- ISBN13: 9780060989095
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Who better to unveil the mysteries of the he-man psyche than a woman’s best friend, the master of clever and refined thinking, the gay man? He knows exactly when, where, and how to elicit that ultimate ooh-ooh, because … More >>
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Having read this book I can only conclude that the female author and possibly her male co-author might suffer from histrionic Personality Disorder which is often diagnosed in people who are invariably uncomfortable when not the center of attention. There is a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic if not downright theatrical and may manifest in words enlisted more for their emotional colouring than for their factual content. For these people the truth of any situation is less with the facts than with their hunches and gut feelings, as it were. This person may also behave in a manner which may be sexually provocative, but there would invariably be more style than content to this behaviour.
While this book appears to be a self-help parody it is in actuality a very harmful series of degrading situations of straight woman and very sad gay men and will no doubt foster these histrionic characteristics including excessive, almost theatrical, emotional responsiveness while at the same time display a discernable shallowness to these emotions. Therefore, it is my opinion that one will find neither humor nor “help” from the contents of this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
Having worked in the publishing world for several years, I have come across my share of books that poke fun at the nature of human sexuality while trying to impart the authors own “pearls of wisdom” since they have some sort of hidden desire to be the star of their own orgiastic fantasies. This is such a book.
Upon receiving this book I thought it might be a new publication since it remains in hardcover but discovered, unsurprisingly, that it’s been out for quite some time and still has yet to make paperback. This should have given me a clue about its hackneyed, heavy-handed contents. The author(s) try way too hard to the point where one is almost taken ill with the inane details of individual encounters and incredibly detrimental advice regarding physical intimacy. I can understand that the publishers try to play up the humorous aspect of such a book by providing outdated “campy” packaging but the voice of the author(s), particularly Ms. Berman is so authoritative that it truly conveys the sadness of an existence based on sexual prowess and the manipulation of, and by, men to ease one’s poor (or highly unrealistic) self-image.
Rating: 1 / 5
What else can you really expect from a book?
Rating: 4 / 5
This book was really great – funny, insightful and honest. The tips outlined were terrific. Apparently I did master the techniques as I finally did get a diamond tennis bracelet for Christmas one year.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book had some tips that sounded pretty good (and that I’ll probably use in the future), but this book had two big problems that caused me to stop reading the book, despite the former good tips that I had enjoyed. Those two things are the authors.
Maggie comes across in the book as the most vanilla woman ever. There’s nothing really wrong with that, but it doesn’t really work on a sex advice book. She and the other women in the book don’t seem open to anything that’s really kinky, and thus I felt there wasn’t anything she could tell me that I didn’t already know.
Then there’s Dan, who proved that just because you’re in the minority doesn’t mean you’re enlightened. … ……Also, some of his tips seemed impossible to carry out. (“The Flying Wandella”)
All in all, I think I’ll go to a straight man the next time I want to learn how to please one. These guys aren’t worth it.
Rating: 2 / 5