Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask
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Manufacturer: HarperAudio
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Binding: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7
EAN: 9780694521098
Format: Abridged
ISBN: 0694521094
Label: HarperAudio
Manufacturer: HarperAudio
Number Of Items: 2
Publication Date: 1999-03-01
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release Date: 1999-02-03
Studio: HarperAudio
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For more than 30 years, people everywhere have made Dr. David Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex* *But Were Afraid To Ask part of their lives. It has made their sexual experiences more satisfying, made their marriages more robust, and given their children a healthy and realistic attitude toward sex. Now Dr. Reuben has written an All New Edition of this timeless work. Based on the latest medical and scientific discoveries drawn from thousands of medical journals and scientific research projects, the All New Edition is the ideal source of up-to-the-second sexual knowledge for the 21st Century. The same sparkling sense of humor, the same charming irreverence, the same fearless honesty as the Original Edition is all here, with 96.9% totally new material - much of it never published anywhere before. You'll discover new and useful information - information that you can use right now to make your sexual experiences more exciting, more fulfilling, and, above all, safer, than ever before. You will find Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Male Sexual Organs, Female Sexual Organs, Sexual Intercourse, Abortion, Birth Control, Homosexuality, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and much more. But that's not all. One of the best things about sex is that it is fun - and Dr. Reuben tells you how to make sex more fun more of the time. With good humor, with good taste, and with good sense, he tells you how to sweep away pretension and preconsception and how to enjoy sex to the fullest. At the same time, he describes how to avoid the traps and snares of sexual life. He discusses how safe sex doesn't have to be dull sex and explains exactly where the dangers are and how to steer around them. By the time you finish listening to his audiobook, you will feel like the woman reader who wrote, after reading the Original Edition: The book made me laugh, it made me think, it made sex so much better for me. The only thing about the book that made me sad was that it ended too soon!
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Summary: informational and interesting
Comment: had no trouble reading like a novel. very interesting and humurous at times even. may not be EVERYTHING you wanted to know about sex, but it sure comes close. may even give you a little more than you wanted to know. I definitely recommend reading this!
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Summary: Informative but flawed
Comment: I read the original edition straight through at age 12 in the 1970's and felt both better and better informed. Dr. Reuben educates with readable prose, and there's even occasional titillation - as teens we once listened raptly as a buddy read about female orgasm. But looking back from memory these pages seem a bit flawed and naive. Dr. Reuben has a stereotypical (negative) view of gay males, his statement that all (not most) humans desire sex for pleasure seems debatable, and if prostitutes are all lesbians or man haters, why do so many marry? Additionally, Reuben ignores researchers like Kinsey and Masters and Johnson, whose findings were well-known by the time this book arrived.
This book has sold over 100 million copies worldwide, incredible. Some reviewers praise it as panacea, while others bitterly attack the book for the author's take on homosexuals. I'd say the truth lies between; the original is informative but flawed by certain misstatements. Perhaps the updated edition - written after safe sex and cyber porn arrived - is better.
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Summary: I wouldn't even give it the one star
Comment: My own opinion is that the book was meant to scare people away from ever having sex. It gives a first impression of being open-minded, but really, its message is to never have sex, because bad things might happen to you. Some of it seemed to be very close to urban myth territory. What I remember the most, though, were the fright stories about back-alley abortionists and women who died trying to abort an unwanted pregnancy. I don't remember much about the author's ideas about homosexuality, but for the most part I wouldn't take anything he had to say about sex seriously. Reading it again, it just seems to be a modern version of the moral hygiene pamphlets from the early part of the 20th century.
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Summary: Information at your fingertips...if you can handle it.
Comment: Like some other reviewers, I was surprised by the negative comments made regarding this book and its author. I didn't read any anti-gay bias in the book. In fact, on page 144, the author emphatically states, "But as a physician and scientist, I cannot pass that kind of personal judgment. Therefore nothing in this chapter [titled "Homosexuality"] should be--or can be--interpreted as being against or in favor of homosexuality."
Are those the words of a homophobic? Or are a few of the reviewers here in need of a chill pill? Yes, he does state that some homosexuals have casual sex, without getting to know their partners. Heterosexuals do this as well. Denying that it happens is intellectually dishonest. Then again, some people will hear only what they want to hear, regardless of the facts.
He tackles conventional sexual subjects including puberty, masturbtion, menopause and menstruation with aplomb. He also tackles subjects that many wouldn't want information on, including BSDM and sexual perversion. I've also glanced through the "What's Happening to my Body?" books for boys and girls, and found them just as informative.
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Summary: Oh, please
Comment: I read this book when it first came out 30 years ago. I decline to spend good money on the updated version because updated crap is still crap. It was a best-seller then because Dr. Reuben hit on a winning formula. Tittilating information (in the 60's, sex was just starting to be openly discussed), a chatty, non-clinical format that relaxed the nervous reader(most of us in those days)and a medical degree to give it respectability, Great except for one thing, Dr.Reuben knew nothing of his topics. He had no psychiatric training(California law allowed any MD to hang a psychiatrist shingle) My favorite idiocy was the notion that syphillis and gonorrhea could be eliminated by giving everyone mandatory injections of penicillin. Brushing aside the civil liberties issue, I can't think of a better way to develop a nice vicious drug-resistant strain of these diseases. The book is enjoyable only as a reminder of how gullible we were 30 years ago.
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