Wednesday, February 7

Dan Anderson & Maggie Berman: Sex Tips For Straight Women From A Gay Man

Well the title just about says it all for this one. A man who knows what men like, from the dual sources of both his own body and playing with the bodies of others, shares his insights with women. The aim seems to be to ‘improve’ a woman’s sexual prowess.
As the title suggests this book is all about learning how to please a man. If you’re at all interested in how to sexually please a woman a quick search of amazon will give you a few luridly titled suggestions.
What surprised me most about this book was the complete obviousness of most of the information provided. Maybe my sexual repertoire is greater than that of the average woman, but I wouldn’t think so. While I’m not Mother Teresa neither was I ever Madame X. In all honesty I don’t think this book has much to tell any woman who has had the tutelage of a lover. In my experience if you show any interest at all men can’t wait to tell you exactly what they like. In fact, quite often you don’t even need to show the interest to begin with.
By necessity this book can only talk in generalisations. The author can only tell you what he and his lovers like and extrapolate that to the rest of the male population. And while that’s valid in this context I think it could have been mentioned that not everyone is the same and some guys might run a mile if you try some of this stuff on them.
Having said that though, this book is well written. It uses straight forward language, explaining colloquialisms where it needs to, rather than getting bogged down in technical terms and sounding like a medical text or making up euphemisms that would have a romance writer blush. And the authors approach the subject matter-of-factly with just a hint of humour. If you need a user’s manual or are just hoping to pick up some new technique you could do worse than to start with this book.-Lynn

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