Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Sexual & Reproductive Health

IVF can seem like a daunting prospect. An often expensive emotional and physical roller coaster, and one that is filled with new and strange jargon. How do you choose a clinic or decide which treatment options are right for you? And how do you avoid getting sucked into a black hole of late night googling, searching for answers? This fully up to date handbook contains everything you need to know about the ever evolving world of IVF, with professional insights from top level consultants and counsellors.

Confessions of a Failed Slut blends personal reflections - "How the Love Boat Ruined My Life" - with contrarian takes on porn (online and off), dating (ditto), "slut shaming," sex toys, "robot hookers of the near future," dinosaur erotica, the multiplication of genders and orientations, and what she calls "the epidemic of beta male faggotry" plaguing the land.

In the wake of a divorce, science writer and single mother Kayt Sukel made herself a guinea pig in the labs of some unusual love experts to find out. This Is Your Brain on Sex is her lively and hilarious examination of the big questions about love and sex, previously published in hardcover as Dirty Minds. Each chapter of this edgy romp through the romantic brain looks at a different aspect of love above the belt.

Everyone loves to blame a mother for making the "wrong" choices, and Elizabeth Heineman makes plenty of unpopular ones: being of advanced maternal age, having a home birth with a midwife, communing with her dead baby. In Ghostbelly, Heineman's brave, disarming, and stunning memoir, she recounts her indescribable grief after delivering a stillborn son, her shocking and intimate bonding with the baby's body before the burial, and the impossible task of saying goodbye.

If we are, in part, a product of our genes, can free will exist? Incisive and engaging, this indispensable tour of evolutionary biology runs the gamut of contemporary debates, from science and religion to our place in the universe.

Pregnancy is a wonderful occasion in life, too precious to be disrupted by irrational fears or unnecessary apprehensions caused by the lack of simple, reliable information. This book will tell you all about childbirth, answering questions about weight gain, proper diet, exercise, breathing patterns, positions to adopt during labor and postnatal care of both yourself and the baby. Scientific and reliable, the book also offers invaluable time-tested home remedies.

Twenty-six-year-old Mara Altman wanted to know what all the screaming was about. She'd lost her virginity at seventeen; grown up in southern California with sexually free parents; had lovers in India, Burma, and Peru; and spent a year in Bangkok observing all manner of depravity. And yet she was an attractive, successful, single woman in New York who'd never had an orgasm. And so she embarked on a wildly funny, emotionally resonant odyssey - a journey both inside and outside herself - only to discover that, for Mara, orgasm was connected to a part of her that no vibrator could reach.

A straight-talking women's guide to tending to a partner's unrequited libido and reigniting the sexual sparks in a long-term relationship. Many couples are all too familiar with the classic bedroom balancing act-managing His and Her sex drives. As men clamor for more action and women grumble for more sleep, the topic of "maintenance sex" - those dutiful two minutes to "get it over with" - invariably arises to divide and conquer a couple's sex life.

When Deirdre Fishel and Diana Holtzberg began work on their documentary Still Doing It, they knew they were catching a wave. The women of the baby-boom generation who had been so outspoken about sexuality and freedom were about to turn sixty, yet no one was talking about the revolution in aging. Nor was anyone letting on about the big dark secret that women born before the boomers, even way before, were a hell of a lot more vital than the images we were getting, and many were still having sex-and loving it!

How Sex Became a Civil Liberty is the first book to show how and why we have come to see sexual expression, sexual practice, and sexual privacy as fundamental rights. Using rich archival sources and oral interviews, historian Leigh Ann Wheeler shows how the private lives of women and men in the American Civil Liberties Union shaped their understanding of sexual rights as they built the constitutional foundation for the twentieth-century's sexual revolutions.

¿Son las doulas algo nuevo o que depende de una moda? ¿Están las doulas siempre en los partos? ¿Tenemos una doula para conseguir un tipo de parto o crianza concreto? ¿Son de verdad expertas en las maternidades de otras mujeres? ¿Tienen relación real con las terapias o remedios naturales? En definitiva, ¿qué hay de real y de ficción en lo que nos llega habitualmente sobre las doulas?

Si algo nos acompaña desde que nacemos es nuestro sistema inmunitario. Las enfermedades acechan al bebé desde el mismo momento en que sale al mundo: infecciosas, autoinmunes, alérgicas, cancerígenas... Todas permanecen a raya gracias a su eficaz sistema inmunitario, que hace de verdadero muro defensivo, invisible pero infranqueable... y cuando por alguna razón falla, tenemos un verdadero problema.

Depuis ses premières règles à la ménopause, en passant par ses désirs ou non de maternité, la fausse couche ou l'IVG, l'accouchement, l'allaitement, le post-partum, une femme va traverser énormément de d'émotions physiques au cours de sa vie. Des phases cycliques, des énergies puissantes et des vibrations dans sa chair qui ne sont pas toujours pris en compte, partagées ou nommées.

Gerade emotionale Themen wie Familienplanung, Schwangerschaft, Geburt und die erste Zeit mit Baby bergen viel Unsicherheit, Sorge und Ängste. Die neue wachsende Verantwortung lässt werdende Eltern nach vertrauensvoller Wissensvermittlung verlangen. Hier setzt Dr. med. Konstantin Wagner, bekannt durch seine Plattform "Richtig schwanger", mit seinem Buch an: Kompaktes und fundiertes medizinisches Wissen wird verständlich und auf eine lockere Weise vermittelt. Immer nach dem Motto: Wissen schafft Vertrauen!

Che ci fanno Emmanuel Lévinas e Slavoj Žižek, maestri del pensiero contemporaneo, accanto a Rocco Siffredi e Moana Pozzi, protagonisti di ben altre imprese? Che cosa rende il pop porno, e quindi l'osceno, lo scandaloso, degno oggetto di riflessione filosofica? Cos'è, in una parola, la pornosofia? Dopo aver sgombrato il campo dalla critica politicamente ed eticamente corretta della pornografia, l'autore indaga il nesso fra corpo, amore, perversione, democrazia e, infine, ricerca filosofica.

La méthode suédoise ? Une égale implication des deux parents auprès de l'enfant pour un parfait équilibre dans la famille. Cecilia Chrapkowska et Agnes Wold, deux médecins suédoises, exposent pour la première fois en France les bienfaits concrets de la fameuse méthode suédoise. Des débuts de la grossesse aux premiers mois de l'enfant, les autrices expliquent comment chacun peut trouver sa place dans cette nouvelle vie et comment participer pleinement à l'éveil du nouveau-né.

O surgimento da psicanálise e a revolução sexual no século XX contribuíram para aumentar as discussões em torno da sexualidade, porém poucos avanços ocorreram de fato nesse campo da existência humana. Os homens ainda preocupados com suas habilidades eróticas, ficam desconcertados ao não atingir um desempenho considerado adequado. As mulheres, seguindo uma lógica parecida, estão cada vez mais interessadas em se mostrar competentes e exuberantes.

In February of 1973, Nancy Weber put an ad in the Village Voice offering to trade places with another woman, a stranger, for a month. In hopes of better understanding what was fixed and final in each person - and what was invented, and therefore might be reinvented - they would use each other's names, live in each other's homes, love each other's loves, and do each other's work.

We're all used to encountering even the most hardcore porn from the comfort and privacy of our computer screens, but how many of us would go see it live? Thought Catalog editor Chelsea Fagan did, spending an evening in the world of live sex shows and hardcore pornography. Here, she gives us the guided tour to everything from rules about condoms to the pressure of facials, showing us a world that is at once completely familiar and something we've never quite seen before.

With two out of every three Americans overweight or obese, scientists are studying how excess fat changes physical and mental health, demographers are calculating how it's shortening life spans, and economists are debating the impact it has on America's productivity and global competitiveness. But how weight affects intimacy and sexuality is barely discussed. Yet, it's a question of high importance for the tens of millions of Americans who are overweight or obese and having difficulty sexually and romantically.