Here is the authentic, colorful story of these cults, and of the men who founded them to satisfy their personal desire for sex, money, or power.
Maurice Beam (1/1/1964). Cults of America: From free love, nudism, and mate swapping to Zen Buddhist self-development —there is a "religion: in this country to suite every need and desire, New York: Macfadden-Bartell Corp., soft cover. 127 pages.
ISBN-13: 978-0870350061
Writers: Paul Rubenstein and Herbert Margolis
Title: The Groupsex Tapes
Subtitle: 98 Participants to the Newest, Most Revolutionary Release of Sexual Inhibitions Tell What They Do, Why They Do It, and What It Reveals About New Dimensions in Male-Female Relationships
Foreword: Martin Grotjahn
Language: English
Edition: Second Printing
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: David McKay Company, Inc.
Year of Publication: 1971
Format: 143x220mm
Pages: vi+306; Glossary, 297; Bibliography, 297
Jacket Design: Lawrence Ratzkin
Binding: Cloth blue in single colour dust jacket
Original Price: USD 6.95
Weight: 559 gr.
Entry No.: 2013002
Entry Date: 31st January 2013
BOOK DESCRIPTION
This is the first factual, detailed account of today's American Groupsex practices as reported live on tape, by the participants themselves in their own uninhibited words. Here, insiders tell the real story of the most revolutionary challenge ever to confront marriage ethics.
Married couples, divorcees, and other “singles,” including teenagers, not only reveal graphically what they do at “swinger” gatherings, but how they feel about Groupsex; how they separate sex from love; how it affects their marriages, their emotions, and the non-sexual (“straight”) phases of their lives.The reader gets a ringside seat at the unfolding of a new subculture: housewives tell what it's like to engage in sexual activities with literally dozens of men in one weekend; adolescent children tell how they feel about their parents' swinging habits; veteran swingers list the do's and don'ts of Groupsex etiquette, their favorite swinging techniques, and their methods of prolonging sexual pleasure.Citing the research of every scientific authority who has studied Groupsex, the authors conclude that the phenomenon is growing and certain to affect sexual mores generally. They estimate that 2½ million Americans swing. The 628 swingers whom they interviewed lived all across the country, and 93 percent were upper-middle-class whites, the very group that sets national trends.Among the 98 swingers whom the authors selected for depth interviews that averaged 3½ hours are: a young Los Angeles attorney (an Ivy League Law School) and his wife; a Midwestern psychiatrist who teaches at a medical school and has been swinging with his wife for ten years; and a surgeon who is a widower and seeks a new wife among his female swinging companions.In his foreword, Martin E. Grotjahn, M.D., clinical professor of psychoanalysis at the University of Southern California and author of numerous scientific books and articles, says: “This is an important book and a significant, original contribution to man's knowledge of sex... Some of the taped interviews will, I think, become classics.”
ISBN-13: 978-1-4426-4559-2
Editors: Patrizia Gentile (1970–) & Jane Nicholas (1977–)
Title: Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History
Language: English
Place of Publication: Toronto, Buffalo, London
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year of Publication: 2013
Format: 155x235mm
Pages: xvi+428; Bibliography, 387; Contributors, 417; Index, 423
Figures: 39 b&w
Binding: blue cloth without dust jacket
Weight: 809 gr.
Current Price: €20.54 (book: €12.39; postage: €7.41; sales tax 6.00%: €0.74)
Supplier: Revaluation Books
Order Number: 71161965
Order Date: 1/12/2022
Order Shipped: 5/12/2022
Order Received: 19/12/2022
Entry Number: 2022020
Entry Date: 19th December 2022
BOOK DESCRIPTION
From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple ways the body has served as a site of contestation in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Showcasing a variety of methodological approaches, Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History includes essays on many themes that engage with the larger historical relationship between the body and nation: medicine and health, fashion and consumer culture, citizenship and work, and more. The contributors reflect on the intersections of bodies with the concept of nationhood, as well as how understandings of the body are historically contingent. The volume is capped off with a critical introductory chapter by the editors on the history of bodies and the development of the body as a category of analysis.
