The Adventurous Couple's Guide to Sex Toys (Paperback)

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Feeling adventurous? In this witty and well-informed consumer guide, best-selling author and sex educator Violet Blue shows couples how to choose and use sex toys to play and explore together — and have mind-blowing sex. She leads readers through the maze of sex toys on the market, explaining the many options available, including different materials, care and cleaning, and how to see through exaggerated marketing claims. Along the way Violet offers tips on creative usage and ideas for introducing sex toys to a relationship: how to ask your boyfriend to use the blindfold in your bedside drawer or how to surprise your wife with a saucy gift without getting your face slapped (unless that was the point).
The Adventurous Couple’s Guide to Sex Toys takes a practical, sex-positive approach to pleasure, with plenty of safety advice and a list of websites for savvy online shopping. But why stop with the basics? Care to enact a threesome fantasy with two people? Set up the sexiest lighting for a webcam show? Dream of owning a steel cage dining table for captivating dinner parties? From the tried-and-true to the truly spectacular, you’ll find it here in The Adventurous Couple’s Guide.

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Product Details Paperback: 192 pages Publisher: Cleis Press; 1 edition (August 21, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 1573442542 ISBN-13: 978-1573442541 Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #123,793 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This book cites 12 books:

• The Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women, 2nd Edition by Tristan Taormino on page 138, and Back Matter
• Sweet Life: Erotic Fantasies for Couples by Violet Blue on page 138, and Back Matter
• Come Hither! A Commonsense Guide to Kinky Sex by Gloria G. Brame on page 138
• Sex Machines: Photographs and Interviews by Timothy Archibald on page 107
• Tricks... to Please a Man by Jay Wiseman on page 138

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Cleis Press; 1 edition (August 21, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1573442542
• ISBN-13: 978-1573442541
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #123,793 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Toys for Tarts review, March 12, 2009

By	Coming Together - See all my reviews

Regardless where the toy market takes us or when/if the multitude of website addresses in this book become obsolete, good advice is good advice. The most important information in this book (on safety, communication, imagination) will stand the test of time. It starts out slowly--with tips on introducing sex toys into a relationship--so as not to overwhelm a true beginner. However, by the time readers reach the end of the book, with its chapters on sex machines and alien probes, their own kinks probably seem quite vanilla in comparison--and that is this book's subtle gift. Kudos to Ms. Blue! After all, the sex machine aficionados are clearly not this book's target audience. They're well past it on the kink-o-meter. Including information about the wilder devices and contraptions gives the nervous novice a big boost of confidence by saying without saying: "You just want to peg your boyfriend? Pffft! That's nothing. What are you waiting for?"

The book is quite comprehensive in its coverage of toys--from standard vibrators and dildos to harnesses to webcams and teledildonics to pain play to sex furniture.

The author's smooth narrative makes for an enjoyable read. I laughed out loud at a couple clever turns of phrase. And, yes, I did learn a thing or two.

Until next time,

peace & passion,

~ Alessia Brio for Toys for Tarts
http://toys-for-tarts.blogspot.com

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Little Basic...., March 12, 2007

By	T. Fisher - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you are looking for a basic guide about what's out there in the world of sex toys, this is your book.