Just because BECAUSE IT FEELS GOOD: A WOMAN’S GUIDE TO SEXUAL PLEASURE AND SATISFACTION is written for the ladies doesn’t mean a guy like me can’t learn something from it. For instance, there are roughly five different shapes of a vagina, including “slug” and “pumpkin seed.”
Oh, and the book’s author, Kinsey Institute educator Dr. Debby Herbenick, was told to keep her vulva puppet far away from President Obama. For more on that story — as well as the skinny on sex noises, vagina tents and little somethin’-somethin’ called the towel trick — read the book.
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If intelligence is sexy, I wish someone would’ve told all those girls with whom I attended high school. Marina Orlova claims smarts equal sex appeal, but then, she looks like Marina Orlova. She’s the author of HOT FOR WORDS: ANSWERS TO ALL YOUR BURNING QUESTIONS ABOUT WORDS AND THEIR MEANINGS, which no one would be publishing if she were ugly.
The book does exactly what it promises: diving into the origins of words and phrases. But never before have roots been so seemingly raunchy, as each page is accompanied by a slick, full-color photo of Orlova in fantasy-ready poses, from schoolgirl uniforms and bikinis to lingerie and eating a banana.
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Cinematically, werewolves are the coolest monsters. The man-to-wolf transformation scenes always play well, and then there’s the running through the forest and snarling and howling at the moon. You gotta love it.
But on the page, these elements don’t work as well. A novelist needs to bring something more to the party, and in WOLF’S GAMBIT, W.D. Gagliani doesn’t quite make it. His storytelling is fine and the main characters are well-drawn, but the book misses that visceral thrill we associate with tales of men changing into beasts.
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In the future, when we hover in zero-gravity chairs, wipe away genetic imperfections and take vitamin showers, we also can have virtual sex with whomever we choose. In Nate Kenyon’s PRIME, there’s a machine just for that, whether you want a hunk or Henry VIIII.
But it’s killed three people recently. Is it due to a virus? Human tampering? The religious right? Celebrity bug-hunter William Bellow is brought in by the New London corporation to find out why its technology is short-circuiting its users.
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from VARIOUS FLAVORS OF COFFEE by Anthony Capella:
“That evening, as I walked down Piccadilly, I passed a carriage horse trying to copulate with a mare. … It made a strange sight: the stallion, still harnessed to the shafts of the carriage, was attempting to clamber on to the mare’s back, prodding his great pizzle into her hindquarters. Each time he slipped off, pulled backwards by the unwieldy weight of the brougham; yet, nothing daunted, he immediately returned for another attempt, pulling himself clumsily up again with his front hoofs, like a Chinaman trying to clasp a piece of meat with chopsticks. The mare, for her part, stood for it patiently, barely moving when the stallion took the skin of her neck between his teeth. The back end of the carriage had ripped up, and was being crashed around on the road with every staggering thrust of the stallion’s rear legs. … Eventually the driver of the brougham returned and began shouting at his beast, trying to force it off. Of course the stallion had no intention of all at stopping, even when its master began laying into it with a whip. … Eventually the stallion was done, and slid off the mare of his own volition, the battered brougham returning to the level with a crash. The horse’s pizzle was still dripping onto the cobbles when the owner finally succeeded in trotting him away, to an ironic cheer from the watchers.”
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