Fearless Sex: A Babe's Guide to Overcoming Your Romantic Obsessions and Getting the Sex Life You Deserve [Paperback]

Joy Davidson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2004

Fearless Sex will transform your erotic life!

This is the exhilarating and enlightening guide to loving passionately, shamelessly, and confindently. It stems from Dr. Joy's experience that desire is more than what you feel on the way to the bedroom, it's the very spark that ignites your life. Fearless Sex is your guide to excelling in the art of pleasure, and the skill of making important relationships work!

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This book is fun, friendly and flippant, and I highly recommend it." -- Sue Johanson, Host of Talk Sex on Oxygen

About the Author

Dr. Joy Davidson is a Clinical Sexologist, Diplomate of the American Board of Sexology. A veteran writer and author, she served as the sex columnist for Playgirl magazine as well as Men's Fitness magazine. Dr. Joy has appeared on US television more than 150 times and has done more than 200 radio interviews. Long based in L.A., she recently relocated to Seattle.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Quiver; 2 edition (August 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1592330975
• ISBN-13: 978-1592330973
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,154,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars HONEST, INSPIRING, AND POWERFUL!, November 12, 2004

By 

Debra (Brookline, MA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fearless Sex: A Babe's Guide to Overcoming Your Romantic Obsessions and Getting the Sex Life You Deserve (Paperback)

Here is a book to make you re-think your assumptions about sex, love,
and yourself. The first third is about understanding how to balance
loving someone else and loving yourself -- no easy task, but the author
shows you how. She outlines patterns of reacting or "obsessing" that
contaminate our ability to approach our partners with clear boundaries,
both psychologically and sexually. She does a great job of walking us
through the task of holding ourselves steady and being caring but
self-possessed when the pressure is on. She is clearly rooting for us,
the reader, while giving us a new way of looking at ourselves. The
writing is polished, witty and lucid, spiced with juicy and relatable
stories.

The second two thirds of the book goes into more detail about sexuality
and sensuality -- from an eye-opening chapter on developing your
"erotic 7th sense" to one on fantasies that will leave you breathless,
to the best section on s/m I've ever read; one that helped me see that
what real people do or fantasize has no bearing on the skewed
depictions of kinky sex that the media or the right-wing likes to
exploit. There is a wealth of information here on getting and enhancing
pleasure, and the reader never feels judged for her choices or
pressured to adopt any particular standards except the ones that, as
the author says, "are derived from within."

The point seems to be to empower women by giving them a bounty of
information about making their sex lives and relationships thrive.
Along the way, the reader is likely to jettison a lot of negative ideas
about sexuality (as well as her own harsh inner voice) that are often
taken for granted in a culture that pays lip service to sexual freedom
on the one hand, and is scared to death of sexy, vibrant women on the
other (unless they're fictional characters on TV, of course!).

Even though this is a totally hip and enjoyable read, it is also a
serious, timely, and potentially life-changing book. What I love the
most is that this book is about US: that is, about women. It's all
about what we think and feel and what we need and how to get it -
rather than about men, and what they think and feel and need. Enough
of that, already!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth your time! And about more than sex., June 27, 2006

By 

Jeff Laurie Co "Jeff Laurie" (Belmont, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fearless Sex: A Babe's Guide to Overcoming Your Romantic Obsessions and Getting the Sex Life You Deserve (Paperback)

This book is terrific and I highly recommend it. It goes beyond its stated goal of helping you achieve the sex life you want. It's really about overcoming any number of self-esteem issues that you can undertake on your own to become a more authentic, self-actualized person -- which, naturally, will also put you in closer touch with your erotic center. It's clearly one of the wisest, most responsible and intelligent self-help books I've ever read. And, believe it or not, I think any guy with self-esteem, sexuality or authenticity issues can learn from it also.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous, Freeing and Fearless!, March 19, 2006

By 

Lou S. "Lou" (Chicago, Ill) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fearless Sex: A Babe's Guide to Overcoming Your Romantic Obsessions and Getting the Sex Life You Deserve (Paperback)

I totally loved this book. It was a breath of fresh air among so many books on sex that say basically the same thing, or repeat the same bedroom advice in different words. I read Fearless Sex because I heard the author on the radio being interviewed about why so many women lose interest in sex after they've been in relationships or married for a while. She talked about what we can do to get more pleasure and satisfaction for ourselves and her message resonated strongly for me. Reading the book was an eye-opener beyond anything I even expected, and the advice has already made a huge difference in my relationship.