Las Animas - Bent County Library District

For women, sex has been hijacked. Today's sexual climate leaves little to no space for honoring the complexities of sex; sex as pleasure, sex as connection, sex as creative expression, and sex as healing. In Taking Sexy Back, relationship expert Alexandra Solomon shows women that they are more than just sexy objects of someone else's desire, and offers real tools to help women explore their own sexuality, communicate their needs, draw boundaries to...

Soiled Doves tells of the grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the oldest profession. Colorful, if not socially acceptable, these ladies of easy virtue were a definite part of the early West -- Wearing ruffled petticoats with fancy bows, they were glamorous and plain, good and bad and many were as wild as the land they came to tame.

"What is it about evil that we find so compelling? From our obsession with serial killers to violence in pop culture, we seem inescapably drawn to the stories of monstrous acts and the aberrant people who commit them. But evil, Dr. Julia Shaw argues, is largely subjective. What one may consider normal, like sex before marriage, eating meat, or working on Wall Street, others find abhorrent. And if evil is only in the eye of the beholder, can it be...

Ian Kerner offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring women in She Comes First-an essential guidebook to oral sex from the author of Be Honest-You're Not That Into Him Either. The New York Times praises Kerner's "cool sense of humor and an obsessive desire to inform," as he "encourages men through an act that many find mystifying." An indispensable aid to a healthier, more fulfilling sex life for her and him, She Comes First offers techniques...

Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.

"In a society supposedly grown more open and accepting in the wake of Stonewall, women's liberation, and AIDS activism, what can it mean that bisexuality continues to be marginalized by both gay and straight cultures and dismissed as either a phase or, worse, a cop-out? With intimacy and humor, the acclaimed author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner discusses her own experience as a bisexual and the struggle she has undergone to reconcile the privilege...

"Written by and for women who love women, The Loving Lesbian is the ultiamte practical guide to achieving enriching and rewarding relationships. Using clear examples and case studies, the authors examine lesbian love at both the psychological and sexual levels, and explore the special experiences and problems that make lesbian love unique."--From page 4 of cover

In her inimitable style, Loulan takes a witty, wise and sometimes profound took at lesbian eroticism.