Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern extends attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy. Using her nested model of attachment and trauma, she expands our understanding of how emotional experiences can influence our relationships. Then, she sets out six specific strategies to help you move toward secure attachments in your multiple relationships. Polysecure is both a theoretical treatise and a practical ... Weiterlesen

Andreas Frank: Committed Sensations - An Initiation to Homosexuality

The Gay and Lesbian Handbook and Compendium on Coming-Out and Same-Sex Partnerships. D 2020, 420 S., Broschur, € 13.40
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Books on Demand

Same-sex relationships have always existed and will always exist. That is normal. For several years, social research has dealt extensively with same-sex partnerships of lesbian and gay couples as well as with homosexuality and the coming-out of young Lesbians and Gays. Every second man has sex and orgasm experiences with another man, reported Alfred Kinsey, the pioneer US empirical sexologist ... Weiterlesen

Franklin Veaux / Eve Rickert / Tatiana Gill: More Than Two

A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory. USA 2014, 496 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Can you love more than one person? Have multiple romantic partners, without jealousy or cheating? Absolutely! Polyamorous people have been paving the way, through trial and painful error. Now the new book �More Than Two� can help you find your own way. With completely new material and a fresh approach, Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert wrote �More Than Two� to ... Weiterlesen

Tristan Taormino: Opening Up

A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships. USA 2014, 346 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Cleis

Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, �Opening Up� explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships - from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Taormino offers solutions ... Weiterlesen

Elisabeth Sheff: The Polyamorists Next Door

Inside Multiple-Partner Relationships and Families. USA 2015, 325 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Rowman and Littlefield

Marriage and monogamy are not what they used to be, and today many couples are opting to start families before getting married, or deciding not to get married at all. At the same time, gay couples in states that recognize same-sex marriage are getting married in droves. Some people prefer non-monogamy and have relationships that include swinging and polyamory. The ... Weiterlesen

Shane Allison (ed.): Afternoon Pleasures

USA 2011, 211 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Cleis - Erotica for Gay Couples

Shane Allison presents bedtime reading for gay couples. Filled with romance, passion and lust, �Afternoon Pleasures� offers irresistible homoerotic fun while celebrating the coming together of souls as well as bodies. Two traveling husbears meet a willing twink in Jeff Mann's �One Afternoon in the Bible Belt�. A sneaky environmentalist gets sandwiched between hedonistic mountain men in Bob Vickery's �Loggers�. ... Weiterlesen

Dossie Easton und Janet W. Hardy: The Ethical Slut

A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures. USA 2009 (3rd edition, updated & expanded), 320 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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This 1997 groundbreaking book gave sluts a good name. It is now available again in an updated, expanded 2nd edition. If you've ever yearned for love, sex, and intimacy beyond the limits of conventional monogamy, this book will open up to infinite possibilities. Relationship pioneers Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy dispel myths about sluthood and show how to maintain ... Weiterlesen

Donald H. Clark: Loving Someone Gay

USA 2007, 310 pp., brochure, € 16.95
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This profile of positive gay identity offers support and guidance from an experienced gay therapist to gay men and lesbians to help them communicate effectively and successfully with their families, friends, colleagues, counselors and community leaders. The issues of gay marriage and domestic partnerships have not only been making headlines across the U.S., they were a factor in the 2004 ... Weiterlesen

Michael T. Luongo: Looking for Love in Faraway Places

USA 2007, 154pp., brochure, € 14.79
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This collection of real stories of gay men who sought and found love and romance in exotic and distant locations candidly recalls the fact that while love may have no boundaries, the law certainly does. And so does life sometimes. Travel, like love, is perilous, surprising, exhausting, rewarding, and ultimately necessary for those souls looking to gain new perspectives of ... Weiterlesen

Steven Bereznai: Gay and Single ... Forever?

USA 2006, 250 pp., brochure, € 15.69
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Being gay and single ... the new stigma? Will there be new ghettos for the gay single? Selfmade - just in order to escape the looks of pity from friends and family? In the last few years the pressure of dating or even marry a women faded, just to be replaced by the bruisemark not to have a boyfriend. If one ... Weiterlesen

Jeffrey N. Chernin: Get Closer

USA 2006, 227 pp., brochure, € 14.79
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Each relationship is as individual as the men who are involved. Rather than rely on a one-size-fits-all approach to relationship success, the author helps each of us to acquire a better understanding of ourselves and how we engage in intimate relationships. The following questions are being answered: how can I build a long-lasting partnership? Why am I afraid to get ... Weiterlesen

Richard A. Isay: Commitment and Healing

USA 2006, 148 pp., hardcover, € 34.95
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In his many years working with gay patients, psychiatrist Richard Isay has found that regardless of the original reasons they seek help, the majority of gay men eventually bring up their problems with romantic love. Some have difficulties falling in love and even more find it hard to sustain a loving romantic relationship. Gay men suffered the rejection of unrequited ... Weiterlesen

Joe Kort: 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Find Real Love

USA 2006, 374 pp., brochure, € 15.69
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The author of the �10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Improve Their Lives� turns his attention to the burning question of love. Do you always end up with Mr. Wrong? Are you constantly dissatisfied with your intimate relationships? Has the passion between you and your partner fizzled after just a few months? �There are few books for gay ... Weiterlesen

Jack Rinella: Partners in Power

USA 2003, 183 pp., brochure, € 17.89
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Is it possible to form lasting, healthy, loving relationships that are based on power, control and pain? Of course it is - if you approach it with common sense, care and affection. Respected scene leader Jack Rinella has carefully explored how BDSM relationships fit into the lives of real people of all genders and orientations. From that research, and his ... Weiterlesen

Gretchen A. Stiers: From This Day Forward

Commitment, Marriage, and Family in Lesbian and Gay Relationships. USA 1999, 236 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Gretchen A. Stiers has talked with scores of gay and lesbian couples, delving into their personal feelings about their relationships and how they define them. At a time when the gay and lesbian community is transforming itself from a community once percieved as being compolsed of singles to a community increasingly composed of families with and without children, �From This ... Weiterlesen

Kath Weston: Families We Choose

USA 1997, 261 pp., brochure, € 37.95
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This classic text, originally published in 1991 and now revised and updated to include a new preface, draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship, and biology.