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THE Sex & Pleasure Book: Good Vibrations Guide to Great Sex For Everyone
We wrote the book! Good Vibrations Staff Sexologist Carol Queen PhD and Author, Editor Femmepress Shar Rednour have collaborated on a tome that aims to demystify sex and offer enough fun, detailed knowledge to make solo or sociable sex fabulous for just about everyone. Covering everything from sexual identity to relationships, sex through the lifespan to pregnancy and health issues, disability to sex and tech, and tons of information about sexual practices, positions, and of course toys!
THE Sex & Pleasure Book: Good Vibrations Guide to Great Sex for Everyone draws on Good Vibrations’ 38-plus years of diverse and informative customer interactions, plus Staff Sexologist Dr. Carol Queen’s academic training and community experience, to deliver the most informative and empowering sex information book bar none. This book is for people of many identities, experience levels, and interests. Covering sexual changes across the lifespan, the identity spectrum, sexual anatomy, and of course sex toys and products, this ambitious compendium aims to inform and inspire sexual comfort and exploration! Co-Authored and Edited by Shar Rednour.
THE Sex & Pleasure Book: Good Vibrations Guide to Great Sex for Everyone draws on Good Vibrations’ 38-plus years of diverse and informative customer interactions, plus Staff Sexologist Dr. Carol Queen’s academic training and community experience, to deliver the most informative and empowering sex information book bar none. This book is for people of many identities, experience levels, and interests. Covering sexual changes across the lifespan, the identity spectrum, sexual anatomy, and of course sex toys and products, this ambitious compendium aims to inform and inspire sexual comfort and exploration! Co-Authored and Edited by Shar Rednour.
- GenresNonfictionSexualityQueer
473 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2015
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About the author
Carol Queen
42 books125 followersCarol Queen is an American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist active in the sex-positive feminism movement. Queen has written on human sexuality in books such as Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture. She has written a sex tutorial, Exhibitionism for the Shy: Show Off, Dress Up and Talk Hot, as well as erotica, such as the novel The Leather Daddy and the Femme. Queen has produced adult movies, events, workshops and lectures. Queen was featured as an instructor and star in both installments of the Bend Over Boyfriend series about female-to-male anal sex, or pegging. She has also served as editor for compilations and anthologies. She is a sex-positive sex educator in the United States.
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December 9, 2015
It´s hard to find a book with quality, accessible to all the public and talking about all the themes around sexuality. Et voilà, Shar Rednour and Carol Queen have done it!
The book can answer any question you have made yourself –ever- about human sexuality, very inclusive, and based in sex positive.
Never mind your sexual orientation or interests, “The Sex & Pleasure Book” has something for you, with an easy reading and nice illustrations that will leave no doubt left to answer.
I recommend it 100%
Almudena M.Ferrer.
The book can answer any question you have made yourself –ever- about human sexuality, very inclusive, and based in sex positive.
Never mind your sexual orientation or interests, “The Sex & Pleasure Book” has something for you, with an easy reading and nice illustrations that will leave no doubt left to answer.
I recommend it 100%
Almudena M.Ferrer.
September 11, 2020
My fav quotes (not a review):
“The point is that lovemaking opens up carefully guarded vulnerabilities. Indeed, the very joy of lovemaking comes from allowing frozen feelings and sensations to melt into volcanic bubblings.… –Marco Vassi"
"Another cultural myth is the idea that “Someday my Prince [or Princess] will come”—in other words, that the right partner will unlock our responses and give us access to erotic pleasure and fulfillment. This notion leads us to expect that with love, good sex follows—and, conversely, that if you just had great sex, it must be love. Sexologists tell a joke: “Someday my Prince [or Princess] will come, and so will I”— to call attention to, and gently mock, this assumption that “the right one” will change everything for us sexually."
"As Robert Frost wrote, “Love at the lips was touch/As sweet as I could bear/And once that seemed too much…” Remember—you’re right up against their face: You can feel their breath—and they yours; smell them; and taste them. When you’re kissing, many senses come into play. You can kiss without touching the other person anyplace but the lips: It’s a rather sweet exercise, in fact, to simply keep your hands to yourself."
It wasn’t until the 1970s that novelist and acclaimed diarist Anaïs Nin’s erotic stories from the 1940s were collected in two volumes, Delta of Venus and Little Birds. Diane di Prima’s Memoirs of a Beatnik had been published in 1969. Women’s erotic stories, memoirs, and novels would get more and more attention from then on, from anthologies like A Woman’s Touch, The Ladies’ Own Erotica books, and the Herotica series.”
"Most kids hear about oral sex around age 9 or 10, from other kids or from the media. Oftentimes they specifically ask, “What is a blowjob?” Here’s an answer you might choose to offer: “Some people kiss on genitals and think it feels good. It’s called ‘oral sex.’"
"Ages 6 to 7: This age is when they really want to know how babies are made. “Sperm comes out of adult men and if grown-ups are having sexual intercourse then it can go into a woman through her vagina and make a baby. But babies and families are made in lots of ways. This is the main way, but there are others.”"
"End of 12 to 13: Be loud and clear—and no stuttering!—on all things STI-related. Show them pictures if you want to. Talk and talk, tell them to masturbate, tell them how all parts of their body can feel excited when aroused."
“The point is that lovemaking opens up carefully guarded vulnerabilities. Indeed, the very joy of lovemaking comes from allowing frozen feelings and sensations to melt into volcanic bubblings.… –Marco Vassi"
"Another cultural myth is the idea that “Someday my Prince [or Princess] will come”—in other words, that the right partner will unlock our responses and give us access to erotic pleasure and fulfillment. This notion leads us to expect that with love, good sex follows—and, conversely, that if you just had great sex, it must be love. Sexologists tell a joke: “Someday my Prince [or Princess] will come, and so will I”— to call attention to, and gently mock, this assumption that “the right one” will change everything for us sexually."
"As Robert Frost wrote, “Love at the lips was touch/As sweet as I could bear/And once that seemed too much…” Remember—you’re right up against their face: You can feel their breath—and they yours; smell them; and taste them. When you’re kissing, many senses come into play. You can kiss without touching the other person anyplace but the lips: It’s a rather sweet exercise, in fact, to simply keep your hands to yourself."
It wasn’t until the 1970s that novelist and acclaimed diarist Anaïs Nin’s erotic stories from the 1940s were collected in two volumes, Delta of Venus and Little Birds. Diane di Prima’s Memoirs of a Beatnik had been published in 1969. Women’s erotic stories, memoirs, and novels would get more and more attention from then on, from anthologies like A Woman’s Touch, The Ladies’ Own Erotica books, and the Herotica series.”
"Most kids hear about oral sex around age 9 or 10, from other kids or from the media. Oftentimes they specifically ask, “What is a blowjob?” Here’s an answer you might choose to offer: “Some people kiss on genitals and think it feels good. It’s called ‘oral sex.’"
"Ages 6 to 7: This age is when they really want to know how babies are made. “Sperm comes out of adult men and if grown-ups are having sexual intercourse then it can go into a woman through her vagina and make a baby. But babies and families are made in lots of ways. This is the main way, but there are others.”"
"End of 12 to 13: Be loud and clear—and no stuttering!—on all things STI-related. Show them pictures if you want to. Talk and talk, tell them to masturbate, tell them how all parts of their body can feel excited when aroused."
December 16, 2019
More sex consultant (lots of "it depends") than sex scientist. I was hoping to find out how to be a better lover, but somehow became both bored and aroused.
March 29, 2023
Thanks jess for being my audiobook
January 29, 2019
Super fun read, and it’s also a very important read. I have always be interested in this topic from a biological stand point, a Sex-Ed stand point, adding a little kink to your own life stand point (you get what I mean. It’s an amazing book that I feel covers a wide range of information.
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