Intimacy & Sex Audiobooks | Health & Wellness

Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future

A provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories, from the historian and storyteller behind Kinky History, @esme.louisee on TikTok Contrary to popular belief, our predecessors had all sorts of obscene hobbies long before Christian Grey hit the scene. In this enlightening romp, learn about the first instances of homosexuality on record from the ancient world and the diverse history of nonbinary gender; encounter a thousand years' worth of hilarious and horrifying contraceptive methods; consider the positive and negative effects of the widespread availability of pornography in the digital age-and how our relationship to it changed during the pandemic; take a sneaky riffle through centuries of bedside drawers; and discover the dirty little secrets of luminaries such as Julius Caesar, James Joyce, Albert Einstein, and Virginia Woolf. Esmé Louise James also identifies the key tipping points that directly inform current beliefs around sex to place the past in conversation with the present. By educating ourselves about the weird, wonderful, and varied spectrum of human sexuality and experience, we can normalize and destigmatize sex, write people of marginalized sexual identities back into the pages of history, and build toward a more liberated future.

Esmé Louise James (Author), Esmé Louise James (Narrator)

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Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

'I'm hungry to go on this journey. Sofie is smashing and remoulding her readers understanding of sex, gender and body politics by deeply penetrating where others just stroke the surface.' - Sara Pascoe Comedian and co-founder of The Guilty Feminist podcast Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the only one. In attempting to find out why we're not having the sex we want, Sofie asks the questions: can we blame a lacking sex education? Is it all just sexual trauma? Where's the radical sexual liberation we were promised? What are we going to do about this? Should she have slept with that guy in that bush that one time? How do you overcome being a 35 year-old virgin (when it comes to queer sex, that is)? How do the socially awkward and the neurodiverse have sex? In Will I Ever Have Sex Again?, Sofie Hagen explores the quirks and difficulties of being 'involuntary celibate' (but one of the feminist, progressive ones) through introspection and conversations with experts, therapists, sex workers, porn stars, comedians and public figures.

Sofie Hagen (Author), Sofie Hagen, Unknown (Narrator)

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The Sex You Want: A Shameless Journey to Deep Intimacy, Honest Pleasure, and a Life You Love

When it comes to relationships, our society has plenty of expectations. We're supposed to know how to speak up for ourselves in bed, be caring partners, and, of course, love ourselves first. But no one tells us how to actually do all those things, and we are left feeling unsatisfied, confused, and ashamed when we don't measure up. Former Deputy District Attorney Rena Martine was in that position. After rejecting the ideal white-picket fence life, she embarked on a journey to redefine intimacy in a way that felt true. In the years that followed, Rena defied all of society's sexual norms, built a presence as a global women's intimacy coach, and created the intimate life she craved. Now she brings those experiences to you! With no-holds-barred honesty, stories from real-life women, and sparkling humor, The Sex You Want will help you: build a secure relationship with your most important partner-yourself; get in touch with your expectations for relationships so you can date more intentionally; demystify lifestyle practices outside of the heterosexual-monogamous-vanilla box with frank discussions of female sexual fluidity, kink, and ethical non-monogamy; find apps, products, and communities to satisfy any curiosity; and bring deep intimacy and exciting variety into your bedroom and beyond. Contains mature themes.

Rena Martine (Author), Rena Martine (Narrator)

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Sexpectations: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Healthy Relationships

Social media, television, and the Internet feed destructive information to tweens, teens, and young adults. Hookup culture, the acceptance of sending nudes, and rampant pornography contribute to unrealistic sexual expectations. At what cost? Barb Winters addresses the heavy loads of anxiety, worry, and depression among young people. She offers practical advice for presenting healthier options. Today's youth are eager, passionate, and impressionable. They look to parents, grandparents, youth leaders, and other trusted adults for direction. Sexpectations will help equip you to make a difference and be part of the solution: - Discover factors contributing to the declining health of relationships. - Examine consequences of a 'casual sex is acceptable' societal attitude. - Explore four foundational attributes of healthy relationships based on God's Word: love, selflessness, mutuality, and communication. - Uncover biblical principles for healing from wounds caused by abnormal sexual behaviors. - Find out how you and your child can restore, reconcile, and maintain healthy relationships.

Barb Winters (Author), Lisa Larsen (Narrator)

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Freeing Sexuality: Psychologists, Consent Teachers, Polyamory Experts, and Sex Workers Speak Out

• Shares the author's fascinating interviews with 20 experts, including clinical psychologist Dr. Lonnie Barbach, sex therapist Dr. Stella Resnick, sexual freedom advocate Janet Hardy, consent educator Dr. Laura McGuire, and Norma Jean Almadovar, former LA policewoman and current president of the prostitute's union Coyote • Looks at the stigmas of sex work, recovering from sexual trauma, sexual identification, gender fluidity, polyamory, and porn as a mirror for society Exploring sexual customs, beliefs, practices, and identities from a wide variety of perspectives, Dr. Miller shares his fascinating interviews with 20 experts ranging from clinical psychologists and researchers to sex workers and polyamory educators. We learn from sex therapists, relationship experts, and tantric sex teachers, such as Dr. Lonnie Barbach, Dr. Stella Resnick, Katherine Rowland, and Diana Richardson, about the importance of communication, how to keep sensuality alive, and how to generate fulfilling and sustainable intimacy in relationships. Looking at sexual identity and non-monogamy, we hear from Dr. Ritch Savin-Williams on sexual identification and gender fluidity, Sumati Sparks on open relationships and polyamory, Janet Hardy, author of The Ethical Slut, on sexual freedom, and Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens on the possibilities of ecosexuality. Revealing the inner workings of the sex industry, we hear from current and former escorts and sex workers on the stigmas and dangers of sex work and the need to decriminalize it, including Norma Jean Almadovar, former LA policewoman and current president of the prostitute's union Coyote. Dr. Ogi Ogas, author of A Billion Wicked Thoughts, speaks about using data science and computational neuroscience to uncover true statistics about our sexual desires. We hear from Paulita Pappel on porn as a mirror for society, Faith Jones on escaping a sex cult, Maeve Moon on recovering from sexual trauma, and Dr. Laura McGuire about the broad impact of teaching consent. Validating the extraordinary range and diversity of our sexual thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, the author gathers voices that help us free our sexuality from the past, accept our natural urge for physical pleasure, and open us up to sexuality as a power for health, healing, and happiness.

Richard Louis Miller (Author), Aura Paige, Ryan Paige (Narrator)

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Body Rites: A Holistic Healing and Embodiment Workbook for Black Survivors of Sexual Trauma

A written companion and workbook for listeners seeking to reclaim their bodies as home in healing from sexual trauma. Body rites as a holistic healing journey, anchored in the practice of decolonizing healing and reclaiming body sovereignty, reaches back into indigenous roots and land-based healing. It centers remembering as a means of survival. This workbook is the first of its kind: a resource of rituals divided into four healing journeys for Black women, femmes, and nonbinary survivors of sexual assault. The experiential workbook moves beyond prescriptive self-help models by providing a gentle guide and liaison to explore the impact of sexual trauma on the mind, body, heart, and spirit. It is an invitation to heal holistically, drawing upon psychophysiology, lived body wisdom, trauma-informed embodiment practices, kinship and ancestral connections, and African spiritual practices. Most urgently, this book is a series of intimate conversations with your 'self'; and remembrance that healing lives at the core of your intuition.

Shena J. Young Psyd, Shena J. Young, Psy.D. (Author), Machelle Williams (Narrator)

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Sex Rules!: Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World

#1 Best Seller in Trivia & Fun Facts, Questions & Answers, Curiosities & Wonders, and Cults & Demonism ─ Think You Know About Sexual Customs Around Our World? Have Fun and Enjoy Some Surprises! This book is a humorous glimpse of a wide range of stereotype-busting sexual, relationship and romantic mores around the world. It is fun, interesting, and eye-opening! For example, places where women control the mating game, set marriage rules, and marry one another for political power. The fact that it's all true also makes it fascinating. Take a romp through a rollicking worldwide tour with LOL views of extraordinary sexual customs. It will astound and regale you. At the same time, it proves sex is like happiness – universally sought but subjectively enjoyed.

Janice Zarro Brodman (Author), Lanecia Edmonds (Narrator)

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Sacred not Sinful: A New Christian Sexual Ethic

This may be the first modern book on Christian sexual ethics to go beyond “married = moral” and “love who you love”! If you’re looking for another book on the sinfulness of sex outside of marriage or the need to accept everybody’s sexual preferences, this isn’t it. A lifeless and unbiblical “ethic” rooted in gnostic, platonic, and enlightenment thinking has sapped the spiritual vitality of the sexual experience for millions of Christians who do not know how to have a healthy relationship with the body and its natural desires. Paying lip-service to ethics with the assumption that married = moral, there is little thought given to how the call to love God with all one’s heart, soul, mind, and strength might extend beyond the marriage ceremony and into the bedroom. Humbly deconstructing his own experience, Jenson exposes the problematic teachings of purity culture that permeate modern society, and then uncovers a path to sexual flourishing for all humans regardless of sex, gender, or relationship status. His clear love of the scripture and deep persistent faith shine through intensive research and personal wrestling through what the bible says about polyamory, homosexuality, premarital sex, gender identity, pornography, and the intimate connection between sex and spirituality in the Christian life. Sacred not Sinful delivers an earnest and searing wake-up call to move beyond the moral impotence of sexual standards that ensnare the church and culture in a web of shame, confusion, and oppression. Confident that God has called us to liberate the oppressed, to bring light to the darkness, Christians must overcome their fear and learn what it takes to become a landmark of sexual integrity, freedom, and skill in the midst of a confused culture. Are you ready to break the silent chains of ignorance that keep millions of people from the intimacy and ecstacy of God’s design for sexual wholeness?

Dr Kevin Jenson (Author), Dr Kevin Jenson (Narrator)

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The Science of Sex: Every Question About our Bodies Answered

An empowering re-education to fix our broken sexual culture. Dispelling the myth that everyone else is having 'perfect sex', or even that there is such a thing, this book explores taboos, debunks myths, and brings together the latest research to a topic that has preoccupied the vast majority for millennia. Reframing assumptions about sex, and moving away from a shame-based approach to a pleasure-focused, biopsychosocial one, Kate Moyle, a certified psycho-sexologist and relationship therapist, aims to encourage curiosity and pleasure, open up a variety of perspectives and voices, build awareness and discovery, and enable readers to think about sex holistically. With a question-and-answer format directly addressing the reader, you can discover the sex you like having and move to a place of more acceptance, less judgement, and the freedom to be curious. Up to date and inclusive of all genders, bodies, and sexualities, this is a sex re-education, empowering you to explore your preferences, expand your horizons, and maximize you and your partner(s) potential for rewarding, and intimate sex. © 2023 Kate Moyle © 2023 DK Audio

Kate Moyle (Author), Kate Moyle, Natalie Silverman, TBD (Narrator)

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[German] - Hormonfreie Verhütung: Alternative und natürliche Verhütungsmethoden zur hormonellen Verh

Hormonfreie Verhütung und alternative VerhütungsmethodenVerhütung ist ein sehr wichtiges Thema, welches beide, sowohl Männer als auch Frauen betrifft. Die passende Verhütungsmethode für sich zu finden ist oft gar nicht so einfach. Am Markt gibt es eine Vielzahl an Verhütungsmittel und die Aufklärung von Fachärzten ist oft nicht besonders gut. Meist wird einfach die Pille oder Kupferspirale verschrieben. Doch genau hier liegt das Problem! Über Nebenwirkungen der hormonellen Verhütungsmitteln wird viel zu wenig gesprochen. Den wenigsten ist bewusst, welche negativen Auswirkungen und Nebenwirkungen diese auf den Körper haben. Oft sogar mit Langzeitschädigung und der Lustlosgikeit bis hin zur Unfruchtbarkeit! Aus diesem Grund gibt es dieses Buch und es werden die folgenden Themen behandelt: - ★ Gegenüberstellung hormonelle Verhütungsmittel inkl. möglicher Auswirkungen - ★ Gegenüberstellung hormonfreie Verhütungsmethoden und die richtige Anwedung - ★ Verhütungsmethoden für den Mann (es gibt mehr als nur das Kondom) - ★ Nebenwirkungen der hormonellen Verhütungen inkl. möglichen Langzeitfolgen - ★ Auswirkungen beim Absetzen von hormonellen Verhütungen - ★ Auswirkungen auf Gesundheit und Sexualleben ohne Hormone - ★ Auswirkungen hormoneller Verhütungsmethoden auf die Fruchtbarkeit der Frau und den Kinderwunsch Die verschiedenen möglichen Nebenwirkungen, Langzeitfolgen der hormonellen Verhütungsmethoden werden hier ebenfalls behandelt. Der Großteil widmet sich der verhütungsfreien Methoden, damit beide wieder Spaß am Liebesleben haben. Denn eines ist klar, ohne Pille gehts auch! Verhütung ist Frauensache?So hat man(n) bis heute gedacht. Daher wird in diesem Buch auch auf die Möglichkeiten der Verhütung für Männer eingegangen. Neben dem Kondom gibt es noch einige weitere Verhütungsmethoden, auch für den Mann.

Cortney Manocchia (Author), Cortney Manocchia (Narrator)

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A Superfreaks: Kink, Pleasure, and the Pursuit of Happiness

A deliciously subversive and endlessly informative celebration of "kinky f*ckery," as told by a lifelong student of kink and fetishism Neither a how-to guide to getting it on nor a collection of sensational erotica, Superfreaks is instead an empathetic journey into the widely misunderstood world of kink. Lifelong practitioner and student of "kinky f*ckery" Arielle Greenberg draws on her study and teaching of BDSM and fetishism to - introduce kink's history and trailblazing kinksters like Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Mollena Williams-Haas, and Tom of Finland - explain the science behind sexual fetishes - delve into the psychology behind power exchange - parse the politics of sexual deviance Superfreaks is an accessible, interactive. and raunchy experience that invites the reader to engage their kinky curiosity. Written with folks of all genders and sexual orientations in mind, the book features resources like - quizzes readers can take with their partners to help assess sexual compatibility - sidebars with lists of kinky representation in literature, film, music, and more - an A-to-Z glossary of kinky gear, from collars and floggers to zentai suits and beyond Superfreaks challenges and dismantles longstanding myths about kink perpetuated by pop culture phenomena like Fifty Shades of Grey and 365 Days. In doing so, Greenberg names the systemic marginalization kinky people experience and argues that we must build a society that accepts and celebrates sexual diversity of all kinds. The book also affirms the importance of consent and not "yucking someone's yum"-key concepts inherent to the practice of kink that are essential building blocks for safer, more inclusive sex.

Arielle Greenberg (Author), Cindy Kay (Narrator)

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ADHD After Dark: Better Sex Life, Better Relationship

This pioneering book explores the impact of ADHD on a couple's sex life and relationship. It explains how a better sex life will benefit your relationship (and vice versa) and why that's especially important for couples with one partner with ADHD. Grounded in innovative research, ADHD After Dark draws on data from a survey of over 3000 adults in a couple where one partner has ADHD. Written from the author's unique perspective as both an expert in ADHD and a certified sex therapist, the book describes the many effects of ADHD on couples' sex lives and happiness, covering areas such as negotiating sexual differences, performance problems, low desire, porn, making time for sex, infidelity, and more. The book outlines key principles for a great sex life for couples with ADHD and offers strategies and treatment interventions where specific issues arise. Written in an accessible and entertaining style, ADHD After Dark offers clear information on sexuality and relationships and is full of valuable advice on how to improve both. This guide will be a must-listen for adults with ADHD, as well as their partners or spouses, and therapists who work with ADHD clients and couples.

Ari Tuckman (Author), Danny Hughes (Narrator)

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