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How to Have Magnificent Sex: Improve Your Relationship and Start to Have the Best Sex of Your Life
“There is a place for the sex manual that stimulates our interest in making love like sensual Hindus rather than like competitive Americans, and Dr. Holstein has written it.”— The New York Observer
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Lana Holstein gives new insights into our intensely complex sexual needs, explains how to use the sensual and
the aesthetic to heighten orgasm, and instructs readers on using the soul connection to intensify their sexual experience. She weaves the joys of a vital sexual connection into seven ways in which we can get in touch with our bodies and our sexual energy. From the biologic to the sensual to the desire dimension and beyond, How to Have Magnificent Sex is a positive, empowering book filled with excellent advice about your body, your partner’s body, and how to enjoy them both to the fullest.
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Lana Holstein gives new insights into our intensely complex sexual needs, explains how to use the sensual and
the aesthetic to heighten orgasm, and instructs readers on using the soul connection to intensify their sexual experience. She weaves the joys of a vital sexual connection into seven ways in which we can get in touch with our bodies and our sexual energy. From the biologic to the sensual to the desire dimension and beyond, How to Have Magnificent Sex is a positive, empowering book filled with excellent advice about your body, your partner’s body, and how to enjoy them both to the fullest.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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March 12, 2021
It's not without some value, but it's dated and quite … heterosexually-cisgender-centric. (Which I call out as in such a stark contrast to
Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships
, which I recently read; this book doesn't have a single same-sex couple -- they're almost all married, and almost all pretty "vanilla" in their sexual and gender identities. But I guess this was published in 2003 so there's that?)
ANYWAY -- the good: plenty of provocative and insightful statements to help someone reframe their thinking about their romantic/sexual relationship, and/or the way they "show up" in that relationship; also some well-explained exercises that are supposed to help foster/facilitate some learning and growth. Breaks sex and romance into multiple dimensions and encourages you to think about these as inter-dependent, and how you might be positive in one area but negative in another.
The not-so-good: as mentioned above, if you don't fit the mold of a straight cis-gendered married couple, this one might have you feeling left out. ALSO (and this is the big one for me) -- toward the end of the book it starts to cross over into this spiritual and quasi-religious element that… doesn't sit right with me. Not that I'm saying sex can't be spiritual but the "sexual Goddess energy" stuff was a bit much.
ANYWAY -- the good: plenty of provocative and insightful statements to help someone reframe their thinking about their romantic/sexual relationship, and/or the way they "show up" in that relationship; also some well-explained exercises that are supposed to help foster/facilitate some learning and growth. Breaks sex and romance into multiple dimensions and encourages you to think about these as inter-dependent, and how you might be positive in one area but negative in another.
The not-so-good: as mentioned above, if you don't fit the mold of a straight cis-gendered married couple, this one might have you feeling left out. ALSO (and this is the big one for me) -- toward the end of the book it starts to cross over into this spiritual and quasi-religious element that… doesn't sit right with me. Not that I'm saying sex can't be spiritual but the "sexual Goddess energy" stuff was a bit much.
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