Psychology 228: Human Sexuality

***Winner of a 2013 IPPY Award!*** Whether you loved the Fifty Shades of Grey erotic trilogy by E.L. James, hated it but couldn't put it down, or never read it but think your sex life could use some serious spicing up, then 150 Shades of Play is for you! This helpful (and hilarious) illustrated A to Z guide includes: * How to's on role play, dirty talk, spanking, bondage & more * Important safety info missing from the Fifty Shades trilogy * A voyeuristic peek at all of Christian Grey's "hard limits" * Tips on shopping for top-of-the-line kinky accessories * Notes on what the Fifty series got wrong about BDSM * Everything beginners need to know to get their kink on! Brought to you by America's sex-writing sweethearts EM & LO, 150 Shades of Play will help make your Christian & Ana fantasies a reality-safely and sensually! ADVANCE PRAISE FOR 150 SHADES OF PLAY: "I consider Em & Lo my adopted sex daughters, and they have made me proud once again with '150 Shades of Play.' Their sound advice, smart writing, and sense of humor empower women to give kink a try, safely and realistically." - Betty Dodson, sex educator icon & author of "Sex for One" "For readers looking to tap their erotic potential, 'Fifty Shades of Grey' is only the tip of the sexual iceberg. With their signature sense of humor and commitment to educate, Em & Lo take readers on a guided journey into titillating, and often taboo, territories and expertly navigate a diverse landscape of thrilling possibility." - Ian Kerner, PhD, GoodInBed.com founder & CNN columnist "Unlike 'Fifty Shades of Grey' this was fun to read, informative and didn't take eight chapters to get to the sex part. Em & Lo have yet again taught me more about sex than all the extensive research I've done by watching porn." - Joel Stein, TIME magazine columnist & author of "Man Made"

A New York City therapist examines the paradoxical relationship between domesticity and sexual desire and explains what it takes to bring lust home. One of the world's most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home. Drawing on more than twenty years of experience as a couples therapist, Perel examines the complexities of sustaining desire. Through case studies and lively discussion, Perel demonstrates how more exciting, playful, and even poetic sex is possible in long-term relationships. Wise, witty, and as revelatory as it is straightforward, Mating in Captivity is a sensational book that will transform the way you live and love.

Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships -- from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Taormino offers solutions for making an open relationship work, including tips on dealing with jealousy, negotiating boundaries, finding community, parenting and time management. Opening Up will change the way you think about intimacy.

Unlike other books on this topic, Polyamory in the 21st Century weaves together research and facts to provide an informed and impartial analysis of polyamory as a lifestyle and as a movement, and to place it in a psychosocial as well as an historical context. Anecdotes and personal experiences allow the reader to develop a better understanding of polyamory and the people who practice and enjoy it. Anapol addresses the practical, the utopian, and the shadow sides of this intriguing, mysterious, yet often threatening lifestyle. It honestly addresses difficult issues such as the nature of commitment without exclusivity, balancing personal needs with loyalty to a partner, evaluating beliefs about love and relationship, the impact of polyamory on children, and the challenges that arise when one partner wants monogamy and another prefers polyamory. Without judgment, she explores this increasingly common practice, and reveals the true nature of a lifestyle that many do not understand.

The complete manual for those interested in participating in the Swinging Lifestyle. Step by step guide from determining if this is the right choice for you, to how to begin once you make the decision. How to find others to swing with, how to use online ad sites, how to make swinger parties work for you and much more.

In the 1970s a group of pioneering feminist entrepreneurs launched a movement that ultimately changed the way sex was talked about, had, and enjoyed. Boldly reimagining who sex shops were for and the kinds of spaces they could be, these entrepreneurs opened sex-toy stores like Eve's Garden, Good Vibrations, and Babeland not just as commercial enterprises, but to provide educational and community resources as well. In Vibrator Nation Lynn Comella tells the fascinating history of how these stores raised sexual consciousness, redefined the adult industry, and changed women's lives. Comella describes a world where sex-positive retailers double as social activists, where products are framed as tools of liberation, and where consumers are willing to pay for the promise of better living--one conversation, vibrator, and orgasm at a time.

Who decides where "normal" stops and "perverse" begins? In Vicarious Kinks, Ummni Khan looks at the mass of claims that film, feminism, the human sciences, and law make about sadomasochism and its practitioners, and the way those claims become the basis for the legal regulation of sadomasochist pornography and practice. Khan's audacious proposal is that for film, feminism, law, and science, the constant focus on taboo sexuality is a form of "vicarious kink" itself. Rather than attempt to establish the "truth" about sadomasochism, Vicarious Kinks asks who decides that sadomasochism is perverse, examining how various fields present their claims to truth when it comes to sadomasochism. The first monograph by a new scholar working at the juncture of law and sexuality, Vicarious Kinks challenges the myth of law as an objective adjudicator of sexual truth.