Hot Guide to Safer Sex »

Twenty-something sex educator Yvonne Fulbright offers readers a sexual survival guide with over 20 chapters on a variety of subjects from orgasm and erogenous zones to talking dirty and sex toys. Written in a hip, lighthearted tone, with real-life quotes and stories, The Hot Guide to Safer Sex is a necessity for anyone who wants to remain safe and protected while experiencing amazing sex. The chapter “Who Me? Get an STD?” discusses what an STD is, various kinds of STDs, symptoms, and treatment. The author balances information about sexuality and health while keeping the subject sexy. Photographs and illustrations enhance this easy-to-read, entertaining book.

Library Journal

This comprehensive guide for younger heterosexual singles packages cautionary details with charming enthusiasm. Fulbright, a doctoral student in international community health with a master's in human sexuality, begins with sexual anatomy, response, and orgasm basics, proceeds to masturbation and fantasy, and follows with a chapter on relationships. Then, temporarily postponing the "good stuff," she segues into STDs, AIDS/HIV, contraception, and safer sex. Eventually come intercourse positions, oral sex, and manual stimulation, plus less common topics: talking dirty, phone sex, interfemoral and gluteal sex, G-spots and multiple orgasms in both sexes, sex toys, and the PC muscle. Two final chapters warn against drugs and alcohol. Also included are informative illustrations and sensuous photos. The book is light on resources, providing mainly web sites and 800 numbers, and sources for research quoted are not given-not a major flaw for this audience. Other, broader manuals appealing to the same group include Sari Locker's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amazing Sex and Paul Joannides's Guide to Getting It On! Recommended for public libraries with a large singles clientele.-Martha Cornog, Philadelphia Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.