Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk [Paperback]

Scott Jacobson (Author), Todd Levin (Author), Jason Roeder (Author), Mike Sacks (Author), Ted Travelstead (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 24, 2010

 
GOOD GOD—YOU’RE DOING IT ALL WRONG . . .
 
The Association for the Betterment of Sex (A.B.S.) presents Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk, a radical and invaluable resource for improving your sexual communication—whether you have been in a committed relationship for years, or have just moments ago removed the shrinkwrap from your new Japanese body pillow. 
 
Here are just a few sensual revelations you’ll find within these pages:
 
-    The precise location of the female G-spot (latitude and longitude)
-    “Going on tour with Midnight Oil” and more outmoded masturbation slang
-    Forced perspective and other techniques for visually enhancing the size of your member
-    The Top Five pastry-related euphemisms for female genitalia
-    How to score big at your next swingers’ party, with our crowd-pleasing ambrosia-salad recipe
-    Listings of “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” dry-cleaning services, for freshening up your vinyl fetishwear or adult-sized Tigger costume
-    Your first threesome, and how the ancient Mayans predicted it wouldn’t go over so hot
 
Exhaustively researched and fully illustrated, Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk is a must-read for you, your sexual partner(s), and anyone who wishes there was more to sex than thrashing around for a few seconds and begging for forgiveness.
 

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Guest Reviewer: Mary Roach

Mary Roach is a popular science writer and is the author of the books Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, and Packing for Mars.

As the author of Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex—available in paperback, CD audiobook, cassette audiobook, eBook, cortical implant, and semaphore—I feel the need to correct certain misleading passages in Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk.

1. Page 56: The stages of The Human Sexual Response Cycle (Revised). Stage 24, "Lingering Trauma," should follow Stage 25, "Quick Snooze," not precede it. Stage 22, "Disentanglement from Drift Net" may occur sporadically throughout the cycle. Duh.

2. In the discussion of "Creative Grips for the Advanced Onanist," the authors have included several potentially harmful techniques. I do not wish to be alarmist, but the "Clashing Rocks" technique has, to date, landed sixteen men in US emergency rooms and merited mention in the "Good Golly" column of Morbidity and Mortality Monthly.

3. Page 175. "Plugging Your Penis with Witch Hazel" does not prevent pregnancy. There is no known excuse for the existence of Witch Hazel.

Otherwise, all facts are correct and scientifically excellent.

From Publishers Weekly

Starred Review. A spot-on parody of earnest sex guides, Our Bodies, Our Junk is a hilarious and addictive page-turner co-written by The Onion staff writer Jason Roeder, Mike Sacks, writer-comedian Ted Travelstead, Daily Show veteran Scott Jacobson, and Todd Levin, who has written for Late Night With Conan O'Brien and Onion News Network. Their fictitious agency offers all manner of improper, inappropriate, and hilarious advice, including helpful pickup lines like "you might recognize me from your window," songs designed to help educate children about sex, such as "Doggy Honks the Horn (The Clitoris Song)," "Five Public Places You Can Masturbate Without Ever Being Detected" (including the pets department at Walmart), and "firsthand accounts of the alleged female ˜orgasm.'" Daring to answer such questions as "How Much Masturbation is Too Much Masturbation?" and offering sidebars on "Swinging: What Your Mailman Is Referring to When He Asks if You Party" and "Gorillas In the Mist: Navigating the Sexual Dynamics of a Health Club Steam Room," the team never miss an opportunity to skewer popular stereotypes and established facts in an acerbic, witty take on a prime subject. (Aug.) (c)
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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Broadway (August 24, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307592162
• ISBN-13: 978-0307592163
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 0.7 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #497,635 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best gift ever!, September 15, 2010

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Bought this book as a gift for a friend and they loved it... In fact they're talking about it so much I think I'm going to buy a copy for myself!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very serious topic taken very very seriously, August 27, 2010

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From time immemorial doing the nasty has been cumbersome. Not just getting some, but the proper, sanctioned, socially acceptable way to do so. Now that the Internets have blown the lid off privacy, as we fumble around with each others zippers, thank heavens the AFBOS has delivered this obviously well-researched tome. Now we have a reputable guide to getting IT, not getting IT, and everything IN BETWEEN. With some stupidly funny and smart tips -- I particularly liked the pick up lines not to use, especially the ones involving Phil Collins albums. This is important and useful stuff. If only Oedipus had been my Facebook friend -- I would have sent him a link to this puppy and, before he was blind (he was the guy who became blind right?) he could have read it and laughed and Dr. Freud would have just kept working on bruises and things would have better for all of us. But we had to wait till now. So. What I'm saying is. I like.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you always wanted to know about sex... but with a lot more laffs, August 24, 2010

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Alana Quirk (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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Open the cover of Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk and enter a weird, hilarious world, where human sexuality gets the absurd treatment it deserves -- peppered with spot-on pop culture references and humor so sharp you might feel a little guilty even as you're laughing out loud. (For all you raised-Catholics, this guilt response when contemplating sex will probably feel familiar. Comforting.) The authors, a group called the Association for the Betterment of Sex, manage to combine lowbrow and highbrow into something altogether new and different (fauxbrow?). Smart humor for smart people, with great Joy of Sex-ish illustrations (only funny, ungross, and un-reminding you of your parents in the 70s). I'll be buying multiple copies as gifts.