The Pleasures Of Testicles

Author : James L. Riedy
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1432788892
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures of Testicles: written by James L. Riedy and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1351166352
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eunuchs and Castrati written by Katherine Crawford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780226307435
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anxious Pleasures written by Thomas Gregor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1987-01-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : William V. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004379509
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pain and Pleasure in Classical Times written by William V. Harris and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jacobus X
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethnology of the Sixth Sense written by Jacobus X and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert James Culverwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Counsellings; Or, The Green Book written by Robert James Culverwell and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert James CULVERWELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Porneiapathology, or the Green book. The modern treatment of syphilis, gonorrhœa ... and all other diseases that have a like origin ... The two hundredth thousand written by Robert James CULVERWELL and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Burness E. Moore
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300080780
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psychoanalysis written by Burness E. Moore and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important book, experts in the field survey current psychoanalytic theory, discussing its principles, technical aspects, clinical phenomena, and applications. The book is both an introduction to and a statement of mainstream American psychoanalysis today and will be a standard reference for psychoanalytic trainees, authors, and teachers. Under the direction of the editors and a distinguished panel of advisors, the contributors present a broad overview of more than forty key clinical and theoretical concepts. They define each concept, trace its historical development within psychoanalysis, describe its present status, discuss criticisms and controversies about it, and point out emerging trends. A selected reference list is supplied for each concept. Together, the articles provide a systematic examination of the theoretical infrastructure of psychoanalysis. The book has been designed as a companion volume to Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts, a glossary edited by Drs. Moore and Fine under the auspices of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Medical Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Raymond Stephanson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203666
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Yard of Wit written by Raymond Stephanson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-10-09 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.