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Meredith Maran lived a daughter's nightmare: she accused her father of sexual abuse, then realized, nearly too late, that he was innocent. During the 1980s and 1990s, tens of thousands of Americans became convinced that they had repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse, and then, decades later, recovered those memories in therapy. Journalist, mother, and daughter Meredith Maran was one of them.

Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word) chronicles one person’s search for self in a world obsessed with normal. What is "intersex"? According to the Intersex Society of North America, the word describes someone born with sex chromosomes, genitalia, or an internal reproductive system that are neither clearly male nor clearly female. In first-person prose as intimate as a diary, Thea Hillman redefines memoir in a series of compelling stories that take a no-holds-barred look at sex, gender, family, and community.

Here are the uncensored words of real lesbians describing their hottest, wildest erotic adventures. This real-life erotica collection is like peeking into the secret diaries of some very frisky girls. In this collection, lesbians from across the country reveal their deepest, most intimate erotic secrets: things they wouldn't dare tell anyone else.

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!

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.

Le mois qui suit l'accouchement est l'un des plus beaux moments de la vie d'une femme. Ces semaines sont pourtant éprouvantes pour la mère comme pour le nouveau-né : manque de sommeil, fatigue, douleurs, baby blues... Les jeunes mères se retrouvent souvent seules, les émotions à fleur de peau, pour affronter une phase de bouleversements. Cette période représente un enjeu majeur pour la santé future de la mère. Dans de nombreuses cultures, elle fait ainsi l'objet de soins adaptés (bandage du bassin, massages, conseils en nutrition...).

If you've ever felt a crumpling in your chest when another friend tells you that they're pregnant... If you've ever wondered why everyone else seems to find it so easy... If you've ever experienced the pursuit of motherhood... This audiobook is for you. It is currently estimated that one in five couples have difficulty conceiving. Hepburn’s audiobook, which describes her long and, at times, heartbreaking journey to have a child has been called a cross between Bridget Jones's Diary and Eat Pray Love for the infertile generation.

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.

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.

At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of Lusikisiki in the old Transkei lies the village of Ithanga. Home to a few hundred villagers, the majority of them unemployed, it is inconceivably poor. In the broader world, most would consider it entirely inconsequential. It is to here that award-winning author Jonny Steinberg travels to explore the lives of a community caught up in a battle to survive the ravages of HIV/AIDS.

Desde el Bagdad y la Casita Blanca hasta el Fetish Café y la Órbita de IO, Adaia bucea en las sexualidades menos convencionales de su ciudad y los lugares que las albergan. Barcelona ha sido mi lugar desde hace más de dos décadas. La ciudad donde me he desmadrado de joven, me he hecho adulta, me he desarrollado como periodista y he creado mi propia familia. Quiero saber cómo es la vida sexual de mi ciudad, la que no cabe en titulares clicbait. Aquí viven casi dos millones de personas, es imposible captar su esencia en una frívola estadística.

人生の折り返し地点でもう一度「性」を学び直す！暮らしと人間関係をよりよくしたい50代のための「性教育」とは？第一線で活躍する専門家たちによる性の特別授業、始まります！

El concepto de mindfulness se ha puesto en boga las últimas décadas en el ámbito de la investigación médica y psicológica, gracias a su contrastada efectividad para mejorar el equilibrio emocional, el sistema inmunológico y la salud neurológica y aun corporal de quienes lo practican. Hace referencia a una forma de afrontar nuestra cotidianidad basada en el cultivo de la atención plena, con el propósito de vivir realmente el momento, a menudo soslayado por las obligaciones, el ritmo acelerado de la vida moderna, el estrés o la tendencia de nuestra mente a proyectarse hacia el pasado o hacia el futuro.

En "Mujeres que follan" hay sexo loco y sexo aburrido, sexo vainilla y sexo duro, sexo romántico y sexo no convencional, pero hay mucho más. El sexo nunca es solo sexo. Hablar de sexo es hablar de educación emocional, de clase social, de la presión por tener un cuerpo bonito, del mito del amor romántico, de relaciones tóxicas, de feminismo y de patriarcado. El sexo nos acompaña a todas desde que nacemos hasta que morimos, pero no todas lo vivimos de la misma manera.

Fruto do blog que o autor mantém no site "bebe.com.br", Enfim, grávidos!, escrito com sensibilidade e bom humor, nos dá a chance de conhecer de perto a relação de um pai com seu filho muito antes do nascimento. Hamilton conta, em tom de crônica, as diversas etapas que ele e sua mulher Magie enfrentaram até a gravidez tardia de João Pedro finalmente se consolidar.

If you are preparing for pregnancy, are pregnant or have just delivered, Pregnancy Notes has got you covered. Rujuta Diwekar takes you through the journey, with tips for even before you get pregnant, till after you deliver your bundle of joy. Each stage includes notes on food, exercise and recovery. Also included are heritage recipes from across the country, so you can mine the wisdom of our grandmothers. This is a must-have guide for every woman.

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.