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Love Rituals contains a variety of significant methods for improving relationships. Split into three sections, the book covers Daily Gestures, Date Nights, and Intimate Encounters. Author Leslie Koren emphasizes the importance of appreciating and prioritizing partners on a daily basis, not just on special occasions like Valentine's Day or anniversaries. Simple gestures like making your spouse coffee in bed every morning or having a cocktail hour with your significant other after work can make a big difference. In Date Nights, Koren suggests trying a "Yes Day" where one partner plans everything from breakfast to a late-night movie, as well as reminiscing about your courtship by taking turns telling each other the story. The section on Intimate Encounters encourages both physical and emotional connection through practices like eye gazing and giving massages. The book also includes rituals for vacations, anniversaries, and long-distance relationships. Simply open the book and romance will be in the air.

Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage offers an honest and objective exploration of the challenges and possibilities of non-monogamous relationships. Through a personal journey, the book challenges traditional views of marriage and introduces the concept of open marriage as a valid and successful option for some couples.

Sexual Intimacy for Women is a guide designed for same-sex couples who want to maintain the passion and intimacy in their relationships. Often, lesbian couples focus on the companionship and affection, neglecting their sexual connection. This book celebrates the strong reasons that motivated these couples to overcome obstacles and come out, while also helping them explore the emotional, physical, and psychological aspects of their relationships. Through exercises and real-life examples from Dr. Corwin's extensive experience working with same-sex couples, women can address common issues surrounding orgasm, body image, identity, aging, and parenthood. Dispelling myths and delving into the complexities of female desire, this guide provides valuable advice for creating long-lasting, healthy, and fulfilling relationships.

Slow Pleasure: Exploring the Pleasure Spectrum By Euphemia Russell Hardcover; 224 pages A comprehensive guide to understanding and integrating pleasure into your daily life by slowing down and tuning into your body to heighten your sense of connection. With the philosophy of pleasure as a foundation, Russell teaches readers how to overcome the challenges of our fast-paced world and reclaim pleasure in all aspects of life through self-reflection and prioritization. This informative book offers reflection questions and pleasure practices to help readers reconnect with their bodies and embrace pleasure in every moment.

Justin J. Lehmiller, a leading expert on human sexuality and author of the popular blog Sex and Psychology, has made it his careerft.s ambition to answer these questions.Based on his monumental two-year study of sexual fantasies involving more than 4,000 people from all walks of life, Tell Me What You Want offers an unprecedented look into our fantasy worlds and what they reveal about us. It will help you to understand your own sexual desires and how to attain them within your relationships, but also to appreciate why your partner may have sexual proclivities that are so different from your own.Appreciating the incredible diversity of human sexual desire and why this diversity exists in the first place can help you to overcome distress, anxiety and shame about your own sexual fantasies; ultimately enhancing your sex life. Breaking down barriers to discussing sexual fantasies and allowing them to become a part your sexual reality is the pathway to maintaining more satisfying relationships.

What this book is NOT:The fear-based How-To on sex and consent, oversimplified and focused on technicalities, that represents so much of our sexual education today.What this book IS:A journey into the Big Questions that will turn you into a thinking person about sex and consent, with the ability to wrestle towards the answers that work for YOU and continue to wrestle towards them for the rest of your life.What is the meaning and purpose of sex? How does it intersect with who I am? Why are people so afraid of it? What does a healthy and joyful approach to sex look like for me? Why is consent so much more than a yes or no question?Who this book is FOR:Everybody!! No matter your sexuality, gender, religion, or race. What could be more essential?

The T GuideOur Trans Experiences and a Celebration of Gender Expression“Man, Woman, Nonbinary, and Beyond By Gigi Gorgeous, Gottmik (a.k.a Kade Gottlieb), Swan HuntleyHardcover; 208 pagesReal talk about transgender experiences from Gigi Gorgeous and GottmikIn this fabulous, fashion-forward guide, transgender icons Gigi Gorgeous and Gottmik discuss the ins and outs of being transgender with their honest, hilarious, and GORGEOUS tales of what it means to be true to oneself“and they've picked up a few friends along the way.Whether you're embarking on your own transgender journey or seeking the knowledge to be the best ally you can be, there is something to be learned from every story they tell.Join the conversation with Gigi and Gottmik as they get real with discussions on: the gender and sexuality spectrums the experience of coming out navigating gendered public restrooms parenting transgender children the concepts of physical and internal transitions tips and tricks for more masculine or feminine features cosmetic and confirmation surgery The T Guide also includes anecdotes and advice from advocates, allies, and activists across the gender spectrum. Contributors include U.S. Senator Sarah McBride, musician Adam Lambert, and the iconic Paris Hilton.

The ABCft.s of everyoneft.s favorite fantasy -- a hip and informative guide for the perfect threesome. A step-by-step guide to realizing the new American dream, The Threesome Handbook is the first book to give tri-curious men and women the inside scoop on threesomes. As threesomes have finally slipped into the mainstream on TV, in magazines, movies, and just about every respectable blog, sexuality historian and threesome dabbler Vicki Vantoch offers practical and humorous advice on our most popular fantasy. Featured in The Threesome Handbook: The perks of three: hotter sex, more love Strategies to prevent freak-outs, jealousy, and general messiness How to find the perfect third Discovering your inner queer When a menage turns into love, how to create a successful triad relationship Communication skills for couples Knowing when to break it off And much, much more. Drawing on personal experience, historical research, advice from pros, and hundreds of interviews with veteran and novice threesome adventurers, Vantoch covers the gamut of possibilities in threesome sex and triad relationships. The Threesome Handbook is the essential road map for couples and singles to explore new territory or just spice things up in the sack.

This Book Will Make You Feel SomethingMasturbation meditations to use on your own or with a partnerBy Florence BarkPaperback; 256 pagesThis book contains mouth-opening ways to mix up your masturbation routine, inserted between 25 steamy stories for you to masturbate to. You deserve to feel pleasure. Come on in.The power of female masturbation is immense “ it's proven to release happy hormones in our brains, increase self-esteem and improve our external sex lives. So why then do we give ourselves such little time to do it? Maybe it's because we were never taught about how pleasure works when we were teenagers. Or because we don't have material we want to masturbate to. Or because society makes us think that it's acceptable to set time aside to explore and pleasure our partners, but less so if it's for ourselves.ENTER THIS BOOK!In the simplest and most exciting way possible, sex and relationships educator Florence Bark has explained how your anatomy works and the many ways to engage it. There are 25 ideas on how to change up the way you masturbate and, because 85% of women don't want to watch porn, to go with each tip is a 'masturbation meditation' “ a steamy story specifically designed to be masturbated to, where you can imagine what the people within it look like and you know it's been ethically created. This ground-breaking book “ the first of its kind “ gives you the tools and permission you need to not just feel something, but everything.Please note: We believe the tips in the book will best apply to people with vulvas (though please note the data it is based on comes from surveys of cis-women). The stories on the other hand could apply to anyone depending on your personal preferences. So no matter how you identify, you're very welcome at this party.

In Trans Like Me, CN Lester takes readers on a measured, thoughtful, intelligent yet approachable tour through the most important and high-profile narratives around the trans community, turning them inside out and examining where we really are in terms of progress. From the impact of the mediaft.s wording in covering trans people and issues, to the way parenting gender variant children is portrayed, Lester brings their charged personal narrative to every topic and expertly lays out the work left to be done.Trans Like Me explores the ways that we are all defined by ideas of gender--whether we live as he, she, or they--and how we can strive for authenticity in a world that forces limiting labels.