The authors integrate multicultural and multiethnic perspectives with high-interest features to engage all readers. For anyone wanting to learn more about human sexuality from a psychological, sociological, biological or health perspective.

    "Redeeming masochistic modes from the 'hell of meaninglessness, ' Cowan makes a persuasive case for the very extremes of masochism as manifesting a 'religious instinct.'" -- Utne Reader

    Couple that with the author's own insight, and practical applications, it has the power to change your views on the book of Song of Solomon and your marriage. With doses of humor and keen insights, this book is a must for every married couple.

    offers a collection of essays, ranging across a variety of subjects, including sexual passion, kinship, mortality, marriage, and even theoretical physics, that seeks to comprehend feminism in its full, holographic nature.

    At last, here is a book that explains why the term "naughty nineties" didn't do justice to the end of the Victorian Age!With sensuous illustrations and explicit pop-ups, pull-tabs and action mechanics, 'The Naughty Nineties' is guaranteed to rustle your bustle, pop your cork, and fog over your monocle!

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    This new edition of David Kunzle's rich and revealing history of corsetry and body sculpture shows how this neglected phenomenon is closely bound up with sexual self-expression. Drawing on sources as diverse as medical literature and popular magazine articles, this fascinating history shows how in many ways the use of the corset rejected the role of the passive, maternal woman - so that in Victorian times it was actually seen by many as a scandalous threat to the social order. Even today fashion designers recognise its subversive powers, as a symbol of eroticism, decadence and control. Taking in other curiosities such as ancient body decoration, male corsetry, masochism and foot fetishism, this is an often racy journey into the enigma of all those who sculpt the shape of their desires onto their bodies.

    The Biological Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety is composed of three essential contributions from the period: "The Orgasm as an Electrophysical Discharge," "Sexuality and Anxiety" and "The Bioelectrical Function of Sexuality and Anxiety,"Reich's detailed report on the physiological experiments in which he sought proof for his orgasm theory.