Books: Other Sex Books

Whether you’re just beginning to explore open relationships or you’ve been living a polyamorous life for years, Tristan Taormino’s Opening Up will offer you something valuable in your quest for loving, lasting connections. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships, from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Taormino offers tips on dealing with jealousy, negotiating boundaries, finding community, parenting, and time management. Opening Up is an invaluable resource that’ll change the way you think about intimacy.

• Binding Style: Paperback
• Type: Sex Info/How-To
• Number of Pages: 343
• Copyright: 2008

Kinky Online Personal Ads from Seattle's The Stranger
by Ellen Forney
Ellen Forney's newest book Lust is collection of cartoons celebrating the sometimes stunningly crude, sometimes surprisingly sweet, online world of personal ads. Forney has for several years been illustrating the Seattle weekly The Stranger's "Lustlab" classified ads by interpreting the most interesting, outrageous, or idiosyncratic ad each week. Plus, the collection includes frank, revealing interviews with some of the advertisers conducted by Forney, plus an introduction by Dan Savage.

• Type: Comic Book/Other Sex Books/Sex + Art
• Number of Pages: 168 pages
• Copyright: 2008

by Marrena Lindberg
Feed your orgasms with The Orgasmic Diet, a nutrition- and fitness-based plan that offers a completely new approach to fine-tuning your sexual response. The step-by-step program regulates orgasm-related chemicals such as serotonin and dopamine through a low-carb diet, supplements, and intense pelvic workouts; helping to support body functioning, brain chemistry and sexual desire.

• Binding Style: Hardback
• Type: Sex Information/How-to
• Number of Pages: 197
• Copyright: 2006

by Staci Haines
Overcome sexual trauma with gentle, transformative, and empowering techniques from the fantastic Healing Sex book. Transcend the limits of talk therapy with a sophisticated mind-body-spirit approach that allow women survivors of sexual assault (of all orientations, single, or coupled) to reclaim their own desires by reconnecting with their physical selves. This edition is an updated version of the formerly titled Survivor’s Guide to Sex by sex educator/somatic healer Staci Haines.

• Binding Style: Paperback
• Type: Sex Info/How-to
• Number of Pages: 267
• Copyright: 2007

Treat your lover to 24 different erotic adventures by surprising him or her with one of these sexy Babeland Playful Pleasure Coupons. The “gifts” promise activities ranging from romantic to explicit, but the real surprise comes with the “sex toy twist” offered on the back of each coupon. The flip side of “Sex Beneath the Stars" says: “I’ll bring the batteries, and not just for the flashlight” suggesting Laya Spot as a vibrator. The coupon offering “One Surprise Love Note” turns over to reveal: “Written on your body” with the Body Pen Set. The coupons work with or without the sex toys--but an “Hour of Oral Sex” is even more delicious with an edible treat! Now available as part of our Valentine's Day Sex and Chocolate Lover's Kit.

Knot here! Knot now! You’ll be tying folks up faster and better thanks to step-by-step instructions and over 750 photos that teach how to turn basic knots into safe, captivating and sexy bondage. World-famous photographer Larry Utley captures every moment as bondage pros Dan and J.D. replicate the how-tos they learned teaching rope workshops. All you have to do is follow along—the book even opens flat so you can use both hands to tie knots as you read. Old pros and newcomers alike will glean tips, ideas and inspiration from the excellent techniques and dazzling photographs.

• Binding Style: Paperback
• Type: Instructional
• Number of Pages: 70 pages
• Copyright: 2006

Break out your Ducky and get ready to get wet and wild with Cosmo's Aqua Kama Sutra. You can take this 100% waterproof book with you into your favorite body of water, and it will take your body through your favorite sex positions of the Kama Sutra, that every Cosmo girl (or boy!) should know, but with a wet twist. Make a splash with positions like "Tub Tango" and "Deep Water Dare".

• Binding Style: Waterproof paperback
• Type: Sex Information/How-To
• Number of Pages: 63
• Copyright: 2006

by Anne Hooper
Lose your inhibitions and explore your fantasies with the "assignments" and role-playing scenes in Anne Hooper's Great Sex Games. Have fun with creative self-loving, hone sexual communication skills and try out sexy new personas with the suggestions in this book. Small and light, but packed with gorgeous, colorful illustrations, it's the perfect travel companion for a couple's weekend getaway. Heterosexually oriented.

by Laura Corn
Once a week you, or your lover, open a tantalizing sealed page of this creative couples book. Inside you will find instructions for a night's worth of seductions and steamy sex. Follow the recipes for heating up your communication and fulfilling fantasies, explore new positions, and techniques. Heterosexually oriented.

Up your sexual quotient along with your IQ reading this hip and hilarious Kama-Sutra inspired book created by the smart, sexy folks at Nerve.com. Every day of the year features a different position; plus difficulty ratings, how many calories you can burn, and a place for notes. Makes a great gift.

• Style: Paperback
• Type: Instructional, Non-fiction
• Number of pages: 376
• Copyright: 2005

by Barbara Carrellas
Achieve sexual and spiritual bliss, even in the midst of a modern, busy life, with this hip, accessible guide that proves there is always time and space to push the boundaries of passion and intimacy. Acclaimed educator and activist Barbara Carrellas introduces more than a hundred Tantric positions, poses, and breathing techniques for individuals and couples that include breath and energy orgasms, Tantric BDSM, and erotic massage. Written for people of all orientations and genders, with beautiful illustrations, and a foreword by Annie Sprinkle.

• Binding: Paperback
• Type: Sex Info/How-To
• Number of Pages: 288
• Copyright: 2007

by Martha Hopkins and Randall Lockridge
Mouth-watering recipes and sumptuous photos will whet your appetite for food and sex in enticing new combinations. The 10th anniversary edition of this elegant, unique cookbook offers 135 recipes incorporating potent aphrodisiacs from chocolate to oysters to pine nuts, interspersed with historical background on each, and illustrated with tasteful, artsy, full-color photographs of each passion-inciting ingredient displayed on nude bodies. Makes an excellent gift for a wedding, Valentine’s Day, or just because!

• Binding: Hardback
• Type: Cookbook/Other Sex Books
• Number of Pages: 208
• Copyright: 2007