The study of sexual physiology has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci, James Watson, and Napoleon Bonaparte's great grand-niece Marie. This title provides answers to question such as: Can a person think herself to orgasm? Does orgasm boost fertility?

Advocates mutual respect and tenderness between lovers. It addresses lovemaking.

A novel that establishes the author's reputation with a large audience tour-de-force of comic satire on sex and the American ways of life.

Drawing on art, architecture, literature, theology and numerous scientific disciplines, the author intends to provide a long entertaining look at sexual attitudes, customs and practices in all the world's major civilizations past and present.

Victor Mancini has devised a scam to pay for his mother's medical care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who saves you will feel responsible for the rest of their lives. Multiply that by a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy income.

In a hotel overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. This book presents the story that tells how the course of life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken.

Katherine and Michael meet at a party. They're attracted to each other, they grow to love each other. And once they've decided their love is forever, they make love. It's the beginning of an exclusive relationship, with a future all planned. Until Katherine's parents insist that she and Michael put their love to the test with a summer apart.

Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped our attitudes to sex. Foucault describes how we are in the process of making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase of pleasure.

Sex is as fascinating to scientists as it is to the rest of us. A vast pool of knowledge has been gleaned from research into the nature of sex, from the contentious problem of why the wasteful reproductive process exists at all, to how individuals choose their mates and what traits they find attractive. This book explores those findings.

Conjuring up a cascade of sexual encounters, this book evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.

An erotic novel, which is a sequel to Story of O .

Discloses the best time to have a sex change, how to have a virgin birth, when to seduce your sisters or eat your lover. This work takes all creatures worried about their bizarre sex lives, and the letters they write to the Dr Tatiana, the only agony aunt in all creation with a prodigious knowledge of natural history and evolutionary biology.

A fascinating insight into how human sexuality came to be the way it is now - Jared Diamond explains why we are different from the animal kingdom

Miller's groundbreaking first novel, banned in Britain for almost thirty years, now reinvigorated in a new Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition.

Third edition.

An autobiography of a well-known Parisian art critic who likes to spend nights in the singles clubs of Paris and in the Bois de Boulogne where she has sex with a succession of anonymous men.

The new bestselling novel, now in paperback, from international literary phenomenon Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist.

A novel of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, which embraces all aspects of human existence, and addresses the nature of twentieth-century 'Being'.

A story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family who travel from a village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition era Detroit, witnessing its glory days as the Motor City, and the race riots of l967, before they move out to the tree-lined streets of suburban Grosse Point, Michigan.