“Designer Relationships” – Book Review
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Open: Love, Sex and Life in an Open Marriage
DESCRIPTION: Finally, a book about open marriage that grapples with the problems surrounding monogamy and fidelity in an honest, heartfelt, and non-fringe manner. Jenny Block is your average girl next door, a suburban wife and mother for whom married life never felt quite right. While many books on this topic presuppose that the reader is …
O Wow: Discovering Your Ultimate Orgasm
I was only 10 pages into this book when I realized this was a must have for all the women in my life! I quickly purchased additional copies for my daughters, my daughter in laws, and many of my close friends! As Jenny Block so eloquently points out, “An ultimate orgasm comes from questioning, exploring, …
The Jealousy Workbook: Exercises and Insights for Managing Open Relationships
Author Description: A counselor and nurse specializing in polyamorous singles, couples and groupings, Kathy Labriola has spent many years helping people to understand and manage their jealousy. This book is a compendium of the techniques and exercises she has developed, as well as tips and insights from the polyamory community’s top educators, therapists and authors. …
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The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers
Author Description: CAN OPEN EROTICISM between more than two consenting adults be considered natural sexual behaviour? Is it possible to experience sex with other partners while happily ensconced in an emotionally monogamous marriage? Didn’t this type of sexual “swinging” disappear with the 1960s and ’70s? What are millions of middle-class couples getting up to on …
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Opening Up: A Guide To Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
Author Description: Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships — from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth …
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Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
Author Description: “Sex at Dawn challenges conventional wisdom about sex in a big way. By examining the prehistoric origins of human sexual behavior the authors are able to expose the fallacies and weaknesses of standard theories proposed by most experts. This is a provocative, entertaining, and pioneering book. I learned a lot from it and …
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Polyamory in the 21st Century: Love and Intimacy with Multiple Partners
Author Description: Unlike other books on this topic, Polyamory in the 21st Century weaves together research and faClubs/Travels to provide an informed and impartial analysis of polyamory as a lifestyle and as a movement, and to place it in a psychosocial as well as an historical context. Anecdotes and personal experiences allow the reader to …
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Ethical Slut
Author Description: The essential guide for singles and couples who want to explore polyamory in ways that are ethically and emotionally sustainable. For anyone who has ever dreamed of love, sex, and companionship beyond the limits of traditional monogamy, this groundbreaking guide navigates the infinite possibilities that open relationships can offer. Experienced ethical sluts Dossie …
In Praise of Open Relationships: On Love, Sex, Reason, and Happiness
Author Description: For most people today, Relationshipsomantic love is tantamount to monogamy. However, the ideal of one true love that lasts forever has long given way to the sobering reality of serial monogamy. The simple faClubs/Travel that a life may comprise more than one love poses a challenge to our established conception of fidelity. Why …
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