How can licensed pharmacists and physicians claim they have the right to deny you legal medical care if it violates their "conscience"? Our glorious Constitution guarantees us the widest range of rights civilization has ever seen. Why are those rights systematically undermined and revoked when it comes to sexual expression? Is there a conspiracy to deny us our sexual rights? No, says Marty Klein: "It's worse than a conspiracy. It's a war. They're very open about it--it's a War on Sex." It's a war that threatens the very fabric of our secular democracy. The American Taliban, our own sexual jihadists, want to replace our government with laws based on the Bible, creating a country in which "normal sex" is narrowly defined and no one has the right to alternative sexual information, health care, or personal expression. America is fighting a war on terror to prevent the overthrow of our way of life by fanatics who want to base all law on their strict religious beliefs. It is completely unacceptable that a group of conservative Americans is trying to accomplish the same thing right here.
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THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK FOR CLINICANS TODAY!.......2007-08-14
"The battle lines have been drawn, and it's not just the think tanks and advocacy groups that have stakes in this war. The sexuality of everyone is at risk, making America's War on Sex a must read for all citizens" says Bill Taverner, M.A. Co-Founding Editor, American Journal of Sexuality Education. Author Michael Castleman reports "America's War on Sex--the title may sound a bit hyped, but it's isn't. It's true: Social conservatives have truly declared war on sex, and no one lays out their agenda better than Marty Klein in this frightening and cogently argued book. Frightening because sexual civil rights are in jeopardy. Klein describes how the forces of sex-negativity are working to set up camp in our bedrooms.
Honored CAMFT (California Association of Marriage & Family Therapists -)member, Dr. Marty Klein is making people angry with his newest book, America's War On Sex. And rightfully so! Upon delivering this outstanding book the AASECT (American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists) Best Book of the Year Award at a sex therapist conference in June, Dr. Joy Davidson stated that she was angry while reading this book and that everyone in America, especially therapist, should be too!
Why be angry while reading Dr. Klein extremely factual, and yet at times humorous, discourse on sex in America today? Because he is right! We, all Americans, are under attack by those who want to robe us of our sexual rights, freedoms and education! In this book Dr. Klein explains with great fines how abstinence only sex education is being promoted and funded by our government despite overwhelming evidence of its failure to deliver the results it has promised, how women's rights to purchase and own vibrators are being legally denied by an increasing amount of state legislators and how sexual mis-information is deliberately being promoted in an effort to take away rights from the GLBT communities!
The anger one experiences when reading this book is not limited to sex therapists or the general public either. It is vital that all psychotherapists read and understand the issues addressed in this book. Our clients come into our offices carrying guilt and shame for engaging in healthy sexual practices after being convinced by negative myths promoted to illuminate sex from our society. They struggle with issue around parenting stemming from fear based messages about children's sexuality. HIV, unwanted pregnancy and the lack of positive sexual expression is the result. We as psychotherapist have an obligation to know the facts about sexuality, to help our clients understand them, to debunk dangerous myths and to support our client's sexual education, personal development and positive sexuality within couples. That is why I say America's War On Sex is the most important book in our field today and is a must read by all clinicians!
Stephen L. Braveman, M.A., L.M.F.T., D.S.T.
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist # MFC 28926
AASECT Certified Diplomate of Sex Therapy
AASECT Certified Supervisor and Certified CE Provider
Gender Specialist - Clinical Member of WPATH
Tantra Facilitator-Practitioner
AASECT Western Region Representative
CAMFT Past President - Monterey Chapter
Author:
- "Innovative Methods of Treating Patients with Sexual Trauma"
in "Innovations in Clinical Practice: Focus on Sexual Health, 2007"
- "CPR for Your Sex Life: How to Breathe Life Into a Dead, Dying or Dull Sex Life"
(Co-Author: Mildred Brown, Ph.D.), 2007.
Review from a clinical sexologist.......2007-04-21
What I like most about Dr. Klein and his new book, America's War on Sex, is that he's not afraid to battle the bullies and bigots who have hijacked our country. With facts and footnotes up the wazzoo, Dr. Klein's no holds barred, easy to read and humorous polemic is a must for any American who cares about their freedom.
Great Book.......2007-01-11
I had to read this book for a Human Sexuality class for a graduate class and even though the class is over and I did not finish reading the book I cant wait to finish it. The book is great at explaining topics such as teen pregnancy and sex education. A MUST READ!!!
FUNNY AND INFORMATIVE.......2007-01-10
I thought this book was very well written! It made alot of points that I wasn't aware of!
America's Sexophobia Exposed.......2006-12-12
Marty Klein's expert analysis of our sexually repressed society reminds me of H.L.Mencken's definition of a puritan as a person with the terrible fear that someone, somewhere,is having a good time. And with our born-again president insisting on funding nothing but abstinence only sex ed in our schools, we have the dubious distinction of having the highest teenage unwed pregnancy rate of all the industrial nations. It's a terrific, enlightening read.
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John Ince probes the nooks and crannies of the modern erotic mind and discovers that below our seeming enthusiasm for sex is a reservoir of fear. While we are drawn to sex, it also secretly disturbs us. Ours is a culture of sexual bravado, not sexual joy.
Ince offers a sweeping re-evaluation of our sexual ethics. He finds powerful anxieties lurking in our attitudes to every type of erotic expression, from nudity to public sex, masturbation to homosexuality, monogamy to group sex, pornography to prostitution, teen sexuality to erotic art.
This erotic malaise powerfully affects our lives. It stunts sexual passion, inhibits frank and honest talk about sex, and generates shame about sexual organs. It even influences our political orientation.
Our sex-negativity is the product of a fascinating but toxic social system that this book is the first to identify. The challenging ideas set out in The Politics of Lust will give you a radical new perspective on both your sexuality and your society.
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Lust for Liberty challenges long-standing views of popular medieval revolts. Comparing rebellions in northern and southern Europe over two centuries, Samuel Cohn analyzes their causes and forms, their leadership, the role of women, and the suppression or success of these revolts.
Popular revolts were remarkably common--not the last resort of desperate people. Leaders were largely workers, artisans, and peasants. Over 90 percent of the uprisings pitted ordinary people against the state and were fought over political rights--regarding citizenship, governmental offices, the barriers of ancient hierarchies--rather than rents, food prices, or working conditions. After the Black Death, the connection of the word "liberty" with revolts increased fivefold, and its meaning became more closely tied with notions of equality instead of privilege.
The book offers a new interpretation of the Black Death and the increase of and change in popular revolt from the mid-1350s to the early fifteenth century. Instead of structural explanations based on economic, demographic, and political models, this book turns to the actors themselves--peasants, artisans, and bourgeois--finding that the plagues wrought a new urgency for social and political change and a new self- and class-confidence in the efficacy of collective action.
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Hundreds of inspirational, humorous, and provocative quotations about being queer What is a queer quote? It's a reflection on love and romance, culture and art, family and friends, and the foibles and follies of life. It's an insight into not only what it means to be gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender in our society, but what it means to be human. It's fresh, entertaining, and celebratory. Queer Quotes is a compendium of wit and wisdom from well-known historical and contemporary cultural figures-from Oscar Wilde to Rita Mae Brown, from Quentin Crisp to Sandra Bernhard, and from James Baldwin to k.d lang. Often amusing, the quotes are also thought-provoking and have an impressive scope. Subjects range from love and gay marriage to HIV/AIDS, from gender identity to religion, and everything in between. Featuring more than 350 quotes as well as short biographies of all the individuals quoted, Queer Quotes is an essential resource and an ideal gift book. Select list of Contributors: Paula Gunn Allen, Dorothy Allison, Pedro Almodovar, James Baldwin, Tallulah Bankhead, Simone de Beauvoir, Sandra Bernhard, Chastity Bono, Susie Bright, Truman Capote, Kate Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres, Melissa Etheridge, Leslie Feinberg, Harvey Fierstein, Barney Frank, Jewelle Gomez, Larry Kramer, Liberace, Greg Louganis, Audre Lorde, Sir Ian McKellen, Isaac Mizrahi, Boy George, Armistead Maupin, Martina Navratilova, Adrienne Rich, Marlon Riggs, Eleanor Roosevelt, Urvashi Vaid, Gore Vidal, John Waters, Edmund White, Oscar Wilde-and many, many more.
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It's Utterly, Joyously, and Quotably Queer!.......2006-07-19
QUEER QUOTES: ON COMING OUT AND CULTURE, LOVE AND LUST, POLITICS AND PRIDE, AND MUCH MORE, edited by Teresa Theophano, is a delightful collection of GLBT-related quotations. Divided into 16 topics, including "All Things Queer," "Naming Ourselves," and "Queer History," with quotes range from the touching to the bitingly funny, with some healthy stops along that way that prompt a reader to think. However, all the quotes have a positive slant. Theophano in her introduction explains that she has "avoided including sound bites from homophobes. We already know what the Trent Lotts, Jerry Falwells, and Fred Phelps of the world think of GLBT issues. ...Let's be utterly, joyously, and quotably queer!" (10).
On the currently timely topic of "Love and (Gay) Marriage," Liz Langley states "Gay marriage should be legal if just to raise the standard of dancing at receptions" (29).
Political issues are the focus of "Out of the Closets, Into the Streets" with this from Barbara Grier: "It is the closet that is our sin and our shame." (81) And a chilling quote from Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in the US, reads, "If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door" (77). Milk was assassinated in 1978.
In "the Arts" there are a number of humorous entries as well as two quotes for the queer bibliophiles from Dorothy Allison and Nancy Garden, respectively:
"If I'd taken up with a gospel band or rock and roll, I'd make a whole lot more sense to my family. But to write books. ...I'd come home with books and they'd stare at me like I was crazy. That was the thing most queer about me" (37).
"[Radclyffe Hall's THE WELL OF LONELINESS] became my bible. I read it and reread it over and over again. And I vowed at that point that I was going to write a gay book that ended happily, a book about my people" (40). The author of dozens of award-winning children's and teens' books, Garden wrote ANNIE ON MY MIND, originally released in 1982, a groundbreaking novel concerning love been between two high school girls.
Theophano has included a biography section for the over 270 speakers quoted. This handy appendix provides brief biographical summaries, frequently listing best known titles if the person is an author, and an explanation of their notability. This section is particularly useful given the broad range of personalities quoted -- from Sophocles and Oscar Wilde to Melissa Etheridge and Calpernia Addams. Regretfully, not all these entries include a year of birth (or death). There appeared to be a few minor errors and the reader should cross-check the biographic information if using it for more than casual reference. (For example Rita Mae Brown's groundbreaking novel, RUBYFRUIT JUNGLE, is listed as originally released in 1983 rather than 1973). This reviewer would have liked the biographical data to have included the names of some long-term relationships, especially when the partners also appear in the volume as with Kate Clinton and Urvashi Vaid.
However, these shortcomings pale compared to the value of the section. Further, the editor has provided an index to the hundreds of quotes allowing the reader to find all quotes by a particular person. These last two sections result in a collection that is valuable to researchers as well as fun for the casual reader.
A well-organized, thoughtful, and fun little book, QUEER QUOTES is the most comprehensive title of its kind and would be useful for libraries and others who might use quote books, as well as being a size and format that make it a charming gift book.
Funny and thorough.......2005-08-03
The quotations in this book range from the supportive to the philosophical to the hilarious to the critical. I enjoyed the diversity of the quotations. There are enough good ones to make you laugh and enough great ones to make you think. Teresa Theophano did a good job with her selections and arrangements.
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This book examines how ruling elites manage and manipulate their political opposition in the Middle East. In contrast to discussions of government-opposition relations that focus on how rulers either punish or co-opt opponents, this book focuses on the effect of institutional rules governing the opposition. It argues rules determining who is and is not allowed to participate in the formal political arena affect not only the relationships between opponents and the state, but also between various opposition groups. This affects the dynamics of opposition during prolonged economic crises. It also shapes the informal strategies that ruling elites use toward opponents. The argument is presented using a formal model of government-opposition relations. It is demonstrated in the cases of Egypt under Presidents Nasir, Sadat and Mubarek; Jordan under King Husayn; and Morocco under King Hasan II.
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This book examines how ruling elites manage and manipulate their political opposition in the Middle East. In contrast to discussions of government-opposition relations that focus on how rulers either punish or co-opt opponents, this book focuses on the effect of institutional rules governing the opposition. It argues rules determining who is and is not allowed to participate in the formal political arena affect not only the relationships between opponents and the state, but also between various opposition groups. This affects the dynamics of opposition during prolonged economic crises. It also affects the informal strategies that ruling elites use toward opponents. The argument is presented using a formal model of government-opposition relations. It is demonstrated in the cases of Egypt under Presidents Nasr and Sadat, Jordan under King Husayn and Morocco under King Hasan II.
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Love, Lust, and Longing In the White House: The Romantic Relationships of America's Presidents
Webb B. Garrison
Manufacturer: Cumberland House Publishing
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In recent times, presidential sex sacandals have plagued the front pages of newpapers and have consumed precious times in Congress. As unbelieving as it may seem, abuse of power in the White House has occurred since George Washington was inaugurated. In "Love, Lust, and Longing in the White House," Webb Garrison takes a look at concealed and past affairs of the chief executives whose actions have been revealed through diaries and letters. Garrison also notes examples of true love and faithful commitments. In these stories are illustrations of true leaders not only in the political realm, but also in the marital arena.
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A Rare Evaluation of Privatization from the Perspective of Feudal Society.......2006-04-27
This important work guides us into a lost value system which sustained societies for millenia. Modern writers pay homage to capitalist or socialist ideologies but remain ignorant of the economic system that preceded them. This should be used in history courses in place of the self glorifying mythologies that we study.
Controversial? No, idiotic.......2003-08-24
Linda McQuaig is a great reporter and writer. But she has no grasp of economics and her understanding of the intellectual history of economics and political economy is unacceptably poor.
As such, she demonizes all non-socialists and canonizes anyone who dreams of yesterday's marx-engels revolutions. She also seems to think Karl Polanyi is God, when he is but an interesting figure whose thesis is fascinating but on balance, in error.
Sadly, she repeats old mantras and ideals that have been going around for 200+ yrs. Yes, Wall Street is evil, but it is not responsible for all of the world's ills, and communism is certainly not the answer.
All you can eat.......2003-01-24
First, let me sum up this book. In this book Linda McQuaig ...
- critiques the new (post 1980) capitalism (which is based on neo-classical economics), in which greed is elevated to the primary human characteristic and virtue. She believes that the new capitalism helps the very rich, but increases our greed and social isolation and does not increase our happiness or help the 2.8 billion people who live on less than US$2 per day.
- believes that our social nature is our primary characteristic, and our desire for collective protection (ie. from the ravages of the market) is also important. She accepts, though, that greed is natural and that it isn't bad, but she says it isn't primary and it should be controlled rather than encouraged.
- shows how this model of humans as machines of personal accumulation has been used to denigrate government and the possibility of collective action.
- describes how the new capitalism is spread through the new policies of the IMF and WB, and new trade treaties such as the NAFTA. She shows that these policies and deals abandon concern for anything other than economic growth, and that this hurts us. Third world countries are particularly hurt since they don't get to implement the policies of industrial protection and social stabilization that the first world countries employed in their own development. Her hero in this section is Stiglitz.
- critiques the apologists of the new capitalism, Thomas Friedman and Dnish D'Szousa.
- describes Red Vienna of the 1920's and 30's, and tells the story of Karl Polyani (author of the seminal book 'The Great Transformation').
- discusses Polyani's rather bizarre but novel idea that prices could be set by the community, not by the market or by a central bureaucracy.
- describes the hostile reaction to the free market during its development in England, showing that it wasn't universally beneficial and welcomed, but was forced on the majority by the elite.
- defends the public sphere of life, of government and taxes, of collective space and action.
- argues that the a pure free market and private property are not our natural mode of interaction. Instead, a mixed free market (with exchanges that are also based on redistribuation and reciprocity) embedded within and subverted to the overall needs of society is our natural state. This is based on the historical analysis of Polyani.
Now, here are my complaints...
- What's with the word 'Lust' in the title? This book has nothing to do with lust. I suspect that was put in by the marketing dept.
- In her view everything is too black and white, eg. Stiglitz and especially Polyani are reverred. Could life really be like this?
- Isn't capitalism starting to help alleviate poverty in India and China? Won't it eventually improve the lot of the 2.8 billion poor she mentions (I'm not saying it isn't destroying the environment, social cohesion, equality, etc.).
- What is her prescription? Is she suggesting we return a classical economic model? Or is she suggesting a Polyani-esque solution, with prices set by the community? If so that's a bit scary.
On the whole I liked it, but I certainly don't agree with everything she suggests.
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Bulldozed:'Kelo,' Eminent Domain and the American Lust for Land
Carla Main
Manufacturer: Encounter Books
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No domestic policy issue more angers or galvanizes the public than the controversy over eminent domain-the taking of private property for public use. The stakes in this always controversial procedure have been dramatically raised in recent years as eminent domain has been used to fund private development. As the notorious Kelo case in New London, CT demonstrated last year. The practice of using eminent domain to enrich municipalities is an incendiary issue. Veteran journalist, Carla Main, takes a hard look at this practice and delivers an incisive expose that is sure to be widely read and hotly debated.
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Des Rauchers Lust
Ironimus
Manufacturer: Ueberreuter
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Esquire (August 1976)
Manufacturer: Esquire Publishing Inc
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ASIN: B000GY0OYC |
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Gossips So Hot We Had to Seal the Pages. Fred & Ginger, Gossip Industry many articles, Antique Futures, People Who Hate People Magazine
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- Audio CD set for use with European Musical Heritage
- Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (American Crossroads)
- Bela Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra: The Masterworks Library (Boosey & Hawkes Masterworks Library)
- Celibidache
- Chopper (Screenplays)
- Complete Guide to the Music of the Beach Boys (Complete Guide to their Music)
- Complete Lyrics of Bob Marley: Songs of Freedom
- Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture)
- Creative Jazz Improvisation (4th Edition)
- De Colores and Other Latin American Folksongs for Children (Anthology)
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