This is exactly the book I was looking for. It made a nice Valentine's Day gift. The book has plenty of illustrations. I preferred these artistic illustrations to the color photographs in other sex books. Also I like the extra sections that freely summarize and apply courting and lovemaking advice from the ancients to contemporary society. The poses that "lack" illustrations do so only because they are simply variations on an already pictured pose and the book refers you to that illustration and gives all the necessary instructions for the variation. For these a second illustration would have been redundant. All the poses are humanly possible and the authors have done a nice job of pulling from multiple ancient sources as well as adding their own wisdom on topics where the ancients were simply mute (e.g. positions for giving a woman oral sex). Overall a good book. Bonus: the binding is excellent if you like good looking books.