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When a young novice nun is compromised by a corrupt official, who offers to save her brother from execution in return for sex, she has no idea where to turn for help. When she threatens to expose him, he tells her that no one would believe her. Shakespeare wrote this play in the early 1600s, yet it remains astonishingly resonant today. Artistic Director Gregory Doran directs this new production of Shakespeare's astonishingly resonant work.
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"First taking hold of the American cultural imagination in the 1990s, the sexual purity movement of contemporary evangelicalism has since received considerable attention from a wide range of media outlets, religious leaders, and feminist critics. Virgin Nation offers a history of this movement that goes beyond the Religious Right, demonstrating a link between sexual purity rhetoric and fears of national decline that has shaped American ideas about...
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Iliana would do anything to escape the depraved attentions of the unscrupulous baron who covets her lands...including marrying a barbarian. Fleeing to the Scottish Highlands, she weds Duncan, laird to Dunbar Castle, but she refuses to allow him into her bed until he agrees to become more civilized.
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SEX. Splashed across magazine covers, billboards, and computer screens: sex is thrilling, necessary, unavoidable. And everybody's doing it, right? In Real Sex, Lauren Winner speaks candidly about the difficulty (and the importance) of sexual chastity. With nuance and wit, she talks about her own sexual journey. Never dodging tough terms like 'confession' and 'sin', she grounds her discussion of chastity first and foremost in scripture. She confronts...
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Finally, a book for single women who, unsatisfied with living a worldly lifestyle, want to give their lives a new and godly direction. Author Dawn Eden, a Jewish-born rock journalist turned salty Christian blog queen, gives these readers the positive and uplifting message that they've been wanting to hear-that spiritual healing and a renewed outlook await them. Using her own experiences in the New York City singles jungle, she shows women how they...
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Summer 1914. In order to dedicate themselves to a life of study, the King and his friends take an oath to avoid the company of women for three years. No sooner have they made their pledge than the Princess of France and her ladies-in-waiting arrive, presenting the men with a severe test of their high-minded resolve.
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Can any young man escape the lure of sexual temptation in today's world? You're surrounded by sex constantly - in movies, on TV, video games, music, the internet. Is it any wonder that it feels impossible to stay sexually pure? How do men survive the relentless battle against the onslaught of lust? With powerful ammunition. The authors of the hard-hitting mega-bestseller Every Man's Battle know the temptations young men face every day. The fact is,...
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The man. The myth. The beginning. It's freshman year at Coolidge College and Van Wilder is ready to party. To his dismay, all the girls have taken a vow of chastity and an uptight Dean rules the school. Van embarks on an epic crusade to land the campus hottie, Kaitlin and liberate his school from sexual oppression and party dysfunction. No cheerleader will be left untouched and no keg will be left un-tapped.
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"This edition of Shakespeare s Measure for Measure reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare s play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts include royal proclamations, speeches, court records, sermons, biographical writings, prayers, ballads, poetry, excerpts from plays...
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On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Hephzibah Anderson glimpsed her college boyfriend going into a jewelry store with a smiling blonde-and in that moment realized it had been years since a man told her he loved her. This discovery led her to question a decade of emotionally frustrating relationships with commitment-phobes. As she examined her past, she recognized that most of these relationships went off course at the precise moment sex was involved....
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"No sex, please, we're on our honeymoon! After a showgirl and an Air Force sergeant head to the altar on the basis of one torrid smooch, the bride begins having second thoughts. After all, marriage can't be based on sexual chemistry alone. So she decrees a month of connubial celibacy to test if the newlyweds are really meant for each other"--Container.
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Dwudziestosiedmioletnia redaktorka "Elle", kobieta atrakcyjna, wyksztalcona, odnoszaca sukcesy zawodowe i bestsellerowa pisarka, wywolala skandal... Odwazyla sie na najgorsze nieposluszenstwo jakie znaja nasze czasy: na dwanascie lat wyrzekla sie seksu. I rzucila wyzwanie swiatu, w ktorym powodzenie, liczba kochankow, malzenstwo lub koniecznosc zycia nie samej staja sie miara wartosci kobiety. I omal nie wywolala rewolucji seksualnej na wspak.