The Autonomy of Pleasure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Autonomy of Pleasure write by James A. Steintrager. This book was released on 2016-02-16. The Autonomy of Pleasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented clandestinely with this idea during the Enlightenment. In explicit novels, dialogues, poems, and engravings, they wrenched pleasure free from religion and morality, from politics, aesthetics, anatomy, and finally reason itself, and imagined how such a world would be desirable, legitimate, rapturous—and potentially horrific. Laying out the logic and willful illogic of radical libertinage, this book ties the Enlightenment engagement with sexual license to the expansion of print, empiricism, the revival of skepticism, the fashionable arts and lifestyles of the Ancien Régime, and the rise and decline of absolutism. It examines the consequences of imagining sexual pleasure as sovereign power and a law unto itself across a range of topics, including sodomy, the science of sexual difference, political philosophy, aesthetics, and race. It also analyzes the roots of radical claims for pleasure in earlier licentious satire and their echoes in appeals for sexual liberation in the 1960s and beyond.
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good
Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good write by Cathy Gere. This book was released on 2017-10-19. Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Contents "--"Introduction: Diving into the Wreck" -- "1. Trial of the Archangels" -- "2. Epicurus at the Scaffold" -- "3. Nasty, British, and Short" -- "4. The Monkey in the Panopticon" -- "5. In Which We Wonder Who Is Crazy" -- "6. Epicurus Unchained" -- "Afterword: The Restoration of the Monarchy" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography
Techniques of Pleasure
Techniques of Pleasure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Techniques of Pleasure write by Margot Weiss. This book was released on 2011-12-20. Techniques of Pleasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this lively ethnography, Weiss studies the pansexual BDSM community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Weiss finds that BDSM practice is not as transgressive as the participants imagine, nor is it simply reinforcing of older forms of social domination. Instead she shows how fantasy play depends on pre-existing social hierarchies, even as it also participates in a commodification of desires.
Slow Pleasure
Slow Pleasure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slow Pleasure write by Euphemia Russell. This book was released on 2022-03-30. Slow Pleasure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A modern guide to sex and pleasure, showing you how slowing down will help you tune into your body so you can heighten your sense of pleasure and connection.
Pleasure Erased
Pleasure Erased - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pleasure Erased write by Catherine Malabou. This book was released on 2022-06-24. Pleasure Erased available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
