Books like Love for sale by Ringdal, Nils Johan

A bestselling guide that explains how men and women differ and offers practical communication tools to strengthen relationships and prevent conflict.

Erich Fromm examines love as a practiced art rather than a simple feeling, distinguishing types such as brotherly, motherly, erotic, self‑love, and love of God, and urging genuine care amid modern superficiality.

Esther Perel explores why passionate sex often fades in long‑term relationships and how to rekindle desire amid the demands of domestic life.

Explores adult attachment theory, showing how genetics and early family life shape relationship patterns and helping readers find and maintain love.

George L. Hicks exposes the organized system of Japanese ‘comfort stations’ in World War II, detailing how women were coerced into prostitution and how the Japanese government concealed the atrocity.

A social history of prostitution in New York City that explores the neighborhoods, brothel owners, and women whose lives were shaped by the sex‑work economy.

Yoshiwara is the first attempt in nearly a century to give a comprehensive and detailed account of Edo-period Japan's legendary pleasure quarter. The book begins with a brief history of prostitution in Japan and follows with a survey of the Yoshiwara from its origins in the early 1600s to shortly after the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Yoshiwara society possessed for most of its history considerable glamour and surface allure, yet, at the same time, it accommodated attitudes and activities that today could only be regarded as exploitative and inhumane. Cecilia Segawa Seigle looks impartially at all aspects of Yoshiwara life, offering much information - the result of painstaking research in primary sources - that will be a revelation to readers in the West. While discussing in depth the highly specialized and idiosyncratic world of licensed prostitution, Seigle also makes the reader aware of the broader impact of this insular entertainment quarter on the manners and mores of other segments of Japanese society, both then and now. Arranged chronologically, Yoshiwara is not so much a history as a companion to studies of Edo-period literature, theatre, and the visual arts. It provides an overview of the social, cultural, and economic influences on and of this microcosm of early-modern urban Japan. An especially engaging feature of this readable text is the liberal use of anecdotes from contemporary sources. Specialists will find particularly interesting the carefully researched and clearly written exposition of the quarter's complex hierarchy and elaborate code of behavior. While always maintaining the distinction between fact and fabrication, this fascinating study seeks to delineate the truths that lie behind the legends.

From 1865‑1883, St. Paul's police informally regulated brothels, treating madams as licensed operators and publicly reporting vice through municipal fines—a case study in Victorian‑era social control.

Prostitution in Medieval Society, a monograph about Languedoc between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, is also much more than that: it is a compelling narrative about the social construction of sexuality.