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Loving Sex: Sex Around the House

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Reviewed by: Katie Rose
`Sex Around the House' is one in the `Loving Sex' series, instructional videos designed to help couples through different aspects of sexuality. If you've never watched an instructional video this is going to be an interesting adventure.
Since I wasn't sure what to expect from this video, my partner and I debated on getting comfortable or making a pizza before watching the festivities. Since this technically was work, we decided on the pizza which I threw in the oven, grabbed my notebook, then hit the play button.
It opened with a sort of `man on the street' scene in which a woman was asking passersby what they would do with assorted household objects - a rolling pin, a spatula, a feather duster, and much to my partner's horror clothes pins. While the people were hesitant to offer uses for these items, they came up with some typical and humorous responses. From there it took us to the actual introduction where Julie Ashton, a bright and blonde woman is seated at a sofa interviewing Dr. Ava Cadell. Dr. Cadell is one of the nation's leading sexologists. She was dressed professionally, had dark hair, and if I thought Julie was bubbly, Dr. Cadell bubbled over with enthusiasm for the subject matter.
Sex Around the House - is about finding new sexual pleasures right at home. Julie goes on to invite Dr. Cadell into her home. She explains that she is having several couples over for the weekend and that she'd love the Doctor to give them a personal lesson. The doctor agrees, and we then are transported to Julie's home. What follows is the introduction of Julie's friends to Dr. Cadell who goes on to show the same items that were offered to the people on the street. She again asks for suggested use, but then offers a few ideas of her own -along with a warning that items used for sexual purposes should not be used for everyday purposes. The strangest had to have been the pasta spoon. The doctor suggests that you can use it by rubbing it lightly up and down your partner's body or stroking it through their hair. She encourages the group to look at everything in their home as a potential sex object. Think about how the object can heighten your senses.
After the doctor leaves, the video goes through a series of scenes showing each of the couples as the have sex utilizing Dr. Cadell's advice - sex in the laundry, the kitchen, the bathroom, the office, even a closet. The most novel idea I thought was by using the phone to call your partner in another area of the house and then engage in some foreplay phone sex.
Obviously, not everyone has a home as well put together at Julies. Rooms dedicated as an office/workout room or a sunken tub in their bathroom are not the norm, but I could see how the concept could be adapted to any household. For the entire day after I watched the video, I couldn't help but look twice at every item that I picked up.
Besides the main part of the video, the DVD offers additional sex tips from Dr. Patti Britton, sexuality information, links to important sites and a bonus scene from one of the other Loving Sex programs.
What does it all add up to?
Each of the couples seemed to be actually enjoying themselves. There was banter between each other, none of the `do me now!' type of porno. It was very loving and yet very hot to watch - that is not to say that in real life these items don't go hand in hand, but in the world of porn it's almost nonexistent. Since I'm not an expert in determining when a woman has had an orgasm just by looking at her, I couldn't tell if they truly had, but they did look excited and into what they were doing, not just going through the motions. And when the guys climaxed it looked real. No money shots here!
I liked this video and I would recommend it to couples that are looking to expand their lovemaking beyond the boundaries of their bed. Even if you never have sex outside of the bedroom, the items you bring to your bed will help to enhance and heighten your sexual experience.
By the way, the pizza went uneaten.

SEX AROUND THE HOUSE - REVIEW

Sex Around the House is best unwrapped! This excursion into household adventures is elegantly created to ease you into a mode of perpetual play. With the assistance of Dr. Ava Cadell, cited as one of America's leading sexologists by Cosmopolitan magazine, the author of four books and an award winning website - [URL], Julie Ashton introduces us to Dr. Cadell and her latest book, Love Around the House and commences by observing that Love Around the House is about more than just the couch rather than the bed.
Apparently so, as Dr. Cadell mentions that there are many common household items that couples can use as sex toys to spice up their love life. Dr. Cadell feels that anything you use for foreplay or sex is a sex toy. This is like a prelude, an introduction. For example, in the bathroom, you have the hairdryer for drying your lover from head to toe. In the office there is the ruler, maybe a little spanking? This is all about going room-to-room, finding as many objects as you can and having the most fun you possibly can!
After a brief interval of street chats with Dr. Ava Cadell and people's responses to what they would do with different household objects Julie Ashton's insightful Sexuality Report ends with an invitation extended to Dr. Cadell to attend an upcoming reunion of couples at Julie's house.
So the stage is set with Julie and her beau in the kitchen as they are preparing for the presentation. Forays into the nude food zone soon evolve to the inevitable outcome of `find the honey spots on my naked body while blindfolded'. One can easily imagine the rhapsodic conclusion of this search mission. At the appropriately inappropriate moment there is a knock at the door, announcing Dr. Ava Cadell's arrival followed by two young, attractive couples. Everyone gathers in the living room and Dr. Cadell discusses the options the different rooms of the house hold offer and distributes to each couple a copy of her book, Love Around the House, some `toys': a feather duster, a ruler, a toothbrush, an electric toothbrush, a pasta spoon and others. There's lots of questions, laughter, and careful suggestions like; have a separate set of household items that are for play specifically.
Dr. Cadell concludes with a smile as the three attractive couples begin playing with the toys and laughing. What follows are numerous scenes that ecstatically express the possibilities of play. We start in the laundry room with clothes literally being ripped off each other's bodies. The evolution of seduction is genuine and passionate. Next we discover the blonde female in the living room on the cordless phone having phone sex with her man. A flowing piano music duet with a flute carries one into the romance zone. The fireplace and the twinkling lights of the city at night are brought into play enhancing the mood overall. Other household explorations like cleaning the closet have never been so much fun! Even the home office concept is utilized in various ways, as is the gym and working out notion.
Surprisingly this video has a somewhat social quality to it that contributes to the realistic development of each scene. There's much to delight in with Sex Around the House as it takes you on a tour through your home in rousing way opening your eyes to the possibilities of play!

Regina Woods
Editor-in-Chief
Eros the Erotic Entertainment Magazine

It's not that we don't find porn vids great to watch occasionally, but the Alexander Institute just seems to hit our particular buttons a little better. No disrespect to the silicone-enhanced professionals, but something about real couples in (at least perceptible) situations just causes our libidos to soar. And after setting the bar extremely high with the six hour Sexual Secrets, we popped this one into the DVD player expecting quite a bit.
And though it isn't six hours long and contains a scene or two from the aforementioned title (or is it the other way around?), this video again delivers the goods with attractive participants, realistic situations, and HOT sex scenes. Though Julie Ashton and Charlie are noted porn actresses, they share their scenes with their actual significant others (in Charlie's case - her husband) and really look like they're enjoying themselves every minute. It's all filmed lovingly and respectfully.
The first scene takes place in the kitchen with Julie and her lover engaging in foreplay using kitchen utensils and the countertop as their choice landing pad for intercourse. This leads into a living room discussion about sexual creativity with common household items with four couples, before Charlie and her husband share some quality time in the laundry room with a feather duster and a washing machine. A living room adventure, another short discussion, Julie and friend in a closet, and finally some office play and a hot Jacuzzi session finish this great title off.
Maybe we're just jaded or burned out on porn videos. Double penetration, scars under huge fake breasts, close ups that are a bit TOO close for our taste; these things are thankfully avoided in this title. Best of all, we rarely finished any scenes before practicing our own "sex around the house."

What guy would stray if he's getting sex in every room of the house?? This series has a lot of female appeal, but it's also perfect for couples' viewing because men will dig the sex scenes. My husband and I both enjoyed watching this. Hot but not sleazy, it's a great lead-in to a "night in" instead of a night out. It offers good information presented in a loving way and the couples are cute and sexy. I have checked out most of the Loving Sex DVDs and find them to be both informative and stimulating. I am definitely looking forward to future releases.

Please the people who reviewed this must work for the video company. This video was a total waste of my money. If I could give it less that a 1 I would. Save the 20.00 and just use your imagination. As far as the real life couples, they may be real but they are porn actors.

We found this DVD quite enjoyable. I don't know what some of the other reviewers were expecting, but we try to keep the "play" in our sexplay, and for us this DVD was both fun and arousing. The couples are attractive, the scenes are realistic and the sex is creative but not unrealistic porn. Great DVD for couples.

This was just like a porno, I could not believe the people on the DVD were married or a couple for that matter. The men in the video sounded dumb, but if you are a woman you will find the men as eye candy and if you were in a relationship you would want the men to just shut up and get to business without saying a word ..lol..and if you are a man the women are above average- but the people that make these DVDs are not going to put unattracted couples in these, after all they want you to watch it; it is not worth the full price...get it used if you buy it.

There's no educational value in this DVD at all. It shows me some locations in the house where a couple can make love like the laundry room. That's nothing new to me. The acting is awkward. They even did not do foreplay in the film.

In short, be imaginative, explore all the locations or rooms in your house, try everything you like. If you do that, not only you'll save $19 but it will be also more exciting.