Your Erotic Personality: Identifying and Understanding Your Sexual Self [Mass Market Paperback]

Sage Vivant (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 3, 2007

The ultimate quiz for discovering your inner libido and getting the most out of sex.

Who doesn't want to know what kind of sexual personality lurks under their outward demeanor-and that of their lover? Who doesn't want to know what they really want? And who can resist unlocking the secrets of their hidden sexual desires?

With this ultimate sex quiz and in-depth analysis, seasoned sexual-personality expert and customized erotica entrepreneur Sage Vivant shows readers how to identify and explore their own unique libidinous imprint-whether it's The Romantic, The Cuckold, The Watcher, The Top, The Bottom, and any number of wild possibilities. It's a chance for all readers, regardless of sex or sexual orientation, to push their fantasies into overdrive and indulge, find the right partner and explore, face turn-ons with adventurous uninhibited pride, plow through sexual roadblocks, and finally let loose.

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About the Author

Sage Vivant is an author and entrepreneur who specializes in writing erotica for hire. Through her company Custom Erotica Source, Vivant has written more than one thousand stories for hundreds of individual clients through her confidential outlet.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Trade (April 3, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425214346
• ISBN-13: 978-0425214343
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,591,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm the original owner of and principal writer for Custom Erotica Source, the only online resource for tailor-made erotic literature. I sold the business in 2008 but you can still visit and order stories written by talented writers at www.customeroticasource.com.

A bit about my books...

YOUR EROTIC PERSONALITY is a revealing, educational, and (I hope) entertaining glimpse into the erotic psyches of the hundreds of people I wrote for while I operated Custom Erotica Source. A person learns a lot about the people she's writing for when they share their erotic fantasies with her, and I've tried to capture many of those insights in this book. Take the quiz in the book and see which "personality" you are!

GIVING THE BRIDE AWAY is a novel I originally wrote for a client and it's a compelling story of a cuckold with a wife who delivers a never-ending stream of blissful struggles.

SEX, MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION is an audio CD I collaborated on with UK singer/songwriter/producer David Courtney. David gave me the general idea of what he wanted, and I wrote and narrated the story. His wonderful music in interwoven throughout, creating a beautifully sexy mood.

CONFESSIONS and AMAZONS and GARDEN OF THE PERVERSE and BEST OF BOTH WORLDS are anthologies that I co-edited with the incredibly talented erotica master, M. Christian. (If you haven't read his work, YOU MUST! He's got an imagination that never quits.)

Enjoy!

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Knowledge brings power--and a spicier sex life!, August 13, 2007

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Donna G. Storey "writer and Japan scholar" (Northern California, USA) - See all my reviews
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I was expecting a good read when I picked up Sage Vivant's Your Erotic Personality: Identifying and Understanding Your Sexual Self. After all, it's Sage's business to translate her clients' fantasies into stories at Custom Erotica Source. That means she's heard a lot of secrets from a lot of different people, and it's not surprising she's discovered "distinct personality trends" in the erotica she is asked to create. I'll admit, too, there is a bit of the thrill of the voyeur (or Watcher as Sage calls it) at the idea of stepping inside the fantasies of so many people who've whispered in her ear over the years. Don't we all want to know more about what goes on in other people's minds and bedrooms?

Well, I was not disappointed. I got my good read and more. Your Erotic Personality is hard to put down. It breezes along with smooth prose and laugh-out-loud wit, especially the quizzes that open each chapter profile. I can only imagine how much fun it was to think up those! But this isn't just a sit-back-and-let-it-wash-over-you sort of book. By the second chapter, you've become an active participant with a quiz that makes you think seriously about your own erotic yearnings. Not that I expected to be "found out" as early as chapter three. Yes, I can't deny I have a lot of the Escapist in me--wild flights of fancy combined with a need for security. But it didn't stop there. As I read on, I recognized other aspects of my psyche in the chapters to follow. Apparently I'm also a bit of a Wanderer and have clear Show-Off tendencies, as well as a healthy dash of the Student's scientific curiosity.

Gee, I'm more interesting than I thought!

Sage writes that for her clients, the very process of articulating their desires--yearnings we are rarely if ever encouraged to talk about--brings self-knowledge. Knowledge, of course, is power, in this case, the power to accept, explore and enjoy who you are. The pang of recognition I felt not only made me feel less alone, which is always good, it also made me realize how my erotic imagination offers me so many flavors, so many options to explore.

Throughout the book, Sage speaks with authority and a generous, nonjudgmental spirit. I found I not only understood myself and my partner better, but I got some intelligent insights into other erotic types that seemed foreign to me. In fact, I quickly realized that where this book really belongs is with the writing references, because I know this will be a very useful aid in creating characters for my own stories. If I have a character in a story who gets off watching his wife have sex with other men, I'll turn to the Cuckold chapter for some clues into what makes him tick--his dreams, his vulnerabilities, the range of behaviors this might involve. And because every human being is motivated by her/his sexual desires to some degree, the book could be a gold mine for any writer, not just those who specialize in erotica.

Smart, witty, fun and educational. Your Erotic Personality is a great book and I hear there's a sequel in the works. I can't wait!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What fun, September 19, 2009

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Jim Underwood - See all my reviews
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This is a fun and interesting read, my wife and I enjoyed a long ride while she and I took the quiz explored the results of identifying our individual personality traits! Highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know what and why some things turn you on more than others.

1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Dumb book, January 17, 2010

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Anne C. Woodlen (Syracuse, NY) - See all my reviews
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Dumb book and a waste of time and money. I think I threw it away shortly after it arrived.