Kama Sutra [Paperback]

Tracey Cox (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 17, 2007

Move your lust life to a whole new level with Tracey Cox's hot new take on the ultimate sex manual. Five steamy sections-Erotic, Emotional, Exotic, Expert, and Exhibitionist-illustrate more than 100 passion positions that will excite, inspire, and heat up the bedroom more than ever before! Tracey's trademark teasing tone reveals why ancient rituals such as "kundalini shaking" and "the lock" are the secret to spicing up a modern relationship. Evocative photography shows how to master everything from the classically erotic to the shockingly exhibitionist, and gives multiple-position twists that promise to maximize pleasure for both partners, whether you're in the mood for a long evening of intimacy or a spontaneous, up-against-the-wall sex session.

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About the Author

Tracey Cox is an international writer, presenter and broadcaster with an academic background in psychology. She is UK Glamour magazine's relationship coach and columnist and has a weekly column in Closer magazine. She makes regular TV and radio appearances, has co-hosted BBC2's Would Like to Meet and its US counterpart Date Patrol, has appeared in Hotter Sex, Under One Roof, Superflirt and starred in Channel 4's Sex Inspectors. Tracey lives in Surrey. Find out more about her at www.traceycox.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: DK ADULT (December 17, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0756633540
• ISBN-13: 978-0756633547
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #318,629 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Tracey Cox is an international sex, body language and relationships expert as well as a TV presenter.

She is well-known for her TV shows on sex and relationships as well as her range of best-selling books which have sold millions world-wide.

Tracey has been an agony aunt for ivillage, News of the World, Cosmopolitan and numerous magazines world-wide, has two weekly columns in UK's Closer magazine and her own range of products, developed in the UK with Love Honey.

She has appeared on Oprah, CNN and The Today Show in the US, as well as numerous prime-time chat shows in the UK and world-wide. She was a regular guest on Jo Whiley's show (Radio 1) and continues to contribute to most of the major women's magazines world-wide.

Her TV credits include Hot Love, a 40-part series for Sky One (UK), Hotter Sex (also Sky One, UK), The Sex Inspectors (Ch4 in the UK and HBO in the US), Would Like to Meet (BBC2, UK), Under One Roof (ITV) and Date Patrol (Discovery in the US). The Sex Inspectors was bought and run in many other countries world-wide.

She lives in Notting Hill, London.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A modern, "good parts" version of a classic, February 10, 2010

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Zhang Yu Huan "student" (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kama Sutra (Paperback)

In the early 1970's, my best friend's brother came home from college for the summer with one of the early Berkley editions of the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. We "borrowed" it, to learn its hot, steamy secrets. Well, (a) no illustrations, and (b) six of the seven books of the Kama Sutra are devoted to relationships, not sex. What to look for in a wife, how to introduce a concubine into your household, the use of go-betweens in extramarital affairs, weird recipes to make your lingam grow larger. To a fifteen year old, northern India of 300 CE was a more alien place than Middle Earth. Even the sexual advice was...unexpected. Hard biting, slapping, and scratching -- did people *do* that? Eight varieties of kisses -- cool. Cryptic descriptions of the "modes of congress" -- her thighs do what? And all described in the language and style of your most boring teacher in school (Vatsyayana *is* a scholar, plus the 1883 Burton/Arbuthnot translation is just clunky.)

Still, somewhere along the way, "Kama Sutra" became a generic term for a manual of sexual technique. Tracey Cox, unlike many authors using the brand name, has clearly read the original, and decided that while much of book two is still valuable, today's reader probably doesn't care much about anthropology 1700 years old, except for a giggle. Where only about 5% of the original Kama Sutra describes "modes of congress", she describes them in useful, comprehensive detail, along with photos of two attractive couples demonstrating. Several of postures definitely profit from the "step one, step two..." approach. The sensual attractions and caveats of each position are described -- want to go really deep? Try the Highest Yawning position (Vijrimbhitaka for purists), but not if you've just eaten a big meal. Ms. Cox flags positions more suitable for the adventurous, strong, and supple.

She elaborates with plenty of cheerful commentary on the advice given by Vatsyayana on seduction, kissing, handwork, oral sex, and sex toys (even back then!), and expands on it. As an extra, she includes some basic tantric energy techniques, even though the original Kama Sutra dismisses tantricism as religious kookiness.

This book is good-humored, chock-full of sexy ideas, and has great pictures -- I wish I'd gotten hold of this version forty years ago!

4.0 out of 5 stars Good reading, January 8, 2011

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Floyd Smith "Troop 1213" (Landover Hills, Maryland United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kama Sutra (Paperback)

I brought this book to compare with other version of the KAMA SUTRA. She has some good points and he writing is very clear on some of the various positions.

It would be good to know who and how did they feel when using some of these positions.

Did the writer try them?