The Pleasures Of Testicles

Author : James L. Riedy
Publisher : Outskirts Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781432788896

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The Pleasures of Testicles: by James L. Riedy Pdf

Arguably the ugliest but most functional device in the human body—symbols of manliness, objects of ribald humor and obscenities, imparting sexual pleasure and ensuring the continuation of the human race—the testicles (or balls, eggs, bullocks, stones, nuts . . . whatever you’re inclined to call them) have been all but totally ignored in the writings of even internationally celebrated sex authorities. The Pleasures of Testicles exams these under-appreciated hallmarks of male sexuality from all angles. Entertaining, provocative, and hilarious, drawing on information from sources as diverse as ancient history and modern online chat groups, this book covers every possible aspect of pleasure relating to the testicles, from visual enhancements to the most shocking of intimate acts. If you’re ready for sexual adventure and education, or you’re just curious, The Pleasures of Testicles will give you a wealth of information . . . and plenty of ideas you can put into action to more thoroughly enjoy the amazing jewels that make the man.

Author : Katherine Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351166355

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Eunuchs and Castrati by Katherine Crawford Pdf

Eunuchs and Castrati examines the enduring fascination among historians, literary critics, musicologists, and other scholars around the figure of the castrate. Specifically, the book asks what influence such fascination had on the development and delineation of modern ideas around sexuality and physical impairment. Ranging from Greco-Roman times to the twenty-first century, Katherine Crawford brings together travel accounts, diplomatic records, and fictional sources, as well as existing scholarship, to demonstrate how early modern interlocutors reacted to and depicted castrates. She reveals how medicine and law operated to maintain the privileges of bodily integrity and created and extended prejudice against those without it. In consequence, castrates were constructed as gender deviant, disabled social subjects and demarcated as inferior. Early modern cultural loci then reinforced these perceptions, encouraging an othering of castrates in public contexts. These extensive, almost obsessive accounts of appearance, social propensities, and gender characteristics of castrated men reveal the historical lineages of sexual stigma and hostility towards gender non-normative and physically impaired persons. For Crawford, they are the roots of sexual and physical prejudices that remain embedded in the western experience today.

Author : Thomas Gregor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1987-01-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0226307433

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Anxious Pleasures by Thomas Gregor Pdf

Annotation "Good fish get dull but sex is always fun." So say the Mehinaku people of Brazil. But Thomas Gregor shows that sex brings a supreme ambiguity to the villagers' lives. In their elaborate rituals--especially those practiced by the men in their secret societies--the Mehinaku give expression to a system of symbols reminiscent of psychosexual neuroses identified by Freud: castration anxiety, Oedipal conflict, fantasies of loss of strength through sex, and a host of others. "If we look carefully," writes Gregor, "we will see reflections of our own sexual nature in the life ways of an Amazonian people." The book is illustrated with Mehinaku drawings of ritual texts and myths, as well as with photographs of the villagers taking part in both everyday and ceremonial activities.

Author : Lyndon Baptiste
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1440149909

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Ooh My Testicles! by Lyndon Baptiste Pdf

Without warning, a searing pain struck. My goodness, what was it? It was neither my stomach nor appendix, but my testicles. No... it was only a testicle, my right ball to be precise. I became stunned and only through divine intervention regained my balance, but not my composure, and with wild gesticulations, six feet above ground level, I grasped the ladder. I still do not believe that being either shot or knifed is as painful as the pangs which, like little red devils armed with electric pitchforks, stabbed the areas around and through my groin. Given man's proclivity to intently guard his genitals, I hastened to cup my source of dismay, movements which catapulted the tin of paint off the ladder's platform.

Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004379503

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Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times by William V. Harris Pdf

This book attempts to blaze a trail for the cross-disciplinary humanistic study of pain and pleasure, with literature scholars, historians and philosophers all setting out to understand how the Greeks and Romans experienced and reasoned about the sensations and experiences they felt as painful or pleasurable.

Author : Robert James Culverwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1841
Category : Genito-urinary organs
ISBN : NWU:35558005403916

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Medical Counsellings; Or, The Green Book by Robert James Culverwell Pdf

Author : Robert James CULVERWELL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020580359

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Porneiapathology, or the Green book. The modern treatment of syphilis, gonorrhœa ... and all other diseases that have a like origin ... The two hundredth thousand by Robert James CULVERWELL Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103099552

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New York Medical Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : Raymond Stephanson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812203660

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The Yard of Wit by Raymond Stephanson Pdf

Literary composition is more than an intellectual affair. Poetry has long been said to spring from the heart, while aspiring writers are frequently encouraged to write "from the gut." Still another formulation likens the poetic imagination to the pregnant womb, in spite of the fact that most poets historically have been male. Offering a rather different set of arguments about the forces that shape creativity, Raymond Stephanson examines how male writers of the Enlightenment imagined the origins, nature, and structures of their own creative impulses as residing in their virility. For Stephanson, the links between male writing, the social contexts of masculinity, and the male body—particularly the genitalia—played a significant role in the self-fashioning of several generations of male authors. Positioning sexuality as a volatile mechanism in the development of creative energy, The Yard of Wit explains why male writers associated their authorial work—both the internal site of creativity and its status in public—with their genitalia and reproductive and erotic acts, and how these gestures functioned in the new marketplace of letters. Using the figure and writings of Alexander Pope as a touchstone, Stephanson offers an inspired reading of an important historical convergence, a double commodification of male creativity and of masculinity as the sexualized male body. In considering how literary discourses about male creativity are linked to larger cultural formations, this elegant, enlightening book offers new insight into sex and gender, maleness and masculinity, and the intricate relationship between the male body and mind.

Author : Elizabeth Grosz,Elspeth Probyn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134859702

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Sexy Bodies by Elizabeth Grosz,Elspeth Probyn Pdf

Are bodies sexy? How? In what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi, transracial, and even hetero. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also explores what runs underneath and within all sexualities, discovering what is fundamentally weird and strange about all bodies, all carnalities. Looking at a pleasurable variety of cultural forms and texts, the contributors consider the particular charms of girls and horses, from National Velvet to Marnie; discuss figures of the lesbian body from vampires to tribades to tomboys; uncover 'virtual' lesbians in the fiction of Jeanette Winterson; track desire in the music of legendary Blues singers; and investigate the ever-scrutinised and celebrated body of Elizabeth Taylor. The collection includes two important pieces of fiction by Mary Fallon and Nicole Brossard. Sexy Bodies makes new connections between and amongst bodies, cruising the borders of the obscene, the pleasurable, the desirable and the hitherto unspoken rethinking sexuality anew as deeply and strangely sexy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1743
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023037160

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The Pleasures of Matrimony, Intermixed with a Variety of Merry and Delightful Stories, Etc. [A Paraphrase of “The Whole Pleasures of Matrimony ... Written by E. W. [i.e. Edward Ward].”] by Anonim Pdf

Author : M. B. La Croix
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020580339

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Dr. La Croix's Physiological View of Marriage ... One hundredth edition by M. B. La Croix Pdf

Author : George Waterhouse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Marriage counseling
ISBN : HARVARD:HN628W

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Conjugal Felicities and Infelicities by George Waterhouse Pdf

Author : Allan Hepburn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300148480

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Intrigue by Allan Hepburn Pdf

'Intrigue' examines the tradition of the spy narrative in the 20th century, setting the historical contexts for the main themes of the genre, such as the Cambridge spy ring & the Profumo Affair. Hepburn offers a systematic theory of the conventions & attractions of espionage fiction.

Author : Julie Peakman
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780232034

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The Pleasure's All Mine by Julie Peakman Pdf

Handcuffs, paddles, whips—the words alone are enough to make a person blush. Even by our society’s standards, the practice of things like BDSM is still very hush-hush, considered deviant sexual behavior that must be kept hidden. But the narrow view of what is thought of as “normal” sex—a vanilla act performed by one man and one woman—is more and more contested these days. And as Julie Peakman reveals, normal never really existed; for everyone, different kinds of sex have always offered myriad pleasures, and almost all sexual behaviors have traveled between acceptance and proscription. The Pleasure’s All Mine examines two millennia of letters, diaries, court records, erotic books, medical texts, and more to explore the gamut of “deviant” sexual activity. Delving into the specialized cultures of pain, necrophilia, and bestiality and the social world of plushies, furries, and life-size sex dolls, Peakman considers the changing attitudes toward these, as well as masturbation, “golden showers,” sadomasochism, homosexuals, transvestites, and transsexuals. She follows the history of each behavior through its original reception to its interpretation by sexologists and how it is viewed today, showing how previously acceptable behaviors now provoke social outrage, or vice versa. In addition, she questions why people have been and remain intolerant of other people’s sexual preferences. The first comprehensive history of sexual perversion and packed with both color and black and white images, The Pleasure’s All Mine is a fascinating and sometimes shocking look at the evolution of our views on sex.