Sex and sexuality, social aspects Books

What if I told you that you could have whatever you wanted in life? Isn't it incredible?  But it is correct. You do have the ability to achieve your goals. Other people are one of the most significant roadblocks on your path,...

The concepts of yellow fever and racial fetishization are often considered topics of conversation many individuals do not care about or actively avoid. Yet their influence on how we interact with our world is more profound than we realize.In Not Your...

Filmmaker Wakefield Poole wrote the rules for living on the edge with no safety net and no apologies. How a respected Broadway dancer, choreographer, and director became the infamous creator of beautiful, wildly successful gay porn is just part of a...

The book investigates how teenage girls in South Africa encounter and consume pornography, situating their experiences within wider sociocultural and affective relations of power. It focuses on girls' online playful and pleasurable pursuits as they...

This shocking exposé of the American sex trade is a disturbing but necessary read for anyone who wants to understand the dark underbelly of our society. Written by one of the leading social reformers of the late 19th century, this book documents the...

A. Granveau's groundbreaking study of prostitution in Paris is a must-read for anyone interested in the social history of the city. Through detailed research and firsthand accounts, Granveau sheds light on the lived experiences of Parisian prostitutes...

More than 100 million acts of sex occur every day in our world. If we are going to engage this arising generation, we need torethink how we frame the sexual faithfulness conversation.And that’s exactly what this book does! Instead of the tired...

Organised Crime and Law Enforcement: A Network Perspective examines organised crime and law enforcement through the conceptual lens of networks. The book takes stock of the many ways in which network theories and concepts, including social network...

This book-Sex, Sexuality and Sexual Health in Southern Africa-is structured around four major themes: gender and sexuality diversity; love, pleasure and respect; gender, sexual violence and health; and sexuality, gender and sexual justice. Chapters...

"Most messages we hear about porn leave us feeling ashamed, helpless, and hopeless. Porn Free invites you to be curious about your story and shows you how to become a person who does not need porn."-Jay Stringer, Psychotherapist & Author...

This historical account of the Magdalene charity, which provided a home for reformed prostitutes in 18th-century London, is a fascinating glimpse into a little-known aspect of social history. Dodd's detailed descriptions of the charity's activities and...

In questo saggio, Agostino Bertani esamina la prostituzione e il regolamento sanitario nel contesto della società italiana dell'Ottocento.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of...

The moving, gripping, and tell-all autobiography of Traci Elizabeth Lords, a former child porn queen, electronica maven, and cult movie and TV star.At 14, Nora Kuzma ran away from home and ended up on the dirty streets of Hollywood. She fell in with a...

Real sex isn’t as graceful and glamorous as romance novels and pornography often portray.Real sex is learning you have a latex allergy while you lose your virginity.And so, the stories, essays, poems, and comics in Condoms and Hot Tubs Don’t...

A true story about coping and dealing with the many different emotions felt from bereavement and grief. Flaps and Chats follows the sad, traumatic but also liberating, and sometimes hilarious, journey of the author 'going it alone' after the loss of...

Kim Lee is a psychotherapist with more than 20 years of experience helping clients work through difficulties with relationships and break-downs in communication, including issues of trust and infidelity. Along with her husband, she is also a swinger,...

This guidebook is designed to help communities that have closed their red light districts to establish a program of activities to prevent prostitution and venereal diseases. It provides practical advice and evidence-based strategies.This work has been...

An eye-opening study of the complex and often fraught relationship between sex work and female agency. Drawing on firsthand interviews and historical research, Mary Edna Marcy and Roscoe Burdette Tobias offer a nuanced and compassionate view of a...

Sex work is “easy money?” Hardly. The adult industry is riddled with pitfalls and dangers. Erotic labor is often emotionally demanding, draining, and complex. It can be hard to know who to turn to for advice on keeping yourself safe and sane...

Providing a new perspective on migration and sex work in Europe, this book is based on interviews with migrant women in the sex sector. It brings together issues of migration, labour and political subjectivity in order to refocus scholarly and policy...

This book is a reproduction of a classic underground porn book

Lambasted by critics as a sign of censorial failure and even social decline, the horror subgenre known as 'torture porn' has generated a great deal of controversy during the last decade. Although torture porn films such as Saw, Hostel and The Human...

Between 1885 and 1960, laws and policies designed to repress prostitution dramatically shaped London's commercial sex industry. This book examines how laws translated into street-level reality, explores how women who sold sex experienced criminalization,...

Andrea Heinz, former sex seller, and Kathy King, bereaved mother, invite readers to confront the dark reality of prostitution and its connection to human trafficking.This contemporary literature review is accompanied by voices of experiential women, a...

This book is a comprehensive study of prostitution, its causes, and potential cures. Miller examines the social, economic and moral factors that contribute to prostitution, as well as the medical and legal approaches to its eradication. With a focus on...

A sociological study of the sex trade in New York City during the early 20th century. The book examines the laws and regulations surrounding prostitution and attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of law enforcement in curbing the spread of sexually...

Découvrez le très étonnant monde de la prostitution institutionnalisée et réglementée à travers l'Histoire. Dans cette étude de biologie sociale, Louis Fiaux revient sur les maisons de femmes autorisées par la police, où les pensionnaires étaient...

Cet ouvrage est un essai sur la prostitution dans la ville de Paris au XIXe siècle, et ses conséquences en termes de santé publique, de moralité et d'administration. Les auteurs, qui ont effectué des recherches approfondies dans les archives de la...

Le livre contenant les tours et les ruses dont se servent les putains et les maquerelles, comme aussi leurs manières de vivre, leurs croyances erronées et, en général, toutes les choses qui sont en pratique parmi ces donzelles.This work has been selected...

Franz Seraph Hügel präsentiert in diesem Werk sozial-medizinische Studien zur Geschichte, Statistik und Regelung der Prostitution. Eine faszinierende Lektüre für alle, die sich für die Geschichte und Regulierung der Prostitution interessieren.This work...

In this groundbreaking paper, James Stansfeld challenges the prevailing view that the Contagious Diseases Acts, which regulated prostitution in Victorian England, were effective in controlling the spread of venereal diseases. Drawing on statistical...

Ce livre est une enquête sur l'histoire de la prostitution à travers le monde, depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'à l'époque contemporaine. Il examine les différentes formes que la prostitution a prises dans différentes cultures et à différentes époques, ainsi que...

In this groundbreaking work, theologian Ralph Wardlaw explores the moral, social, and cultural dimensions of prostitution. Drawing on both contemporary scholarship and his own experiences working with women in the sex trade, Wardlaw offers a thoughtful...

Published in 1910, this book argues for the abolition of white slavery in the United States by outlining the various forms of exploitation faced by women and children. Written by Warren Burton, a Congregationalist minister and social reformer, this book...

This work is a survey of the extent and nature of prostitution in the world, approached from the perspective of a moral reformer seeking to identify the causes and to advocate legal and social reforms that would reduce or eliminate prostitution. The book...

First published in 1857, 'Prostitution Considered' is a groundbreaking study of the sex trade in Victorian England. William Acton, a physician and social reformer, provides a detailed analysis of the causes and consequences of prostitution, as well as a...

Papua New Guinea is one of the many former British Commonwealth colonies which maintain the criminalisation of the sexual activities of two groups, despite the fact that the sex takes place between consenting adults in private: sellers of sex and males...