The Lovers' Guide: The Art of Better Lovemaking [Hardcover]

Andrew Stanway (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 1993

The Lovers' Guide is the most frank, informative and visually explicit guide to lovemaking ever published. Its topics include: desire; arousal; communication; overcoming shyness; first nights together; creative foreplay; sensual massage; pleasuring one another; oral sex; lovemaking positions; overcoming difficulties; safer sex; keeping sex alive; rediscovering intimacy.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

The Lover's Guide is a British adaptation of a video of the same title. The book emphasizes developing techniques to satisty one's partner, both physically and emotionally. This is accomplished primarily through photographs of young Anglo couples depicting massage, foreplay, oral sex, and numerous intercourse positions. Though the photos are not pornographic, per se, they are full-color, quite explicit, and dreamy and erotic in nature. Unlike the photographs in Miriam Stoppard's recent The Magic of Sex (Dorling Kindersley, 1992), which are so airbrushed that they could be defended as purely instructional in a censorship crisis, these photographs may prove controversial. Another major problem is the text. It has not been edited for American audiences (e.g., knickers is used for women's underwear, and chemist for pharmacist). In addition, important information on sexually transmitted diseases, safer sex, and contraception is left to a brief penultimate chapter. Not recommended. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/15/93.
- A. Arro Smith, San Marcos P.L., Tex.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

The consultant to The Lovers' Guide, Dr. Andrew Stanway MB, MRCP, has written over 30 books about medicine and health, the majority on the subjects of sex, relationships, and psychological issues. he appears on numerous radio and television programs and has been an "agony uncle" for several magazines in England. He is married with three children and has a practice as a psychosexual and marital physician in Surrey, England.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press (November 15, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312104138
• ISBN-13: 978-0312104139
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,353,983 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good, February 21, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Lovers' Guide: The Art of Better Lovemaking (Hardcover)

I found this book very informative and enjoyable to read. The text is not too demanding and very easy to read. The pictures are beautifully shot all with very attractive women, which is a bonus! The explicit nature of this books photographs is helpful. The pictures of penises, which are not normally shown in this type of book, are good as they show us men something real and make the techniques easier to understand, rather than simply describing it, or showing a dodgy illustration. This book explains and shows a wide range of sexual positions, although I must admit my partner and I have not been so adventurous as to try them all out yet! My partner and my sex life has benefitted greatly from this book and I would highly recommend it to any couple. People not in a relationship may also find this book enjoyable, as I have also found it a very arousing book to read when my partner is not around!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well written and well pictured, February 10, 2003

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Photopro "Mike" (purcellville, va United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lovers' Guide: The Art of Better Lovemaking (Hardcover)

Of all the sex books that I have, this is by far the best one. The pictures in it are graphic, which is not a bad thing. With these kind of pictures you get to see first hand, rather than looking at drawings.

This book has everything, which is surprising for its small size. From before and after stimulation pictures of REAL vaginas and penises and real pictures of how to stimulate your partner properly.

Very well done. If you want a good sex book for a small price, get this one.

1.0 out of 5 stars Nothing really special..., November 28, 2005

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S.S "A 'critical reviewer" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lovers' Guide: The Art of Better Lovemaking (Hardcover)

This book is very disapointing everything in it is basics and common sens nothing in it coudn't be found a magazine it is really not in depth the book seems to be more suming up many aspects of sex rather then going into them in detail...it talks to you as if you wheire an ignorant and the books seems to have more pictures then text which are a bit cheezy not really erotic.So if are in highschool and you know nothing about sex this book will be helpful...but if you want more detailed medical information there is way better...