Seal It with a Kiss: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Delivering the Knockout Kiss [Paperback]

Violet Blue (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2010

Eager readers can get their smooch on with all the different tricks and practices found in Seal It with a Kiss. Best-selling author and columnist Violet Blue helps her audience come up with — and perfect — its very own style, from the novice kissers to the make-out queens. Discover how to time a kiss perfectly, how to deliver or receive that amazing first kiss, and how to ask for kisses, both with and without words. Solve problems such as stubble rash, and learn how to handle the kisses that don't turn out as planned. Violet Blue reveals all the kissing do's and don'ts in Seal It with a Kiss, with chapters including "Deliver a Knockout Kiss Techniques," "The Make-Out Artist," "Kissing Games," and many more.

Editorial Reviews

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"Seal It with a Kiss by Violet Blue is a great read. She takes you from getting things started to heating them up to leaving your partner wanting more. If you want to learn all about kissing, this is it." --Ann Andriani, All Sex Reviews

This book offers dos and don'ts, exercises and enlightenment and instructions on a huge variety of kisses. After reading this delightful little book, you'll want to grab your significant other and do a little practicing of your own. --BookWenches

"This book is the kissing bible." --Urban Outfitters

About the Author

Violet Blue is a Forbes "Web Celeb", Associate Editor at Laughing Squid, a high-profile tech personality and one of Wired's "Faces of Innovation." She is regarded as the foremost expert in the field of sex and technology, a sex-positive pundit in mainstream media (MacLife, The Oprah Winfrey Show, others) and is regularly interviewed, quoted and featured prominently by major media outlets. Violet has many award-winning, best selling books; her books are featured on Oprah's website. She was the notorious sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She headlines at conferences ranging from ETech, LeWeb and SXSW: Interactive, to Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc. The London Times named Blue one of the 40 bloggers who really count (2010). 

"Violet Blue is the leading sex educator for the Internet generation." -Webnation

Product Details

• Paperback: 156 pages
• Publisher: Viva Editions (January 1, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573443859
• ISBN-13: 978-1573443852
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #555,087 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The London Times named Blue "one of the 40 bloggers who really count"

"Violet Blue is omnipresent on the Web." -Forbes

"Violet Blue is the leading sex educator for the Internet generation." --Webnation

"America's leading (very) public intellectual sexologist, Violet Blue." --The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

Violet Blue (tinynibbles.com) is a top 25 Forbes "Web Celeb" and one of Wired's "Faces of Innovation." Blue is regarded as the foremost sexuality and technology futurist and sex-positive pundit in mainstream media (such as The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, Attack of The Show and The Tyra Banks Show). A published feature writer and columnist for CBSi/ZDNet, Violet also has many award-winning, best selling books. Her books are featured on Oprah's website.

She is regularly interviewed, quoted and featured prominently by major publications and media outlets including Wired (and Wired UK), Newsweek, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Salon.com, BBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Cinematical, PBS: Mediashift, CBS, The History Channel, Esquire, Jane, Maxim, Marie Claire and more. Violet is the author and editor of over thirty award-winning, best selling books and was the notorious sex columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle. She is a renowned blogger, high-profile tech personality, the first female podcaster, currently a reporter for long-running web TV show Geek Entertainment Television, and professional speaker, including two Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc.

Violet Blue's many books have won numerous awards and accolades and have been translated into seven languages. Blue connects with an audience of over 7 million a month with her podcast "Open Source Sex", named for the intersection of technology and sex, and the free-flowing information exchange of the open source software movement.

Forbes called her podcast "One of the Internet's most popular podcasts."

In addition to mainstream media features and guest blogging for sites such as Laughing Squid, Blue writes for media outlets such as Forbes, O: The Oprah Magazine, MacLife, and UN sponsored international health organization, RH Reality Check. She has contributed essays to eleven nonfiction books about sex and culture, and has been cited and quoted as a sex and future tech expert in print outlets ranging from Wired UK's "Experts Predict The Future" feature to David Levy's "Love + Sex With Robots."

Violet lectures about Internet sexuality to cyberlaw classes at UC Berkeley (Boalt; Samuelson Law Clinic), human sexuality programs at UCSF, volunteers as an advisor and instructor about sexual health and human sexuality to sex crisis counselors at community teaching institutions. She is considered an expert in the field of sex and technology, and has been invited to speak about the topic at conferences ranging from O'Reilly's ETech, Gnomedex, LeWeb and SXSW: Interactive and has given two Google Tech Talks at Google, Inc.

Oft-quoted and sourced, Violet has been a published writer in the field of sex and culture since 1999, was the first female podcaster and is a respected digital privacy advocate.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Addition to the Basics, December 17, 2010

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Miss Kay - See all my reviews

This review is from: Seal It with a Kiss: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Delivering the Knockout Kiss (Paperback)

"Seal It With a Kiss" is a book by Violet Blue and published by Cleis Press. The book is miniature in size at seven inches tall and five inches wide. It has a pretty discreet cover that can be taken out in public. The book is 131 pages and broken into nine different chapters. The book takes about a half an hour to an hour to read straight through; it's not a long read.

The book is definitely intended for heterosexual females. It's written in an "I'm your best friend" type of language, so it's nice and laid-back. It seem to be written towards heterosexual women in their twenties who are currently playing the dating field. Most of the tips don't seem to be focused towards those in relationships, but it isn't hard to modify the slight language nuances to apply to your situation. Males or homosexuals could also easily apply the techniques given in this book.

This book isn't chock full of amazingly unique ideas, but it definitely has its fair share of quite a few novel concepts. Some of the information is stuff I feel like I've read before online and in Cosmo/women's magazines, but some of the information is actually very informative. I definitely learned some good stuff by reading this book.

The book covers a nice variety of topics. It includes things like specific kissing techniques, types of good and bad kisses, how to turn a bad kisser into a good kisser, what to do about hickeys and stubble-rash, party games to play with group kissing or just couple kissing, "advanced" techniques like flavored lip gloss and how to share your food/beverage during a kiss, and how to make your lips appear more kissable. It also talks about more "mental" aspects like how to accentuate the teasing before a kissing, how to form a connection during your kiss, and how to create suspense.

Overall, Violet Blue has made a pretty detailed book that, while not all novel (after all, how many different ways can you kiss?), still includes a very big chunk of new information that will turn you into a better kisser.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Kissing for Beginners, April 19, 2010

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Peg Sausville (Missouri, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Seal It with a Kiss: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Delivering the Knockout Kiss (Paperback)

In her book, "Seal it with a Kiss," Violet Blue covers a lot of bases on the subject of kissing, however, it is definitely geared toward women - which isn't bad but maybe there should have been a heads up, because if men pick up the book looking for advice, they'll be disappointed. On the other hand, they can definitely learn some things if they can put themselves in the woman's place. Violet sometimes seems to be talking to school girls, particularly when she discusses kissing games. Overall, the information is good but if you have experience kissing and you're looking for new ideas, you're better served going elsewhere - this book covers the fundamentals. However, I really liked the fact that she mentions and is a proponent of eye contact, which is very important in making a connection during a kiss. Summary: good for female beginners.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even If You Think You Know How to Suck Face, You Can Still Learn a Lot From This Book, March 22, 2010

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Rachel Kramer Bussel "Cupcakes Take the Cake ... (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Seal It with a Kiss: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques for Delivering the Knockout Kiss (Paperback)

To be honest, I never thought there'd be that much to say about kissing, but Violet Blue has managed to provide some expert tips and make me think about kissing in new ways. I guess I figured it was something you either know how to do, or you don't, and she walks readers through every aspect, from prepping for a kiss, types of kissers, types of kisses and how to get the most bang for your puckering up.

Blue is funny, too, such as telling readers about the Zoolander kiss; "The Zoolander makes you feel like you're a pretty prop designed to make him look good as he poses, shifts, and gives his `sexy' face to the world while kissing you. Would he notice if you were gone? Probably not." Yes, she covers bad kissers too.

I like that she doesn't neglect kisses to other parts of the body than the lips, either. Personally, I'm a fan of the back and love kissing the shoulders, upper back, and also the chest.

Even if you think you're the best kisser in the world (I'm not that arrogant, but thought I knew the basics), you can learn how to make your smooches sizzle even more with these tidbits of mouth-watering advice. Bonus points: if you're an erotica writer, like me, you can also get some ideas for your next story, because kissing can sometimes be underrated in both real life and on the page. This book is both fun and informative and will, I hope, be beneficial to my boyfriend who is the recipient of most of my kisses!