Author: Cassandra Dee
Publisher: Cassandra Dee Romance
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
What we’re doing is wrong. Who goes on a site called Discreet Encounters? Well if you’re me, a shy, naïve eighteen year old girl, then on-line meet-ups sound pretty good. So when a handsome man answered my ad, I was surprised. What was an alpha male doing on a site like this? But when I met the billionaire in person, all my pre-conceived notions were blown out of the water. His kisses were hot. His touch even hotter. He taught me how to be a bad girl without even giving me his name. What’s happened to me? How did a shy librarian become so naughty? But it doesn’t matter because now all I want is the billionaire’s baby! Hey Readers – Ever dreamed of going anonymous? Then indulge in your wildest fantasies because this book will knock your socks (and panties) off W We’ve all wanted to have a sizzling encounter with a handsome, nameless man, and this is your time to indulge! As always, an HEA is guaranteed with no cheating and no cliffhangers. You’ll love the story, I promise. Enjoy! Xoxo, Cassie
Anonymous Encounters
Author: Cassandra Dee
Publisher: Cassandra Dee Romance
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
What we’re doing is wrong. Who goes on a site called Discreet Encounters? Well if you’re me, a shy, naïve eighteen year old girl, then on-line meet-ups sound pretty good. So when a handsome man answered my ad, I was surprised. What was an alpha male doing on a site like this? But when I met the billionaire in person, all my pre-conceived notions were blown out of the water. His kisses were hot. His touch even hotter. He taught me how to be a bad girl without even giving me his name. What’s happened to me? How did a shy librarian become so naughty? But it doesn’t matter because now all I want is the billionaire’s baby! Hey Readers – Ever dreamed of going anonymous? Then indulge in your wildest fantasies because this book will knock your socks (and panties) off W We’ve all wanted to have a sizzling encounter with a handsome, nameless man, and this is your time to indulge! As always, an HEA is guaranteed with no cheating and no cliffhangers. You’ll love the story, I promise. Enjoy! Xoxo, Cassie
Publisher: Cassandra Dee Romance
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
What we’re doing is wrong. Who goes on a site called Discreet Encounters? Well if you’re me, a shy, naïve eighteen year old girl, then on-line meet-ups sound pretty good. So when a handsome man answered my ad, I was surprised. What was an alpha male doing on a site like this? But when I met the billionaire in person, all my pre-conceived notions were blown out of the water. His kisses were hot. His touch even hotter. He taught me how to be a bad girl without even giving me his name. What’s happened to me? How did a shy librarian become so naughty? But it doesn’t matter because now all I want is the billionaire’s baby! Hey Readers – Ever dreamed of going anonymous? Then indulge in your wildest fantasies because this book will knock your socks (and panties) off W We’ve all wanted to have a sizzling encounter with a handsome, nameless man, and this is your time to indulge! As always, an HEA is guaranteed with no cheating and no cliffhangers. You’ll love the story, I promise. Enjoy! Xoxo, Cassie
Dangerous Encounters
Author: Daniel Touro Linger
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804725897
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book is about violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Luis. It describes how people think about and negotiate dangerous encounters - vital and disturbing experiences that, when they go wrong, yield moral failure, humiliation, and death. Brazilians, like people elsewhere, worry about the perils of coming face-to-face with the wrong person, at the wrong time, under the wrong circumstances. The book discusses two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-face encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation. When playing becomes fighting, Carnival's samba, fueled by the controlled venting of dangerous passions, gives way to the explosive pas de deux of the street fight. Sao-luisenses tell vivid, sometimes terrifying, stories of verbal and physical confrontations. Their narratives, based on cultural models of Carnivals and brigas, highlight the vulnerability of the self to humiliation by others and the vulnerability of moral controls to one's own hostile emotions. The book argues that this double sense of social and psychological vulnerability is a product of Brazilian interpersonal relations, which are profoundly marked by the arbitrary exercise of power and the stifling of resentment in subordinates. Culture here consists not of shared symbols but of shared quandaries. The author suggests that Brazilian street fighting is an alarm bell - an inarticulate representation of pressing but poorly understood social and psychological dilemmas. Violence in Sao Luis may therefore be a desperate attempt to understand and come to grips with the very resentment, rooted in the city's harsh social transactions, that engenders it.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804725897
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This book is about violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Luis. It describes how people think about and negotiate dangerous encounters - vital and disturbing experiences that, when they go wrong, yield moral failure, humiliation, and death. Brazilians, like people elsewhere, worry about the perils of coming face-to-face with the wrong person, at the wrong time, under the wrong circumstances. The book discusses two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-face encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation. When playing becomes fighting, Carnival's samba, fueled by the controlled venting of dangerous passions, gives way to the explosive pas de deux of the street fight. Sao-luisenses tell vivid, sometimes terrifying, stories of verbal and physical confrontations. Their narratives, based on cultural models of Carnivals and brigas, highlight the vulnerability of the self to humiliation by others and the vulnerability of moral controls to one's own hostile emotions. The book argues that this double sense of social and psychological vulnerability is a product of Brazilian interpersonal relations, which are profoundly marked by the arbitrary exercise of power and the stifling of resentment in subordinates. Culture here consists not of shared symbols but of shared quandaries. The author suggests that Brazilian street fighting is an alarm bell - an inarticulate representation of pressing but poorly understood social and psychological dilemmas. Violence in Sao Luis may therefore be a desperate attempt to understand and come to grips with the very resentment, rooted in the city's harsh social transactions, that engenders it.
Touching Encounters
Author: Kevin Walby
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226870057
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This is the first book to explicitly address how masculinity and sexuality shape male commercial sex in this era of Internet communications.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226870057
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This is the first book to explicitly address how masculinity and sexuality shape male commercial sex in this era of Internet communications.
Barebacking
Author: Jack Drescher
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780789021748
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Go beyond the statistics to discover why many gay and bisexual men take the health risk—and what can be done about it The rate of new HIV diagnoses and other sexually transmitted infections among men having sex with men has increased sharply, especially in men of color. Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches examines in depth the reasons why so many gay and bisexual men indulge in “barebacking,” or intentional unprotected sex. Respected experts reveal the latest studies that explore every facet of this alarming trend that apparently began as a phenomenon confined to those who had already been infected. The mounting likelihood of a renewed epidemic is a troubling public health issue that reaches beyond gays and bisexuals into the heterosexual community. The aim of Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches is to provide clinicians with some insights to foster strategies for addressing these unsafe sexual behaviors. This book presents the studies of researchers working in the field as well as those who can provide both research and clinical perspectives. Thoroughly researched and richly referenced, this book is an essential resource for health and mental health professionals. In Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches, you’ll find discussion and research on: the public health perspective of the emergence of barebacking among gay and bisexual men how the term “barebacking” differs between various gay and bisexual men how club drug use has posed a public health threat HIV transmission risks among men who meet through the Internet barebacking among Internet-based male sex workers assessing HIV-negative gay or bisexual men a treatment model for barebackers psychotherapy considerations for individual gay men and male couples having unsafe sex Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches is an insightful and comprehensive research source, essential for psychologists, researchers, public health officials, counselors, psychotherapists, and anyone concerned with the HIV epidemic in the United States.
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9780789021748
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Go beyond the statistics to discover why many gay and bisexual men take the health risk—and what can be done about it The rate of new HIV diagnoses and other sexually transmitted infections among men having sex with men has increased sharply, especially in men of color. Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches examines in depth the reasons why so many gay and bisexual men indulge in “barebacking,” or intentional unprotected sex. Respected experts reveal the latest studies that explore every facet of this alarming trend that apparently began as a phenomenon confined to those who had already been infected. The mounting likelihood of a renewed epidemic is a troubling public health issue that reaches beyond gays and bisexuals into the heterosexual community. The aim of Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches is to provide clinicians with some insights to foster strategies for addressing these unsafe sexual behaviors. This book presents the studies of researchers working in the field as well as those who can provide both research and clinical perspectives. Thoroughly researched and richly referenced, this book is an essential resource for health and mental health professionals. In Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches, you’ll find discussion and research on: the public health perspective of the emergence of barebacking among gay and bisexual men how the term “barebacking” differs between various gay and bisexual men how club drug use has posed a public health threat HIV transmission risks among men who meet through the Internet barebacking among Internet-based male sex workers assessing HIV-negative gay or bisexual men a treatment model for barebackers psychotherapy considerations for individual gay men and male couples having unsafe sex Barebacking: Psychosocial and Public Health Approaches is an insightful and comprehensive research source, essential for psychologists, researchers, public health officials, counselors, psychotherapists, and anyone concerned with the HIV epidemic in the United States.
Reading Sexualities
Author: Donald E. Hall
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134208707
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Reading Sexualities confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet porn, Donald E. Hall deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary in order to: examine the vexed ethical, critical, and political questions arising from sexual consumerism and cross-cultural encounters read the changing landscape of sexual identity, finding great cause for optimism and enthusiastic engagement urge readers to embrace a far-reaching dialogic practice as a mechanism for furthering radical social change. Reading Sexualities shows how our sexual desires and bases for identification are being widely challenged and changed. Drawing on hermeneutic theory and the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hall argues that by approaching sexual diversity with openness and humility, we become active participants in the politically urgent process of reading the self through the perspective of the other.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134208707
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Reading Sexualities confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet porn, Donald E. Hall deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary in order to: examine the vexed ethical, critical, and political questions arising from sexual consumerism and cross-cultural encounters read the changing landscape of sexual identity, finding great cause for optimism and enthusiastic engagement urge readers to embrace a far-reaching dialogic practice as a mechanism for furthering radical social change. Reading Sexualities shows how our sexual desires and bases for identification are being widely challenged and changed. Drawing on hermeneutic theory and the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hall argues that by approaching sexual diversity with openness and humility, we become active participants in the politically urgent process of reading the self through the perspective of the other.
Meeting at Grand Central
Author: Lee Cronk
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400845483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A revolutionary approach to the study of cooperation that unites evolutionary biology and the social sciences From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be—snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored. The benefits to oneself of a free ride on the efforts of others mean that collective goals often are not met. But compared to most other species, people actually cooperate a great deal. Why is this? Meeting at Grand Central brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation. Meeting at Grand Central will inspire researchers from different disciplines and intellectual traditions to share ideas and advance our understanding of cooperative behavior in a world that is more complex than ever before.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400845483
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
A revolutionary approach to the study of cooperation that unites evolutionary biology and the social sciences From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be—snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored. The benefits to oneself of a free ride on the efforts of others mean that collective goals often are not met. But compared to most other species, people actually cooperate a great deal. Why is this? Meeting at Grand Central brings together insights from evolutionary biology, political science, economics, anthropology, and other fields to explain how the interactions between our evolved selves and the institutional structures we have created make cooperation possible. The book begins with a look at the ideas of Mancur Olson and George Williams, who shifted the question of why cooperation happens from an emphasis on group benefits to individual costs. It then explores how these ideas have influenced our thinking about cooperation, coordination, and collective action. The book persuasively argues that cooperation and its failures are best explained by evolutionary and social theories working together. Selection sometimes favors cooperative tendencies, while institutions, norms, and incentives encourage and make possible actual cooperation. Meeting at Grand Central will inspire researchers from different disciplines and intellectual traditions to share ideas and advance our understanding of cooperative behavior in a world that is more complex than ever before.
Public Sex/gay Space
Author: William Leap
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231106917
Category : Homosexuality
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Twelve essays provide a nuanced portrait of why public sexual activity is such an integral part of gay culture. Contributors explore issues such as visibility and secrecy, as well as economic status and social class, and interrogate the historical trajectories through which certain locations come to be favored sites for sexual encounters.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231106917
Category : Homosexuality
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Twelve essays provide a nuanced portrait of why public sexual activity is such an integral part of gay culture. Contributors explore issues such as visibility and secrecy, as well as economic status and social class, and interrogate the historical trajectories through which certain locations come to be favored sites for sexual encounters.
Gay-2-Zee
Author: Donald F. Reuter
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312354275
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A "New York Times"bestselling author and illustrator presents the ultimate visualized guide to gay words, slang, and phrases with entries that include definitions, provenance, and which section of the gay community is most likely to use the term.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312354275
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A "New York Times"bestselling author and illustrator presents the ultimate visualized guide to gay words, slang, and phrases with entries that include definitions, provenance, and which section of the gay community is most likely to use the term.
Miami Stretch
Author: Nigel Anthony Conrad Leader
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480824135
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Nigel Leader never imagined in his wildest dreams that when he headed from snowy New York to sunny Florida to pursue a career in aviation he would one day become a professional chauffeur. But as Nigel ultimately discovered, sometimes life gets in the way of even the best-laid plans. Beginning with his birth in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Nigel chronicles his life experiences as a child living on a Caribbean island, as a teenager in Queens, and eventually as a young man who strived to fulfill his goals. As life and work led him from city to city, Nigel shares an honest look into his varied personal and professional experiences, his disappointments and joys, his spiritual walk, and the circumstances that caused his eventual career detour to becoming a limousine driver in South Beach, Florida. While detailing his encounters with musicians, celebrities, executives, athletes, criminal elements, and regular folks, Nigel offers an interesting perspective on wealth, privilege, and life in Florida from his point of view and that of his varied clientele. In this colorful memoir, a professional limo driver narrates the first part of his fascinating life story as he journeys from Trinidad to New York and ultimately South Florida where he seeks bold, new adventures.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480824135
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Nigel Leader never imagined in his wildest dreams that when he headed from snowy New York to sunny Florida to pursue a career in aviation he would one day become a professional chauffeur. But as Nigel ultimately discovered, sometimes life gets in the way of even the best-laid plans. Beginning with his birth in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Nigel chronicles his life experiences as a child living on a Caribbean island, as a teenager in Queens, and eventually as a young man who strived to fulfill his goals. As life and work led him from city to city, Nigel shares an honest look into his varied personal and professional experiences, his disappointments and joys, his spiritual walk, and the circumstances that caused his eventual career detour to becoming a limousine driver in South Beach, Florida. While detailing his encounters with musicians, celebrities, executives, athletes, criminal elements, and regular folks, Nigel offers an interesting perspective on wealth, privilege, and life in Florida from his point of view and that of his varied clientele. In this colorful memoir, a professional limo driver narrates the first part of his fascinating life story as he journeys from Trinidad to New York and ultimately South Florida where he seeks bold, new adventures.
Generous Spaciousness
Author: Wendy VanderWal-Gritter
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1441245855
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Committed Christians may respond differently to gay and lesbian Christians. How can we engage those with whom we might disagree and navigate our journey together in a way that nurtures unity, hospitality, humility, and justice? Through her extensive experience in ministering to gay and lesbian Christians, Wendy VanderWal-Gritter has come to believe we need a new paradigm for how the church engages those in the sexual minority. She encourages generous spaciousness, a hope-filled, relational way forward for those in turmoil regarding a response to gay and lesbian Christians. This book offers a framework for discussing diversity in a gracious way, showing that the church can be a place that welcomes a variety of perspectives on the complex matter of human sexuality. It also offers practical advice for implementing generous spaciousness in churches and organizations.
Publisher: Brazos Press
ISBN: 1441245855
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Committed Christians may respond differently to gay and lesbian Christians. How can we engage those with whom we might disagree and navigate our journey together in a way that nurtures unity, hospitality, humility, and justice? Through her extensive experience in ministering to gay and lesbian Christians, Wendy VanderWal-Gritter has come to believe we need a new paradigm for how the church engages those in the sexual minority. She encourages generous spaciousness, a hope-filled, relational way forward for those in turmoil regarding a response to gay and lesbian Christians. This book offers a framework for discussing diversity in a gracious way, showing that the church can be a place that welcomes a variety of perspectives on the complex matter of human sexuality. It also offers practical advice for implementing generous spaciousness in churches and organizations.