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The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman by Nedjma

The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman by Nedjma

An autobiographical erotic novel written by an observant Muslim woman in contemporary North Africa, The Almond is an extraordinary and pioneering literary work, a truly unforgettable journey into the sexual undercurrents of a world that is, outwardly and to Western eyes, puritanical.

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Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

Authored entirely while Genet was imprisoned, this largely autobiographical account details the then-illicit encounters of Paris' homosexual underground. A breathtaking snapshot of love and life within the margins.

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The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition by Angela Carter

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition by Angela Carter

Carter's gothic yarns—often riffing on classic fairytales—realize richly supernatural worlds, protagonists, and scenarios, paving the way for storytellers like Audrey Niffenegger, William Goldman, and JK Rowling.

Buy Now

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Baldwin cements his literary influence via this tale of clandestine romance amid a Paris in the thrusts of creative and cultural upheaval. As a result of phrasings textured to engaged the reader's full range of senses, the story's painted pictures realize characters almost realer than life itself.

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Story of the Eye (1st City Lights Edition) By Georges Bataille

Story of the Eye (1st City Lights Edition) By Georges Bataille

A sexuality explorative of the "sinister side" is cataloged in Bataille's seminal work of literature. The lines between mortality and sensuality are both disturbingly and stimulatingly blurred.

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Fragments From The Delta Of Venus. Art and Introduction by Judy Chicago. Text Selections from Anais Nin

Fragments From The Delta Of Venus. Art and Introduction by Judy Chicago. Text Selections from Anais Nin

Judy Chicago's illustrations—as witty and vibrant as they are visually sensual—accompany her mentor Anais Nin's famed erotic poems. Sometimes pens (pencils, and watercolor brushes) are indeed mightier than swords ;)

Buy Now

The Pearl: A Journal of Voluptuous Reading, The Underground Magazine of Victorian England

The Pearl: A Journal of Voluptuous Reading, The Underground Magazine of Victorian England

Temperatures rise and complexions grow flushed within these bawdy, Victorian tales of the erotic. Potentially hyperbolic flourishes hint at tinges of satire, but only for the purpose of spicing pleasure with giggles.

Buy Now

Delta of Venus, Erotica by Anais Nin

Delta of Venus, Erotica by Anais Nin

Nin links imagination with immeasurable pleasures throughout these vibrant tales of surrendering to desire. Her protagonists bound past propriety as they chase euphorically sensual highs.

Buy Now

Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille

Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille

Bataille considers—rather controversially—eroticism as it manifests in life, death, and all in between. Along the way, he dares to view war, mythology, and economies through his iconoclastically sex-centric lens.

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The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman by Nedjma

The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman by Nedjma

An autobiographical erotic novel written by an observant Muslim woman in contemporary North Africa, The Almond is an extraordinary and pioneering literary work, a truly unforgettable journey into the sexual undercurrents of a world that is, outwardly and to Western eyes, puritanical.

Buy Now

All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks

All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks

Hooks explodes trite notions of formulaic "love" crafting in their former places a beneficially strenuous work of engagement. She asserts that this active brand of "love" stands to realize that for which so many indefinitely search.

Buy Now

Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

Authored entirely while Genet was imprisoned, this largely autobiographical account details the then-illicit encounters of Paris' homosexual underground. A breathtaking snapshot of love and life within the margins.

Buy Now

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition by Angela Carter

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition by Angela Carter

Carter's gothic yarns—often riffing on classic fairytales—realize richly supernatural worlds, protagonists, and scenarios, paving the way for storytellers like Audrey Niffenegger, William Goldman, and JK Rowling.

Buy Now

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Baldwin cements his literary influence via this tale of clandestine romance amid a Paris in the thrusts of creative and cultural upheaval. As a result of phrasings textured to engaged the reader's full range of senses, the story's painted pictures realize characters almost realer than life itself.

Buy Now

Story of the Eye (1st City Lights Edition) By Georges Bataille

Story of the Eye (1st City Lights Edition) By Georges Bataille

A sexuality explorative of the "sinister side" is cataloged in Bataille's seminal work of literature. The lines between mortality and sensuality are both disturbingly and stimulatingly blurred.

Buy Now

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

Pinkola Estes catalogs lupine female figures in mythology, folklore, and fairytales who aren't content to just sit around and howl at the moon. A global assortment of iconoclastic protagonists break the narrative, gendered mold, inspiring readers to live boldly on their own terms.

Buy Now

Fragments From The Delta Of Venus. Art and Introduction by Judy Chicago. Text Selections from Anais Nin

Fragments From The Delta Of Venus. Art and Introduction by Judy Chicago. Text Selections from Anais Nin

Judy Chicago's illustrations—as witty and vibrant as they are visually sensual—accompany her mentor Anais Nin's famed erotic poems. Sometimes pens (pencils, and watercolor brushes) are indeed mightier than swords ;)

Buy Now

The Pearl: A Journal of Voluptuous Reading, The Underground Magazine of Victorian England

The Pearl: A Journal of Voluptuous Reading, The Underground Magazine of Victorian England

Temperatures rise and complexions grow flushed within these bawdy, Victorian tales of the erotic. Potentially hyperbolic flourishes hint at tinges of satire, but only for the purpose of spicing pleasure with giggles.

Buy Now

Delta of Venus, Erotica by Anais Nin

Delta of Venus, Erotica by Anais Nin

Nin links imagination with immeasurable pleasures throughout these vibrant tales of surrendering to desire. Her protagonists bound past propriety as they chase euphorically sensual highs.

Buy Now

Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille

Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille

Bataille considers—rather controversially—eroticism as it manifests in life, death, and all in between. Along the way, he dares to view war, mythology, and economies through his iconoclastically sex-centric lens.

Buy Now

The Sexual Outlaw A Documentary by John Rechy

The Sexual Outlaw A Documentary by John Rechy

When sex is not only political but also professional in nature, virtually nothing remains off limits. This snapshot of a male sex worker's days and nights spent on LA's gritty, 1970's streets leaves little to the imagination and few questions unasked (even if some remain unanswered).

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Rumi's Four Essential Practices. Ecstatic Body, Awakened Soul by Will Johnson

Rumi's Four Essential Practices. Ecstatic Body, Awakened Soul by Will Johnson

Explore eating lightly, breathing deeply, moving freely, and gazing intently—as directed by Rumi throughout poems and prose—as you chart a path to your soul's own euphoric emergence.

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House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata

House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata

Three tales of isolation frame legendary storyteller Kawabata's narrative exploration of sex as it effects the human condition. Though Japanese in their cultural contextualization, these glimpses into the expanses of sensuality prove universal in their unearthing of desire's hidden complexities.

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The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman by Nedjma

The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman by Nedjma

An autobiographical erotic novel written by an observant Muslim woman in contemporary North Africa, The Almond is an extraordinary and pioneering literary work, a truly unforgettable journey into the sexual undercurrents of a world that is, outwardly and to Western eyes, puritanical.

Buy Now

All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks

All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks

Hooks explodes trite notions of formulaic "love" crafting in their former places a beneficially strenuous work of engagement. She asserts that this active brand of "love" stands to realize that for which so many indefinitely search.

Buy Now

Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

Authored entirely while Genet was imprisoned, this largely autobiographical account details the then-illicit encounters of Paris' homosexual underground. A breathtaking snapshot of love and life within the margins.

Buy Now

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition by Angela Carter

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition by Angela Carter

Carter's gothic yarns—often riffing on classic fairytales—realize richly supernatural worlds, protagonists, and scenarios, paving the way for storytellers like Audrey Niffenegger, William Goldman, and JK Rowling.

Buy Now

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Baldwin cements his literary influence via this tale of clandestine romance amid a Paris in the thrusts of creative and cultural upheaval. As a result of phrasings textured to engaged the reader's full range of senses, the story's painted pictures realize characters almost realer than life itself.

Buy Now

Story of the Eye (1st City Lights Edition) By Georges Bataille

Story of the Eye (1st City Lights Edition) By Georges Bataille

A sexuality explorative of the "sinister side" is cataloged in Bataille's seminal work of literature. The lines between mortality and sensuality are both disturbingly and stimulatingly blurred.

Buy Now

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

Pinkola Estes catalogs lupine female figures in mythology, folklore, and fairytales who aren't content to just sit around and howl at the moon. A global assortment of iconoclastic protagonists break the narrative, gendered mold, inspiring readers to live boldly on their own terms.

Buy Now

Fragments From The Delta Of Venus. Art and Introduction by Judy Chicago. Text Selections from Anais Nin

Fragments From The Delta Of Venus. Art and Introduction by Judy Chicago. Text Selections from Anais Nin

Judy Chicago's illustrations—as witty and vibrant as they are visually sensual—accompany her mentor Anais Nin's famed erotic poems. Sometimes pens (pencils, and watercolor brushes) are indeed mightier than swords ;)

Buy Now

The Pearl: A Journal of Voluptuous Reading, The Underground Magazine of Victorian England

The Pearl: A Journal of Voluptuous Reading, The Underground Magazine of Victorian England

Temperatures rise and complexions grow flushed within these bawdy, Victorian tales of the erotic. Potentially hyperbolic flourishes hint at tinges of satire, but only for the purpose of spicing pleasure with giggles.

Buy Now

Delta of Venus, Erotica by Anais Nin

Delta of Venus, Erotica by Anais Nin

Nin links imagination with immeasurable pleasures throughout these vibrant tales of surrendering to desire. Her protagonists bound past propriety as they chase euphorically sensual highs.

Buy Now

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The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman by Nedjma

The Almond: The Sexual Awakening of a Muslim Woman by Nedjma

An autobiographical erotic novel written by an observant Muslim woman in contemporary North Africa, The Almond is an extraordinary and pioneering literary work, a truly unforgettable journey into the sexual undercurrents of a world that is, outwardly and to Western eyes, puritanical.

Buy Now

All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks

All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks

Hooks explodes trite notions of formulaic "love" crafting in their former places a beneficially strenuous work of engagement. She asserts that this active brand of "love" stands to realize that for which so many indefinitely search.

Buy Now

Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet

Authored entirely while Genet was imprisoned, this largely autobiographical account details the then-illicit encounters of Paris' homosexual underground. A breathtaking snapshot of love and life within the margins.

Buy Now

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition by Angela Carter

The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition by Angela Carter

Carter's gothic yarns—often riffing on classic fairytales—realize richly supernatural worlds, protagonists, and scenarios, paving the way for storytellers like Audrey Niffenegger, William Goldman, and JK Rowling.

Buy Now

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Baldwin cements his literary influence via this tale of clandestine romance amid a Paris in the thrusts of creative and cultural upheaval. As a result of phrasings textured to engaged the reader's full range of senses, the story's painted pictures realize characters almost realer than life itself.

Buy Now

Story of the Eye (1st City Lights Edition) By Georges Bataille

Story of the Eye (1st City Lights Edition) By Georges Bataille

A sexuality explorative of the "sinister side" is cataloged in Bataille's seminal work of literature. The lines between mortality and sensuality are both disturbingly and stimulatingly blurred.

Buy Now

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.

Pinkola Estes catalogs lupine female figures in mythology, folklore, and fairytales who aren't content to just sit around and howl at the moon. A global assortment of iconoclastic protagonists break the narrative, gendered mold, inspiring readers to live boldly on their own terms.

Buy Now

Fragments From The Delta Of Venus. Art and Introduction by Judy Chicago. Text Selections from Anais Nin

Fragments From The Delta Of Venus. Art and Introduction by Judy Chicago. Text Selections from Anais Nin

Judy Chicago's illustrations—as witty and vibrant as they are visually sensual—accompany her mentor Anais Nin's famed erotic poems. Sometimes pens (pencils, and watercolor brushes) are indeed mightier than swords ;)

Buy Now

The Pearl: A Journal of Voluptuous Reading, The Underground Magazine of Victorian England

The Pearl: A Journal of Voluptuous Reading, The Underground Magazine of Victorian England

Temperatures rise and complexions grow flushed within these bawdy, Victorian tales of the erotic. Potentially hyperbolic flourishes hint at tinges of satire, but only for the purpose of spicing pleasure with giggles.

Buy Now

Delta of Venus, Erotica by Anais Nin

Delta of Venus, Erotica by Anais Nin

Nin links imagination with immeasurable pleasures throughout these vibrant tales of surrendering to desire. Her protagonists bound past propriety as they chase euphorically sensual highs.

Buy Now