Put What Where: 2000 Years of Bizarre Sex Advice
by John Naish
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Hilarious miscellany of sex advice throughout the ages from seven-week long Balinese foreplay and Victorian Viagra to swinging tips from the 1970s. It is one of the oldest questions in the world: How do you do sex? And it has prompted some of the most stupid answers in human history. Since the dawn of civilization, a bizarrely eccentric host of self-appointed experts has befuddled, frightened and confused questioners by selling them bull about the birds and bees. Ancient Chinese Viagra was show more made from wasps. Medieval Indian advice books warned lovers never to have sex in front of the priest or in the middle of the road. Middle-Ages Britons claimed drunkenness was the best way to conceive, while Persians thought they could enlarge themselves with ginger and honey. And as for the Victorians and Edwardians, hot blankets were the devil's work, banisters should be banned and tight corsets could cause nymphomania. The odd playful slap wouldn't do any harm though. Here, then, is the cream of thousands of years of advice on where, when and how to put it, how to receive it, what to spread on it first and how to spend your time after it's all over. It makes you wonder how humankind ever got this far. show lessTags
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An interesting little book about sexual advice through the millenniums. If it weren't for this book I would have never known that biting a person's eyeballs a no-no. It's amazing seeing the leaps that modern science has made and just a little common sense allows you to see through some of these ideas.
Mostly just paragraphs out of the books the writer is commenting on (and sometimes Users the same quote more than once), with added witty captions.
Enterttaining, mildly informative on the history of sex manuals.
Enterttaining, mildly informative on the history of sex manuals.
A very informative book, and the advice is just hysterical!
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 2005
- First words
- Mating. Reproducation. The survival of the species. How much more crucial does it get?
- Quotations
- Happiness is the true test. Never mind what books - including this one - say you should do. If you are happy, and your partner is too, leave well enough alone. Eustance Chesser, Love Without Fear (1940)
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies
- DDC/MDS
- 613.960207 — Applied science & technology Medicine & health Personal health and Fitness Birth control, reproductive technology, sex hygiene, sexual techniques Sexual techniques Standard subdivisions
- LCC
- PN6231 .S54 .N35 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Wit and humor
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- 76
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- 416,089
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.35)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
