Social Reproduction

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.

Traditional family structures are adapting to make room for children conceived in previously unimaginable ways. Whole industries and internet-enabled communities are being built around reproductive technologies. And there's more change coming as science continues to move forward. Combining intimate personal stories with cutting-edge research, Reconceptions invites listeners to reconsider their own ideas about parenthood and embrace a new vision of the meaning of family.

"Un manuel sur la sexualité féminine et une jouissance décorrélée de la fécondation. Drôle, percutant, l'ouvrage a aussi une visée politique. Car l'égalité sexuelle participe du combat pour l'égalité tout court. Aux orgasmes, citoyennes !" - Aurélie Marcireau, "Le Nouveau magazine littéraire". Libérée, la sexualité des femmes d'aujourd'hui ? On serait tenté de croire que oui. Pourtant, plus de 50 % d'entre elles se disent insatisfaites, que ce soit à cause d'un manque de désir ou de difficultés à atteindre l'orgasme.

It’s hard to overstate how much we put pressure on early sexual encounters—and how little real advice is out there. How do I deal when I keep running into my one-night stand? How can I tell if I’m too drunk to have sex? How do I say stop when I’m not really into it? Why do I keep getting all these UTIs? And most of all: Why is so much of sex ed focused on what could go wrong instead of what actually feels good? In this unflinchingly honest guide to hookups and relationships in the twenty-first century, Ali Drucker answers these questions and more.

In this definitive, eye-opening history, award-winning author Rebecca Grant charts the reproductive freedom movement from the days before Roe through the seismic impact of Dobbs. The stories in Access span four continents, tracing strategies across generations and borders. Grant centers those activists who have been engaged in direct action to help people get the abortions they need.

A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experience. She can be alternately sweet, tart, bubbly, or mellow. She can be maternal and playful, bossy and submissive, strong and soft. The seasoned woman knows who she is. She could be any one of us, as long as she is committed to living fully and passionately in the second half of life.

Immer geil, immer hart, immer on top - so will heute kein Typ mehr sein. Aber was will er dann, der Mann? Und wie geht’s ihm wirklich in der Kiste? Um das herauszufinden, begleitet Katja Lewina einen archetypischen Kerl vom Kleinkind- bis zum Greisenalter und fragt in tabulosen Interviews nach: Wie lebt es sich mit einem Penis? Wieso ist Schwul-Sein immer noch eine Schande für Hetero-Männer? Und was ist, wenn er nicht mehr steht? Antworten liefern neben dem normalo Cis-Mann auch Experten: vom Orgasmus-Coach bis zum Priester, vom Trans-Mann bis zum Urologen.

With the increasing demand for midwives among U.S. women, reproductive rights activists are lobbying to loosen restrictions that deny legal access to homebirth options. In Pushing for Midwives, Christa Craven presents a nuanced history of women's reproductive rights activism in the U.S. She also provides an examination of contemporary organizing strategies for reproductive rights in an era increasingly driven by "consumer rights".

In 1964, American judge Potter Stewart famously said, ‘I can’t define pornography, but I know it when I see it.’ Over 50 years later, the reverberations of these words are still being felt across the world. Be it proposed porn bans, religious morality or women’s rights, the assumption is that porn has a single, knowable definition. But one man’s art is another woman’s erotica is another person’s sex tape.

Emma loathes her period. Really, she does. But there’s something she loathes even more: not being able to talk about it. Despite women having had periods since the dawn of time, we’ve totally clammed up on anything to do with menstruation. Why, oh why, would we rather say ‘Auntie Flo’ than ‘period’? Why, in the 21st century, are periods still seen as icky? Why are we still so ignorant about such a fundamental bodily process?

На протяжении веков женское тело волновало умы не только художников и писателей, старавшихся передать всю его притягательность, но и ученых, неизменно задававшихся одними и теми же вопросами: почему женское тело так сильно отличается от мужского? Что привело к формированию этих отличий? И как, столь хрупкое, оно выносит нагрузки и боль не только наравне, но и лучше мужчин? Эволюционный генетик и педагог Дина Эмера провела большую часть своей жизни за изучением эволюции женского тела и женской репродуктивной системы.

Birth control offers women the opportunity to prevent pregnancy, plan and space their births, or have no births at all. And yet, in the United States, half of all pregnancies remain unintended, and access to birth control is beset by inequities in education, access, and coverage. Birth Control: What Everyone Needs to Know will offer more than a user's guide to available means of contraception: it will examine how supported family-planning infrastructure impacts society as a whole.

Imagine suddenly being sacked from your job. After spending years building your career, it’s all taken away in one moment. Why? Because you told your boss you are pregnant. This happened to Joeli Brearley. And she quickly realised she wasn’t alone - 54,000 women a year are forced out of their job because they dared to procreate, and three-quarters of working mothers face workplace discrimination. Pregnant Then Screwed is an expose of the unscrupulous work practices and antiquated systems that we’ve been conditioned to accept and a toolkit for how to challenge them.

Por cada mujer que acude al médico por algún problema relacionado con su ciclo menstrual, ¿cuántas se quedan en casa retorciéndose de dolor o automedicándose antiinflamatorios? La verdadera magnitud es imposible de determinar; en pocos asuntos clínicos existe un desequilibrio tan acentuado entre la cantidad de gente que sufre y lo marginal que resulta para la investigación médica y científica. Más de1800 millones de mujeres tienen ahora mismo edad de menstruar. Si los hombres menstruaran, como escribía Gloria Steinem en 1978, "la menstruación se convertiría en una realidad masculina envidiable y digna de alarde. Los hombres se jactarían de lo largo y copiosos que serían sus periodos".

Brunschweiger posits women have the right to be happy and, if they choose to, feel comfortable rejecting the societal conventional pressure of having children. Our author suggests that women and their partners will have more freedom and enjoyment if they are childfree. Brunschweiger doesn’t want humanity to go extinct as some may suggest; rather, she wants the Earth and its inhabitants to have an enjoyable and sustainable future.

Con "Vientres de alquiler" la abogada especializada en Derechos Humanos Núria González ofrece una respuesta jurídica, contundente, argumentada y feminista a la práctica de la gestación subrogada y expone lo que la ley establece al respecto. Para ello hace un recorrido por la diferente regulación y legislación de esta práctica en el mundo, y describe quiénes son las partes que intervienen en el proceso y cuál es su papel en cada una de las fases del mismo: agencias de intermediarios, clínicas de reproducción asistida, padres contratantes, madres gestantes y bebés gestados.

From women who find their sexuality reawakened by a younger lover, to couples whose marriages survive health crises and grow stronger, to women who finally find a soulmate in their sixties, to stories from seasoned sirens in their seventies, eighties, and even nineties, these portraits cover an enormous range of experience. In them, Sheehy locates the universal patterns that enable us all to recognize and understand our own lives.

More than four million blissfully ignorant American men are thrust into fatherhood every year, yet these men are rarely armed with an honest account of what to expect in the first nine months. This nine-month, non-fiction account details how one man learns to let go of control in the quest for the perfect pregnancy.

Men are responsible for all unwanted pregnancies. Why? Ovulation is involuntary. Ejaculation is not. Yet, it's women who are expected to do the work of pregnancy prevention. Why must women be responsible for men's bodies, as well as their own? Rather than endlessly exploring how and why we control women's bodies in the highly polarised anti-abortion and pro-choice 'debate', Ejaculate Responsibly makes a witty and unflinching case for why men must be held accountable for their reproductive choices.

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.