Sexpertise

Author : Barbara Jo Brothers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317764773
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attraction and Attachment written by Barbara Jo Brothers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a fascinating exploration of the powerful forces of attachment and attraction that determine the formation and styles of couples’relationships. What factors attract one person to another? What determines whether or not a healthy relationship is formed? As therapists know, there is much in this world that passes for love but is really the result of leftover dependency needs and unresolved attachment issues. Attraction and Attachment: Understanding Styles of Relationships examines issues of attachment in relationships, discusses the validity of the concept of codependency as one aspect of attachment, and explores various aspects of attraction. The contributing authors consider some of the many styles of relationships that are called love and examine some of the basic sources of attraction. Attraction and Attachment includes an in-depth evaluation of the concept of codependency, a review of the literature on attraction, methods for achieving equilibrium in sexual intimacy, and some of Virginia Satir’s insights on fear and making changes. Just a few of the specific topics explored in these important chapters include: the relationship of childhood attachment experiences and successful long-term marriages the influence of therapists’implicit philosophies on treatment options and their effectiveness in therapy a review of biological, psychological, and social psychological literature on mate selection a definition of codependency a study of the link between codependency and depression couples’acceptance of alternative treatment formats Psychiatrists, psychologists, and clinical social workers, as well as substance abuse counselors and pastoral counselors, can discover new insights on attraction and attachment in this provocative book. All mental health professionals can find new ways of looking at the foundational elements of relationships that are invaluable to them in their work with couples.

Author : Robert Twigger
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062029142
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angry White Pyjamas written by Robert Twigger and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrift in Tokyo, translating obscene rap lyrics for giggling Japanese high school girls,, "thirtynothing" Robert Twigger comes to a revelation about himself: He has never been fit nor brave. Guided by his roommates, Fat Frank and Chris, he sets out to cleanse his body and mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is drawn into the world of Japanese martial arts, joining the Tokyo Riot Police on their yearlong, brutally demanding course of budo training, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against bloodstained "white pyjamas" and fractured collarbones. In Angry White Pyjamas, Twigger blends, the ancient with the modern--the ultratraditionalism, ritual, and violence of the dojo (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs, and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the 1990s--to provide a brilliant, bizarre glimpse of life in contemporary Japan. Adrift in Tokyo, "thirtynothing" Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: He had never been fit or brave. Guided by his roommates, he set out to cleanse his body and mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts and joins the Tokyo Riot Police on their year-long, brutally demanding course of budo training, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained "white pyjamas" and fractured collarbones. In this entertaining book, Twigger blends the ancient with the modern--the ultratraditionalism, ritual, and violence of the "dojo" (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs, and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the 1990s--to provide a brilliant, bizarre glimpse of contemporary Japan.Adrift in Tokyo, "thirtynothing" Robert Twigger came to a revelation about himself: He had never been fit or brave. Guided by his roommates, he set out to cleanse his body and mind. Not knowing his fist from his elbow, the author is sucked into the world of Japanese martial arts and joins the Tokyo Riot Police on their year-long, brutally demanding course of budo training, where any ascetic motivation soon comes up against blood-stained "white pyjamas" and fractured collarbones. In this entertaining book, Twigger blends the ancient with the modern--the ultratraditionalism, ritual, and violence of the "dojo" (training academy) with the shopping malls, nightclubs, and scenes of everyday Tokyo life in the 1990s--to provide a brilliant, bizarre glimpse of contemporary Japan.

Author : Christopher Clulow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429904738
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, Attachment and Couple Psychotherapy written by Christopher Clulow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this book have drawn on different mentors to provide a framework for understanding the sexual problems of the couples they see, and to inform the work they do. But whether Freud, Jung, Klein or Bowlby has been the progenitor of their own particular therapeutic narrative, the spirit of enquiry and curiosity is evident in their approach. This has created space to explore the dimensions of sex, love, hate and power in ways that allow the facts of life to emerge and be discovered as something unique and authentic to each couple. It has also created a platform from which new understandings may emerge to inform practice in the future.

Author : Katherine Harrison
Publisher : University of Chester
ISBN 13 : 1908258411
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pornographies written by Katherine Harrison and published by University of Chester. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pornography is no longer considered to be a single, homogenous 'thing'. Nor are debates about pornography limited to the reductive anti-porn versus anti-censorship controversies of the mid-twentieth century. Whether we like it or not, pornography today is out in the open, from the ubiquity of porn produced and consumed via the Internet to the mainstreaming of porn aesthetics and practices into mass media and everyday life. Pornography is therefore of central concern to social scientific, arts and humanities research that focuses on sexual freedoms and oppressions, empowerment, gender, feminism and postfeminism, queer identities, normative and non-normative bodies, politics and more. This book conceives of pornographies in the plural and its twelve chapters engage directly with porn across a range of media and from a variety of critical perspectives. From the conceptual importance of pornography in the feminist 'sex wars' to porn produced for female and/or queer sexual pleasure, via examinations of vaginal performance artists, fetish clinics, sexperts, amputee porn, barebacking, tattoos and Japanese erotica, this book illuminates the many ways in which pornographies may be understood in scholarship today.

Author : Meg-John Barker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509509151
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mediated Intimacy written by Meg-John Barker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter. By exploring how intimacy is constructed through different media texts, the authors consider which ideas and practices these changing forms of 'sexpertise' open up, and which they close down. The book reveals the intimate operation of power in mediated advice, how words and images, stories and sound can work to shore up social injustice. It critically engages with the ideas of choice and responsibility in sex self-help, arguing that these can obscure and/or justify oppression, even if they're sometimes experienced as empowering and/or pleasurable. This bold and incisive book provides a radical challenge to the assumptions underlying the sex advice industry, and presents a critical, collaborative and consensual vision for sex advice of the future.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book EPA's Air Pollution Control Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oxford Business Group
Publisher : Oxford Business Group
ISBN 13 : 1910068470
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Report: Algeria 2015 written by Oxford Business Group and published by Oxford Business Group. This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Algeria is a country rich in history and situated in a strategically important region. While its past has at times been turbulent, the last decade has been one of relative peace. Economic growth and development has followed, driven primarily by advances in the hydrocarbons sector. The fall in the international price of oil since mid-2014, however, is having a substantial economic impact, in particular on the country’s trade balance and government finances. On the positive side though, the drop in prices is accelerating efforts to further diversify the economy, pushing the government to open up the country to greater private and foreign investment in order to provide alternatives to state spending, in part through measures to render the rigid investment environment more attractive.

Author : Betsy Prioleau
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393068374
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them written by Betsy Prioleau and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Seductress" examines the ladies' man and answers the eternal question: what do women want?

Author : Victoria Leigh Gabriella
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1499078706
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Real Love at Last written by Victoria Leigh Gabriella and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a mature love relationship between a man and a woman in their mid 40s. Each of them has been a bit unlucky in love in the past and have almost given up hope of ever finding a real love. Becca Connelly is approximately 45 years old, gorgeous, and an elementary school teacher living in Williamsburg,Virginia. Tall, brown shoulder length hair, green eyes and feminine figure. She was deeply heartbroken when her marriage ended and has not seen or heard from her ex-husband Tripp in fifteen years. She has struggles to make it but has rebuilt her life to some degree. She has not been with any man since her husband deserted her. She does not trust men. She does not let anyone but close girlfriends and family into her life. She thinks it was her fault that she was abandoned by someone she loved and trusted. She had expected to live her entire life with him. Divorce was not an option, but forced on her unwillingly. Michael Stevens has just recently moved to Williamsburg. He is tall, muscular, brown haired, gray eyes and gorgeous of course too. He has just retired from a career in the Marines. He was a Colonel when he left active duty, having served all over the country and tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He settles in Williamsburg since the only family he has left is a sister and her family living in Richmond an hour away. He buys an expensive colonial brick home for a life he doesn't have as of yet. He has never been married, only passing relationships that really mean nothing to him at all. Michael sees Becca one night in June when she comes into a restaurant while he is having a drink alone at the bar. He watches her and wonders about her. He sees her ex-husband come in and after while figures out that she is meeting her ex to give him back a bracelet she still has. Even though Tripp is now on his third wife, he makes a move to start things up with Becca. Michael sees she is distressed and impulsively goes to rescue her by pretending to be her boyfriend. It takes a while but Tripp finally leaves. And so it begins...

Author : Annie Potts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317724453
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Science/Fiction of Sex written by Annie Potts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we learn from exploring the differences in male and female orgasmic experience? Is the penis an entity with a mind of its own? These issues and others, such as the popular portrayals of male sexuality as active and outwardly focused and female sexuality as passive and internally located, are discussed in The Science/Fiction of Sex. Contemporary feminist and poststructuralist theories of sex and gender are explored alongside an investigation of how people make sense of such concepts as heterosexuality, orgasm, sexual dysfunction, femininity and masculinity, and safer sex practice. Potts asks men and women about their actual experiences of heterosex. This interview material, combined with excerpts from sexological and medical texts and features from film and television, draws attention to the ways in which western cultural constructs influence our ideas and experiences of the body, sex, and gender. Potts also uses deconstructive theory as a textual tool, concentrating on how binary oppositions such as inside/outside and mind/body impact on our understandings of heterosex, and affect the power relations between women and men. She also examines how the radical postmodern theories of the body and sexuality proposed by Irigaray, Lyotard, and Deleuze and Guattari disrupt such dualistic modes of understanding and experiencing sexualized bodies. The Science/Fiction of Sex will be of interest to those studying women and psychology as well as gender studies, cultural studies, feminist studies, sociology, philosophy, public health and education.