The Ultimate Guide to Seduction & Foreplay: Techniques and Strategies for Mind-Blowing Sex (Ultimate Guide Series)
J**S
Read this book - for all genders and orientations!
Amazing book! Great tips and and just overall great info.
J**N
A keeper
This is not a step-by-step instruction on how to quit being single, and it is not a manual for repairing your marriage. Being in a romantic relationship helps you contextualize this review beyond what is obvious. This book has a lot of examples. This is important to understand what I mean. You and your relationship are one example, but this book will give you a lot to hold your relationship up against. This seems bad, in theory, to compare your relationship to others. However, this book does exactly that and does it with so much darned tact that you never have a chance for the sort of envious or bitter mixed feelings you normally might have when comparing your relationship to others. It's because the authors tap into my curiosity centers, where I just want a feel for where we are in the grand spectrum of what other couples are into. This book lets you do exactly that, in detail, and it has been nothing but a healthy frame of context.This book is something else though, not included in the title or even in the author's intent, perhaps. I live in Arkansas, but I aim to feel less like same-sex couples are different than me and my wife. This book helps with that so much. These authors will show you how a person with a totally different preference than you could be even more relatable than many couples who meet the basic description of your own. To see what other couples are into is a reward in itself, to contextualize an activity that is private by nature. It is just very interesting the way they sort of open a lot of people's bedroom doors, yet the conversation skews towards intellectual.You can treat this book as a guide for intimacy, but if you look at it just right, it can be a guide for life and human interaction in general. By pealing away the layers on the topic of desire, we can really learn what makes people tick and what human chemistry is really all about. This can be a simple casual and maybe even a mindless sort of read, if you insist on absorbing info that way, but this is the kind of book you want to keep and look back on and think about. I was planning to loan this to some friends, but now I think no...they need their own copy in their home library.So, expect to see how the other half live. With that in mind, the ideal way to read this is to skim along in each chapter until you find something familiar. Usually that will indicate they are talking about a relationship category that you are in.As I read this, I picture the difficulty a single person might have, if they just go out in the field and apply all this book's lessons all the time. If you may be at risk of this, I think you should read with the mindset of considering different people you may have dated and different relationships you may have had. In other words, there is NO relationship for which all of this will apply. This is not even that kind of book. You will understand a bit more about your own relationship, if you are reading this optimally. It will be helpful to know about fantasies that are not yours or your partners, as well as situations, etc.I found myself easily able to mark off information in my mind that does not apply to my woman and I, but what turned out to apply the most had to do with the motives, feelings, and general headspace of specific examples of people in relationships that look completely different from mine, but those people are wanting the same things and motivated in relatable ways.This book is so much more enlightening than informative (although it is certainly informative). I was worried that this would only be the beginning and I would need to try several books like this to find a good one. Nope. This is amazing! I may read other books, but this will be the high water mark. I laugh, rub my chin, scrunch my brow serious, laugh, rub my chin...repeat.I have to acknowledge that I am ignoring the journal excercises and just reading the chapters through, separate from "research in the field." I don't read this fool heartedly thinking all of this will work with my wife. I read this with a deep intellectual curiosity. This book and Caitlin V's Youtube are the only sources I have found for learning more about this in a way that is mostly informative but also very entertaining, curious, and potentially even enlightening. Try it.
G**R
Inclusive, diverse, practical
We selected this book for our monthly book club on ethical non-monogamy. We were excited to include a title more focused on sex and seduction for a change and were thrilled that the authors brought to the table a more diverse perspective. This book is fantastic for people wanting to explore and expand their sex life and seduction. Regardless of your relationship structure, gender, orientation this book offers practical tips to help you improve your game.
M**H
A Textbook.
As I read The Ultimate Guide to Foreplay and Seduction I found myself oddly put off. That was interesting because there were a few things I really appreciated. I liked the inclusive writing style. Not just as it applies to orientation, but to gender and relationship options as well. That was one of the first clues that I started to put together about what I didn't like. They were so inclusive of people who are already in relationships that it seemed to lose track of the idea that readers of a book on seduction might be wanting to seduce someone brand new. There were so many things that said "Talk to your partner." That seems like the target market of the book with that title should be someone seeking a new partner in my opinion.One of the other good things is that they were very thorough and covered a lot of material. For me though, it started to feel like an encyclopedia that listed all the possibilities rather than a guide that covers what works. That feeling was compounded by the large number of questions. I get the idea that questions can help the reader to think how an idea could apply to them but boxes full of questions and lists of questions at the end of each writing were just too much.Then it occurred to me, this isn't an encyclopedia, it is a textbook. Now if you want a textbook, that gives you a thorough but general knowledge of the subject, complete with assigned questions at the end of the chapter this might be perfect for you. Just not what I was looking for.My last grumble was when they got to the subject of sex, they beat the advise of "Slow down" to death. I remember another book that kept repeating the slow down advice and a female friend replied, "If a guy tried that with me I would go right to sleep." Sure I can see that some people need to hear that they don't need to rush sex but come on there are plenty of others that need to light the fire in the belly and create some real powerful passion.
J**E
Does NOT disappoint! Fun and playful but jam packed with valuable tips!
This was such a easy-to-follow instruction guide! I loved all the seduction instructions and the examples provided. The writing style made it very easy to visualize how to put words into action. The approach of this book was completely inclusive of readers of all identities and learning styles. It was a fun poolside read! However, I'd suggest you keep a highlighter handy and take notes of things you want to try with your partner. Overall, this is a great hands on resource to enhance your sex life! It does not disappoint.
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