Through years of research and clinical work, Doctors Alan and Donna Brauer have developed an amazing technique which will revolutionise readers sex lives, exploring the mental and emotional as well as physical aspects.
This book contains great relationship building activities. Since orgasm begins in the brain, it makes sense to address emotion and behavior as a helpful way to improve your sex life. Yes the font and the format are dated, but the information remains relevant and accurate. I am a fan of 70's sexual exploration and openness.
Many sex guides suggest techniques; this one teaches an approach through which one can learn and invent new ways of touching and being with each other. And it's not just useful for couples – there's a lot of useful material in here for solo exploration, too. While some techniques are described, they are offered with a degree of humility that invites you to experiment.
They (wisely) recommend that partnered activities wait until each person has attained a certain level of skill on his or her own. You've got to show that your engine works before you ask someone else to make you purr. And you will purr, or make whatever other noises you're inclined to make, when you've trained your partner how to handle you properly.
The advice is pretty simple: learn to talk with each other, tell each other what you like and don't like, and take turns demonstrating the former. While they offer some structured exercises through which to apply these principles, and a few suggestions for initial exploration, this book is neither prescriptive nor proscriptive.
My two favorite things I learned from this book, I learned experimentally, by following their suggestions: 1) I learned that it's possible to give, and to receive, a climax that lasts 90 minutes or more. 2) I learned how to do that.
I think my second favorite would have to be the kissing exercise.
Right when you thought you didn't need another "how-to" book on sex or intimacy, here comes an excellent resource for when you're ready to graduate from the honeymoon phase of hot sex to a "let's make this relationship last forever" mode of sex and deep intimacy. Imagine a graph where the horizontal axis is time and the vertical axis is pleasure and excitement. Most relationships peak or plateau after a few months or a couple years. Now imagine if you and your partner were able to keep your pleasure point climbing year after year far beyond the initial "hot sex" stage. This book gives you a mixture of how-to technique and understanding of real intimacy to allow you to do just that.
Not bad information, but it is far from the best in the field. The protocol they suggest is very clinical and analytical. I think it would only appeal to a very straight-laced couple who was having problems in the bedroom. If that doesn't describe you, you'll likely enjoy other books better.