Guide To Getting It On | 6th Edition

Love this book!
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Submitted 2009-02-08
By Joan Price from USA

My goodness, even with my knowledge and jaded experience, I learned a heap of fascinating facts about sex through the ages, the evolution of underwear, sex in cyberspace, various kinks, even the sex history of Barbie dolls (really -- you've got to read about Cock-Ring Ken!). I reviewed this book in more detail on my blog about sex and aging at http://betterthanieverexpected.blogspot.com/2009/01/guide-to-getting-it-on-best-sex-manual.html. I hope some of you will add your comments there, too. Joan Price author of Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty (http://www.joanprice.com/BetterThanExpected.htm) Join us -- we're talking about ageless sexuality at http://www.betterthanieverexpected.blogspot.com

Love it!!
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Submitted 2008-08-26
By Anon from USA

I love this book! This book really is a pretty comprehensive, researched handbook on sex. I can see how people would be critical, but from another angle, really it is far from the mainstream bullshit most people are fed on sexuality that is really very sad, if not much worse. It encompasses tons of techniques, instructions, and ideas, and discusses all dimensions that sexual activity influences i.e.: physical sensations, emotional, spiritual, and it's influence on healing disorders of all these realms. It includes pretty up-to-date research and sex-statistics. One of the best things is, I could see it being really positive, and approachable for more mainstream minded-folk. It speaks lightly, humorously, and includes tons of Archie's comic style illustrations throughout. Easy to read. It is hetero-centric, but most can be applied to those who wish to please women or men, regardless of your own gender.

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Submitted 2008-03-30
By Fired Up from USA

Yes, this is a book written by a straight vanilla man. I gifted both my sons with this book when they each started spending lotsa time behind closed doors in early puberty. The illustrations are sex-positive and graphic....my choice for running interference on all the smutty junk-food porn they'll inevitably bump up against during their sexual lives. This book rocks as a comprehensive guide for young men exploring their sexuality! When I gave it to my youngest at the tender age of 13, I suggested that when he hears something from peers he knows to be untrue (there's teeth down there!), that he can be a source of real information and education. I'm happy to report that two years later, he tells me he and his girlfriend have decided not to have sex for a long long time....he wants the first ("and every") time to be magical and for them both to be emotionally mature. I believe that the info in this book...especially about the differences between sex and intimacy have positively influenced to take such a mature attitude. This is not a book for those of us who've been around the block multiple times (tho I learned stuff!), but an excellent guide for a mostly straight male sexual newbie, and a wonderful stepping stone into the vast world of erotic pleasure...

Non-inclusive, disappointing
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Submitted 2008-02-19
By Anon from

I'd give this one zero stars if I could. Sure, it explicitly says that it focuses on heterosexual relationships, but... c'mon. This book relies on tired old stereotypes of sex and sexual acts. (For instance, cunnilingus is "icky" and this book seeks to reassure the reader that it is not "icky.") Plus, it assumes that a man has a penis, a woman has a vagina, a man is masculine, a woman is feminine, a man prefers to top and penetrate a woman, a woman prefers to be "filled up" and on the bottom, et cetera et cetera. So it excludes a lot of straight people as well because not everyone fits into this tired old stereotype. And if you're a straight woman, be warned that this book really caters to straight men. Plus, it focuses much more on men than on women. I mean, a whole chapter devoted to an anatomy of balls and another whole chapter devoted to the foreskin? Where's the chapter, for instance, that talks about the four hormones of the menstruation cycle? Avoid this book if you don't want to read sport metaphors (example: the cunnilingus section), if you are not in a heteronormative relationship, or if you don't want to read parental advice (because sex inevitably leads to having children, duh).