Damn, I love smart people.
Not only did you not find it odd that I got so brain-sparked by Sex at Dawn you came right back with, "Yeah, you liked that? Then read this." I love it when you're all bossy like that.
On the off-chance there are others out there who think reading a book about human mating habits is a fine way to pass an afternoon, I offer a list of book recommendations from readers, most of them inspired by the Sex at Dawn post. Happy reading! (Helpful hint: tuck book behind regular book like The Help to give appearance of being less pervy and/or nerdy).
[note: if you buy a book or two through the links here, Amazon will toss me a couple of pennies. But I'm not gonna tell you what to do.]
--mjs writes: I love Sex at Dawn and wish that it was required reading for teenagers
along with Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies by Michael
Bader, Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
by Esther Perel, and Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution
and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
by Leonard Shlain.
-- Anonymous: I really liked Sex at Dawn. It changed the way I view the world, and
turned me into a skeptic overnight. The book is jam-packed with great
stuff, and along with The Ethical Slut (Dossie Easton and Janet W. Harding) has really changed how I look at
women's sexuality, from a male's perspective.
--Agrees Sarah: Check out Robin Baker's Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles We want the security, therefore
monogamy, but our bodies can override the tightly held ideal. Sometimes
even thinking about "temptation" can scare the monogamous.
--Agrees afungi: Sperm Wars is a better book imho, as it looks at modern
human physiology to draw conclusions about human sexual programming. For
instance, most sperm can't fertilize an egg, and in fact is there only
to kill the sperm of other men.
--rederekp: The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People (David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton).
--Ninja Mike and someone called weeeeeeearggggh both recommend the work of Geoffrey Miller, specifically The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
--JLW: The Evolution Of Desire by David Buss is another good read on this topic.
Plus 2 others in a similar vein:
--Jerry T: My wife and I found a
book that talked about the uniqueness of each female and male genital
anatomy and how the appearance described the personality of the man or
woman, The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka: Teachings from the Nagual Tradition by Amara Charles.
--IBWMW Minister of Science: I'm a big fan of Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sexby Olivia Judson and Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene
by Niles Eldredge. Both are a tad
more science-y (OK, a lot more - anything authored by someone named
Niles just screams nerdy) than the ones you have, but what do you expect
from the IBWMW Minister of Science?
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go find some books.
xoxo
jill
Coming next: Insistent throbbing arousal pressing against
our sweet swollen wetness, aka Reader Recommended Smut! There's still
time to suggest your favorite.*
*Unless it's one of those Harlequin Romances about having a secret baby with a billionaire. Because I read one, okay two, of those the other week and they were--as pretty much anyone with a testable level of intelligence could have told me beforehand--really really bad. If I hadn't been so busy furtively hiding them under The Vagina Monologues
(which was actually my least embarrassing library selection that day), I would have seen that they had "Billionaire and Babies" scrolled across their covers in telltale pukey Kotex box-style font. So it was my old damn fault. Also my fault that I had to read both of them to definitively--like 100%--determine their badness.
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6 comments:
ps sorry about all the weird spacings. guess i shouldn't smoke so much crack.
Nerdy pervert is like my entire persona. Some guys are into it.
Zannie ha! And I'm gonna get a persona too. Maybe diplomat with a secret past. Or perhaps free spirited foreign exchange student. Eh, I don't think Ill be able to change my current persona which I'm pretty sure is also nerdy perv.
I'm part way through "Naked at Our Age - Talking Out Loud about Senior Sex" by Joan Price. It has a lot of good ideas, most applicable to younger people as well as Geezers. It's given me some good ideas about how to celebrate my 69th birthday.
silenus--ooh, thanks, it's on the list.
In terms of reader recommended smut
(I know I'm late to the party - I've been busy wrangling a sick toddler and a sicker little baby - this is my first visit in about a month)
Anyway, back to the smut. Anything published by Ellora's Cave is usually good. There's something to suit any taste. It's like Mills and Boon grew up and started using grown up terms for sex-related stuff, and had hardcore sex repeatedly. In fact these books/stories are pretty much all about the explicit sex (just like M&B are all about the marriage). They are very satisfying.
Even better - their websit has a "free reads" section http://www.jasminejade.com/c-115-free-read-ec.aspx
where you can download tasters from their authors. Also, occasionally they put an entire electronic novel on the free reads page for a while.
It's a good way to end up doing nothing for an afternoon (except get ragingly horny).
Happy reading!
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