Author: Jess Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781771665148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In Just Pervs, Jess Taylor's sophomore story collection, contemporary views of female sexuality are subverted and complicated -- no longer are women figures to be acted upon my men; here they have agency over their desires and their bodies. Through the characters in these stories we discover how sex can be many things: it can be gross, shameful, exhilarating, hidden, or open, but it is always complicated. Just Pervs explores the strange oppression and illumination that desire can create, the bewilderment of adolescence, the barriers to intimacy we discover within ourselves and the ones that are imposed on us. All while speaking honestly and openly about sex and championing expressions of female sexuality.
Author: Carrie Goldberg
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 052553377X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Nobody's Victim is an unflinching look at a hidden world most people don’t know exists—one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off—and the incredible story of how one lawyer, determined to fight back, turned her own hell into a revolution. “We are all a moment away from having our life overtaken by somebody hell-bent on our destruction.” That grim reality—gleaned from personal experience and twenty years of trauma work—is a fundamental principle of Carrie Goldberg’s cutting-edge victims’ rights law firm. Riveting and an essential timely conversation-starter, Nobody's Victim invites readers to join Carrie on the front lines of the war against sexual violence and privacy violations as she fights for revenge porn and sextortion laws, uncovers major Title IX violations, and sues the hell out of tech companies, schools, and powerful sexual predators. Her battleground is the courtroom; her crusade is to transform clients from victims into warriors. In gripping detail, Carrie shares the diabolical ways her clients are attacked and how she, through her unique combination of advocacy, badass relentlessness, risk-taking, and client-empowerment, pursues justice for them all. There are stories about a woman whose ex-boyfriend made fake bomb threats in her name and caused a national panic; a fifteen-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted on school grounds and then suspended when she reported the attack; and a man whose ex-boyfriend used a dating app to send more than 1,200 men to ex's home and work for sex. With breathtaking honesty, Carrie also shares her own shattering story about why she began her work and the uphill battle of building a business. While her clients are a diverse group—from every gender, sexual orientation, age, class, race, religion, occupation, and background—the offenders are not. They are highly predictable. In this book, Carrie offers a taxonomy of the four types of offenders she encounters most often at her firm: assholes, psychos, pervs, and trolls. “If we recognize the patterns of these perpetrators,” she explains, “we know how to fight back.” Deeply personal yet achingly universal, Nobody's Victim is a bold and much-needed analysis of victim protection in the era of the Internet. This book is an urgent warning of a coming crisis, a predictor of imminent danger, and a weapon to take back control and protect ourselves—both online and off.
Author: Laura J. Zilney
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742566242
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
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Perverts and Predators elaborates on the numerous factors that have contributed to the passage of sexual offending laws in the United States. Authors Lisa and Laura Zilney weave together a story of how sex crimes laws were created by analyzing the changing roles of religion and the medical community, offering theoretical explanations for sex offending from the unique perspectives of criminology and sexology. Working under the central premise that sex and sexuality are positive and healthy and that the only way to deal with the issue of sexual offending is through sex positive education and counseling, Zilney and Zilney trace the history of sex offending laws and highlight cases in the media that contributed to increasingly punitive legislation. The authors provide information concerning the prevalence and incidence of sex offending, including victim and offender profiles and the frequency and types of offenses committed in order to give readers greater understanding of the problem. They discuss politics as a major player in the creation of a moral panic surrounding sex offenders and fueling public outrage to garner support for 'get tough' laws. The management of sex offenders in society is discussed, as are consequences of the punitive approach for both the offender and the victim. Comparative case studies are used to explore what the United States could learn from other countries' approaches to sexual offending.
Author: Christian Bauman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439104557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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Just as The Things They Carried and Catch-22 spoke to their generations with truth and dark humor, this brilliant first novel defines the experience of war for its era. Benjamin Jones, twenty-three, discharged after an army tour in Somalia, heads cross-country on a Greyhound, seeking refuge on the West Coast. He has left behind his best friend, Trevor, and Liz Ross, a female soldier with whom Jones has fallen in love. But Jones has also left behind a tragedy -- a horrible, split-second action made in Somalia -- that Trevor, Jones, and the army have implicitly agreed to forget. Alone on the streets of San Francisco, and then north on the Washington coast, Jones finds that an uneducated ex-soldier is qualified only as a peep show fantasy object or as a hired hand to a bottom-feeding smuggler and pornographer. Recurring visions of his life as a soldier gradually reveal the full truth -- and agony -- of his experience, and a reunion with Liz and a violent confrontation with Trevor bring the young soldier's journey to a wrenching conclusion -- but one not without hope. At equal turns tense, brutal, and poetic, The Ice Beneath You is a soldier's story for a time when there weren't supposed to be any more soldiers' stories.
Author: David Rowley
Publisher: Pneuma Springs Publishing
ISBN: 1907728317
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Join Rowley in his light hearted and self-deprecating antics as he works his way around South East Asia, building communication towers on and off the beaten track.
Author: Susan Andersen
Publisher: HQN Books
ISBN: 1459201612
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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A Las Vegas showgirl goes all in on her sexy, straightlaced neighbor in the New York Times–bestselling author’s contemporary romance. Las Vegas showgirl Carly Jacobsen keeps learning the hard way that her idea of fun differs radically from that of her neighbor Wolfgang Jones. Sure, he looks incredible, and he seems to have a thing for her legs, but the man’s a robot. So what’s with their chemistry? Wolf has a plan for his life, and it doesn’t include finding himself tempted by the freewheeling Carly—or her mile-high legs. Yet in a moment of weakness, the two discover at least one area where they do both have fun. But outside the bedroom the stakes are getting higher, and love might come down to a roll of the dice.
Author: Kelsey Woodard
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1304499480
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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From the viewpoint of seventeen year old Katie. You follow with her through the suspense and intensity that she has on her journey. On Halloween night she finds her parents murdered and her sister missing. Her boyfriend, Tyler, sends her off to the psych ward where she meets some of her closest friends and greatest enemies. For over a hundred years she has lived the same fate every twenty years to die in his hands. Now, the schedule has been broken and Katie is given the chance to save her friends and reclaim her life. She goes through an accident that puts her out for two months, after that she begins to realize about who she really is and what will happen to her if she doesn't stop Isosiel. Her and three of her closest friends venture to New York and Washington D.C. to try and find a solution to this century old curse.
Author: Lisa Dickenson
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 0751561924
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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'Sprinkled with humour and warmth' Cathy Bramley 'Hilariously funny . . . an utterly fabulous book' Heat 'Feisty, fun and fierce!' Ali McNamara Lisa's new book - My Sisters And Me - is available to pre-order NOW Elle and Laurie are the last ones standing: they're single, they're not having babies any time soon and their weekends aren't filled with joyful meetings about mortgages. For Elle, this is fine. She likes her independent life, but Laurie wants love and she wants it now. So when Laurie begs Elle to come with her on a singles holiday to a beautiful vineyard in Tuscany, Elle is reluctant. She has no intention of swapping her perfectly lovely life for someone else's idea of her Mr Perfect, but ten days under the Italian sun with her best friend and lashings of wine? How bad could that be? You Had Me At Merlot is full of sultry summer nights, laugh-out-loud moments, and the odd glass of wine. Praise for Lisa Dickenson 'Deliciously warm, effortlessly modern and totally irresistible . . . we lapped up every single word of this romantic comedy gem.' Heat 'Cries out for the Richard Curtis film treatment' Sun 'Sassy as Beyonce and warm as toast' Miranda Dickinson 'Crying out to be read in one big, hilarious gulp!' Fabulous 'A lovely, light romantic yarn.' Marie Claire 'Feisty, fun and fierce! Beyonce would be proud!' Ali McNamara 'Fresh and hilarious . . . I can't remember the last time a book made me laugh like this . . . You will laugh, you will cry, you will go awwww and then you'll laugh all over again' Holly Martin 'A fun, flirty read full of . . . sparkle and romance' Jo Thomas 'The epitome of feel-good summer chick lit . . . Perfect poolside reading' The Lady
Author: Consuelo Roland
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1431405086
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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One Friday evening Daniel de Luc, an elusive crime writer with a deep love of poetry, disappears from a Camps Bay apartment while cooking pasta. His wife Paola, desperately worried after days of hearing nothing, is contacted by an eccentric stranger who claims to have known her missing husband under a different name and warns her not to look for him. Paola soon learns that her husband was involved in the shadowy world of the international sex industry, where well-heeled women pay men to become the anonymous fathers of their children. As her neat, controlled existence is turned inside out, Paola struggles to keep a level head and find her own humanity while trying to outwit her enemies and stay alive. The result is a fast-paced thriller that shifts between Cape Town and Paris, blending realism with the fantastic and pitting love against the attraction of sexual adventure.
Author: Jesse Bering
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446487075
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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In this eye-opening book, psychologist Jesse Bering argues that we are all sexual deviants on one level or another. He introduces us to the young woman who falls madly in love with the Eiffel Tower, a young man addicted to seductive sneezes, and a pair of deeply affectionate identical twins, among others. He challenges us to move beyond our attitudes towards ‘deviant’ sex and consider the alternative: what would happen if we rise above our fears and revulsions and accept our true natures? With his signature wit and irreverent style, Bering pulls back the curtains on the history of perversions, the biological reasons behind our distaste for unusual sexual proclivities and the latest research on desire. Armed with reason, science and an insatiable appetite for knowledge, he humanises deviants while asking some provocative questions about the nature of hypocrisy, prejudice and when sexual desire can lead to harm. A groundbreaking look at our complex relationship with our carnal urges and the ways in which we disguise, deny and shame the sexual deviant in all of us, Perv brings hidden desires into the spotlight.
