Make a Sex Noise!
May. 27th, 2007 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsOkay, so I've dissed two great classics of modern sex education. Is there anything I can recommend? Yes, one, and without any reservations at all.
The Guide To Getting It On! is simply the most wonderful sex book ever written. I have the first two editions: they keep getting alarmingly fatter. The first edition was spectacular; the second doubly so. There's an astounding amount of information in this book, as well as some absolutely great illustrations that basically show people having a good time, and the ways that they can.
Just looking at the "Bed of Contents" (ha!) is a good step: "The History of Sex," "Dirty Words," "Kissing," "Romance," "What's Inside a Girl," "Getting Naked," "Fluids," "Noises," "Balls!", "Doing Yourself In Your Partner's Presence," "Oral Sex: Popsicles", "Oral Sex: Honeypots", "Massage", "Intercourse," "Up the Bum," "Oscillator, Generator, Vibrator," "Mind-Body Weirdness," "What's Masculine, What's Feminine, What's Erotic," "Sex Fantasies," "Talking To Your Partner About Sex," "Talking To Your Partner During Sex," "Do Buddhists Shave Their Pubic Hair..." That's about half the book. There are sections on talking about sex to the kids, about dealing with menstruation, religious differences, abortion & adoption, sex and the disabled, sex during pregnancy, sex after pregnancy, and so on. There are great two-page "photocopy these" manuals on checking for testicular and breast cancer.
Look, if you're going to have sex ever again, just buy this book. I don't get anything out of recommending it other than the satisfaction of knowing that I have put into your hands the sex manual I wish I had written.
The Guide To Getting It On! is simply the most wonderful sex book ever written. I have the first two editions: they keep getting alarmingly fatter. The first edition was spectacular; the second doubly so. There's an astounding amount of information in this book, as well as some absolutely great illustrations that basically show people having a good time, and the ways that they can.
Just looking at the "Bed of Contents" (ha!) is a good step: "The History of Sex," "Dirty Words," "Kissing," "Romance," "What's Inside a Girl," "Getting Naked," "Fluids," "Noises," "Balls!", "Doing Yourself In Your Partner's Presence," "Oral Sex: Popsicles", "Oral Sex: Honeypots", "Massage", "Intercourse," "Up the Bum," "Oscillator, Generator, Vibrator," "Mind-Body Weirdness," "What's Masculine, What's Feminine, What's Erotic," "Sex Fantasies," "Talking To Your Partner About Sex," "Talking To Your Partner During Sex," "Do Buddhists Shave Their Pubic Hair..." That's about half the book. There are sections on talking about sex to the kids, about dealing with menstruation, religious differences, abortion & adoption, sex and the disabled, sex during pregnancy, sex after pregnancy, and so on. There are great two-page "photocopy these" manuals on checking for testicular and breast cancer.
Look, if you're going to have sex ever again, just buy this book. I don't get anything out of recommending it other than the satisfaction of knowing that I have put into your hands the sex manual I wish I had written.
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Date: 2007-05-28 07:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-28 10:02 am (UTC)The increased thickness of the 2nd edition is a lot more to do with the (unnecessarily) increased leading between the lines than actual increased content.
Some of his - and it is 'his', despite the language pretending it's a group effort - attitudes are... well, I wouldn't want him in my bed. Take for example, the idea that it's ok to fuck someone when they're asleep.
The one I'd wish I'd written is the Good Vibrations one. I'd have had better illustrations though.
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Date: 2007-05-28 04:36 pm (UTC)Elf, this is the non-fiction book you were born to write. :-)
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Date: 2007-05-28 08:37 pm (UTC)