Friends With Benefits is a crash course in adult sex education that unifies humankind against gender based violence. Loneliness is an epidemic. Over 40% of adults suffer from loneliness in their lifetime – young adults being particularly vulnerable - and research shows that direct loneliness impacts our physical health as much as cigarette addiction! In Friends With Benefits, Shahla Khan, an expert in the prevention of gender-based violence, shows how loneliness can also make you vulnerable to violent, gender-based crimes, either as a victim, or as an offender. Shahla demonstrates how friends, particularly those of the opposite sex, can help manage your well-being, provide tough love, and act as an always-available personal therapist.. Too many books spend too much time dishing out the Mars-Venus philosophy – finding the differences between men and women, and relying on harmful pop psychology. The fact is that men and women are both from Earth, and learning to see a human as a friend removes invisible barriers that have been drawn by this defeatist self-help literature. Friends With Benefits will teach you: How to find and be a better friend Staying away from isolation-related habits How to think outside the gender box, seeing yourself and others as humans Dating and mating without sexual double standards Joining the social movement in gender-based violence prevention Shahla Khan presents all this and more, in a smart new way; Friends With Benefits shows you how to beat loneliness, make friends, date healthy, and end rape.
1 in 4 women will face sexual assault, rape or domestic violence in their lifetimes. It is important for us all to kill this statistic and this is why you must beware.Simple information can save your life and prevent extreme events of molestation. What this book is not? Not a guide to tell you what to wear Not a lecture on morality Not telling who to date or marry Not judging you on your past number of boyfriends Not asking you to count your alcohol intake Not warning you to stay at home Not a guide to scare you Fact is the world is full of perverts and psychopaths! Sooner or later you might come across one, if you haven’t already. This book is a how to, what to and how come guide to tell you what to do to avoid them, what to do if you face them and how come you are not guilty for their pathetic actions. It will tell you why and how you have to survive and thrive even if you go through this terrifying and shattering experience because your life is important and you have to not just live it but live it to the fullest.
Shahlas book comes from her excellent cultural insights from her life in Saudi Arabia, India, Switzerland and the UK. In, I Want Back My SPARKLE, the readers will learn how to: 1. Determine if they or someone they know is a victim. 2. End victimization and step out of an abusive relationship. 3. Avoid false claims of sexual harassment from men or women. 4. Create a wave of change in their home, community, at workplace and in the global scenario. 5. Be prepared to handle themselves in crisis. 6. Claim back their Status of respect Power of speech Access to freedom Right to happiness Knowledge and education Love not lust Existence as an equal!
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