Office Kama Sutra: Being a Guide to Delectation & Delight in the Workplace [Hardcover]

Julianne Balmain (Author), Thorina Rose (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2001

Is your cubicle a lonely desert where only productivity flourishes? Are you smitten by a love goddess in accounting, HR, or sales? Do you long to embrace the muscled Shiva sauntering up to the coffeemaker? Office Kama Sutra reveals the secrets to making every workday a memorable affair. Hailed by scholars as a trove of ancient wisdom, this erotic guide to love in the office, available in English at last, will thrill lay practitioners of the carnal arts. Believed by some to have been composed centuries ago, Office Kama Sutra proves that the office fling is far from a new phenomenon. And no wonder. With the average career spanning more than four decades, it is only a matter of time before lusty hearts pair up at work, or wish they could. These pages offer vital tips and advice on such topics as selecting, courting, and especially pleasuring a partner (or partners), as well as what to do in the event of discord, impotence, or other libidinous mishaps. Thought-provoking illustrations detail "The Forty Ways" and other special techniques, while a reversible jacket (see above) allows readers to uncover the secrets of Office Kama Sutra with complete discretion. If congress is to happen at work, and we know it will, then no employee is safe without a copy of Office Kama Sutra, the skill-enhancement guide to workplace love.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Administrative assistants can learn how to do the "dance of a thousand sticky notes," while account managers can get advice on heating up "cold calls" in Julianne Balmain's Office Kama Sutra: Being a Guide to Delectation & Delight in the Workplace. This humorous take on the ancient erotic guide covers all bases, from "The Forty Ways" to what the phrase "Can I see you in my office?" really means. The author, who also wrote Abroad: A Travel Journal, even provides a reversible book jacket, in case workers need to pretend they're reading "Getting What You Want at Work: Ten Steps from Fantasy to Reality."

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Review

PLAYBOY
The office affair is elevated by Office Kama Sutra, an entertaining book by the alarmingly cute Julianne Balmain. In energetic prose, she outlines positions such as "the determined mollusk pestered by a jellyfish with plenty of tentacles" (simpler than it sounds) and the practice of "polishing the mahogany"—congress on the conference room table.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (July 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811831388
• ISBN-13: 978-0811831383
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 4.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,523,524 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Julianne Balmain is a novelist and author of several nonfiction books. Using the pen name Nadia Gordon, she is the author of a series of culinary mystery novels set in Napa Valley, including SHARPSHOOTER, DEATH BY THE GLASS, MURDER ALFRESCO, and LETHAL VINTAGE, which was nominated for a 2010 Mystery Writers of America Mary Higgins Clark Award. Featured in the documentary film MYSTERIOUS CALIFORNIA, her mystery series has been called "jolly, high-calorie pleasure" by the Chicago Tribune, "highly enjoyable" by the Washington Post, and "rapturous" by the Los Angeles Times. Writing under her real name, Balmain is the author of numerous books about food, relationships, and travel, including THE KAMA SUTRA DECK, a romantic how-to guide, and the humorous OFFICE KAMA SUTRA, which together have been translated into six languages. Her travel books include NIGHT + DAY SAN FRANCISCO, which the New York Times called "astute" and full of "details that can make out-of-towners want to pay a special visit." To find out more, visit www.juliannebalmain.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not your every day office day!, March 5, 2002

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Jimmy Peterson (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Office Kama Sutra: Being a Guide to Delectation & Delight in the Workplace (Hardcover)

My dad was a writer who actually made living doing it. I always thought that writing was the most boring job ever created for mankind. Was I ever wrong! Reading this book by Ms. Balmain I was laughing out loud, and that doesn't happen too often with me. It's funny and for some odd reason it holds a lot of truth as well, it's almost like she actually worked at the office at some point and most likely she has at least been a witness for some of the action described in the book. I truly recommend this to anyone who needs good laugh or a hell of a gift item. I just wished I was a writer and could do research on something like this, but with my luck I would be working on lock spring mecanism on Buick Riviera's gas pedal. I wonder if Ms. Balmain needs an assistant?

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A riot!!!, August 3, 2003

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edweena (Bellevue, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Office Kama Sutra: Being a Guide to Delectation & Delight in the Workplace (Hardcover)

Required reading for any would-be office Shiva. You will never look at your mouse the same way again.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For anyone stuck in a cubicle..., January 15, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Office Kama Sutra: Being a Guide to Delectation & Delight in the Workplace (Hardcover)

This little treasure of a book is a delectable play of the two concerns (aside from food) that dominate all of our conscious and even much of our unconscious time: work and love. The writing is entertaining, smart, and down-right hilarious. The illustrations are witty and delicate--the perfect treatment to the awkward subject of office love. This is a book that I had to read outloud to others, as well as give to anyone who thought they were getting away with illicit practice of the "40 Ways." Who would have known that delivery people, office stickies, and packing popcorn held so much potential. Work has never felt so much like play.