Better Sex Video Series Vol. 1 - Better Sexual Techniques DVD

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Summary: For teenagers, the inexperienced, and inhibited only
Review: I don't want to denigrate anyone who needs this video. Some people have a problem with intimacy (ie. the verbal kind) and they may gain a lot of insight from this series and learn to communicate with their partner by watching it together. I can see it being an extremely valuable tool in this case. However, I don't consider myself to be any great lover, and I learned LESS THAN NOTHING from this series. I purchased it hoping I could learn something new to improve my technique. I DIDN'T! TRUST ME. If you have ever had a sexual relationship where the sex improved over time, you have already advanced past the entire series. Take what you learned from that previous (or current) relationship, and work on building trust with your current or future partners to the point where you can talk candidly and frankly about what you both want, need, and think feels good. This video series CANNOT HELP YOU! If you are nervous about talking to your partner, or they don't respond to your attempts to open a dialogue, then this video series is for you and I have no doubt AT ALL it will help. It will be money very well spent.

Cheers

Rating:
Summary: Complete waste of money
Review: I seldom find myself in such complete agreement with one-star reviews, but with this piece of junk, the other reviewers have hit it right on the head. I'll try to provide a bit more and different details (in a non-inappropriate fashion) and hope this review won't get censored for well, PG to PG-13 language and content; it is a so-called educational DVD for adults regarding adult content, so no one should find this review offensive (except perhaps the DVD's producers and actors).

First, while the credits for this DVD claim to have been originally from 1991 and revised in 2002, I don't think any of the "learning" segments were filmed after Reagan's first term at the White House. Big hair, lame polyester clothes, non-artfully applied makeup - unlike most retrospectives to the 1980's, this one doesn't even feature any catchy pop tunes. While the subject of this DVD is what people do when they're not wearing clothes, which should be relatively timeless, I nonetheless found it dated to the point of being unappealing.

Also, the actors were not particularly inspirational. I think they were supposed to be "real" couples, but I kind of doubt it - some looked like porn stars and not very aesthetically pleasing ones at that. One of the guys is one of the most evil looking persons I've ever seen - the serial killer look really doesn't promote a romantic atmosphere, at least not in my house.

The hostess and host of the show (who probably normally are hawking junk on the 2-4 a.m. timeslot on a shopping network) tell us about scenarios involving six different couples experiencing sexual problems, interspersed with commentary from some individuals with mental health and or sociology backgrounds represented to be experts in human sexuality. The scenarios all involve one or both of the two following problems: the woman is unhappy, inhibited and dissatisfied with the lack of intimacy and the man's slam-bam-thank-you-ma'am approach to lovemaking; or else the couple's love life has grown stale.

So what do they recommend? Some revolutionary solution or mind-blowing techniques from the long-lost, secret final chapter to the Kama Sutra, you ask? Nope. They recommend better communication and more intimate kissing, cuddling and foreplay. They tell you that both men and women appreciate oral sex and changing positions. They also recommend spicing up your love life by varying locations in or outside of the home. That's it folks. These "solutions" are so basic and obvious that a genuinely chaste nun could have given you that advice.

I'm guessing that anyone interested in this sort of instructional DVD wants to learn interesting, exciting and unique techniques, variations and positions. This video doesn't have any of that. No instructions, no toys, no games, just the very most basic basics. I'd say it's rated X, not XXX - not blatant hardcore, but it does show the acts and organs and probably would be offensive to right-wing/fundamentalist religious types. If the actors were actually demonstrating any particular techniques, I would say that too much of the photography is from too far of a distance or a non-direct angle such as to render the scene less than helpful, but the creators of this DVD have eliminated that issue by not having the actors actually teach anything.

In summary, there are DVD's to buy, DVD's to rent and DVD's that make you wonder why they were made in the first place. Better Sexual Techniques fits in that third category. It appears on first glance at least that some of the more "advanced" DVD's in the Sinclair Intimacy Institute's The Better Sex Video Series may be more useful or interesting, but this Volume 1 DVD will have the same effect on your expectations as going to an exclusive wine tasting event and being served Thunderbird out of a paper bag. Avoid.


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Summary: Sex Techniques for Virgins ONLY!
Review: If you have at least had sex one time in your entire life, you have mastered this video, now adays, this could be a sex education film for 6th grade elementery school children and even then, they probally know more about what to do then this video could teach the.