Uses of the Erotic
Author: Audre Lorde
Publisher: Crossing Press
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13:
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The Erotic
Author: Lou Andreas-Salomé
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 1412846250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published as: Die erotik. Frankfurt am Main: Literarische anstalt R'utten & Loening, 1910.
Siva
Author: Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1981-05-28
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 0199727937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published under the title Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, this book traces the development of an Indian approach to an enduring human dilemma: the conflict between spiritual aspirations and human desires. The work examines hundreds of related myths and a wide range of Indian texts--Vedic, Puranic, classical, modern, and tribal--centering on the stories of the great ascetic, Siva, and his erotic alter ego, Kama.
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Author: Susie Bright
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0811870758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reigning mistress of erotica, Susie Bright, has expertly chosen 40 of the hottest stories ever written: breathtaking new stories as well as the most sought-after stories from The Best American Erotica series. Luminaries like Carol Queen and Robert Olen Butler contribute to the stories about all kinds of lovers: heartbreakers, foxes, maniacs, romanticists, hell-raisers, and utter bandits. This delicious collection is certain to satisfy.
The Erotic Life of Racism
Author: Sharon Patricia Holland
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012-04-13
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 0822352060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this critique of the fields of feminist theory, queer theory, and critical race theory, Sharon Holland describes how, despite decades of theoretical and political work focused on race, we are continually affected by everyday experiences of racism and attached to old patterns of racist thought.
Perversion
Author: Robert J. Stoller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-30
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 042991721X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book focuses on the subject of the development of masculinity and femininity. It shows that the perverse scene aims not only at denying castration, but also at securing a more solid basis for a jeopardized sexual identity.
Funk the Erotic
Author: L.H. Stallings
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-08-07
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780252039591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFunk. It is multisensory and multidimensional philosophy used in conjunction with the erotic, eroticism, and black erotica. It is the affect that shapes film, performance, sound, food, technology, drugs, energy, time, and the seeds of revolutionary ideas for black movements. But funk is also an experience to feel, to hear, to touch and taste, and in Funk the Erotic , L. H. Stallings uses funk in all its iterations as an innovation in black studies. Stallings uses funk to highlight the importance of the erotic and eroticism in Black cultural and political movements, debunking "the truth of sex" and its histories. Brandishing funk as a theoretical tool, Stallings argues that Western theories of the erotic fail as universally applicable terms or philosophies, and thus lack utility in discussions of black bodies, subjects, and culture. In considering the Victorian concept of freak in black funk, Stallings proposes that black artists across all media have fashioned a tradition that embraces the superfreak, sexual guerrilla, sexual magic, mama's porn, black trans narratives, and sex work in a post-human subject position. Their goal: to ensure survival and evolution in a world that exploits black bodies in capitalist endeavors, imperialism, and colonization. Revitalizing and wide-ranging, Funk the Erotic offers a needed examination of black sexual cultures, a discursive evolution of black ideas about eroticism, a critique of work society, a reexamination of love, and an articulation of the body in black movements.
The Erotic Engine
Author: Patchen Barss
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2010-09-07
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0307375994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPornography: The force for change that has been written out of the history of world culture. From cave painting to photography to the internet, pornography has always been at the cutting edge in adopting and exploiting new developments in mass communication. And in so doing, it has helped to promote and propel those developments in ways that are rarely acknowledged. Without pornography, the internet would not have grown so quickly. The e-commerce payment systems that are now commonplace would be at a far more primitive stage security and usability. Without video streaming software developed for pornography sites, CNN would be struggling to deliver news clips. Without advertising from sex sites, Google could not have afforded YouTube. This smart, witty and well-researched history shows how a vast secret trade has bankrolled and shaped mainstream culture and its machines.
Wagner and the Erotic Impulse
Author: Laurence Dreyfus
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010-12
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 0674018818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough his image is tarnished today by unrepentant anti-Semitism, Richard Wagner (1813–1883) was better known in the nineteenth century for his provocative musical eroticism. In this illuminating study of the composer and his works, Laurence Dreyfus shows how Wagner’s obsession with sexuality prefigured the composition of operas such as Tannhäuser, Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde, and Parsifal. Daring to represent erotic stimulation, passionate ecstasy, and the torment of sexual desire, Wagner sparked intense reactions from figures like Baudelaire, Clara Schumann, Nietzsche, and Nordau, whose verbal tributes and censures disclose what was transmitted when music represented sex. Wagner himself saw the cultivation of an erotic high style as central to his art, especially after devising an anti-philosophical response to Schopenhauer’s “metaphysics of sexual love.” A reluctant eroticist, Wagner masked his personal compulsion to cross-dress in pink satin and drench himself in rose perfumes while simultaneously incorporating his silk fetish and love of floral scents into his librettos. His affection for dominant females and surprising regard for homosexual love likewise enable some striking portraits in his operas. In the end, Wagner’s achievement was to have fashioned an oeuvre which explored his sexual yearnings as much as it conveyed—as never before—how music could act on erotic impulse.
The Erotic Revolution
Author: Lawrence Lipton
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLong page proofs, string-tied between card covers. Lipton sent this copy to Harry Thornton Moore on 14 March 1965. With a three-page typed letter signed from Lipton to Moore, dated 1 April 1965, on a particulary insidious form of censorship.
