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The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRosalie Gilbert
Coral Gables: Mango Publishing Group, 2020.“An inside look at sexual practices in medieval England. Were medieval women slaves to their husband’s desires, jealously secured in a chastity belt in his absence? Was sex a duty or could it be a pleasure? Did a woman have a say about her own female sexuality, body, and who did or didn’t get up close and personal with it? No. And yes. It’s complicated. Romance, courtship, and behind closed doors. The intimate lives of medieval women were as complex as for modern woman. They loved and lost, hoped and schemed, were lifted up and cast down. They were hopeful and lovelorn. Some had it forced upon them, others made aphrodisiacs and dressed for success. Some were chaste and some were lusty. Having sex was complicated. Not having sex, was even more so.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Ten Stage Secrets of Beauty and Social Success
Read MoreGrace Duncan
Sydney: H. H. Watson Printing Co., No date.Dedicated to the Women who have Helped Themselves and used their Charms – to my Many Friends on and off the Stage – and to the Women who are Willing to Try. Grace Duncan of 178 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, a former actress turned business woman writes on the beauty and understanding pertaining to actresses before providing further guidance to the domestic woman and how to harness the power of attraction through the power of the mind, wardrobe, grace, bust, hair, and body. Many recipes are provided for the creation of shampoos, moisturisers, and lotions. Undated, Duncan’s acting resume is not widely noted, however her advertisements for obtaining the most remarkable complexion treatment ever known appeared in Australian and New Zealand newspapers between 1916-1918. 1 copy recorded in OCLC at Monash, however a likely near identical (and equally scarce with 1 holding at Southern Methodist University, Dallas) publication was marketed in the United States from 1913 attributed to Pearl LaSage of Chicago and in 1920 in Montreal.
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Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAnnie Sprinkle; Beth Stephens; Jennie Klein
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.“In 2008, Sprinkle and Stephens married the Earth, which set them on the path to explore the realms of ecosexuality as they became lovers with the Earth and made their mutual pleasure an embodied expression of passion for the environment. Ever since, they have been not just pushing but obliterating the boundaries circumscribing biology and ecology, creating ecosexual art in their performance of an environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, materialist, exuberant, and steeped in humor.” (publishers blurb) This copy inscribed Sprinkle and Stephens with scribble drawings and stamps.
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Evocations of the Child: Fertility Figures of the Southern African Region
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartElizabeth Dell
Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1998. -
The Politics of Sex: Prostitution and Pornography in Australia since 1945
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBarbara Sullivan
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. -
Sexuality and the Social Sciences: A French Survey on Sexual Behaviour
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMichel Bozon; Henri Leridon
Aldershot: Dartmourth Publishing Company, 1996. -
Theorie de L’Amour et de la Jalousie
AU$500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartP. J. Stahl [Pierre-Jules Hetzel]
Bruxelles: J. B. Tarride, 1853.Moral philosophical study of love, passion, and jealousy by the Jules Verne publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel published under his P. J. Stahl pseudonym. This copy bound in a fine half leather binding signed De Watines.
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Condoman Says: Don’t Be Shame Be Game. Use Condoms!
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDepartment of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia (Queensland)
Queensland: Department of Health, Housing and Community Services, Aboriginal Health Workers of Australia, No date.Early/mid 1990s issue of the iconic Aboriginal HIV/AIDS awareness campaign poster (the earliest issues captioned USE FRENCHIES! instead of condoms). Originally conceived in 1987 by Aunty Gracelyn Smallwood and a small team of Aboriginal health workers in Townsville, Queensland, Condoman became one of the most successful Australian sexual health campaigns.
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Manrape
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMarta Tikkanen
London: Virago, 1978.Translated from the Swedish ‘Man kan inte valdtas’ by Alison Weir. The first English edition released alongside the 1978 film ‘Men Can’t Be Raped’. “On her fortieth birthday Eva Randers, library assistant, divorced, living alone, is asked to dance by Marty Wester at a local disco. After a few drinks they go back to his flat, where he proceeds to tie her up, pour liquor over her, and rape her. .. She’s stunned, humiliated, frightened, confused. She doesn’t report it to the police. And she can’t and won’t forget it. Stubbornly and obsessionally she makes her plan to alert the world to her experience…” (from jacket flap)
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Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJ. De La Fontaine
Paris: Defer de Maisonneuve, 1791.The Loves of Psyche and Cupid by Jean De La Fontaine with colour illustrations based on paintings by M. Schall. One of the most striking editions of Fontaine’s adaptation of the story of Cupid and Psyche with coloured stipple engravings by Bonnefoy, Mme Demonchy, and Colibert after Jean-Frederic Schall. This copy with the advertisement leaf (often lacking) announcing the publication of Milton’s Paradise Lost, with an additional portrait engraving frontispiece by Edelinck after H. Rigault, and an original drawing dedication “quatre amis dont la connaissance avait commence par le Parnasse” [four friends whose acquaintance had begun at Parnassus]: La Fontaine, Racine, Moliere, and Boileau, in pen and Indian ink enhanced with gold and colouring on vellum signed L. Benard 1893, bound in a fine signed binding by the Paris bookbinder Salvador David (1859-1929).
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The Truth About Incest
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDaniel Hawkes
London: Luxor Press, 1971.Sexploitation pulp sensational sexological study of incestuous relationships.
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The Girls, the Massage, and Everything
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBernhardt J. Hurwood
Sydney: Eclipse Paperbacks, 1973.The naked truth about massage parlors.
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Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian McNair
London and New York: Routledge, 2002. -
Good Sex Illustrated
AU$15.00 Read MoreAdd to cartTony Duvert
Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2007.“A scathing view of sex manuals for children and society’s hypocrisy of over sex that argues for the rights of children to their own bodies and their own sexuality.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Suck: First European Sexpaper
AU$2,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Levy; Heathcote Williams; Germaine Greer; Susan Jansen; Lynne Tillman; Jim Haynes; Willem de Ridder
London and Amsterdam: Joy Publications, 1969-74.A complete set of Suck, touted as the first European sex newspaper tasked with creating “a new pornography which would demystify male and female bodies”. Launched in London in 1969 before moving to Amsterdam to avoid England’s anti-obscenity laws. Heathcote Williams in his Suck manifesto declares “SUCK is Group Sex, Police Sex, Animal Sex, Teeny Sex, One Armed Bandit Sex, Geriatric Sex and Cosmic Sex”, highlighting the nothing is off-limits approach of the editorial board. Though Suck was no mere porno rag, as Australian feminist writer and Suck co-founder Germaine Greer told the academic journal Women’s Studies International Forum, Suck was “a new kind of erotic art, away from the tits ‘n’ ass and the peep-show syndrome.” Greer’s involvement helped push a wave of radical feminist pornography, though she fell out with her co-editors and resigned after they published a photograph of her naked with her legs over her head, not because of the nudity, but the context of its publishing, which is outlined in Greer’s resignation letter printed in the final issue. Greer’s involvement was not the only tip to a radical cause with noted contributors including William S. Burroughs, Valerie Solanas, Michael McClure, W. H. Auden, Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Girodias, and many others. Primary editors were William Levy, Heatcote Williams, Germaine Greer, Susan Jansen, Lynne Tillman, and Jim Haynes, with art direction by Willem de Ridder.
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Glasnost 7 Seks
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJonny Axelsson; Audun Engh; Thomas Hylland Eriksen; Anne Granberg; Trond Havard Holmen; Christine Lochting; Ole A. Seifert; Egil Haraldsson Stenseth
Oslo: Futurum Forlag, 1988.Single issue of Norwegian anarchist publication Glasnost, the Sex issue.
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Sexualia: From Prehistory to Cyberspace
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartClifford Bishop; Xenia Othelder
Cologne: Konemann, 2001.A multidisciplinary look at sexuality and erotica with coffee-table appeal.
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Sexuality in Role-Playing Games
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAshley M. L. Brown
New York and London: Routledge, 2015. -
Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCatherine Malabou
Cambridge: Polity, 2022.“The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but honoured. Conferences, books, manifestos, works of art are all devoted to it. The autonomy of clitoral jouissance is recognized. The boundaries of feminism have also moved: queer, intersex and trans approaches claim that the clitoris is perhaps no longer the exclusive preserve of the woman. And yet, there remains a wounded space. Because genital mutilation is still common practice. Because millions of women are still denied pleasure. The clitoris continues to mark the enigmatic space of the feminine. Constrained by the extreme difficulty and the extreme urgency of returning to this scorched earth, it is time to give voice to an organ of pleasure which has still not become an organ of thought.” (publisher’s blurb) Translated from the French by Carolyn Shread.
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The Confessions of Wanda von Sacher-Masoch
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWanda von Sacher-Masoch; V. Vale; Andrea Juno
San Francisco: RESEARCH, 1990.The first English translation of the classic feminist story of Wanda’s life as sadistic slave to her husband, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and his sexual fantasies which gave rise to the term masochism. Edited by V. Vale and Andrea Juno. Translated by Marian Phillips, Carline Hebert, and V. Vale.