Specifically, she focuses on the Dominican nuns and lay-sisters of southern Germany in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, Particularly the way in which these women controlled and interpreted their surroundings and incorporated them into their spiritual and devotional practices"--Book Jacket.
European literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The received wisdom of these accounts is based on the idea of female bodies unrestrained by civilization. In a revisionist history of the Pacific zone and some of its preeminent Western imaginists, Lee Wallace suggests that the fantasy of the male body, rather than of the free-loving female, provides the underlying libidinal structure for many of the classic "encounter" narratives from Cook to Melville. The subject of Sexual Encounters is sexual fantasy, particularly male homoerotic fantasy found in the literature and art of South Sea exploration, colonization, and settlement. Working at the boundaries of a number of disciplines such as queer theory, anthropology, postcolonial studies, and history, Wallace engages in subversive readings of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Pacific voyage journals (Cook in Hawaii and a Russian expedition to the Marquesas), an argument concerning Gauguin's treatment of female figures, and a discussion of homosexuality and Samoan male-to-female transgenderism. These phenomena, Wallace asserts, demonstrate the continuity and dissonance between Western and Pacific sexual categories. She reconstructs Pacific history through the inevitable entanglement of metropolitan and indigenous sexual regimes and ultimately argues for the importance of the Pacific in defining modern sexual categories.
Reach New Heights of Sexual Pleasure Together Experience eight unforgettable nights of sensual activities specifically developed to make you a better lover. Expand your capacity to enjoy pleasure, deepen your connection with your partner, and learn to satisfy one another fully. Step into Eight Erotic Nights. The seductive activities within each of the eight nights show you and your partner how to use erotic conversations, sensual breathing and kissing, seductive massage, and more to understand and fulfill each other’s sexual needs and desires. You will learn how to: Each night offers an amazing and fun sexual experience, and you’ll cherish the lessons—not to mention the great sex—for the rest of your lives.
How can today's busy couples have more passionate sex, more erotic sex, and more innovative sex? Now, therapist Carole Pasahow offers a stimulating program of 21 days of unforgettable "passion fixes" to bring partners everywhere to new heights of satisfaction. Dr. Carole Pasahow, a marriage and family counselor for more than twenty years, knows that great sex is vital to keep intimate relationships alive. In response to requests from couples across the country, she has developed a unique program that: -- Gets both partners involved in the solution -- Opens up communication about sex -- Avoids making a partner feel rejected when one isn't in the mood -- Helps set goals to improve erotic dialogue -- Invites experimentation without fear -- Shows partners how to be more thoughtful and considerate in bed -- Teaches couples how to be sexy with each other again . . . And all in just 21 days! Sexy Encounters turns a busy schedule and a pile of commitments into an asset, rather than a liability. What's hotter than stealing ten minutes to live out a special fantasy?
Reimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics. Each chapter draws our attention to particular aspects of pornotropic capture that black and brown bodies must always negotiate. Though these technologies differ according to the nature of their encounters with white supremacy, together they add to our understanding of the ways that structures of domination produce violence and work to contain bodies and pleasures within certain legible parameters. To do so, Sensual Excess analyzes moments of brown jouissance that exceed these constraints. These ruptures illuminate multiple epistemologies of selfhood and sensuality that offer frameworks for minoritarian knowledge production which is designed to enable one to sit with uncertainty. Through examinations of installations and performances like Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party, Kara Walker’s A Subtlety, Patty Chang’s In Love and Nao Bustamante’s Neapolitan, Musser unpacks the relationships between racialized sexuality and consumption to interrogate foundational concepts in psychoanalytic theory, critical race studies, feminism, and queer theory. In so doing, Sensual Excess offers a project of knowledge production focused not on mastery, but on sensing and imagining otherwise, whatever and wherever that might be.
Unusual situations, new lovers and rare opportunities to satisfy cherished fantasies. 'Thrill Seekers' has ten original sexy short stories guaranteed to surprise, delight and arouse your imagination. A Mischief collection, featuring stories by Kathleen Tudor, Olivia London, Flora Dain, Elizabeth Coldwell, Rose de Fer and many more. When a woman on the run climbs into a stranger's Limousine she embarks on a memorable ride. Cerise visits a notorious park after dark to conduct some unconventional research. In the dead of night, Amy met Charles in a ruined castle, and now she never wants her captivity to end.
The founders of The StarHouse in Colorado bring us this guidebook for all aspects of intimate partnerships--beginnings, re-commitment, and even healthy endings. A relationship is an opportunity for growth an spiritual maturity, and the authors provide exercises for partners to explore themselves and each other more fully within the context of intimacy. One Two One includes innovative tools for designing rituals (weddings or other) that best express individual and universal aspects of loving relationships.
The Best of Gay Travel Erotica! Whether traversing desert sands, steamy jungles, or the urban playground: these are the erotic encounters told by men willing to roam. These stories pack a sexual punch, and carry with them the resonance and character of their locales. The writers in this book got to relish and relive their adventures, revisiting them in their minds as they wrote them down for these stories. For the reader, each chance encounter described by the writers is brand new, as fresh and exciting as they were on the day they happened years ago on continents far away.
Presents the findings of two important research projects in which men who admitted to a sexual interest in children were interviewed. The attitudes of these volunteer subjects differed from apprehensive pedophile offenders, challenging some of the generalizations advanced by professionals.