Pleasure: An Almanac for the Heart
(This edition does not include illustrations.)An intimate celebration of women and friendship from international bestselling author Nikki Gemmell.‘The Bride Stripped Bare’ exposed female desire as no other book had; raw, intoxicating and breathtakingly libidinous.‘Pleasure’ looks set to do the same with more secret women's business – dealing candidly with everything from Brazilian waxes to 'secret' underwear, from coping with broken hearts to what makes a perfect partner (a checklist to cut out and keep), from advice on the friends who flatten you (frenemies) to the importance of empathy.Both bold and intimate, ‘Pleasure’ is a book Nikki Gemmell says she looked for as a gift for a cherished friend – and never found. So she decided to write it herself.Encased in a stunning design package with beautiful feminine illustrations, this is a book every woman will want to share with her best friend, aunt, sister or fairy godmother.
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Pleasure
AN ALMANAC
FOR THE HEART
NIKKI GEMMELL
For Elayn, who teaches me so much
Table of Contents
One: Lessons Learnt the Hard Way
Friendship ~ Failure ~ Courage ~ Surrender ~ Goodness ~ Forgiveness ~ Love ~ Pain ~ Gratitude ~ Work ~ Dependency ~ Creativity ~ Impulsiveness ~ Wonder
Two: What is Loved In Terms Of Gifts, Sex, Life
Acts of Ravishing Kindness ~ Gestures for the Cashed-up ~ Everyday Kindness That Doesnât Cost a Brass Razoo ~ Gifts to Cherish ~ Gifts to Cherish When It Comes to Sex (Gentlemen, Take Note) ~ What Holds the Heart Hostage
Brazilians ~ What Makes a Woman Beautiful ~ A Supermodelâs Beauty ~ Beauty in Break-up ~ Underwear ~ Invisibility ~ The Age of Confidence
Living Life with Gratitude ~ Obsessive Love ~ The Cost ~ Heathcliff and Cathy ~ Is It Worth It?
âInfinite Richesâ to Aspire to ~ Elegance is Refusal ~ Household Hints for the Hopeless ~ A Recipe to Impress for the Domestically Challenged ~ Home is Where the Heart Breaks ~ Difficulties of Living Together ~ The Emasculation of the Man Who Moved Into the Womanâs Space ~ Sleep
Six: Expressions for Down Below
The Problematic Word ~ An Absence of Empowering Expressions We Have Colonised for Ourselves ~ What Mothers Tell Daughters ~ Male Frustration Directed Towards Women ~ Rather Naughty Expressions ~ A Word of Warning From Italy
The Loss of Spark ~ Nabokovâs Lolita ~ A Strong Spirit Snuffed ~ The Magic Elixir of Virginity ~ Work Versus Love ~ Finding Your Passion ~ First Love
Eight: The Danger of Frenemies
Beware the Flatteners ~ Vinegary Women ~ How to Deal With Frenemies ~ The Friend Bearing Abuse ~ The Importance of Placidness in the Face of Adversity ~ The Poisoned Chalice of Success ~ Advice on Those Who Belittle Ambitions
Do Not Die of Modesty ~ The Pleasure Dome ~ Tips for Partners ~ Be It All in the Mind ~ The Importance of Focus, Gentlemen, Focus ~ Godâs Little Chuckle ~ Maternal Light ~ The Darkness Is No Darkness ~ An Enduring Partnership
Sloppiness in Love ~ Men Who Chip Away at Women ~ A Life Bound by Fear âThe Bleakness of One-Night Stands ~ The Commitment-phobe ~ The Ex
Valentineâs Day ~ Saying âI Willâ ~ The Haunting of Lost Opportunities ~ Unwanted Questions from Relatives ~ Courage in One Tiny Little Word ~ Upon Entering a Strange Environment ~ Learning to Laugh at Failure
The Kiss So Much Sexier Than Sex ~ The Kiss That Killed Yearning ~ Rekindling Passion ~ âA Mothâs Kiss, Firstâ
Lessons to Learn ~ The Tranquil Death Reflecting the Vivid Life ~ Walking in Luminous Darkness ~ Letter-writing to the Departed ~ The Blessing of a Life ~ The Gift of a Candle ~ A Bottle of Wine
A Powerful Womanâs Regret ~ Women Who Eat Like Their Partners ~ And Women Who Just Have Toast ~ Bedroom Capitulation ~ Bitter Lives ~ Captives of Biology ~ The Dignity in Risk
Why Women Can Be Better Than Men ~ The Courage in Honesty ~ Women Fantasising about Women ~ Bi-Curiosity ~ Teasing and Its Dangers
Sixteen: How To Improve Our Love Lives
Marilyn Monroeâs Concern ~ An Older Lover ~ Body Confidence ~ The Wonder of Water ~ It Is Time for Heroic Action ~ The Importance of Surprise ~ The Delight of Going Where Weâve Never Been ~ The Senses ~ Lovely Lines
A Discussion in a Pub ~ Technical Dislikes ~ Enthusiasm ~ What Men Do Not Want to Hear ~ Vulnerability ~ A Request for Guidance ~ Adventurousness
Sex Fuelled by Porn ~ Leeching Energy from a Relationship ~ The Magic and Messiness of Real Life ~ Women Who Pander to the Male Ego ~ A Digression
The Big Question ~ Love as Rescue ~ Difficulties in Seducing Someone Who Is Content ~ Women Who Endure ~ Commitment as an Aphrodisiac ~ A Frenchwomanâs Face ~ Urgent Matters of Equality
A Tick-the-Box Aspirational List to Cut Out and Keep
The Pram in the Hall ~ Surrendering the Feminist Wariness ~ Sacred Knowledge ~ Notes on Miscarriage ~ Male Gynaecologists ~ Babies as Big Business ~ The Great Good Gift
Intrigue in the Choice ~ Sexual Slow-downs ~ Getting Yourself Back ~ The Rapture of the Son ~ Celibate Men ~ A Peculiar Admission ~ On the Side of the Risk-takers
Pleasure in Shared Sleep ~ The Grip of Sexual Stereotypes ~ Men Who Are a Great Relief to Women ~ What Men Wonât Admit to Their Mates ~ Modern Aversions to Vulnerability ~ The Repulsion in Our Most Hidden Desires ~ Dropping the Mask ~ The Balm of Honesty
Twenty-four: When Life Is Crushing
Loving Well ~ Treating an Enemy Like a Friend ~ The Liberation in Forgiveness ~ What Nourishes the Soul ~ Single Motherhood ~ Facing Breast Cancer ~ Finding Your Great Good Place
In Conclusion, Twelve Points
