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Eye Candy :-)
This is whole picture book, were you can view all the many positions two women can do in bed when making love to each other. It is an invitation to intimacy. The images are a turn on! Open this book with the woman of your life and see what happens.

start a tally
Sensual and daring, this guide gives no-bones-about-it pictures of 101 positions.There is even a tally sheet in the back so you can check off as you accomplish each!A satisfying read. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Lesbian Studies    2. Love / Sex / Marriage    3. Self-Help    4. Sex Education    5. Sex Relations    6. Sexual Instruction    7. Self-Help / Sexual Instruction   

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Interesting `How To' and `What With' Manual (3.5*s)
One could wonder if there is a need for this book? The author makes no attempt to supply any data concerning how widespread the desire or practice is for straight girls wanting to engage with other females. Her data collection seems to be rather limited - hardly scientific. In any event, the book is interesting and informative.
overhyped and basically useless
Ok lets get down to why you should save your money and NOT get this book. First of all the author dedicates two or three chapters on WHY chicks should sleep with chicks. Well if your buying this book then I would think that your already curious or interested, correct? Then the author shares some really great "secrets" on the where and how to pick up other chicks, let me take the time to write some of them down here for you, first this no brainer, "Get them intoxicated, and my all time favorite,"take them behind a dumpster and get them to smoke weed". The author then fills the book up with helpfull hints like, "go put an ad on the internet"Dang, I would have never thought of that!! In summary, you can buy this book if you want, but don't expect anything other than common sense stuff, and I use the term VERY lightly!! Thank you for your time.

Women, don't let this book poison your mind
It's trying to turn straight women into leabians. If more women read this book they will just be influnce by it and start sleeping with women and no more men will have a woman. Don't Jen Sincero even cares about men. I hate lesbians cause they hate men. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Bisexuality    2. Family & Relationships    3. Family/Marriage    4. General    5. Lesbian Studies    6. Lesbianism    7. Love / Sex / Marriage    8. Sex instruction for women    9. Sexual behavior    10. Sexuality    11. Topic - Relationships    12. Women    13. Birth control, contraception, family planning    14. Family & Relationships / General   

Subjects:  1. Alternative Sexual Behavior    2. Health & Fitness    3. Health/Fitness    4. Lesbian Studies    5. Lesbians    6. Love / Sex / Marriage    7. Sexual Instruction    8. Sexuality   

Editorial Review

Cure for cancer? End to world hunger? What's left to do after the publication of Felice Newman's definitive guide to lesbian sex? Drawing on a wide range of published sources as well as her own notoriously graphic questionnaire circulated by e-mail--stunning mild-mannered office workers as it reeled across their computer screens--Newman has compiled an exhaustively thorough how-to guide for practices as exotic as play piercings and as pedestrian as oral sex. Along the way, she offers a primer in sexual politics and lesbian manners at the turn of the century. The S/M hanky code is laid out once and for all. There is even a (brief, happily brief) section on celibacy. Read more

Reviews (25)

Useful ways to look at sex and sexual relationships
I am familiar with my anatomy and have a pretty good imagination; what I found useful in this book had little to do with technical sex.Newman provides some chapters early in the book with thought-provoking questions about relationships and flavors of sexuality.One chapter talks about sitting down and thinking beforehand about what you would like in a relationship other than really hot sex.You know, the things parents should be teaching their kids rather than just saying, "Oh, you'll know Mr./Mrs. Right when you meet him/her."One list contains a number of, shall we say, "non-vanilla" sexual activities and asks you to think about what you would and would not want to do at this point.That was a bit of an eye-opener, but was intriguing as well.
Wow.. this is fantastic
I think "The whole lesbian sex book" is just to attract the others. It's definitely a passionate guide for all of us, for everybody.
The Female Masturbation DVD's are an excellent video complement to The Whole Lesbian Sex Book
This book was an all-encompassing guide to female sexuality,
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Subjects:  1. Lesbian Studies    2. Lesbians    3. Love / Sex / Marriage    4. Sex instruction for lesbians    5. Sexual Instruction    6. Sexual behavior    7. Social Science    8. Sociology    9. Social Science / Lesbian Studies   

Reviews (1)

Refreshing fun read
Very hot read with tasteful photos.I look forward to a second addition? ... Read more

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Reviews (8)

so funny
I bought this book for a guy I was dating whom had never in his life done "the deed". I got the book after I dumped him(not for that reason)lol. So me and my friends read it. It is really funny and a fun fast read.I highly recommend it.And it could give your boyfriend or girlfriend some pointers.

Doesn't get to point...
I really didn't like this book,the author spends all of her time either talking about herself of her girlfriends,she seems to fill up the book with other stories then to talk about technique in depth,and the only chapter in book that talks about technique has nothing in it!...her descripton of the clitoris is mixed up,and her writing style is confusing...the drawing of the vagina is not clear at all it's not well drawn it looks weird...
Have her singing arias to the rafters!
This book is playfull, fun, and informative. I would highly recomend it to begginers and "experts" alike. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Human Sexuality    2. Lesbian Studies    3. Lesbians    4. Love / Sex / Marriage    5. Oral sex    6. Psychology    7. Sex Education    8. Sex instruction    9. Sexual Instruction    10. Women's Studies - General    11. Psychology & Psychiatry / Human Sexuality    12. Sex & sexuality   

Reviews (7)

Could NOT put this thing down!
I was up until the wee hours of the morning for three nights in a row--this book is a page-turner. I'm not gay (that's what they all say, but four beers later...), so the dating info wasn't really helpful to me, except in a fascinating, peek-through-the-keyhole kind of way. The narratives were riveting: two on Chanukah cruises in the Caribbean, threesomes gone bad, raw and real stories about coming out and breaking up, and hilarious, read aloud anecdotes about dating, bar-hopping, and "going in for the kill." I was sad to read about the parents crying over their beautiful gay girls and glad to see them come around. I've already recommended this book to half a dozen people--you don't have to be gay to fall in love with it.

Very Informative!
I really enjoyed this book, and it helped me realize that the feelings that I've been having toward women for the majority of my life are common and lots of other females have been in the same boat as me.The only semi-negative message I got from the book was "pretty popular girls can be lesbians, too".

It's just a collection of people's stories...
Not only is this book, that is authored by TWO people, unaffecting, it's not even really written by them. They've got an intro in every chapter, and that's basically it. It's a collection of people's stories. That is something that should appear in GoNYC magazine, not in a book. This is the first of it's kind, and I expected it to move me. It's not informative and it's not different. It's full of cliche's and there's even a rip of a dashboard song. "Turning to you is like falling in love when you're 10." If you're going to have most of your book written for you by real people, at least have what you write be REAL and YOURS. Even Greg Behrendt's "It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken" is more effective than this. This is the book that stereotypes are made of. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Female friendship    2. Lesbian Studies    3. Lesbians    4. Life skills    5. Personal Growth - Happiness    6. Personal Guidance    7. Sexual Instruction    8. Social Science    9. Sociology    10. Self-Help / Sexual Instruction    11. Sex & sexuality   

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Wasn't what I exspected...but very happy with it!
I think it was a good book. Easy to read, and helpful. I found that it was more of a woman's guide. I have read other "sex" books and they didn't touch to much on feeling, health...They mostly just talked about techniques. (...)

ALL I REALLY NEED
So, yes, all I really needed to know about lesbian sex I have learned from this phenomenal book. In easy-to-read abecedarian (abc-order) format, it's comprehensible, clear, concise without omitting great details, and can be picked up and accessed by topic any time. The revisions are contemporary and and cool, helping the original writing to extend to queer girls of the younger generation. This is a reference book that I will keep on my shelf and will recommend to everyone I know, even to men who seem to be relatively clueless about sex between women. Keep this one in mind for the holidays, kids. :)

this book (un)covers it all!
I found this book to be an excellent reference for all things related to lesbianism.It was well-written and easy to follow, with a wealth of valuable information. A highly recommended read! ... Read more

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Excellent "Leather Anthology"
This book sat on my bookshelf for quite a while before I finally sat down and read it cover to cover. I was amazed and impressed by what I read. This anthology features essays by some of the most well-known authors in the leather community including Dorothy Allison, Geoff Mains, Mark Thompson, Guy Baldwin, Pat (now Patrick) Califia, Gayle Rubin, and Joseph Bean. The essays offer a "glimpse" into what "is" the leather community. Topics covered include leather history (from the 1940's through the 1990's, including an excellent essay on the Catacombs, a now legendary San Francisco male fisting and SM playspace), scene politics, spirituality, and numerous other topics about consensual power play. Not your average how-to manual...
The Leatherfolk Anthology is full of valuable information and first person accounts from within the BDSM community.This book goes beyond the scope of a how-to-manual with more theoretically based essays designed to inform people not directly involved with BDSM and challenge people in the leather community itself.This book is probably not for anyone who doesn't know what "vanilla sex" means or is other wise sexually non-deviant.

Student Opinion, Must Read Book for All!!
The stories in this book communicate the history and a chronology of the SM and Leather community through various individual's experiences, thoughts and impressions.After reading Thompson's compilation I felt I had a deeper understanding and curiosity for the intricacies of the leather/SM community.The voices are from all over the spectrum and give insights into various multi-layered identities.The editor's determination to portray the chronology and the ancient origins of SM give important foundations for the contemporary commentaries by members of the community.I am a student in a Gay and Lesbian Ethnography class and this was my favorite book over the entire semester and I learned so much through the varied perspectives and historical foundations.It inspired discussions and reflections on sex and how it tends to function socially and personally outside of the SM community and how there is a lot to be learned from that community regarding communication and respect.I must also mention that the piece by Dorothy Allison was one of the most passionate, poetic and evocative excerpts I have read from a lesbian perspective! ... Read more

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Reviews (9)

Why don't you own this?
We have three editions of this essential s/m book. I'm especially fond of the 1972 edition, since Larry signed it "To Laura, my editor" back in 1994. It's a great combination of guidebook and hot leathersex, and while the current editions left out the slang of the day (I'm especially fond of the "groovy sex" in the first edition), the essential bits that give a good look into the 70's leather community makes this a classic.

Nice intro, but not a comprehensive guide
I should preface my comments by stating that I am not a Leatherman.I enjoy the leather "costume," but felt a need to learn about what it really symbolizes.It was out of respect for the leather community that I picked up the book, in hopes of educating myself on its practices.
When There Was Only One
Back in the seventies, it was still a very risky proposition to attempt a gay publication of any sort. But in the California Seventies, books like "Song Of The Loon" (from the sixties) and eventually the likes of "Tales of The City" began breaking down the barriers, allowing homosexual men to be presented not as crazy or unstable, but as regular people in love. Larry Townsend went even farther out on a limb. He sat down in 1972 and spelled out, for the first time in book form, the codes of conduct that the underground Leather Scene and S&M men lived by. There were also several accounts of steamy real life kink encounters.
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Dear me, I think I might be gushing...
I'm a bit of a sex nerd; consequently I read a lot of instruction manuals.Of the ones I've seen, Fairy Butch's The Ultimate Guide To Strap-On Sex was the most useful and eye-opening, not just on the subject of strap-ons, but of sex toys in general, genderplay, lube (includes a section rating 30 or so lubes for texture and taste!), and communication.
good guide but could use more drawings
In 13 chapters Karlyn Lotney, otherwise known as Fairy Butch, gives us a good guide on how to use strapons. The focus is on women so there isn't so much really enough about men to call it "the ultimate". While there are some images there need to be more to help those trying to figure how to use them and especially on the positions you can use because a strapon is never in the same position as biological penis. A good book to help someone start out and feel more comfortable. It even includes very rare topics such as clit pumping. "101 Sex Toys" is a better guide to dildos and the equipment but this is a good solid place to start exploring strapons.

It's good but not...quite...great
Karlyn Lotney, aka Fairy Butch, has deployed hir extensive experience as a columnist to write this book. I decided to buy the book after spending a weekend reading Fairy Butch archives on http://planetout.com. Sadly, the book didn't go far beyond what I had already read, much of it is reproduced verbatim from hir column. For those of you out there low on cash, I recommend reading hir column archives and forgetting this book. Read more

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Subjects:  1. Attitudes    2. Gay Studies    3. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    4. Human Sexuality    5. Lesbian Studies    6. Lesbians    7. Love & Romance    8. Psychology    9. Sex instruction for lesbians    10. Sexual Instruction    11. Sexual behavior    12. Social Science    13. Sociology    14. Marriage & relationships    15. Sex & sexuality   

Reviews (15)

Exactly as Advertised
This book is exactly what the title says, a collection of short stories about first time lesbian experiences. The stories are written by women, usually in the first person, and are filled with flowery imagery. This title takes a deep look, mostly through repetition, at the sensual and emotional sides of lesbianism.
Depends on what you want it for...
I found this collection to be standard. Like most erotica, this compilation has a few shining stars as well as a few stinkers, with most everything else falling in the middle. Great stuff in here.
Whether you're a woman and are "bi curious" or you're a guy--there's no need to explain why men would like this book--Awakening the Virgin is a mind blowing and satisfying read about women and women. I've only read one other book that comes close to this one, "The Other Woman" by Kim Corum. I hope to find more becuase these stories are HOT. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Erotica - General    2. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    3. Lesbian Studies    4. Lesbianism    5. Lesbians    6. Love / Sex / Marriage    7. Seduction    8. Sexual behavior    9. Social Science    10. Women    11. Biography & Autobiography / General   

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Everything you ever wanted to ask, and more....
Totally fun.Lots of questions one might ask, and still more that will surprise and confound.The responses are cogent and helpful.For the beginner, this a good guide...for the veteran, this is a fun tour of your past, and perhaps your present, as well as future.

If You Can Think of It, Palermo Can Answer It
"If you can think of it, nationally-known sex columnist Tony Palermo can answer it, and he does so with style in this collection of the 100 most frequently asked questions about gay sex. Often humorous, always respectful, and never condescending, Sex Adviser answers serious questions about STD prevention, troubling questions about fidelity, and technical questions about what goes where. Issues are tackled with care, thorough research, and common sense. Sex Adviser is the perfect book for any man with questions about sex between men."--� zebraz

VERY INFORMATIVE...ButNot Everything
I have been openly homosexual for about the past year (except to my parents!) and this past year has been a real eye opener as far as what the gay community is all about.Read more

Subjects:  1. Gay Studies    2. Gay men    3. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    4. Homosexuality, Male    5. Love / Sex / Marriage    6. Sex instruction for gay men    7. Sexual behavior    8. Sexuality    9. Social Science    10. Family & Relationships / Love & Romance    11. Gay & Lesbian studies    12. Sex & sexuality   

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Good for Newbies
If you've just 'come out', this book is a good guide for learning about yourself and other women. Issues like casual sex versus monogamy, singlhood versus coupledness, disability and std's are covered - Loulan works hard to address the ways in which the dominant society impacts on self-image, while making it clear that lesbian culture has its own norms/mandates that sometimes confine individuality. Less Than Stellar
This book is a good resource for those who are curious about just what lesbians do in bed and how it is done, but overall it is really just stating the obvious.The book has cheesy drawings throughout, and though helpful if you're entirely clueless or can't figure some things out on your own, are little more than an amusing sidebar to the book's insulting elementary subject matter.That said, it's apparently been helpful to many others... reprinted several times now, it's still fairly high in the sales list.The book is organized like an encyclopedia of terms relating to lesbian sex, and is very informative, but just seems a little simple in some cases.Overall, a helpful aid but it won't enlighten you with any new ideas.

A great book
Wow...all the answers to all the questions you ever had and more.A great bedside companion, I really enjoyed this and recommend it to anyone who's interested in the subject...it's the one and only book you'll ever need tobuy...if you even need to buy one, that is ... Read more

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Interesting anthology

I enjoyed this second volume MORE than the first!
If I have a problem with this "Awakening the Virgin" series it's that it's not really about first-time lesbian encounters so much as women recalling a particular encounter they had later in life, or a particular woman.I guess I had hopes of more lesbian seduction. A disappointing reawakening
I anticipated with eagerness the arrival of the followup tome to Awakening the Virgin part 1, a splendid and evocative celebration of lesbian relationships. However, the followup, while well-written, has none of the gentle, magical discovery of its earlier counterpart. This book will still hold appeal for the reader with kinkier or wilder interests, but may be too daring and elusive for more tentative, curious novices. ... Read more

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Subjects:  1. Gay Studies    2. Gay musicians    3. General    4. Genres & Styles - General    5. Homosexuality and music    6. Instruction & Study - Theory    7. Music    8. Music/Songbooks    9. Musicology    10. Sex in music    11. Gay & Lesbian studies    12. Music / General   

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More political and cultural than anything, but worth a look
I got little that could help me in my situation as a latebloomer, but did find this book informative in a political/cultural way in addition to gaining greater insight into what some of my transgendered friends have gone through.It has some good articles on the power behind strapping it on, kink, the butch/femme issue, etc.I found this to be a good primer to the history of the community, with some interesting detours along the way.

A little bit of everything
This book covers just about everything you could ever want to know about lesbian sex.More then a few friends have borrowed this book out of curiosity.They all found this book to be very interesting. ... Read more

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Not a how-to
Given the back of the book, it is easy to assume this a how-to book, another guide for the customer from Itiel.But this is really more of an autobiographical account of his own lifestyle choice to focus on the use of hustlers or male prostitutes.A solid definition of "virtual boyfriend" isn't even offered and the "how-to" parts are very few and far between.If you read his first book and thought he was an interesting man, you might like this.If you want to know how to get a virtual boyfriend, you mostly need to figure that out for yourself.

a sex worker's point of view
As a former sex worker, I want to praise the author of "Sex Workers as Virtual Boyfriends" for his insightfulness into hustlers' lives.For two difficult years I put myself through college as a parking valet.The work was hard, the pay miserable, and I breathed in a lot of polluted air.Then I started escorting.The job was easy for the most part, the pay excellent, and my health was not in jeopardy.Like the author says, a few clients did also become good friends....Of course, it is older dudes paying for the services of the younger guys.They get paid *because* they are younger and nobody is being exploited.We, young escorts know exactly what we are doing, and the older clients spend their money to fulfill their needs.I highly recommend the book to anyone who wants to understand the life of sex workers.

Unpleasant at best
It is astonishing to me that this book was published at all.Much less by a scholarly small press.In Mr Itiel's defence it must be acknowledged that his writings will be of some value as source material for students of gay men and class dynamics.What makes this volume as revealing as it is disturbing are the insights offered unwittingly.Mr Itiel exhibits boundless pride in confiding his expert technique for scoring more sex for less dollars.In one memorable entry he shares tips on how best to train boys not to expect gifts - blithefully unconscious of any parallel to guidebooks on training spaniels.Almost in the same breath he asks we take special note that some of his rent boys grow into friends of a sort - even `virtual boyfriends'.He urges us to follow his example. Read more

Subjects:  1. Gay Studies    2. Gay men    3. Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction    4. Human Sexuality    5. Love / Sex / Marriage    6. Male friendship    7. Male prostitution    8. Men's Studies - General    9. Sex instruction for gay men    10. Sexual behavior    11. Sexuality    12. Social Science    13. Family & Health    14. Gay studies (Gay men)    15. Prostitution   

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Awesome book
I love this book.
for the inquiring lesbian
this was a great book for those women looking for information that can help themselves and their partners.it taps into the well-being of lesbians on multiple levels.if couples need an outsider perspective on life, this is it.it was interesting and fun to read. ... Read more

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