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Posted in Love (Tuesday, December 2, 2008)

Written by Diana Cage. By Alyson Books. The regular list price is $14.95. Sells new for $2.99. There are some available for $3.06.
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Posted in Love (Tuesday, December 2, 2008)

Written by Miyoko Fujimori. By Inidulgent Press. The regular list price is $7.95. Sells new for $3.00. There are some available for $2.99.
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2 comments about The Housewife's Guide to the Practical Striptease (The Housewife's Guide).
  1. I got this book given to me as a gift from of all people my mother in law. She is aware that I used to be an exotic dancer so I was confused as to what I might need this for. But it turned out to be a very nifty little guide for a not bad price. It won't turn you into a demi moore type dancer from striptease really fast but it gives you the knowledge to at least get started in giving your man (or womaan) a cute little striptease. It covers many topics as well including various music choice to what to wear right down to personal care (aka getting waxed). Give it a go it's well worth the read if your interested in stripping for your man.


  2. recvd in perfect condition! As promised! and recvd before due date... would order again!


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Posted in Love (Tuesday, December 2, 2008)

Written by Michael B. Jackson. By Joint FX Press. Sells new for $14.95. There are some available for $26.39.
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5 comments about How to Love and Inspire Your Man After Prison.
  1. Although I can't say I got a lot of advice from the book, I can contest that the book holds truth within it. I still believe all the waiting wives and girlfriends, or family and friends a should read this book. It may help you to understand some of the challenges.


  2. Great book! I passed it on to a friend in a similar situation. Very easy read and had great tips! Thanks!


  3. Wish I knew about this book before. My husband was in prison 3 1/2 years. He's been home on parole since April 2007, and in January 2008 told me he wasn't happy and needed to do it on his own. He made a promise to me when he went in to get out as fast as possible (he had a 12 year sentence for drugs), told all his friends and family he would do everything for me when he got home, and all he did was sit on the couch and watch TV. While he was gone I took care of getting all his taxes taken care of that he hadn't done since the 90's, got his old bills handled, re-established broken ties with his family, and went to visit him as often as possible (250 mile round trip). I am a college grad, have worked at the same company for 23 years, own my own place, and have never been in trouble. Boy, do I feel like an idiot. Ladies, whatever you do, make sure you don't stand to lose anything if he decides he's done. My husband will mess up somehow, he's already drinking and driving and that's violating his parole. Maybe he's doing me a favor. But if this book has some magic words of advice, I hope it helps you all. Oh yeah, if you think I'm just bitter - he moved out today.


  4. This book was easy to read, well formatted, funny, and and an excellent resource! I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to help their partner after prison, along with the companion book (How to do Good After Prison--same author). I am an "old-timer" and there were somethings in this book that I had not thought of. My husband thought the companion book was "really good, and dude had some real stuff to say".


  5. I ordered this book trying to find some help for my situation with my boyfriend. I highly recommend this book to everyone with a loved one in prison, be it your boyfriend, husband, brother, or son. I am recommending this book to his mother as well. Lots of information that's very helpful and also success stories from other women in our situation is included. This is a must have book for anyone loving an inmate.


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Posted in Love (Tuesday, December 2, 2008)

Written by Carole Lieberman and Lisa Collier Cool. By Dutton Adult. The regular list price is $23.95. Sells new for $15.00. There are some available for $7.61.
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5 comments about Bad Boys: How We Love Them, How to Live with Them, When to Leave Them.
  1. Written in the same style as COSMOPOLITAN magazine, BAD BOYS is a simplistic, but somewhat useful survey of the major Bad Boy archetypes.


  2. This book was great fun to read. I got exactly what I wanted from it: a lighthearted look at why women choose inappropriate, or possibly destructive partners to share their lives with. Each chapter begins with a well-known fairy tale and goes on to show how life choices mirror that fairy tale in real life. Dr. Lieberman shows us how human insecurities and unfavorable experiences guide us to choose partners no rational person should want. For me as a man, it shed light on why some ostensibly sensible women date and marry men I would not trust to wash my car. I hope Dr. Lieberman writes a similar book for men, for we do the same thing, although the motivations are somewhat different.

    Clearly this is not an academic treatise; it is pop psychology and makes no pretenses to be anything else. It is, however, a lot of fun to read. And it could help the woman who consistently chooses inappropriate partners discover why she does this and work toward curing herself of those demons causing her to take in the wrong men.



  3. This book is a fun read; but furthermore, it provides great insight into why bad boys act the way they do, and even more importantly, why we'd be interested in spending time with someone who acts this way!! Nice read ;) .


  4. Look at the Library Journal review presented here. Lieberman is guilty of everything mentioned in the first half of the review. Overblown prose. Numerous cliches. [Ideas] palatable to daytime talk-show devotees. Simplistic Freudian analysis. Mumbo-jumbo. This is the state of the business today, and it has much more to do with making money by crushing lives than psychoanalysis. If you're in this book's target audience, you are already far too dim to comprehend just why this book is so lousy - the good news is, reading it cannot damage you further. But for the rest of you, consider the Library Journal review (if not this one) a warning - stay away from this junk, for your sanity's sake. This woman (Lieberman) should be jailed, if only to keep her away from a word processor. And the publisher should consider itself lucky it cannot be brought up on charges of incompetence.


  5. After reading this book, I discovered that I was involved with a very dangerous man, that was more than likely going to try to hurt me very bad. He had all of the signs and the red flags that this book describes. After reading the 12 profile's which described him to a "tee" as the worst of the badboys, the type that could kill me, I decided to leave him for good. Two weeks later, upon leaving him, he fired a gun at me and tried to kill me, just like the book said would happen. Three weeks after trying to kill me, he killed himself. I lived to tell my story and I am here today. He is dead. This is a MUST READ BOOK for any woman invovled in a dangerous relationship with a badboy and certainly a must for any woman who is a victim of domestic violence.


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Posted in Love (Tuesday, December 2, 2008)

Written by Joshua Coleman. By St. Martin's Press. The regular list price is $23.95. Sells new for $4.78. There are some available for $1.05.
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5 comments about Imperfect Harmony: How to Stay Married for the Sake of Your Children and Still Be Happy.
  1. We have been married for twenty-seven years. Although our children are no longer at home, my husband and I were inspired by Dr. Coleman's book. We thought an alternative title could have been "How to Have a Satisfying Marriage". He recommends taking responsibility for one's own life and not looking to a partner for completion. Although a great read, Dr. Coleman's scholarly work draws on the research of anthropologists, psychologists and scientists. This is a book for all those who wish to be fulfilled in their own lives. We give this book two thumbs up!


  2. In a sea of glib, peppy books that promise to transform a messy marriage into a fairy-tale romance in six (or seven or nine) easy steps, Imperfect Harmony is a bastion of practicality, sanity, and hope. No bogus promises here. If you want to stay together for your kids or just want to have a happier marriage, this smart, no-hype volume gives you a detailed roadmap for navigating your way through complex relationship issues.

    Author Joshua Coleman never sugar-coats or flinches from the less-than-glamorous truth. He furnishes a toolbox of practical suggestions and exercises that can help you improve and sweeten your marriage. Real-life examples, drawn from Coleman's psychotherapy practice, illustrate in unvarnished detail exactly how couples can work to resolve specific issues. The outcomes may not always be sprinkled with self-help pixie dust, but they work in the real world.

    Imperfect Harmony is radical in its perspective, compassionate in its tone, and rare in its honesty. Its no-bull quality is refreshing and somehow reassuring. This is a generous book, and the author seems to genuinely care about his readers. If you're looking for a quick fix (hey, let me know if you find one) or don't want to work on your marriage, this book isn't for you. But if you want to build a more loving, lasting relationship, this book could make all the difference.



  3. Dr. Coleman's work is surely to raise an eyebrow or two for its novel approach to resolving marital discord and dissatisfaction. His premise that the adults in the relationship should work for a rapproachment (if total peace is not possible) for the sake of the children will not be popular in a culture where no-fault divorce is the preferred solution.

    What I love about this book is the way Dr. Coleman approaches marriage; realistically. You may have started out with what you felt was a "match made in heaven," or you may have been under an illusion that yours was a match made in heaven, but when things look like they are going south, this does not mean you bail.

    Can you accept half a loaf (half a loaf is better than none)? How about a quarter or even an eighth of a loaf to ensure that your child's life is disrupted as little as possible? After all, it is all about the kids.

    This book has a number of vignettes where Dr. Coleman is working with clients to change their expectations, or at the least help them to establish realistic expectations. He even goes so far to instruct partners how to live separate lives within their own home if getting along is no longer an option.

    Imperfect Harmony takes a look at marriage unlike any book I have ever read on the subject. Sometimes things happen and things don't work out, but this is not to mean that everyone (especially the children) cannot live happily ever after.

    If your marriage is in trouble, if you know someone with marital problems, or if you are interested in the topic of marriage as a counseling profession, this is a wonderful book to have. As a soon-to-be counselor I can actually envision myself using this book in couples and family therapy; assigning parts of the book for the clients to read for discussion in therapy.

    Five plus stars for Imperfect Harmony.



  4. As a pastor, I have read many books on the subject of helping marriages because that is an important part of my ministry. However, this is the most radical, realistic and useful book I have ever seen. It is applicable not only to the average marriage but also to the more challenging ones like depression, personality disorders, alcoholism, and addictions.

    I am very disappointed with many Christian authors of books on marriage who are so unreal and with many authors of books for family members of the mentally ill who don't say enough. Here is a book I can use in counseling others

    After 10 years of marriage, a man's wife was diagnosed as a high functioning person with borderline personality disorder. Afterwards, she did not function on the same level as before.

    For three and a half years, her husband did about everything Dr. Coleman says not to do in his chapter on depression in marriage. As a result, he ended up depressed himself after giving too much of himself away trying to hold the family together.

    With the help of therapists and reading books like Imperfect Harmony, Wild at Heart, and No More Mr. Nice Guy, he found help to grow a long way from where he was a year and a half ago.

    Marriage to anyone with a mental illness or addiction is under extreme pressure. Staying married for the children's sake and still be happy or wondering if you should stay married in such an imperfect harmony is the theme of this book.

    Coleman writes of the various parts of a hoped for marriage that must be let go of. He writes about getting your focus off the spouse and onto what in your childhood attracted you to such a needy person. The author's definition of "toxic chemistry" is a helpful insight.

    He challenges readers to work through their toxic brooding, despair, and chronic feelings of resentment. Then we can develop empathy and emotional seperatedness.

    It is crucial to answer his question from chapter 3. How much meaning do you have in your life apart from your marriage?

    Contrary to many other authors, he says that communication is not enough. Just because one has imperfect harmony in one's marriage does not mean you should leave.

    He proposes good reasons for staying married with children present, even if your spouse is difficult or not fulfilling. Staying in such a marriage need not destroy you to be loved by them. However, he honestly states that in the case of physical abuse and extreme mental health issues the need to leave is very clear.

    The major intent of this book is to help readers to see if it possible and necessary to stay in an imperfect harmony with one?s spouse without loosing themselves or their good impact as parents. His chapters on "Depression in Marriage", "The High-Conflict Marriage," and "Is Change Possible" are worth the price of the whole book.

    One cannot and must not read this book at supersonic speed. It is a rich book to read, reflect upon, and dwell upon its searching questions. Reading it in conjunction with one's therapist will bring you the most benefits from this book.

    Thank you Dr. Coleman for writing this book. I hope seminaries use your book in their marriage and family counseling courses for future pastors.



  5. "While nothing prepares us for what marriage is going to be like, the same can be said of divorce with children." ~ Joshua Coleman

    How do you let go of your fairy-tale idea of marriage, maintain harmony and also take care of your children in a nurturing environment...when you no longer feel "in love" with your partner? This brings out a variety of complex issues that create waves of emotional response even for those who have yet to consider their options. When you decide to enter into a long-term relationship, you may not be aware of the challenges ahead.

    "..the heady phase of newfound romance doesn't last, and that's often a disappointment, no matter how seasoned we are in relationships. It's disheartening because it means that we have to either break up or start dealing with our expectations of what a real relationship is going to be like with this person. This means moving into the uncomfortable realm of facing the imperfections of our partner and ourselves."

    In the throws of initial infatuation and limerence, the future seems perfectly ordered and you can't imagine ever wanting to be apart from the person you imagine is your soul mate. Then the chemicals wear off and you start to experience the roller coaster ride of marriage that has highs and lows and various stages where we enter challenges that require personal growth. This is the time where either your heart takes over or your mind kicks into high gear and you start to solve problems with creative flair or a determination to save your marriage "no matter what."

    Joshua Coleman provides a wise and compassionate view of marriage. He understands the dangers the dissolution of the family presents. He understands how parents worry about their children when they are away from home and why providing a caring and nurturing environment is better for the long-term emotional stability of children. As parents move through stages of denial, anger and bargaining they may come to a moment of acceptance and then find the required compassion to forgive and then move forward into a new stage of the relationship.

    If you think your childhood is affecting your marriage, there is an entire chapter on the subject. Being neglected as a child is just as painful as being abused and the affects can later appear in your own marriage. This book sheds light on how the neglect or abuse causes you to react in your own marriage and how this can affect your children. With each problem, there is also a solution. The "Path for Change" sections give ideas for how to adapt or reverse situations that are completely in your control. This book will also help you understand why criticism can seem to be an act of betrayal or why self-destructive behaviors can be an attempt to manage fear. This chapter is especially interesting as it explains problems in a marriage from a perspective I had never considered.

    "If your parent was depressed or neglectful, there might have been a reversal of roles. Rather than having the experience of being taken care of, you may have had to take care of your parent." ~Joshua Coleman

    Imperfect Harmony is a book for anyone who is married, whether they have children or are considering starting a family. Even if you never intend to have children, but you are considering a divorce, this book could explain the real reasons your relationship is falling apart and there may be time to save your marriage. If you are depressed, this book also shows that when you are in a difficult relationship, it can affect your self-esteem. Anxiety, social withdrawal, sleep problems and decreased pleasure are only some of the effects discussed in this brilliant and enlightening book.

    What can you do when your partner is depressed?
    How do you deal with your own needs in a marriage?
    What do you do when a partner withdraws sexually? (The humorous "Eleven Strategies to Guarantee a Bad Sex Life" is rather revealing and gives ideas for change.)
    How do you avoid having an affair when your needs are not being met?
    What should you do when a partner is verbally abusive?
    How can you reduce conflict?

    The "Eleven Ways to Work on Yourself" is a good way to balance out your life and create new priorities. The "Different Kinds of Marriage" encourage you to accept the stage your marriage is currently in or is heading towards.

    Joshua Coleman presents creative ways to save your marriage that include everything from an "in-house separation" to "planning to separate after the kids are grown."

    This is a must-read manual for marriage. This book will give hope to anyone who is married and feels that they are struggling to save a marriage alone. It will also provide a much-needed escape into "someone understands." With this book, you may truly be able to save your marriage and create a situation where you feel comfortable and secure. In this environment, you can then face all the additional challenges of raising children and balancing your career, emotional needs and spiritual goals.

    For many, divorce is not an option and this book helps anyone in a situation where they are determined to stay married. Too often people casually advise walking away from a marriage, when truly a marriage is a learning experience and one of the most challenging experiences of your life. They don't seem to understand what you are fighting for and for some people, their marriage is extremely important and not something they casually entered into without consideration.

    It is very satisfying to see an author take on this subject and make "staying married" very possible. This book will empower women who want to stay married! It is also a book that will give you deeper insight into the issues facing everyone who is married. We are all on a journey towards balance in our lives and this book is an excellent guide to balancing your needs with the needs of your children.

    ~The Rebecca Review
    10 years and counting...


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Posted in Love (Tuesday, December 2, 2008)

Written by Paul Joannides. By Goofy Foot Pr. The regular list price is $19.95. Sells new for $39.97. There are some available for $17.00.
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5 comments about The Guide To Getting It On: A New And Mostly Wonderful Book About Sex For Adults For All Ages..
  1. I was looking for a birthday present at a bookstore when I ran across this title and laughed at it and took it to show a friend of mine who was there with me so she could laugh at it too. This must be the trashiest sex guide in the world, I thought.

    Then I started flipping through it.

    It was intelligent. And informative. And funny. And contained details and suggestions that I had actually never heard of. (The oral sex section in particular contains the most straightforward, clear and thoughtful instructions on this topic that I have ever come across, and I have not led a sheltered life.)

    I bought it right away as the birthday gift I was looking for, but then ended up reading most of it before I gave it away. Now I'm back to buy another copy for another friend. The guy who gave this just one star probably was expecting another clinical social sex review with funny anecdotes, and not a guide that gives you detailed sexual advice that you can actually use. This is also not simply a book of positions, or a book of thinly disguised porn with deep-throating instructions. The advice given here is realistic, honest, and very, very useful.



  2. this guide is a keeper. whether you need some helpful tips or just want to broaden your horizon, this book is worth the money. i have boyfriends and women friends alike borrow my copy.


  3. I'm replacing my old copy with the new version, because this publication is my first choice for beginning sex-ed with my stepdaughter.

    This book doesn't demonize consentual sex at all. It's about making consentual sex pleasant and safe for both participants, and it does a great job. It covers topics other books haven't even touched! For example, one picture flatly demonstrates that a partner who helps out with the housework is far more likely to get sex than one who doesn't. How many books touch that third rail???

    There are pictures showing the differences between circumsized and uncircumsized penises, as well as genitalia (male and female) of different shapes and sizes. I firmly believe that these will prevent emotionally painful experiences for many young adults beginning to have sex. The information is accessible, and having read the book before I know it will break the ice for the more detailed sex talk with my stepdaughter with both humor and seriousness, while at all times giving vital information.


  4. As sex and intimacy coaches we highly recommend this book. If you are looking for a fun, hip, and detailed guide to pleasure for men, women and couples, look no further. The Guide to Getting it On has it all. It is a must-have for every household who is interested in keeping their sex life hot.


  5. As "America's Romance Guru", I found this book THE BEST on human sexuality. I had no idea there was so much one could pack into one book. It looks like a reference book, but I couldn't help but read it from cover to cover, not only because it was so interesting, but because it was incredibly entertaining.

    So many writers take themselves very serious when writing about sex, but The Guide pokes fun at sexual intimacy. It's wit was very appreciated. I recommend this book for anyone who is interested in any aspect of sex.


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Posted in Love (Tuesday, December 2, 2008)

Written by Adam Tokunaga. By Vertical. The regular list price is $17.95. Sells new for $8.97. There are some available for $8.50.
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3 comments about Slow Sex Secrets: Lessons from the Master Masseur.
  1. Recommended with reservations to guys looking to make their ladies scream with pleasure. With this book you get like 2 pieces of philosophy, 5 new techniques, and 3 new (vaginal) spots to play with. Frankly, I think this is more than you get from other sex manuals these days, which are filled with insipid games and awkward techniques. All 10 items are good to very good, but unfortunately they are covered very unevenly over the book's 160 page length. The philosophy is repeated ad nauseum, as a filler, and the techniques are described once and never really expounded upon. This book's content could be easily boiled down into one of those single page laminated guides on Accounting or Bartending you see in the bookstore! (And it would be tempting to bring it into the bedroom, but as Tokunaga accurately states, "The bedroom is no place for theory.")

    I also found there to be quite a lot of boasting from Tokunaga: there is a fine line between establishing your credentials and egoistic bragging - and he definitely crosses that line several times.

    Tokunaga hates what he calls "junk sex" - which is male orgasm obsessed, brief, and unsatisfying to the woman. Ok, I agree. But he repeats this at least 60 times in the text. It's unnecessary waste.

    He describes himself having penetrative sex for, on average, 2 hours. But he doesn't say what he does during that time. He describes a simple breathing and kegel exercise to control the ejaculation, but gives no tips on integrating it into actual sex. And what about the hands, the tongue? At that point is it all just improv? He never says. After all, he recommends at least 30 minutes of loveplay focused solely on the woman, ideally more, so by that time maybe you are already "awash in a sea of pleasure". I don't know, that's just supposition.

    To paraphrase his advice: Build your sexual energy with her with your hands, be aware of your love and desire for her as you touch her, forget about your own ejaculation (it will happen anyway), touch her softly and intelligently for a long time all over her body, enter her gently in a sitting sexual position, don't thrust and do breathing kegels to avoid early orgasm. Oh yes, a very good specific tip on foreplay: pull back the clitoral hood before touching the clitoris, and don't vary pressure or pace until she's almost climaxed.


  2. I want to thank Adam Tokunanga for writing the book and Marc Adler for translating it. I agree with all the things he says in the book so I really recommend this book as first option for someone who is looking for sex advise.


  3. The book gives great sexual advice. No doubt about it. In the world dominated by porn you just can't emphasize the value of taking things slow too much. Most other books give you a load of technical advice without really focusing on the essence: "SLOW DOWN". That said, the book could have easily be boiled down to a mere 20-30 pages. Almost the whole first half of the book is the author bragging about how he brings women to screaming using his sexual massage techniques, interspersed with pseudo-philosophical babble about sexual energies, and continual repetitions of "slow sex - good, fast (junk) sex - bad" in various forms. Maybe a hundred pages is what it takes for some to get the message, but for me 2-3 pages would suffice. However, do not become discouraged, the book does contain some actual useful info, albeit not devoid of the authors megalomaniac ego, including naming parts of the vagina an "A-spot" for Adam and a "T-spot" for Tokunaga and claiming nobody even had the slightest idea of their existence before him. Bottom line - has some rare gems, if you are willing to dig through all the c**p.


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Posted in Love (Tuesday, December 2, 2008)

Written by Janis Spindel. By Plume. The regular list price is $14.00. Sells new for $1.74. There are some available for $1.74.
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5 comments about How to Date Men: Dating Secrets from America's Top Matchmaker.
  1. Well, all I can say is Janis has hit another home run with this book - no wonder it is a bestseller in the relationship category already! Janis' wise, funny, honest, and down to earth advice will be heaven to anyone who is panicked when the doorbell rings and "Mr. First Date" is on the other side. Moreover, Janis takes you by the hand and leads you right through the first date and down the aisle...this book should go directly into your Fendi Fanny Pack and STAY THERE until you have met and married Mr. Right!


  2. This is the first book that lets you know how men think. It is not about game playing. If you are looking for a serious relationship this is the book for you.
    EC New York


  3. Not impressed with this book at all- its didnt give me an new information! Very disappointed in the purchase!


  4. I don't happen to agree with her advice that it's okay for a woman to ask men out on dates. She claims this will make you seem confident to men. I disagree. I think it makes a woman seem desperate instead, and it takes away the "thrill of the chase" for the man. A truly desirable woman doesn't need to ask men out. She's too busy getting pursued by them.

    The author also says that if a man has your phone number but doesn't call you again after a date, then you should call him. WRONG. If he doesn't call you again, it's because he wasn't that into you, and you should take the HINT and move on. By calling him, it just sets you up for further rejection. Who needs that?


  5. This book wasn't for me. It wasn't bad though, it gave some interesting advice and some good advice.

    For me I'm a mid-20s girl and I'm just looking for someone I can get along with and maybe grow old with, have a white fenced house and a couple of kids sort of thing.

    This book is for girls that want to get the "catch" the rich guy or something like that. This is the book that tries to tell you how to play the game, so they guy will want you more and want to marry you. I mean this is all well and good, but I don't want a "rich" guy. It will be nice I must admit but not something I'm really looking for.

    If you want to be a stay at home mother or wife and cater to your "rich" husband, than this might be the book for you.

    If you have run out of relationship books to read and want another point of view, this might be the book for you.

    If you haven't read that many relationship books, then there are other good ones out there, this shouldn't be your first relationship book, is all I'm saying.


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Posted in Love (Tuesday, December 2, 2008)

Written by Martin Lloyd-Elliott. By Amorata Press. The regular list price is $17.95. Sells new for $10.60. There are some available for $3.66.
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5 comments about Secrets of Sexual Body Language.
  1. Some books I just read and some books I read with a highlighter underlining as I go then making notes in the margins. Flipping through this book, I found that I had heavely highlighted it, the detail is that rich. While the illustrations were not that informative the content is. And it's not a sexual technique manual, it's more on methods of flirting and how to detect it. I recommend it.


  2. Although I find Martin Lloyd-Elliott's book "Secrets of sexual Body Language" an interesting read, the human body language is anything but linear, and more importantly I think the author gives too much credit to people in certain countries, in particular the United States and Great Britain. Today's America has the most insincere individuals on the planet. I can say this because I am an American, and have observed this for years now. The social interaction is hostile regardless of the environment, be it at a nightclub, at the office, on the street, you name it. This changes the equation. At this moment in time we are witnessing more sophomoric human behaviors among people. A man could receive a lot of "positive, inviting" signals from a woman, only to be told to go to hell once he walks over to introduce himself. Was it his fault? Not necessarily, in a lot of cases women enjoy doing just this. But unfortunately "Secrets Of Sexual Body Language" does not address the games people play. This is where books such as "How To Be The Jerk Women Love" or "Nice Guys and Players:Becoming the Man Women Want" has to pick up the slack. A more accurate title for the book should be "Secrets of Sexual Body Language When All things Being Equal". The problem is that in a lot of Anglo Saxon nations people have adopted extreme attitudes and live with their noses pressed to the wall. A twisted dynamic exists between the sexes creating a World that is the likes of an insane asylum. As we go forth in the dawn of the 21st Century we are seeing more and more of humanity becoming Prozac nation dolts strung out on anti-depressants, and having volatile personalities. This makes up a good percentage of the demographic, and this is extremely difficult to calibrate, and in a lot of cases somewhat feudal.


  3. don't waiste your money unless you been a hermit or a monk.


  4. The book has an excellent photos showing the tipical body response, and the explanation are clar and short


  5. I'll go ahead and get the 1 bad thing out of the way, and then go ahead and review all the other wonderful aspects of this highly recommended book:

    On page 56 - referring to handshakes - the bold text reads:

    "Unconsciously we reveal our desire to dominate by placing our thumb on top [during the handshake]."

    On page 57, in the body of the text, the reader will surely be confused when he reads:

    "People less concerned with power tend to offer a hand in which the thumb is on top and may have less need of domination."

    I would assume that the person who puts his thumb on top is more concerned with domination, but that is just my intuition, and since the book provides the reader with an outright contradiction, the reader will need to rely on intuition for this part. Perhaps if the author is reading this, they can go ahead and edit the book before its next publishing.

    Now that we have that out of the way...

    I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and found it extremely helpful. I went to a party recently and was amazed at how many different signals were being sent out from person to person during conversations that neither party was aware of. I didn't go interview any of these people to check my validity per se, but the people I had originally brought along with me to the party confirmed with me their interest (or disinterest, as it were), which I had witnessed before they said anything about it simply by reading their bodies.


    This book has many colored photos showing what you should be looking for, fortunately of very attractive people. I really enjoyed that the photos showed without apparent exaggeration what exactly one should see. The book also goes on to mention that oftentimes, more than one sign is being demonstrated, and sometimes of both positive and negative causes, leaving the person sending mixed messages. The book gives an obvious remedy, as well as a strategy to better understand the person throughout interactions.

    My only problem now is remembering all of the different signs the book talks about, and then remembering to look for them while talking to people, while at the same time listening to what they are saying. I suppose that this isn't the book's fault, but it goes to show how much valuable information it contains.

    If the reader intently reads this book and then goes out and watches people interact, they will be unable NOT to see signs of positive or negative feelings, both sexual or general.

    Although this book does contradict itself, I still highly recommend it to anyone interested in the subject. You will not be disappointed.


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Written by Sue W Goldstein. By iUniverse, Inc.. The regular list price is $22.95. Sells new for $13.96. There are some available for $14.44.
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2 comments about When Sex Isn't Good: Stories & Solutions of Women With Sexual Dysfunction.
  1. This books brings together real life stories of women's sexual problems with easy to understand scientific explanations of the treatments that cured them. It will provide hope and a pathway for any woman with sexual dysfunction.


  2. This is a very imformative book. I enjoyed the first person review stories. It showed some of the problems my wife and I are having and who to see. I did not know the correct Doctor to see was a "Sexual Medical Doctor". I'm 65 yrs old an having a hard time trying to find one in my area but I'll keep looking.


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