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The Illusion of Intimacy

Author : John C. Bridges
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Illusion of Intimacy written by John C. Bridges and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines online dating from the "inside," using in-depth interviews with dating website members to reveal—and keenly analyze—what relationships and romance in the 21st century are really like. The members of the current generation of "digital guinea pigs" are true social pioneers as they embrace digital technology to create a new realm of mating, dating, and intimacy in America. Ironically, "digital dating" frequently results in an outcome that is exactly opposite to its participants' intended purposes. The Illusion of Intimacy: Problems in the World of Online Dating is more than a thorough investigation of the realities of modern relationships, many of which begin online—one in five, according to Match.com; the book introduces the reader to some of the natives and industry "users" who make up its clientele. Author John C. Bridges shows how they have adapted to technology to find new interactions, meet new partners, and share new experiences. The research focuses on the dating sites ranked in the top five by actual members of these sites who interviewed with the author to share their personal stories and experiences, all documented by saved emails and text messages.

The Illusion of Intimacy

Author : John C. Bridges
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313399522
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Illusion of Intimacy written by John C. Bridges and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines online dating from the "inside," using in-depth interviews with dating website members to reveal—and keenly analyze—what relationships and romance in the 21st century are really like. The members of the current generation of "digital guinea pigs" are true social pioneers as they embrace digital technology to create a new realm of mating, dating, and intimacy in America. Ironically, "digital dating" frequently results in an outcome that is exactly opposite to its participants' intended purposes. The Illusion of Intimacy: Problems in the World of Online Dating is more than a thorough investigation of the realities of modern relationships, many of which begin online—one in five, according to Match.com; the book introduces the reader to some of the natives and industry "users" who make up its clientele. Author John C. Bridges shows how they have adapted to technology to find new interactions, meet new partners, and share new experiences. The research focuses on the dating sites ranked in the top five by actual members of these sites who interviewed with the author to share their personal stories and experiences, all documented by saved emails and text messages.

Human Intimacy

Author : Victor L. Brown
Publisher : Salt Lake City, Utah : Parliament Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Intimacy written by Victor L. Brown and published by Salt Lake City, Utah : Parliament Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wired for Intimacy

Author : William M. Struthers
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458765555
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Wired for Intimacy written by William M. Struthers and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pornography is powerful. Our contemporary culture as been pornified, and it shapes our assumptions about identity, sexuality, the value of women and the nature of relationships. Countless Christian men struggle with the addictive power of porn. But common spiritual approaches of more prayer and accountability groups are often of limited help. In this book neuroscientist and researcher William Struthers explains how pornography affects the male brain and what we can do about it. Because we are embodied beings, viewing pornography changes how the brain works, how we form memories and make attachments. By better understanding the biological realities of our sexual development, we can cultivate healthier sexual perspectives and interpersonal relationships. Struthers exposes false assumptions and casts a vision for a redeemed masculinity, showing how our sexual longings can actually propel us toward sanctification and holiness in our bodies. With insights for both married and single men alike, this book offers hope for freedom from pornography.

Illusions of Intimacy

Author : Signa Bodishbaugh
Publisher : Sovereign World
ISBN 13 : 9781852403751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Illusions of Intimacy written by Signa Bodishbaugh and published by Sovereign World. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world has been infected with the virus of sexual addiction and pornography. This book offers an antidote to this epidemic. It gives a message of hope, and presents practical and godly ways in which freedom from this bondage can be found. It also tells the testimonies of men and women who have escaped the trap of compulsive addictions.

Intimate Strangers

Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Strangers written by Richard Schickel and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In trying to understand the power of celebrity in modern life, Schickel offers examples of how celebrity shapes the world, and offers a chilling warning about the consequences of obsession with celebrity.

The Dreamer and the Fantasy Relationship

Author : Natalie Lue
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781492832522
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book The Dreamer and the Fantasy Relationship written by Natalie Lue and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people if asked, would deny that they'd ever had a fantasy relationship as they're associated with pretending to be with somebody or in something that's non-existent, however, it's time for you to change what you think you know. Struggled to get over a relationship that didn't truly exist? Don't understand how you wound up spending years with someone you hardly see? In love before you've even gone on that first date with somebody you met on dating site?Keep letting your assumptions and projections run away with you? In this modern age of texts, email, Facebook, online dating, and casual relationships, it's never been so easy to have a fantasy relationship. An increasing number of people are satisfied with sprinklings of attention and interaction, because they can have the illusion of being loved, cared for, and in control, while also avoiding commitment, intimacy, and 'full-on' rejection.The Dreamer and the Fantasy Relationship explains how fantasy relationships work, why they're so attractive, and the types of fantasy relationship and people that you're likely to be involved with. A companion book to Mr Unavailable and the Fallback Girl, the no holds barred guide to understanding emotional unavailability, author Natalie of popular relationship and self-esteem blog Baggage Reclaim, gets to the heart of the issue so that you can reclaim your power. Packed with practical tips and tools for breaking the habit, and tackling issues such as fear of abandonment, rejection, criticism, and conflict, Natalie's empowering and often humourous take on fantasy relationships will help you to take action in your present and find happiness and increased sense of self in reality.

Seduction

Author : Rachel O'Neill
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509521593
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Seduction written by Rachel O'Neill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can cultivate through practical training and personal development. Though it has been an object of media speculation – and frequent sensationalism – for over a decade, this cultural formation remains poorly understood. In the first book-length study of the industry, Rachel O’Neill takes us into the world of seduction seminars, training events, instructional guidebooks and video tutorials. Pushing past established understandings of ‘pickup artists’ as pathetic, pathological or perverse, she examines what makes seduction so compelling for those drawn to participate in this sphere. Seduction vividly portrays how the twin rationalities of neoliberalism and postfeminism are reorganising contemporary intimate life, as labour-intensive and profit-orientated modes of sociality consume other forms of being and relating. It is essential reading for students and scholars of gender, sexuality, sociology and cultural studies, as well as anyone who wants to understand the seduction industry’s overarching logics and internal workings.

Houseboat Days

Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480459151
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Houseboat Days written by John Ashbery and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is poetry the act of putting something together, or the art of taking something apart? Houseboat Days, one of John Ashbery’s most celebrated collections, offers its own answer Remarkable for its introspection and for the response it elicited when it was first published in 1977, Houseboat Days is Ashbery’s much-discussed follow-up to his 1975 masterpiece Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, and remains one of his most studied books to date. Houseboat Days begins with the moving, unforgettable poem “Street Musicians,” an allegory of artistic and personal loss that came ten years after the death of Ashbery’s friend and fellow New York poet Frank O’Hara. But while many of the poems in Houseboat Days are strikingly personal, especially when compared to Ashbery’s work from the 1950s and 1960s, the collection is less about the poet than about the act of writing poetry. In such widely anthologized poems as “Wet Casements,” “Syringa,” “And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name,” and “What Is Poetry,” Ashbery embraces the challenge of his own ars poetica, exploring and exploding the trusses, foundations, and underground caverns that underlie the creative act, and specifically, the act of creating a poem. Marjorie Perloff of the Washington Post Book World called Houseboat Days “the most exciting, most original book of poems to have appeared in the 1970s.”

The Spirit of Intimacy

Author : Sobonfu Some
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 : 9780688164508
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Intimacy written by Sobonfu Some and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1999-01-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned, respected teacher and mentor to thousands, Sobonfu Somi is one of the first and foremost voices of African spirituality to come to the West. Somi was born in Dano, Burkina Faso, a remote West African village with a population of about two hundred people. Dano has preserved the old ways of African village life, with family structures, spiritual practices, and methods of living that have been in place for more than ten thousand years. In The Spirit of Intimacy, Somi distills the ancient teachings and wisdom of her native village to give insight into the nature of intimate relationships. Somi generously applies the subtle knowledge from her West African culture to this one. Simply and beautifully, she reveals the role of spirit in every marriage, friendship, relationship, and community. She shares ancient ways to make our intimate lives more fulfilling and secure and offers powerful insights into the "illusion of romance," divorce, and loss. Her important and fascinating lessons from the heart include the sacred meaning of pleasure, preparing a ritual space for intimacy, and the connection between sex and spirituality. Her ideas are intuitively persuasive, provocative, and healing--and supported by sound practical advice, along with specific rituals and ceremonies based on those used for thousands of years. With this book, the spiritual insights of indigenous Africa take their place alongside those of native America, ancient Europe, and Asia as important influences on Western readers.

The Seven Levels of Intimacy

Author : Matthew Kelly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743265114
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Levels of Intimacy written by Matthew Kelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We All Crave An Authentic Experience Of Intimacy. Though our hearts crave intimacy, though our minds understand our deep need for it, the self-revelation it requires is often too daunting a task. Complete and unrestrained sharing of self exposes the deepest human fear of being rejected for being ourselves. InThe Seven Levels of Intimacy,Matthew Kelly both acknowledges and calms our fears, while teaching us how to move beyond them to experience the power of true intimacy.Matthew reveals that each relationship is built upon a pattern of interaction. In the beginning stages, we rely on casual interactions, gaining familiarity by focusing on superficialities and facts. We grow closer and begin to share our opinions, learning to accept each other and embrace the growing relationship despite the difference in our experiences and viewpoints. Once our differences and opinions are shared and accepted, we feel safe enough to reveal our hopes, dreams, and feelings, developing trust. With this trust, we open ourselves and are able to share our legitimate needs, becoming liberated from carrying the burden of our real needs alone. At last, we are deeply intimate and both willing and able to reveal our deepest fears. We are beyond judgment and feel trust and acceptance. By moving through and building upon each level of intimacy, we find comfort and gain trust in our partners and ourselves until, by developing and deepening our intimacy within each level, we are able to fully open ourselves, finally opening to the possibility of truly being loved. It is through mastering the seven levels of intimacy that we will break through to fully experiencing love, commitment, trust, and happiness.The Seven Levels of Intimacyis a brilliant and practical guide to creating and sustaining intimacy, whether you are looking for a deeper sense of connection with your spouse, looking for more fulfillment in your relationship with your boyfriend or girlfriend, trying to improve your relationships with your children, or simply wondering what you should be looking for in a partner.With profound insight and the use of powerful, everyday examples, Matthew Kelly explains how we can nurture the intimacy in our relationships.The Seven Levels of Intimacyredefines how we view our interactions with others. This new understanding leads us to successfully create the strong connections, deep joy, and lasting bonds that we all long for.

Common Fame

Author : Richard Schickel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Common Fame written by Richard Schickel and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Breakfast with Thom Gunn

Author : Randall Mann
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226503453
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Breakfast with Thom Gunn written by Randall Mann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aubade Those who lack a talent for love have come to walk the long Pier 7. Here at the end of the imagined world are three low-flying gulls like lies on the surface; the slow red of a pilot’s boat; the groan of a fisherman hacking a small shark— and our speech like the icy water, a poor translation that will not carry us across. What brought us west, anyway? A hunger. But ours is no Donner Party, we who feed only on scenery, the safest form of obfuscation: see how the bay is a gray deepening into gray, the color of heartbreak. Randall Mann’s Breakfast with Thom Gunn is a work both direct and unsettling. Haunted by the afterlife of Thom Gunn (1929–2004), one of the most beloved gay literary icons of the twentieth century, the poems are moored in Florida and California, but the backdrop is “pitiless,” the trees “thin and bloodless,” the words “like the icy water” of the San Francisco Bay. Mann, fiercely intelligent, open yet elusive, draws on the “graceful erosion” of both landscape and the body, on the beauty that lies in unbeauty. With audacity, anxiety, and unbridled desire, this gifted lyric poet grapples with dilemmas of the gay self embroiled in—and aroused by—a glittering, unforgiving subculture. Breakfast with Thom Gunnis at once formal and free, forging a sublime integrity in the fire of wit, intensity, and betrayal. Praise for Complaint in the Garden “We have before us a skillful, witty, passionate young poet. . . . Randall Mann is both attuned to and at odds with the natural world; he articulates the passions and predicaments of a self inside a massive, arousing, but sometimes brutal culture. And he accomplishes these things with buoyant lyric sensibilities and rejuvenating skills.”—Kenyon Review

Shadow Train

Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480459119
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Train written by John Ashbery and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating experiment in traditional poetic form, from one of the most untraditional American poets ever to set pen to paper At first glance, John Ashbery’s Shadow Train seems to embrace the constraints of traditional poetic form—but closer reading reveals that this work is Ashbery at his revolutionary best. In fifty poems, each consisting solely of four connected quatrains, Ashbery apparently plays by the rules while simultaneously violating every single one. Over and over again, the familiar, almost sonnet-like sixteen-line form creates an outline of a poem within which, one would expect, poetry is meant to arrive—as a station waits for a train. And yet, as with many of the world’s greatest poems, the act of creating poetry also relies on the reading and the reader—in other words, as this collection’s signature poem “Paradoxes and Oxymorons” puts it, “the poem is / you.” In Shadow Train, Ashbery demonstrates how language influences our experience of reality, creating it and sustaining it while also remaining mysterious and ineffable: constantly arriving, but impossible to catch.

Monogamy

Author : Marianne Brandon Ph.D
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313385742
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Monogamy written by Marianne Brandon Ph.D and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a groundbreaking look at sexual instincts and offers a clinical psychologist's and sex therapist's insights and solutions to the challenges of monogamous relationships. Monogamous relationships are firmly embedded in the framework of our society, and yet the divorce rate and common failures of intimacy in long-term relationships challenges the efficacy of this paradigm. Oddly, the concept of monogamy has been virtually ignored by mental health professionals, while anthropologists, sociologists, biologists, and zoologists have researched and explored the topic. Monogamy: The Untold Story presents not only the scientific research about the challenges of monogamy, but also the practical solutions to overcome them. In part one, the author explores sexual instincts and monogamy from an anthropological, biological, psychological, and social perspective. Part two offers men and women a step-by-step guide to enhancing passion and strengthening their intimate bond by capitalizing on their natural sexual instincts.

The Fantasy Bond

Author : Robert W. Firestone
Publisher : Glendon Assn
ISBN 13 : 9780967668406
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book The Fantasy Bond written by Robert W. Firestone and published by Glendon Assn. This book was released on 1987-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on 28 years of research into the problem of resistance, this book offers a consistently developed hypothesis centering around the concept of the "Fantasy Bond, " an illusion of connection originally formed with the mother and later with significant others in the individual's environment.

Complaint in the Garden

Author : Randall Mann
Publisher : Orchises Press
ISBN 13 : 9781932023121
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (231 download)

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Download or read book Complaint in the Garden written by Randall Mann and published by Orchises Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From poolside to seaside, barroom to classroom, sex club to colonial Florida, Randall Mann's curiosity endeavors to discover, often ironically, the beauty of things in the world around him. These meditations-harsh, honest, explicit (though never vulgar), dark, and astute-reflect a sentiment for the urbane and the primitive in nature, history, love, and humankind. Mann invites readers into lush landscapes, sundry histories, and a contemporary gay San Francisco populated by those things and people loved and lost. Randall Mann was born in Provo, Utah, and now lives in San Francisco, California. His poetry and book reviews have appeared in the New Republic, Paris Review, Poetry, Salmagundi, and Verse. He works as an administrative analyst at the University of California, San Francisco.