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  1. Alternate Sources
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1996
    A safe sex manual for SM Play. The authors, all experts in SM play, dispel the stereotypes and myths about sadomasochism with this introduction to a hitherto hidden world of human expression. Safe Edge is a pan-sexual book structured to answer the questions a novice might have as he or she begins to explore safer SM play, and those of experienced players as they try new ways to play. It provides an understanding of how SM play can be a positive, safe, and healthy expression of sexual fantasies.
  2. Alternative Americas
    An informal history by the grandmother of the counter-culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  3. Breaking the Bonds
    The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  4. Canadian Cohousing Network
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resource for the cohousing movement which seeks to create and maintain neighbourhoods which emphasize a supportive, inter-generational community, common facilities and participation by all members using a consensus process to make decisions.
  5. Coming Back to Life
    Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
  6. Commune (intentional community)
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    An intentional community of people living together, sharing common interests, property, possessions, resources, work and income.
  7. The Communistic Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1875   Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
  8. The Communitarian Network
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A coalition of individuals and organizations who have come together to shore up the moral, social, and political environment.
  9. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
  10. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  11. Counterculture
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.
  12. Deutschsprachiges Kommunitariernetz
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    German-language communitarian site.
  13. Group Marriage
    A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  14. Hippies
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A subculture which was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world.
  15. Intentional Communities
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Resource for intentional Communities including ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects.
  16. Intentional Communities Upcoming Events
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Events for those involved in creating intentional communities.
  17. Marginal Distribution
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Book distributor.
  18. Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples 
    Resource Type: Book
  19. PEPCON
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
  20. Peptalk
    Periodical profile published 1989
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  21. Rochdale
    The Runaway Collage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  22. Samois
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2004
    A history of Samois, the first public organization devoted to lesbian sadomasochism and a key player in the early phases of the feminist "sex wars".
  23. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
    Nineteenth-Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
  24. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  25. Steal This Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  26. Strange Cults and Utopias of 19th Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1966
    Histories of communal experiments and communities in the United States.
  27. Underground Times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  28. Voyages To Utopia
    From Monastery to Commune - The Search for the Perfect Society in Modern Times
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The story of William McCord's exploration of utopian communities, both in person and through literature.
  29. Why Do Communities Fail?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The strains that take their toll on community groups.

Experts on Styles de vie alternatifs in the Sources Directory

  1. Connexions Library/Archive
  2. Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN)
  3. Loving More
  4. Susan McCord, "Beavertalk.COM" Internet Talk Show Host, Producer, Writer
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