Sex manuals Sex manuals The Ananga Ranga is an Indian love manual written around 1172 CE. It is aimed specifically at preventing the separation of a husband and wife. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ananga Ranga"
The Ars Amatoria ("The Art of Love") is a series of three books by the Roman poet Ovid, the first two (for men) written about 1 BC to AD 1 and the third (for women) somewhat later. Written in verse, its guiding theme is the art of seduction. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ars Amatoria"
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) is a book ( 1969, updated 1999) by U.S. physician Dr. David Reuben. It was one of the first sex manuals that entered mainstream culture in the 1960s. It had a profound effect on sex education and succeeded in making sexual attitudes healthier and more realistic. The book was translated into 54 languages and sold in 52 countries. It ultimately reached more than 150 million readers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)"
Exploration and satisfaction through the mental and spiritual aspects of sexual intercourse is the thesis of Imaginative Sex, John Norman's nonfiction 1974 work. As is perhaps expected, Norman's concept of the mental and spiritual involves generally male dominant/female submissive BDSM fantasy scenarios, of which the bulk of Imaginative Sex is devoted to. Unlike the Spartan Gor, where it may be natural for men to enslave women, Norman repeatedly emphasizes the need for BDSM to be safe, sane and consensual. Although a groundbreaking sex manual for its time, Norman was criticized for his parochial focus on maledom/femsub relations in addressing the wide topic of sexual spirituality. ...more on Wikipedia about "Imaginative Sex"
Kamasutram, generally known to the Western world as Kama Sutra, is an ancient Hindu text on human sexual behavior, widely considered to be the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature. The text was composed by Vatsyayana, as a brief summary of various earlier works belonging to a tradition known generically as Kama Shastra, the science of love. Kama is literally desire. Sutra signfies a thread, or discourse threaded on a series of aphorisms. Sutra was a standard term for a technical text, thus also the Yogasutram of Patanjali. The text is originally known as Vatsyayana Kamasutram ("Vatsyayana's Aphorisms on Love"). Tradition holds that the author was a celibate scholar. He is believed to have lived sometime between the 1st to 6th centuries AD, probably during the great cultural flowering of the Gupta period. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kama Sutra"
Married Love is a book written by Dr. Marie Carmichael Stopes, first published in March 1918 by a small publisher, after many other larger publishers turned her down because of the content. It rapidly sold out, and was in its sixth printing within a fortnight. ...more on Wikipedia about "Married Love"
Sex manuals are books which explain how to perform sexual intercourse and other sexual practices. They often also feature advice on birth control, as well as advice on sexual relationships. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sex manual"
Show Me! is a controversial sex education book by photographer Will McBride. It appeared in 1974 in German under the title Zeig Mal!, written with psychologist Helga Fleichhauer-Hardt for children and their parents. It was translated into English a year later and was widely available in bookstores on both sides of the Atlantic for many years. ...more on Wikipedia about "Show Me!"
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities (ISBN 1890159018), written by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt (a pseudonym of Janet Hardy), discusses how to live an active life with multiple concurrent sexual relationships in a fair and honest way such as how to deal with the practical difficulties and opportunities in finding and keeping partners, maintaining relationships with others and strategies for personal growth. According to their principles, "a slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical proposition that sex is nice and pleasure is good for you." ...more on Wikipedia about "The Ethical Slut"
The Guide to Getting it On is a sex guide by Paul Joannides, illustrated by Daerick Gross. According to the publishers it is required reading in sexual education classes at more than 30 colleges and universities, is translated into 14 languages, and has won 5 awards. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Guide to Getting it On"
The Joy of Sex was a ground-breaking sex manual with illustrations by Alex Comfort, M.D., Ph.D. published in 1972. It was the first explicit, serious book about sex to gain wide distribution - at least in modern America (one might argue, for instance, that the Kama Sutra provided somewhat similar information over 1000 years before). Earlier works, such as the 1966 Human Sexual Response by William H. Masters & Virginia E. Johnson, were more circumspect and clinical. The original intention was to use the same mainstream approach as books such as The Joy of Cooking, hence section titles include 'starters' and 'main courses'. Conversely, The Joy of Sex is rather circumspect and clinical in comparison to The Guide to Getting it On, published 20 years later. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Joy of Sex"
The Perfumed Garden by Sheikh Nefzaoui is a sex manual and work of erotic literature. The full title of the book is The Perfumed Garden for the Soul's Recreation (al-Rawď al-'āţir bi-nuzhat al-khāţir). ...more on Wikipedia about "The Perfumed Garden"
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