Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Sexual & Reproductive Health

Whether it is at first sight, develops over time with a close friend, or it hits you like a ton of bricks - falling in love is a lyrical life-changing event. Chicken Soup for the Soul Love Stories will transport you to the moments of your life that were filled with devotion and unconditional love.

The journey from sexual curiosity to finally coming out can be confusing without proper guidance and empowering role models. In Same Sex in the City, Lauren Levin and Lauren Blitzer provide women - gay, straight, and bi-curious alike - with firsthand insight into the advantages and challenges of being a lesbian. In prose that is at once honest and uplifting, the Laurens relate their own experiences and those of the women they interview, as well as offer serious advice, titillating anecdotes, and a positive attitude for girls who know they're gay - and for those who are wondering about their sexuality but are not yet sure whether their Prince Charming is really a Cinderella.

Twenty-six-year-old Mara Altman wanted to know what all the screaming was about. She'd lost her virginity at seventeen; grown up in southern California with sexually free parents; had lovers in India, Burma, and Peru; and spent a year in Bangkok observing all manner of depravity. And yet she was an attractive, successful, single woman in New York who'd never had an orgasm. And so she embarked on a wildly funny, emotionally resonant odyssey - a journey both inside and outside herself - only to discover that, for Mara, orgasm was connected to a part of her that no vibrator could reach.

If we are, in part, a product of our genes, can free will exist? Incisive and engaging, this indispensable tour of evolutionary biology runs the gamut of contemporary debates, from science and religion to our place in the universe.

When Deirdre Fishel and Diana Holtzberg began work on their documentary Still Doing It, they knew they were catching a wave. The women of the baby-boom generation who had been so outspoken about sexuality and freedom were about to turn sixty, yet no one was talking about the revolution in aging. Nor was anyone letting on about the big dark secret that women born before the boomers, even way before, were a hell of a lot more vital than the images we were getting, and many were still having sex-and loving it!

Public Sex collects the best of Pat Califia's work published over the past 20 years. Providing both a chronicle of the radical sex movement in the United States, as well as the definitive opinions of America's most consistent and trenchant sexual critic, Public Sex is must-listen material for anyone interested in sexual practices, feminism, censorship, or simply the art of the political essay.

Still provocative after all these years, Helen Gurley Brown celebrates the pleasures of flirting, of enjoying affairs from beginning to end, throwing brunches and dinner parties, finding men where you might not think to look, dating (and ditching) married men, and being both feminine and powerful.

In her new book, Women, Sex, Power & Pleasure, Evelyn Resh, a sexuality counselor and certified nurse-midwife, takes an innovative approach to helping women create the lives - and sex lives - they want. With a funny and compassionate, yet tell-it-like-it-is style, she looks at the relationship between feeling powerful in life and accessing life’s pleasures, and their combined effect on sexual desire. Resh introduces six essential qualities that women must have to live healthfully, stating that when these are out of balance women seem to exist in lives devoid of pleasure, self-empowerment, and sex.

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.

Dentro al porno ci siamo tutti. Gaudenti e bacchettoni, adolescenti e attempati, single e fidanzati. È il video hot che teniamo in sottofondo mentre scriviamo una mail al capo. È il messaggio sexy che ci compare sullo schermo del telefono alla fine di un appuntamento noioso. È il brivido che ci attraversa in metropolitana immaginandoci avvinghiati allo sconosciuto seduto davanti a noi.

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.

Immaginate un mondo in cui ognuno sia libero di esprimere la propria sessualità. Dove la vita sessuale di una donna non è oggetto di scrutinio. Dove chi ha trent’anni e non vuole figli non deve subire pressioni. Dove il ‘maschio alfa’ non è l’unico modello per un uomo. È un mondo dove le persone queer non sono considerate ‘diverse’. Dove ogni corpo è bello e degno di esistere. Cultura dello stupro e sessismo sono un brutto ricordo. Un mondo dove di sesso si parla anche a scuola, nei programmi di educazione sessuale e affettiva. Questo mondo non è ancora qui.

Confessions of a Failed Slut blends personal reflections - "How the Love Boat Ruined My Life" - with contrarian takes on porn (online and off), dating (ditto), "slut shaming," sex toys, "robot hookers of the near future," dinosaur erotica, the multiplication of genders and orientations, and what she calls "the epidemic of beta male faggotry" plaguing the land.

Impossible Motherhood is a heartrending and ultimately triumphant testimonial told by a writer looking back on her history of addiction. Abortion has never offered any honest person easy answers. Vilar's dark journey through self-inflicted wounds, compulsive patterns, and historical hauntings is a powerful story of loss and mourning that bravely delves into selfhood, national identity, reproductive freedom, family responsibility, and finally motherhood itself - today, Vilar is the mother of two beautiful children.

A smart, provocative account of the erotic current running just beneath the surface of a stuffy and stifling Victorian London.

In 1860s London, two loosely overlapping groups of bohemians - the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes - challenged the buttoned-up Victorian propriety to promote erotic freedom and expression. Sensually attuned and politically radical, they were among the most influential thinkers and artists of the day, from Richard Burton to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris.

Le livre phénomène sur les femmes et le sexe. De quoi avez-vous envie quand personne ne vous regarde ? Quand les lumières sont éteintes ? Oui, vous. De quoi avez-vous vraiment envie ? Gillian Anderson a demandé à des femmes du monde entier de lui confier leurs fantasmes avec la liberté totale que permet l'anonymat. Nos désirs présente 174 lettres surprenantes, excitantes, émouvantes, parfois dérangeantes, toujours profondes.

Ellen Matzdorf kann von sich behaupten, die erste Hebamme in Deutschland zu sein, die zugleich Bestatterin ist. Beruflich ist sie dem Start ins Leben genauso nah wie dem Ende. Am Anfang dieser ungewöhnlichen Verbindung stand, dass Ellen als Hebamme das Sterben eines Neugeborenen erlebte und sah, wie wenig Unterstützung trauernde Eltern in dieser Extremsituation bekommen. Sie beschloss, das zu ändern. Beiden Berufen widmet Ellen ihre beeindruckende Wärme, Menschlichkeit und Ernsthaftigkeit. Ihr Credo: Die Menschen sollen selbst bestimmen dürfen.

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！

Por cada mujer que acude al médico por algún problema relacionado con su ciclo menstrual, ¿cuántas se quedan en casa retorciéndose de dolor o automedicándose antiinflamatorios? La verdadera magnitud es imposible de determinar; en pocos asuntos clínicos existe un desequilibrio tan acentuado entre la cantidad de gente que sufre y lo marginal que resulta para la investigación médica y científica. Más de1800 millones de mujeres tienen ahora mismo edad de menstruar. Si los hombres menstruaran, como escribía Gloria Steinem en 1978, "la menstruación se convertiría en una realidad masculina envidiable y digna de alarde. Los hombres se jactarían de lo largo y copiosos que serían sus periodos".

L'arrivée d'un bébé est un bouleversement pour ses parents. Bien sûr, prendre soin de son bébé est crucial. Mais vous, qui prend soin de vous ? Après avoir longtemps été passé sous silence, le post-partum est aujourd'hui souvent présenté comme une période difficile, qui évoque d'emblée la fatigue, les douleurs, la solitude, les hauts et les bas émotionnels... Mais c'est surtout une période formidable, durant laquelle se crée un lien unique.