Summary: "A collection of sexual fantasies from women around the world, Want is a revelatory, sensational, and game-changing exploration of women's sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press, an imprint of Abrams
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Summary: "A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski's game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2021
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Summary: From relationship expert Alexandra Solomon—author of Loving Bravely—Taking Sexy Back is a groundbreaking guide to deepening your connection to yourself, honoring your desires, and cultivating authentic intimate connections. On these pages, you’ll discover how to deepen your sexual self-awareness, and use that awareness to create experiences that not only pleasure, but elevate, expand, and heal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7082 SOLEthridge, Shannon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.96 ETHWinston, Jen
Summary: "Jen's provocative, laugh-out-loud debut takes us inside her journey of self-discovery, leading us through stories of a childhood "girl crush," an onerous quest to have a threesome, and an enduring fear of being bad at sex. Greedy follows Jen's attempts to make sense of herself as she explores the role of the male gaze, what it means to be "queer enough," and how to overcome bi stereotypes when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINSTON, JEN WINBrown, Adrienne M.
Summary: "How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Author and editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls "pleasure activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AK Press 2019
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Summary: "What if for just one year you explored everything you'd wondered about sex but hadn't tried? The project was simple: An attractive, successful magazine journalist, Robin Rinaldi, would move into a San Francisco apartment, join a dating site, and get laid. Never mind that she already owned a beautiful flat a few blocks away, that she was forty-four, or that she was married to a man she'd been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sarah Crichton Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RINALDI, ROBIN RINFriedman, Jaclyn
Summary: "What bestselling authors like Sheryl Sandberg and Brigid Schulte have done for women's work lives, Jaclyn Friedman does here for women's sexuality: spark a culture-wide rethink about what's accepted as normal, urging us all to try for something better. Not only that: she does it with warmth, irreverence, and candor reminiscent of Roxane Gay in Bad Feminist, and the fiery conviction of her own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 FRICox, Tracey
Summary: "Internationally renowned sex expert and author busts the myths about sex and aging and celebrates a new era of sexuality for older women"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Prism 2021
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Summary: From ancient Greek tragedies, to the latest Netflix series, cheating women are portrayed as dangerous and damaged. Why, in this age of female empowerment, do we continue to judge them so harshly? Martin takes us on a fascinating journey to reveal the unexpected evolutionary legacy and social realities that drive female faithlessness, while laying bare our motivations to contain women who step...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown Spark, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.73 MARSheehy, Gail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 613.954 SHEGfrörer, Julia
Summary: A vision-impaired, Victorian spinster in need of primitive cataract surgery has little time for herself between needing to take care of her demanding invalid sister-in-law, and investigating her brother's mysterious nighttime activities. To escape it all, she engages in a sexual relationship with a haunted mirror in her bedroom. Julia Gfrörer's third graphic novel is another revitalizing and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 HALBerman, Jennifer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co. 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.954 BEROgas, Ogi.
Summary: "Two maverick neuroscientists use the world's largest psychology experiment-the Internet-to study the private activities of millions of men and women around the world, unveiling a revolutionary and shocking new vision of human desire that overturns conventional thinking. For his groundbreaking sexual research, Alfred Kinsey and his team interviewed 18,000 people, relying on them to honestly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Adult 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.701 GADSwan, Shanna H.
Summary: "In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent. They came to this conclusion after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men. The result sent shockwaves around the globe-but the story didn't end there. It turns out our...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.6 SWAKlein, Linda Kay
Summary: From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity's purity culture has had on a generation of young women--in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir. In the 1990s, a "purity industry" emerged out of the white evangelical Christian culture. Purity rings, purity pledges, and purity balls came with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 261.8 KLESummary: A collection of sexual fantasies from women around the world, this book is a revelatory, sensational, and game-changing exploration of women's sexuality that asks, and answers: How do women feel about sex when they have the freedom to be totally anonymous?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD 306.7 WANHartman, Saidiya V.
Summary: "A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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Summary: Documents the efforts of drug companies to find a cure for the phenomenon known as female sexual dysfunction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ORGJuska, Jane.
Summary: A sixtysomething schoolteacher describes how, tired of celibacy, she placed an ad in the personals section of "The New York Review of Books" and embarked on a series of sexual and romantic adventures with the men she met.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Villard 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.26 JUSSheehy, Gail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.954 SHERowland, Katherine
Summary: "Millions of women in our country experience some mix of low desire, absent pleasure, tanking lust, and elusive orgasms. It's just stress, motherhood, anxiety, poor body image, or plain old boring monogamy though, right? Wife loses interest, husband is left cold for too long--these and similar narratives have been accepted as the norm. With The Pleasure Gap, Katherine Rowland aims to dismantle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2020
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Summary: Offers a food-based solution for women's menstrual health, fertility support, and energy and libido issues; and guides readers to improve their overall quality of life by rebalancing their hormones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2013
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Contents: Portrait of a feminist sex researcher -- Alice : lust and connectedness -- Maya : pleasure, orgasm, and ecstasy -- Iris and company : adventures beyond the jade gate -- Dr. Suzanne : thinking off and other thoughts on sexual imagination -- Molly : sexualnurturing : the dance of give and take -- Rosa : slouching toward intimacy -- Reflections on self, spirit, and social change -- Afterword.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Trumpeter Books 2007