 | Symposium by Plato
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $1.35 A classic among classics. This translation is as beautiful as it is simple.
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 | Hedwig and the Angry Inch (New Line Platinum Series)
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $9.50 Gorgeous fable about sex and rock 'n' roll. And more sex. And Plato. Finding Love and loving oneself.
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 | The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love by Thomas Moore
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $0.01 A gentle revolution. This former monk shows us how God is Love and Love is sex and sex is in everything and makes life rich.
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 | Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love by Elizabeth Prioleau
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.27 Not just for girls. The women Prioleau exalts herein are role models for everyone. She even identifies the key components of their infectious vigor.
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 | Sex / How to: Nina Hartley's Guide to Foreplay DVD
Buy new: $24.95 Hartley is a warm,encouraging voice of experience.Her advice is thorough(explicitly thorough),and she has a DVD for practically any aspect of lovemaking imaginable.
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 | The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (HPC Classics) by Epicurus
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $3.45 Not the exponent of lascivious living he's reputed to be, Epicurus was a master of pleasure.Creator of hedonism,what that meant to him may surprise you.
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 | Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings by Marquis De Sade
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $6.24 The notorious Marquis deserved his reputation for villainy.Unfortunately,he does not enjoy a reputation for the intellectualism in which he indulged just as freely.
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 | Quills
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $1.95 A moody, erotic, and deeply beautiful fictionalization of one of the most controversial figures in literary history. . .And Geoffrey Rush is absolutely delicious.
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 | Secretary
Buy used from: $5.15 Witty, stylized and touching film that is like a soft-core Story of O.Eye-candy that extolls the virtues of loving the way one is wont to love.
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 | Story of O by Pauline Reage
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.93 This is a story about surrendering the ego.
And it's hot.
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 | Fanny Hill: Memoirs Of A Woman of Pleasure (Wordsworth Classics) (Wadsworth Classics) by John Cleland
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.97 Really this is just old-fashioned pornography.Regretted by its author.To a modern reader,it's a confection with none of the dire undertones of it's own era.
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 | The Play of God: Visions of the Life of Krishna by Devi Vanamali
Buy used from: $8.15 A magnificent work of devotion.Beloved Krishna is the Love God of Love Gods.Divine avatar incarnated to revive the knowledge that all is divine,eternal,and created of Love.
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 | The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: The Classic Burton Translation (Thrift Edition) by Vatsyayana
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.98 This misrepresented work is the text of an ancient yogic path.It's advice seems picturesque,but sexual pleasure is a union with God,not mere physical gratification.
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 | The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nefzaoui
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $11.97 Though not a sacred text, this sixteenth century erotic manual offers insight into the sexuality of a sophisticated society that is legendary to a modern reader.
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 | Poems and Selected Letters (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe) by Veronica Franco
Buy new: $17.10 / Used from: $11.64 The actual artful words of a legendary courtesan. A woman who found liberty in defying propriety and loving powerful men.
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 | Dangerous Beauty
Buy new: $5.79 / Used from: $3.10 Fictionalized and sweet version of The Honest Courtesan. Visually very beautiful;the dialogue is somewhat lacking, but the performances are great.
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 | The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Margaret F. Rosenthal
Buy new: $20.52 / Used from: $5.80 Okay, so it's dry.But if you really want to know about one of the great Masters (Mistresses) of Love, this is a thorough piece of work.
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 | Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.99 A smorgasbord of stories from a relatively contemporary erotic master.Fairy tales and legends and even essays that explore the world with sardonic, cthonic, sensual fingers.
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 | God: Myths of the Male Divine by David Leeming
Buy new: $34.99 / Used from: $1.12 Here is an admirably global, integrated experience of God. Male energy is as vital as Female and too frequently neglected.
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 | Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.50 If only for the descriptions of the Court of Night-Blooming Flowers, this series is indespensible. Carey's imagination is quite singular.
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 | Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Buy used from: $2.47 Sensuality embodied in prose.
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 | Perfume - The Story Of A Murderer
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $5.25 Well, yes, it's the story of a murderer. But it is also pure visual and sensual indulgence.
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 | Pretty Woman of Paris (Wordsworth Classic Erotica) by R. De Beaumont
Buy used from: $0.40 Yet another look into the sexual mores of a bygone era.
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 | The Complete Claudine: Claudine at School; Claudine in Paris; Claudine Married; Claudine and Annie by Colette
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.92 The sensational product of an earthy, pragmatic country girl exposed too young to the luxury and debauchery of the Second Empire's tail end and the dawn of the Belle Epoque.
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 | Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind
Oh the vigor and violence of youth's passions!
When eros awakens and the individual begins to assert itself, everything is beautiful and terrifying.
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 | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $12.50 He's mentally disturbed and she's deviant; but they don't skimp on experiencing what they set out to experience. And Nabakov's style is just yummy.
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 | The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andreï Makine
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $0.01 Another questionable adult.Another impressionable youth.But you get sucked into her point of view and you wonder if society's mores in the realm of sex are at fault.
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 | Tribal Fusion - Yoga Isolations & Drills for Bellydance
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $11.64 Loving the body is essential to living vibrantly on the earthly plane.Dance is an ancient form of seduction.And Rachel Brice shows how HAWT belly dancing can be.
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 | Interior Castle (Thrift Edition) by St. Teresa of Avila
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $1.18 She epitomized abstinance from "the world." But the bliss which she achieved and championed for others was pure Love,transcending the boundaries between earth and heaven.
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 | The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha (Mentor)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A compact, poetic introduction to a tradition that advocates Love and compassion as the keys to enlightenment.
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 | Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing by Coleman Barks
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $6.02 One of the great mystic poets of the Islamic Sufi tradition. A poet of longing who wrote of God as the beloved and (hu)man as the devoted lover.
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 | A Gift of Love (Deluxe 2 CD Set) by Deepak Chopra & Friends
Buy used from: $15.97 Rumi's deeply moving poetry read by celebrities and set to lovely trancey music. A wonderful way to meditate on the mysteries of Love
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 | A Gift of Love II: Oceans of Ecstasy by Deepak Chopra M.D.
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $2.95 Another mystical poet's work - Tagore - in the same meditative, blissful style.
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 | The Holy Bible King James Version: 1611 Edition
Buy used from: $27.62 Read the whole thing or read only the Song of Soloman. Try not to be too literal.Is the Song of Songs about devotion to God or about sex?Is there a difference?
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