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This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín argues that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' disempowers them.

After a decade of trying to become a mother - 11 rounds of unsuccessful IVF, multiple miscarriages and a pregnancy which proved almost fatal - Jessica Hepburn knew it was time to do something different. So she decided to swim the 21 miles across the English Channel - no easy feat, especially for someone with an aversion to exercise who couldn't swim very well.

Giuseppe Cruciani racconta il sesso degli italiani attraverso le storie, le confessioni e le esperienze di persone comuni, vip, e di chi col proprio corpo lavora ogni giorno. Cinquant'anni dopo i "Comizi d'amore" di Pasolini, un viaggio nella società italiana del XXI secolo per conoscere le nostre abitudini e i nostri tabù, veri o presunti. E per scoprire che questi raccontano di noi molto più di quello che crediamo.

Queue up these hilarious real-life stories from the video clerking trenches. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll wash your hands. No rewinding required!

In 1979 Liz Pryor is a 17-year-old girl from a good family in the wealthy Chicago suburbs. Halfway through her senior year of high school, she discovers that she is pregnant, a fact her parents are determined to keep a secret from her friends, siblings, and community forever. One snowy January day, after driving across three states, her mother drops her off at what Liz thinks is a Catholic home for unwed mothers but which is, in truth, a locked government-run facility for delinquent and impoverished pregnant teenage girls.

Como todas las futuras madres, me enfrenté a miedos, inseguridades e inquietudes. A pesar de mis conocimientos, hubo momentos en los que me sentí abrumada, asustada en ocasiones y llena (literalmente) de vida en otras. La maternidad ha sido —y está siendo— un viaje intenso, lleno de sentimientos y experiencias diversas, que ahora deseo compartir contigo.

The hunt for the origin of the AIDS virus began over 20 years ago. It was a journey that went around the world and involved painstaking research to unravel how, when, and where the virus first infected humans. Dorothy H. Crawford traces the story back to the remote rain forests of Africa - home to the primates that carry the ancestral virus - and reveals how HIV-1 first jumped from chimpanzees to humans in rural southeast Cameroon. Examining how this happened, and how it then travelled back to Colonial west central Africa where it eventually exploded as a pandemic, she asks why and how it was able to spread so widely.

It's not unusual for Jess McCann to receive a frantic late-night call from one of her clients, asking for advice while out on a date. And every single girl knows the frustration of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time and wishing she could take it back and say something better. Well, now you can get it right the first time around with McCann's indispensable dating survival guide.

In Strange Bedfellows, David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton look at how biology actually promotes monogamy in some species and how these lessons apply to human beings. An accessible work of science that is relevant to our intimate daily life, Strange Bedfellows will reassure some people, surprise others, and engage everyone.

In the wake of a divorce, science writer and single mother Kayt Sukel made herself a guinea pig in the labs of some unusual love experts to find out. This Is Your Brain on Sex is her lively and hilarious examination of the big questions about love and sex, previously published in hardcover as Dirty Minds. Each chapter of this edgy romp through the romantic brain looks at a different aspect of love above the belt.

Esta traducción al español de la obra considerada como la biblia del embarazo en Norteamérica con más 19 millones de copias impresas, What to Expect When You’re Expecting: 4th Edition (Qué se puede esperar cuando se está esperando: cuarta edición), es más vital, menos formal y más sencilla de entender de manera general que cualquier otra anterior. Es un audiolibro dirigido a padres que esperan un bebé y quienes no dominan el inglés o quienes, en un momento de estrés como este, prefieren lo que les resulta más familiar - su primer idioma.

The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, mothers describe firsthand the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering.

We're all used to encountering even the most hardcore porn from the comfort and privacy of our computer screens, but how many of us would go see it live? Thought Catalog editor Chelsea Fagan did, spending an evening in the world of live sex shows and hardcore pornography. Here, she gives us the guided tour to everything from rules about condoms to the pressure of facials, showing us a world that is at once completely familiar and something we've never quite seen before.

Best-selling author Violet Blue shows smart girls everywhere how to enjoy mind-blowing G-spot orgasms - with or without a partner. It's not a myth, it's a miracle - the G-spot, that powerhouse of female orgasm. With wit and panache, sex educator and best-selling writer Violet Blue helps readers master the sexual alphabet through -G." Beginning with an anatomical guide and incorporating suggestions for couple-play, positions, toys, and safer sex, The Smart Girl's Guide to the G-Spot will lead to thrilling new sensations.

It's surprising that the term "heterosexuality" is less than 150 years old and that heterosexuality's history has never before been written, given how obsessed we are with it. In Straight, independent scholar Hanne Blank delves deep into the contemporary psyche as well as the historical record to chronicle the realm of heterosexual relations - a subject that is anything but straight and narrow.

Vous avez entre les mains le livre que Naomi Watts aurait voulu lire lorsqu'elle a commencé à ressentir les premiers symptômes de la ménopause à l'âge de 36 ans... Un âge où on pense davantage à concevoir un enfant qu'à survivre aux bouffées de chaleur ou autres fléaux hormonaux. Face au vide médical et au tabou autour de la ménopause, l'actrice, qui s'est longtemps tue pour protéger sa carrière, décide de lever le voile.

Las necesidades eróticas de la mujer actual van mucho más allá de superar las disfunciones o patologías sexuales. Tienen que ver con la libertad sexual. Una libertad llena de trampas. Porque, aunque ya nadie duda de la capacidad de la mujer de desear y de sentir placer —los movimientos generados por la famosa saga Cincuenta sombras de Grey y el famoso succionador de clítoris así lo demuestran—, su libertad es constantemente vigilada y juzgada.

Syndrome prémenstruel : informer, reconnaître et déculpabiliser « QU'EST-CE QUI NE VA PAS CHEZ MOI ? », « EST-CE QUE JE DEVIENS FOLLE ? » Vous êtes-vous déjà posé ces questions quelques jours avant vos règles ? Si oui, la réponse est SPM, ou syndrome prémenstruel, cet ensemble de symptômes physiques (douleurs aux seins ou au ventre, migraines, acné, fringales, nausées, etc.) ou psychologiques (nervosité, anxiété, agressivité, émotivité, voire dépression).

Ist eine Hausgeburt das Richtige für mich und mein Baby? Was ist, wenn ich die ganze Nachbarschaft zusammenbrülle? Ist eine Geburt im Krankenhaus nicht viel sicherer? Für wen kommt eine Geburt zuhause in Frage? Und was muss ich für eine Hausgeburt vorbereiten? Das Thema Hausgeburt wirft viele Fragen auf. Die Journalistin Birte Frey hat ihr erstes Kind per Kaiserschnitt im Krankenhaus geboren. Warum sie ihr zweites Kind Zuhause geboren hat und welche Vorurteile sie auf dem Weg dahin aus dem Weg räumen musste, berichtet sie in diesem Hörbuch.

¿Son las doulas algo nuevo o que depende de una moda? ¿Están las doulas siempre en los partos? ¿Tenemos una doula para conseguir un tipo de parto o crianza concreto? ¿Son de verdad expertas en las maternidades de otras mujeres? ¿Tienen relación real con las terapias o remedios naturales? En definitiva, ¿qué hay de real y de ficción en lo que nos llega habitualmente sobre las doulas?