Anne Hooper's Pocket Sex Guide

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Summary: Found this on accident
Review: A boy I dated had it on his nighttable, which I found a tad sleazy at first, until I read it...it was the perfect little gift book, tasteful but insightful. It was a lot of fun to flip through it and say, "Hey, that's one of my moves!" and "Hmmm, THAT'S a great idea!" Of course, the boy I dated apparently got a lot of use out of it...with the other girl he was sleeping with. Well, I'm no longer dating that boy, but finding that book was worth the trouble. And my NEW boyfriend has already extended him a thank you.

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Summary: If you're looking for basic, then this is the book for you
Review: However, if you're looking for a book to tell or show you new things that you've been unfamiliar with to date, then I suppose you had better look elsewhere. I'm in my mid/late twenties, and most of what was in this book was like a health course I took in college that discussed reproduction and sexuality. On the other hand, some interesting positions were mentioned that worked pretty well when my boyfriend and I tried them. For the price, it's a good deal.

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Summary: This is a Great Book!
Review: I saw this little book in a store and had to get it. My boyfriend and I were going to give it to a friend but decided to keep it. It's a great book. The instructions and illustrations are great. We both learned a lot about each other's sexual desires through this book. It helped us to open up to each other. I totally recommend this to anyone who wants to add some fun into the relationship.

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Summary: Great Info
Review: OK, some people like to write things like, "Good if you've never done" it in reviews of erotica, as though it were a bad thing. Well, this book is definitely good to read before you start, as is Anne Hooper's Pocket Kama sutra; I studied them both while I was still a virgin, and when I did loose my virginity my partner couldn't believe she was my first, and complimented me that I "must have watched some really good movies" -- well, no movies, but this helped.

A good way to use this book is to first read it through, then get some tracing paper, and copy it, page by page, then skim it again -- its short so its shouldn't take long.

Some often also complain that books like this give a simplified or cookbook approach to sex, simply listing possition after positions. But that almost can't be helped, and of course its obvious to the experienced that positions are a bit artificial as a concept (if laying against each other is one postion, and being at a right angle is another, where is the boundry? Is 45 degrees another possition? What about 30? 32?) and with a good partner you tend to just slide fluidly between them -- thats obvious to the experienced, but it doesn't take away from the value of the book. But its still very good as a place to get ideas. A cook book is actually a good comparison -- you can use the recipes you see, combined them, or use them as inspiration for your own variations, and it doesn't mean you have to exclude recipes not include from your diet. All in all, this book is both a good source of information and also of inspiration -- unless you are practically a porn star you can probably get something from it, and if you are a "beginner" its a great place to start learning some ideas to try for yourself.


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Summary: a bit more help needed, perhaps
Review: The book is fun, but it suffers from a defect of all sex books I have looked at. It tells us stuff we would like to do, but can't, and doesn't tell us what to do when things go awry. Am I alone in finding enjoyable sex difficult to bring off? (I guess not, otherwise these books would not sell). They tell us about unusual positions, etc, etc......but don't tell us what to do when sex doesn't quite go as we expect - which is, in my case (and everyone else's??) is fairly frequently! I don't consider myself unusually incompetent or badly-informed....I know about foreplay, and what you're supposed to do, etc, etc.....but what about when you can't find the clitoris in spite of trying one's hardest and talking to one's partner............and when one eventually succeeds in stimulating your woman enough, you enter into intercourse....... how can you manually stimulate if you're in the missionary position and lacking a third arm....? If the woman is particularly difficult to arouse, should we be using the m.p. at all? What positions are likely to work better? Are these the sort of things we want to know, or am I just incompetent? I've been married for 10 years, tried hard to master sex for all that time (neither my wife nor myself have had any experience with anyone else); talk to my partner, and all the rest, but I have yet to find a sex book which is more than slightly useful.

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Summary: Found this on accident
Review: This book is a great buy for the price. The people seem very pleasured by the presence of each other. The info given with each section is great. The only thing I have a question on is that in some of the positions it seems impossible to actually have sex. Anyway, this book is a great buy. Ms. Hooper, you should make other pocket-sized books on oral sex, sex games, and most importantly foreplay. You are a great author.

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Summary: Great things come in small packages!
Review: This book is a great buy for the price. The people seem very pleasured by the presence of each other. The info given with each section is great. The only thing I have a question on is that in some of the positions it seems impossible to actually have sex. Anyway, this book is a great buy. Ms. Hooper, you should make other pocket-sized books on oral sex, sex games, and most importantly foreplay. You are a great author.