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Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A short, serious history of the co-development of sex and sexuality and the internet, and how the issues at their convergence increasingly define our lives: free speech, privacy, online banking, dating and social media, streaming technology, cultural andsexual appropriation, and mass data collection"--
"From the moment there was an “online,” there was sex online. The famous test image used by software engineers to develop formats like the jpeg...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know addresses key issues and concerns about a controversial and very hot topic. Written for a curious and intelligent audience interested in the foundations and developments of the industry, the book touches on the history of pornography, landmark legal cases, the latest medical research, and ongoing political debates."--
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Provides opposing viewpoints on issues concerning online pornography, addressing its harm to society and individuals, protecting children from it, and placing limits on it. Includes a bibliography, discussion questions, and a list of related organizations.
Author
Language
English
Description
The essential account of R. Kellys actions and their consequences, a reckoning two decades in the making. In November 2000, Chicago journalist and music critic Jim DeRogatis received an anonymous fax that alleged R. Kelly had a problem with “young girls.” Weeks later, DeRogatis broke the shocking story, publishing allegations that the R&B superstar and local hero had groomed girls, sexually abused them, and paid them off. DeRogatis thought his...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornography in all its facets - historical, religious, and cultural. In the 1960s, sex researchers Masters and Johnson declared the end of the fake orgasm. Nearly two decades later, in 1982, evangelical activist Tim LaHaye foretold that the entire pornography industry would soon be driven out of business. Neither prediction proved true. Instead, with the rise...
Author
Publisher
Silverleaf Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
40 million Americans regularly visit pornographic websites. 10% of American adults admit to compulsive viewing of pornographic material on the internet. Addiction is real and it can have devastating effects on marriages and families. Secrecy can enable and perpetuate addiction. Unfortunately, many spouses do not know how to confront their partner and fear what that confrontation may bring.
Calling on years of counseling experience and clinical study,...
10) The next victim
Author
Series
Kali O'Brien novels volume 7
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"During a long winter and short, chilly spring, a series of disturbing incidents rock the small resort island of Nantucket. A Land Bank executive dies in a suspicious hunting accident, a prominent local family's historic summer cottage burns down in an arson fire, and a teenage girl lies comatose from a drug overdose. When spring turns to summer and the tourists flood the island, the mysterious cycle of violence spins faster. A young Jamaican boy...
12) Bonita Avenue
Author
Publisher
Hogarth Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The seemingly idyllic family life of Netherlands mathematics professor-turned-politician Siem Sigerius is threatened by his violence-shadowed previous marriage, his older son and an unexpected deception.
Author
Publisher
Joshua Tree Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Joshua Shea seemingly had it all. A loving wife, two children, and a supportive extended family. In 2010, after nearly fifteen years working his way up the journalism ladder, he launched a lifestyle magazine in his hometown. Within a year, he was one of the founders of Central Maine's largest film festival and had won a seat on the City Council in Auburn, Maine. Accolades, including receiving the Key to the City and being called one of the "Next 10...
Author
Series
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Gorgeous new TV tie-in edition of Maureen Jennings's immensely popular Inspector Murdoch series, basis for the long-running The Murdoch Mysteries, now on CBC.After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked to discover photographs in the girl's desk. One is of Agnes in a lewd pose, captioned "What Mr. Newly Wed Really Wants." When Agnes does not show up at school the next day, her teacher...
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A Mexican journalist describes how her reporting of a sex trafficking ring in Cancun led to her own arrest, abuse, death threats, and legal persecution before she was vindicated and the Mexican government prosecuted the perpetrators for their crimes.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
On a hot June day the body of a sixteen-year-old girl washes up on a river bank outside of Frankfurt. She has been brutally murdered, but no one comes forward with any information as to her identity. Even weeks later, the local police have not been able to find out who she is. Then a new case comes in: A popular TV reporter is attacked, raped, and locked in the trunk of her own car. She survives, barely, and is able to supply certain hints to the...
Author
Publisher
Apollo Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A dive into the world of extreme behavior uncovers what drives those who push the limits of endurance. What do extreme eaters, ultramarathon runners, and BDSM practitioners have in common? What drives some people to push their bodies and minds to the brink, putting everything on the line to test the bounds of their capacity? When Jenny Valentish worked through her own addictions, she became fascinated by extremes in their myriad and unexpected manifestations....
20) Strega
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 2
Publisher
Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Private investigator Burke becomes enmeshed in a case involving a sultry femme fatale who makes the men in her life into slaves and attempts to send Burke into the darkest places in the city.
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