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Summary: "Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journalist Rachel Hills argues that we are in the grip of a new brand of sexual control. Cosmopolitan meets Foucault in this full-scale investigation of the role that sex plays in today's culture. Coming of age in the early 2000s,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 HillsSummary: Sexualia takes a lavishly illustrated and expertly written look at human sexuality, its practices and traditions, in cultures from ancient times up through the present day. Written by an international team of cultural critics, scientists, and anthropologists, this book shows an astonishing variety of reactions to the possibilities and problems of sexuality in the course of history. Sexualia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Könemann 2001
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 306.7 BISComfort, Alex
Summary: Famous for helping couples discover how sex can be playful, erotic, and, most of all, pleasurable, "The Joy of Sex" revolutionized people's sex lives. Now fully updated and revised, this work once again sets the standard as the world's most trusted sex manual.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 613.96 COMDiamond, Jared
Summary: To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be? Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female can't be fertilized (for example, because she is already...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 306.7 DIABarker, Meg-John
Summary: "Sex is everywhere. It's in the stories we love - and the stories we fear. It defines who we are and our place in society...at least we're told it ought to. Sex and sexuality can seem like a house of horrors, full of monsters and potential pitfalls. We often live with fear, shame and frustration when it comes to our own sexuality, and with judgement when it comes to others'... With compassion,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icon Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.709 BARFisher, Helen E.
Summary: Updated to include the latest research on anthropology and internet-age relationships, a revised edition of a classic reference examines the brain's role in love and courtship while making recommendations for returning to traditional patterns of romance. By the author of Why We Love. --Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.3 FISZeitz, Joshua.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 ZEIWolitzer, Meg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOLFarrow, Ronan
Summary: In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 331.4 FARBushnell, Candace
Summary: From the pioneering New York Times bestselling author who brought us Sex and the City comes a wry, witty, and wise look at sex, dating and friendship in New York City after fifty. Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 BUSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 306.709747Bushnell, Candace.
Summary: A chronicle of the mating habits and rituals of America's cultural elite offers a look at sex clubs, suburban sexuality, celebrity affairs, and other topics
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 BUSSummary: Join Carrie and her friends Charlotte, Miranda and Samanta as they do weddings, funerals and Bat Mitzvahs; Staten Island, the meatpacking districtand the Playboy Mansion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SEXFisher, Corinne
Summary: Comedians Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson started Guys We F*cked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast in 2013, intending to interview guys they'd slept with to learn more about themselves and squash the stigma so often associated with sexual women. As the podcast grew, and Corinne and Krystyna got to know their fans, stories of sexual assault, verbal and emotional abuse, and crippling shame...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Carrie continues her romance with a Russian artist, a flippantly arrogant man who's been around the block, but he is able to supply Carrie's needed desire for magic. Miranda has settled down with Steve, but there is more that will change with her, including her address. Charlotte continues to make baby plans now that the husband slot is filled quite nicely. Samantha brings a good sense of drama...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SEXHartman, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 HARJohnson, Sophie Lucido
Summary: "Sophie Lucido Johnson gets a lot of questions when she tells people that she's polyamorous. Many Love is an intimate look at this often misunderstood practice: its history, its misconceptions, and Sophie's personal transformation from serial monogamist to proud polyamorist. After trying for years to emulate her boomer parents' forty-year and still-going-strong marriage, Sophie realized that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JOHNSON, SOPHIE LUCIDO JOHNordbak, Jenny
Summary: Jenny Nordbak takes us to a place that few have seen, but millions have fantasized about, revealing how she transformed herself from a beautiful USC grad into an elite professional dominatrix. On an unorthodox quest to understand her hidden fantasies, Jenny led a double life for two years. By day she was a construction manager, but at night she became Mistress Scarlett. Working at LA’s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NORDBAK, JENNY NORCamphausen, Rufus C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inner Traditions 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.703 CAMLieberman, Hallie
Summary: "A riveting history that tells the story of sex toys from ancient phalluses to 21st century vibrating rabbits. [Lieberman] focuses on the period from the 1950s through the present, when sex toys evolved from symbols of female emancipation to tools in the fight against HIV/AIDS to consumerist marital aids and finally to mainstays of today's pop culture. Lieberman's history is populated by vivid...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 LIERothman, Julia
Summary: "Have you ever had a question about sex--whether out of curiosity, desire, or the sneaking suspicion you're somehow, different? Every Body will help you feel less alone. It's a huge collection of anonymous stories, essays, artwork, and expert tell-alls on myriad subjects, all rolled into one. Really, it's the conversations most of us are too scared to start. Thanks to talented duo Julia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voracious/Little Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 ROTWitt, Emily
Summary: In Future Sex, Witt captures the experiences of going to bars alone, dating online, and hooking up with strangers. From her home in San Francisco, she decides to say yes to everything and to find her own path. She observes the subcultures she encounters with a wry sense of humor, capturing them in all of their strangeness, ridiculousness, and beauty. The result is an open-minded, honest account...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 WITSummary: Exploits of a single woman columnist and her friends revolving around her articles on sexual mores and customs of New York City.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001