By Rachel Kramer Bussel, Editor Cleis Press, $14.95, 206 pages Readers who may be wanting to spice up their bedrooms, or are curious about dominating and submissive roles need look no further. Rachel Kramer Bussel has another outstanding collection of erotic stories that will show just that. Each story is filled with a new and [...]
By Kristina Wright, Editor Cleis Press, $14.95, 196 pages Once upon a time, fairy tales provided observations about social values, examples of dysfunctional families and snippets of individual motivation. Story premises were woven together by a single golden thread promising a lifetime of happily-ever-after. The twisted tales in this book observe timeless classics in a [...]
By Judith Desjardins Spirit House Publishing, $28.95, 385 pages Creating A Healthy Life and Marriage by Judith Anne Desjardins is a holistic, thought-provoking venture which delves into the caverns of childhood experiences and traumas, relationships and how the past plays into the present. While it is weighty in subject matter and pages (385), it stands [...]
By Erika Lust Seal Press, $17.95, 231 pages The porn industry is littered with movies, magazines, and item that target a male audience. Little thought is given to what would please female audiences, especially since their interest in porn is slowly growing. Erika Lust, who noticed the opportunity missed in ignoring female viewers, began Lust [...]
By Violet Blue, Editor Cleis Press, $14.95, 209 pages Adding to the already-large collection of erotic anthologies to her name, editor Violet Blue has chosen the best in Sweet Love: Erotic Fantasies for Couples. Each story is a masterpiece—leaving behind dry, formulaic writing, and really working to bring creativity to our fingertips. These authors are [...]
By Maxim Jakubowski Running Press, $13.95, 491 pages Maxim Jakubowski does a superb job once again of collecting a variety of short erotic fiction in this anthology. The alluring, the arousing, the realistic, and the grotesque float side by side like semi-nude guests at a cocktail mixer. Over forty stories from writers around the world [...]
By Rachel Kramer Bussel, Editor Cleis Press, $14.95, 200 pages Please, Ma’am: Erotic Stories of Male Submission, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussell, pays homage to male subs who long for and need a commanding woman. Although told from the male point of view, these stories are written by male and female educators, technical writers, BSDM [...]
By Paul Abramson Oxford University Press, $19.95, 119 pages Sex Appeal has an attractive premise: a look into the ethical principles that should govern sex in our time. However, the execution is clumsy, and the ideas are difficult to get to. The outlining of these ethical principles is sloppy, and this makes judging the ideas [...]
By Simone de Beauvoir Knopf, $40.00, 832 pages With recent cutbacks on college campuses, the arts and humanities programs are the most likely to lose funding, so certain interdisciplinary areas like gender studies are closed down despite heavy enrollment and frequent class solicitations. However, with the complete English translation of The Second Sex, now available [...]
By Gail Dines Beacon Press, $26.95, 256 pages Several years ago, when Paris Hilton was on the brink of turning her party girl celeb status into television star status, her ex-boyfriend released a sex tape featuring himself and a younger Paris. We can’t know if Hilton would have become the celebrity she is now without [...]
This week in the Dear Hoops advice column: What’s the deal when your man would rather masturbate than have sex with you? And what do you do when your man tells you that something smells fishy in Cootertown? There’s only one way to find out. Read on! Dear Hoops, I always read your entries, but [...]
By Lisa Pankau Visions to Press, $16.95, 143 pages Many married people wonder, at one point or another: What can I do to bring that spark back into this relationship? Even single people ponder at times how they can hook that “one” and keep them coming back for more, for a long, lasting partnership. Although [...]
By Shannon T. Boodram, Editor Seal Press, $15.95, 328 pages Everywhere we look sex is thrust in the faces of our youth. Yet even four decades after the sexual revolution we are still one of the most repressed nations in the world. We teach sex education in schools but fail to cover the most important [...]
By Jana Cole Bertrand Brown Books, $24.95, 304 pages In Beware the Red Flag Man, educator Jana Cole Bertrand shares her own knowledge of warning signs in men in relationships. Bertrand urges young women to listen to their mothers and be on the look out of the different types of red flags their potential mate [...]
Hello book people! Your friendly neighborhood advice slinger is back again and I’m taking some time away from being disappointed about the LOST finale to give you some advice on dealing with a man with bad breath and combating a womanizer at work. Enjoy! Dear Hoops, My husband has bad breath. Like most of the [...]
How can you inject the word sexy into your life as a mom who is spread out so thinly over all of your daily endeavors? From changing your baby’s diapers to rushing out wearing your jammies to get groceries and your husband’s oversized tie-dye shirt, it really is impossible to see yourself “provocative” in any [...]
