Sex, Intimacy and Lying About Love: 5,000 Men Go to Bed and Tell the Truth [Paperback]

Thom W. King (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 12, 1998

Sex, Intimacy & Lying About Love offers a revealing look into the male sexual psyche. With candid answers from men discussing what turns them on--and off--about sex, dating, and women, it is the most comprehensive study of male sexual attitudes and practices ever published. Some of the sections include:

Memorable Experiences
Describe the most sensual woman you have ever known.

Women
What do men want the most from women?

Orgasm
How do you really know your lover is satisfied?

Experimentation
What is the wildest thing your partner has ever talked you in to doing sexually?

When Thom King and Debbie Peterson were researching their first book, The Good Girls' Guide to Great Sex, they noticed that men were intrigued by the women's questionnaires and wanted to share their own experiences. Now, after some 5,000 men from all walks of life completed their own extensive survey, the results are in.
            
Their responses will surprise you, shock you, and entertain you while revealing how men view women, sex, and, most startlingly, themselves. Women eager for information that will help them become better lovers will find it here--straight from the horses' mouths. And, of course, there is the allure of an honest and frank sex book that will give men the skinny on other men and what their sexual experiences have been like.

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Sex, Intimacy & Lying About Love offers a revealing look into the male sexual psyche. With candid answers from men discussing what turns them on--and off--about sex, dating, and women, it is the most comprehensive study of male sexual attitudes and practices ever published. Some of the sections include:

Memorable Experiences
Describe the most sensual woman you have ever known.

Women
What do men want the most from women?

Orgasm
How do you really know your lover is satisfied?

Experimentation
What is the wildest thing your partner has ever talked you in to doing sexually?

When Thom King and Debbie Peterson were researching their first book, The Good Girls' Guide to Great Sex, they noticed that men were intrigued by the women's questionnaires and wanted to share their own experiences. Now, after some 5,000 men from all walks of life completed their own extensive survey, the results are in.

Their responses will surprise you, shock you, and entertain you while revealing how men view women, sex, and, most startlingly, themselves. Women eager for information that will help them become better lovers will find it here--straight from the horses' mouths. And, of course, there is the allure of an honest and frank sex book that will give men the skinny on other men and what their sexual experiences have been like.

About the Author

Thom W. King is an award-winning fashion photographer. He has also worked as a photojournalist and reporter. His passions are collecting bad art, smoking big cigars, and driving convertibles.

Debora Peterson is an accomplished singer/songwriter with a passion for guitar, piano, and rhythm & blues. She loves children, horses, and good men. She was born in France, grew up in Montana, and now lives in Tennessee.

Product Details

• Paperback: 286 pages
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press; 1 edition (January 12, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 060980278X
• ISBN-13: 978-0609802786
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,157,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #64 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Health, Mind & Body > Sex

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Diverting but weightless fluff, March 31, 2000

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David J. Loftus (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sex, Intimacy and Lying About Love: 5,000 Men Go to Bed and Tell the Truth (Paperback)

The concept for this book was promising: interviews with more than 5,000 men about their most intimate concerns and interests -- a total of 313 questions about everything from favorite cologne to greatest turnoff, from special sexual talents to worst experience with drugs and sex.

Unfortunately, the execution trivializes all this great information. Imagine trying to choose three -- rarely as much as five -- answers to represent everything these 5,000-plus men had to say in response to each of the 313 questions. Do you choose the most representative answer? The wittiest? The funniest? Most thoughtful? Most shocking?

In many cases, it is obvious the authors have chosen one or two of the latter ... but how is a reader to know which answers best represent the majority of the male sex? As a man, I found some of the vitriol and caricaturing of the male sex indulged in by some of the interviewees to be as bad (and inaccurate) as anything I've ever heard a woman say about men. What does this do for us?

The information in this book has all the titillation -- and corresponding weightlessness -- of secrets shared by an utter stranger at a cocktail party. There's no context for the content; it's of no earthly use to the reader beyond a fleeting instant of entertainment. The book is rather like a greatly extended version of a typical women's magazine article for which the reporter has chatted with three to five friends and thereupon uses the conversations either to construct a portrait of the sexes whole cloth, or merely to confirm her own preexisting conception of how the sexes relate and play.