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Embarking on a non-monogamous relationship can be a daunting experience, opening old wounds that cause anxiety, fear and confusion - something Lola Phoenix knows all too well.

In this all-you-need-to-khow guide to exploring non-monogamy, polyamory and open relationships, Lola draws upon their years of experience in giving advice and being non-monogamous to provide guidance for every stage of your journey, helping you to prioritize your mental health and wellbeing long the way.

Beginning with advice on starting out - such as finding your anchor, figuring out your 'why', challenging your fears and practising self-compassion - the book proceeds to cover the emotional aspects of non-monogamous relationships, including dealing with jealousy and judgment, managing anxiety and maintaining independence, as well as practical elements such as scheduling your time, negotiating boundaries and managing your expectations, all accompanied with activities for further exploration.

Whether you are new to non-monogamy, or have been non-monogamous for years, this insightful and empowering book will provide you with the emotional tools you will need to live a happy non-monogamous life.

Lola Phoenix (2022). The Anxious Person's Guide to Non-Monogamy: Your Guide to Open Relationships, Polyamory and Letting Go. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Softcover. 206p. ISBN-13: 978-1-83997-213-3.

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Molly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids’ bedtime—again—she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At a bar, she met Matt, a flirtatious younger man. When Molly told her husband that Matt had asked her out, she was surprised that Stewart encouraged her to accept.

So began Molly’s unexpected open marriage and, with it, a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Molly signs up for dating sites, enters into passionate flings, and has sex in hotels and public places around New York City. For Molly it’s a mystery why she wants what she wants. In therapy sessions, fueled by the discovery that her parents had an open marriage, too, she grapples with her past and what it means to be a mother and a whole person.

Molly and Stewart, who also begins to see other people, set ground rules: Don’t date an ex. Don’t date someone in the neighborhood. Don’t go to anyone’s home. And above all, don’t fall in love. In the years that follow, they break most of their rules, even the most important one. They grapple with jealousy, insecurity, and doubts, all the while wondering: Can they love others and stay true to their love for each other? Can they make the impossible work?

More is an electric debut that offers both steamy fun and poignant reflections on motherhood, daughterhood, marriage, and self-fulfillment. With warmth, humor, and style, Molly Roden Winter delivers an unputdownable journey of a woman becoming her most authentic self.

Molly Roden Winter (16/1/2024). MORE: A Memoir of Open Marriage. New York, NY: Doubleday. Hardcover. 304p. ISBN-13: 978-0-385-54945-5.

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LOVE
—perhaps the most potent world in our language— has been almost all things to men: a voluptuous amusement...an ennobling ideal...a tool of the devil...a psychiatric cure-all...an experience of God...even a synonym for good housekeeping.

This superbly written book is wide-ranging, deeo-probing history of what love has meant in the Western world. It tells how people since early Greek times have experienced the emotion of love; how love has in its various manifestations been related to sex, courtship, marriage, social status, and romanceq and why modern love, emerging from the traditions of the past, has come to have such crucial importance for people today.

Morton Hunt draws on the letters and diaries of both famous and little-known people who, in their emotional lives, epitomized the pattern of love in their time. He marshals a splendid parade of lovers and shapers of love: Alcibiades, the insolent hero of the Greeks; Samuel Pepys, rake, husband, gossip, and philanderer; Eleanor of Aquitaine, who presided over the "court of love"; Casanova, the neurotic Don Juan; Martin Luther, the not always ascetic monk; Rousseau, whose first affair was with a woman he called "Mamma"; Saint Mary the Harlot, who waged the Christian struggle against lust; Ovid, guide to adulterers; Havelock Ellis, who found his own impassioned pleas for healthy sex difficult to follow; and many more.

As Mr. Hunt says: "This is neither a Perfumed Garden nor a historian's Kinsey Report, but primarily a history of emotional relationships between the sexes, Sexuality plays a part, to be sure, bu the thing I have wanted to show is how people have felt about each other." Intriguing, surprising, and continuously illuminating, The Natural History of Love is probably the best book yet written for everyone who seeks a more profound understanding of the bond—sometimes fragile, sometimes galling, sometimes strong and life-giving —that unites men and women.

Morton M. Hunt (1959). The Natural History of Love. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Hardcover in colour dust jacket. xiii+416+xiii=442p.

In this edition of Letters to Penthouse, men and women confess every exquisite detail of their torrid affairs, sensual adventures, and wild one-night stands. No adventure is too daring-no kink too dirty. Married couples, perfect strangers, frisky friends, and randy roommates mix and match their desires-and share every sizzling detail of their erotic exploits.