Male contraception (found 55 titles)

Gay Sex: A Manual for Men Who Love Men, Second Edition

Author: Jack Hart
Publisher: Alyson Books
Publication date: 1998-07-01
ISBN: 155583468X
Pages: 280
Rating:
Price: $18.95

We live in a world obsessed with (and appalled by) sex. Open any magazine--certainly any gay male magazine--and you will find it clogged with sexualized images. But a fundamental, hardcore American puritanism still prevents open, honest, and useful discussions of sexuality. While this is true for heterosexuality, it is even more so for gay men and lesbians. Jack Hart's Gay Sex is a fine, witty, and eminently reasonable guide to being a sexually active gay man in the world today. Like Felice Picano and Charles Silverstein's The New Joy of Gay Sex (a classic in the field), Hart's book is an all-purpose guide to living a sexually energetic and fulfilling life. Gay Sex gives gay men all they need to know, from tips on how to meet men (in bars, on the Net, in the street) to negotiating safe sex (from talking to finding the right condom) to dealing with relationships (be it sex-buddy or monogamous). There are also discussions on the mental-health aspects of masturbation, fantasy, dating, bondage, S/M, recreational drugs, role-playing, and general physical well-being. Hart's writing is clear, concise, and informative; he never overloads the reader with too much scientific information or confusing detail and never adopts a patronizing or moralizing tone. By treating sex as a vital and exhilarating aspect of everyday life, he manages to both introduce these topics to the novice in unthreatening and helpful ways and inform and enlighten those who have been out and about for years. --Michael Bronski

Customes reviews 15

Its a dictionary (2005-04-28)

This book i guess is a manual... but i would discribe it more as a dictionary. It summariz'z a word like testicals in one sentance and then talks about it in a few paragraphs. In my opinion Ultimate Gay Sex is a lot better than this book. Plus UGS has actuall photography to help get a better ideas, this book has some hand drawn pictures. Hope this helps.

Happy Day ! (2003-11-04)

Before reading this book, I thought my embarrasing problem would not go away. Then I tried a technique described and ended up having the best night of sex in the world. Not all information in the book will be useful to everyone, but it is definately worth looking at.

Great book.. for beginners (2002-11-14)

This book is excellent for the youngest ones, kids that are getting started with their gay lives, and when they don't know what to say, what to think, or what to do... For most of us, it is just a "fine" book, nothing we haven't already read on the internet, or discussed with our friends or boyfriend. If you think you are gonna find hot pics (as the one on the cover), tips, or something new you didn't know, you better think twice before you get this book.

Maybe the best of its genre (2002-06-20)

Except for "The Joy of Gay Sex," how-to-books about homosexual lovemaking were still in short supply when this title reached print...Although I have a sentimental attachment to "The Joy of Gay Sex" for being the first of its kind, and the one that came along when I really needed it, Jack Hart's book is every bit its equal. I might even give it a slight edge. For other gay men, I recommend it highly.

Blegh (2002-04-07)

I expected more out of this book. It is very well written in that it is to the point and witty. However, I paid $[money] for alot of information that I already knew, and could find on the internet for free. Infact most of the sites the author gives you in the book are more informative than the actual text. I don't recomend this book unless your completely new to this type of lifestyle, then I would say it is a definate read.

Vasectomy

Author: George C. Denniston
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Publication date: 2002-05
ISBN: 1553692527
Pages: 148
Rating:
Price: $16.50

For men contemplating vasectomy and for the women who want their man to take his turn at preventing pregnancy, this book tells them what they need to know.

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It's tough to go back... (2006-08-26)

While vasectomy may seem like a good idea at the time, warding off irresponsible, or trapping women and wives...often, life leads you to divorce, and eventually the desire to start a family again. After 2 failed (costly) vasovasectomies, we are still trying to decide why we made this decision. A wife with a history a "accidental "pregnancies was ultimately the cause and we will aspriate and continue to try to plan the first child in our family.
Freeze it, bank it and be glad it's there when you finally find the right person.

Author statement - Why I wrote this book! (2002-09-09)

So many men came to my office, somewhat worried, and had their vasectomy. Afterwards, so many said, "If I had known it would be this easy, I would have had it long ago! This book is an effort to give men all the facts so they will get the vasectomy as soon as they need it, and not after one or two unwanted pregancies. Knowledge is power! Find out what you need to know before you need this important procedure that can really help your family stay strong. ...

Male Sexual Endurance: A Man's Book About Ejaculatory Control

Author: Robert W. Birch
Publisher: PEC Publishing
Publication date: 1997-05
ISBN: 1570743495
Pages: 182
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Price: $21.95

Customes reviews 16

The least helpful book on prolonging intercourse! (2005-09-01)

It seems that most of the good and the bad reviews about this book are written by anonymous "reader" living in the middle of nowhere. I bought this and some of the other books available at Amazon hoping to improve my 12 years marriage. I reviewed all of them before I gave them to my husband. We both think that this is the least helpful. Yes, there are pictures but so what? We are not interested in poor quality porn magazine. If you want to improve your sex life it is better to consider one of the other books. They are more content rich and do not make it difficult for you to read them because of a huge font.

That's pretty funny (2005-01-29)

You complain about authors posting reviews of their own material anonymously, but you have no comments on the book... and you post ANONYMOUSLY! The book is excellent. Buy it and learn.

Cutest Photos (2004-02-29)

OK, I haven't read it yet, but I can tell it's neat by the pictures of the couple. They're no asphyxiated models like you normally see. They're a real, common, affectionate couple having a real neat time. They're so cute!

Helpful (2003-07-04)

Written by someone who really understands the subject matter and has sense of humor, this book is a must read for people who deal with premature ejaculation. I think techniques discussed in the book are useful. However, the best thing about this book is not its size or recommended techniques, but its attitude. Anyone who can get more relaxed, creative, humorous and proactive about the problem should be able to enjoy sex at a greater level and become more self-confedent.

And this book helps to get there.

Birch gives you the keys, but you must open the doors (2000-12-14)

Dr. Birch has written a fabulous book. For those that are hoping to read the book and have their problems solved RIGHT AWAY, then this book is not for you. However, by reading the book and following Dr. Birch's clear steps and suggestions, and then working with yourself to conquer your setback, the possibilites are endless. I went from about 10 minutes to an hour and a half. But most importantly, I am now able to be "in complete control", without the feelings of embarrassment and self let down. By reading the book, it gave me the keys to opening my sexual doors and walking through them successfully. It wont happen 1-2-3, but Dr. Birch lays out a wonderful path.

The Male Pill: A Biography of a Technology in the Making

Author: Nelly Oudshoorn
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 2003-09
ISBN: 0822331950
Pages: 320
Price: $23.95

The Male Pill is the first book to reveal the history of hormonal contraceptives for men. Nelly Oudshoorn explains why it is that, although the technical feasibility of male contraceptives was demonstrated as early as the 1970s, there is, to date, no male pill. Ever since the idea of hormonal contraceptives for men was introduced, scientists, feminists, journalists, and pharmaceutical entrepreneurs have questioned whether men and women would accept a new male contraceptive if one were available. Providing a richly detailed examination of the cultural, scientific, and policy work around the male pill from the 1960s through the 1990s, Oudshoorn advances work at the intersection of gender studies and the sociology of technology.

Oudshoorn emphasizes that the introduction of contraceptives for men depends to a great extent on changing ideas about reproductive responsibility. Initial interest in the male pill, she shows, came from outside the scientific community: from the governments of China and India, which were interested in population control, and from Western feminists, who wanted the responsibilities and health risks associated with contraception shared more equally between the sexes. She documents how in the 1970s, the World Health Organization took the lead in investigating male contraceptives by coordinating an unprecedented, worldwide research network. She chronicles how the search for a male pill required significant reorganization of drug-testing standards and protocols and of the family-planning infrastructure—including founding special clinics for men, creating separate spaces for men within existing clinics, enrolling new professionals, and defining new categories of patients. The Male Pill is ultimately a story as much about the design of masculinities in the last decades of the twentieth century as it is about the development of safe and effective technologies.

Male Contraception: A Choice on the Horizon

Authors: R.J Aitken, B.T. Hinton, M.C. Orgebin-Crist
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Publication date: 2004-07-16
ISBN: 0444516840
Pages: 108
Price: $280.00

In spite of the broad selection of contraceptive methods available 38% of all pregnancies are unintended worldwide and 22% end in an abortion. These facts alone clearly indicate the strong need for broadening contraceptive choices.

The status of reproductive science, however, has so far led only to pharmacological fertility control measures with high standards of safety, efficacy and convenience for females. As far as men are concerned, there is still no effective reversible male contraceptive available. Nonetheless, one third of all contraceptive methods used worldwide depend on male "cooperation".

With the new opportunities presented by molecular biology, there is now a realistic chance that new effective reversible methods for male fertility control can be developed. However, much more basic research is needed to reach this goal.
As a consequence the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ernst Schering Research Foundation decided to take up this challenge and mounted a multi-year global collaborative effort, involving a network of top-level research institutions to intensify research on the regulation of the male reproductive system with special emphasis on post-testicular activity, using new approaches in molecular pharmacology (Application of Molecular Pharmacology of Posttesticular Activity - AMPPA - network).

The New Joy of Gay Sex

Authors: Charles Silverstein, Felice Picano
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication date: 1992-10
ISBN: 0060168137
Pages: 220
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Price: $30.00

Newly updated for the 1990s, this guide to homosexual sex includes new information on AIDS, safe sex, alternative families, and much more. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Customes reviews 21

Not new and not about joy (2003-12-09)

Readers who hope to find in this book a how-to manual of gay sex will be very sadly disappointed. Rather it tries (unsuccessfully in my opinion) to be an "encyclopedic" reference from A to Z (with the emphasis on zzzzzz) on the "joyful" life of gay sex, and even then, the book turns out to be only alphabetized, not encyclopedic. Even on those terms it fails. E.g., how can a section about wills be part of the "joys". If anything, wills are a problem about being gay, and irrelevant to gay sex, joys or not. I would say that this book is not at all directed towards gays, who I'm sure will know much , much, much more about the subject than has been written here, but towards those who have a prurient interest, are mere gawkers, or who are timidly venturing towards it. If that is the case, none of these groups would be well-served by this book.The text is antiseptic, pedestrian, and boring, and the illustrations are grotesque, not to mention degrading.

Bookshop 'Reading Room' (2003-10-09)

I found this book in a bookshop near my university, waited till other customers had moved on and took it from the shelf, reading it furtively, hoping noone would notice, but aroused by the illustrations. Later I had the same experience elsewhere with Gordon Merrick's 'Perfect Freedom', but then my book opened automatically to the juicy bits where other readers had been there before me,.......I suppose these are the well-thumbed copies booksellers could never move in the days when embarrassment made buying such books a heart-stopping experience, like buying condoms in a small town dispensary......the internet age has changed a lot.....the book is now just one of many, when once it was the one and only......so the memories make it more interesting than the content

MAGNIFICANT ILLUSTRATIONS./ FOUND MYSELF (2002-12-15)

In the magnificant illustrations I "found myself" from memories of myself as an adolescent to acceptance of my adult self. The book is pre-AIDS and therefore its information is not up-to-date but the artistically erotic illustrations's communicate a "lovingness". Reading this book for the first time in the mid- 80's raised my homosexual energy from phallic to romantic. This book is for any gay who wants to feel eternally free.

LOVED IT! (2002-07-28)

I loved it, it opened a world of new things. Great!

BLAH (2002-07-28)

HAHAHAHAHAHAH IT WAS HORRIBLY BAD, I WISH I NEVER READ IT, THE WRITING WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOO BAD. Though the pictures were great.

Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Medicine & Family Planning (Oxford Handbooks)

Authors: Enda McVeigh, Roy Homburg, John Guillebaud
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date: 2008-06-02
ISBN: 0199203806
Pages: 456
Price: $49.95

Significant advances have been made in treatment strategies in adult and adolescent women's health over the past decade, particularly in relation to reproductive control. The Oxford Handbook of Reproductive Medicine & Family Planning provides practical, evidence-based information on the care and management of adolescents, reproductive age females, and to a lesser extent males. Divided into three main sections, it follows chronological age up to the menopause covering areas such as the embryological development of the reproductive system; puberty and the normal course, and dysfunctions associated with it; dysfunctions of the normal menstrual cycle; the different types of male and female contraceptive methods, and the investigation and management of the infertile couple. This is an essential resource for all practitioners, trainees and students in reproductive medicine.

Male hormonal contraception doesn't appear to scare most men.(Experimental Methods Highlighted): An article from: Internal Medicine News

Authors: Doug Brunk
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Publication date: 2004-03-15
ISBN:
Pages: 2
Price: $5.95

This digital document is an article from Internal Medicine News, published by International Medical News Group on March 15, 2004. The length of the article is 560 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Male hormonal contraception doesn't appear to scare most men.(Experimental Methods Highlighted)
Author: Doug Brunk
Publication: Internal Medicine News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 15, 2004
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 37 Issue: 6 Page: 53(1)

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The male role in family planning: What do we know?

Authors: Freya L Sonenstein
Publisher: Urban Institute
Publication date: 1994
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Endocrine approach to male contraception: Transactions of the fifth annual Workshop on the Testis, held at Geilo, Norway on April 2-5, 1978

Publisher:
Publication date: 1978
ISBN: 8787473224
Pages: 764
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