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Useless Sexual Trivia: Tastefully Prurient Facts About Everyone's Favorite Subject

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Any book with the word "Useless" in the title can hardly be criticized for content. But this is actually a surprisingly tasteful dip into what the human race has been doing in and out of bed since the year dot. Chapter titles such as The Unkindest Cut Of All, Animal Lust and Sexual Healing say it all. How the author actually knows that reproductive women have sex three thousand times on average in their life or that Casanova ate fifty oysters for breakfast is not made clear. However, Cosmopolitan magazine is mentioned as a source more than once. There are many memorable one liners here. When Gore Vidal was asked if the first person he had sex with was male or female, he apparently replied that he had been too polite to ask. If other people's sex lives interest you, and they do tend to be more interesting than yours, you are in for a sensational read.

After hearing about this book on the radio, I ordered it from Amazon and enjoyed the heck out of it from the first page to the last. It's the kind of book that you can pick up anytime, turn to any page and find some kind of short, entertaining tidbit, from the mildly amusing to the 'oh-my-goodness-I-can't-believe-that's-true' factoid. While it's never graphic or uses course language, it's not what you'd want to get for your Amish friends or overly prudish relatives. But if you're comfortable reading Maxim or Cosmo, than this is the perfect book for you.

Read all of the facts in this book. Some of them will make you laugh out loud. Others ... will really make you think. A great book - lots of good trivia questions!

The world of sex trivia books is small - at best (and you thought size didn't matter). "Useless Sexual Trivia" is the most comprehensive of the bunch.

This is a well-organized, funny list of some of the most unusual, bizarre and just plain creepy sexual practices and habits in the world. We publish a sex trivia newsletter, and for us, this is an indispensable reference work.

What a wonderful book. Not only will you learn more than you'd ever need to know, but you can chuckle right along with the author as he puts his 2 cents in. Wanna find out once and for all what the average size of a penis is? Do you have any idea what oculolinctus is? I dare ya to find out. Thank me later!

I love trivia books like this, and I enjoyed reading about all the little-known sexual facts out there. Especially intriguing is the section on what is still considered a crime in the United States. Who'd have guessed, for example, that in San Francisco, of all places, it's illegal to give and receive oral sex? That said, though, what the book painfully lacked was citations. Where did the author get all these facts? A list of sources at the end would have sufficed for this type of book. I have no doubt that at least most of this is true, but without references, the author, unfortunately, lacks credibility.

You know, this is one of those books you don't admit to having. I mean, some things are still taboo these days. I got it out of curiosity and got the answers I was looking for; for sure!

This is a nice little book that can be read within one sitting. It has lots of odd facts that keeps the reader reading more and more and wondering what is wrong with some people.

The book was great - it just wasn't long enough. It's just one of those books that you read while sitting on the toilet and you're done! Full of useless sexual, "PG-13 facts," which were so spaced out on the page that when you read a couple of sentences, you're already almost at the end of the book! Good quality, poor quantity.

good book if there are things about people and sex that good together to make you think , do people really do or did that and some laws that have to do with sex,, good entaining book