Ooo, what’s that?
With a picture like that, what else could it be but a compilation of steamy erotica? It’s called Making the Hook-Up. It’s written by black authors, and edited by Cole Riley, with the intention of doing away with black stereotypes, sexual and societal.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Three Kisses – Preston Allen
- For Nita – Jolie duPre
- Got Milk? – Monica Elaine
- Rain - Kweli Walker
- Strangers in the Water – R. Gay
- Keeping Up with the Joneses – Reginald Harris
- Dangerous Comfort - Shane Allison
- Pharaoh’s Phallic – DeepBronze
- Lonnie’s Licks – Tenille Brown
- Hung – Zetta Brown
- Irresistible – Cole Riley
- All Day - Asha French
- When the River – Leone Ross
- Sex and Chocolate – Garnell Wallace
- A Taste of Tyrell - Jolene Hui
- Welcome Home – Shakir Rashaan
- Lights on a Cave Wall – Zaji
- Velvet – Fiona Zedde
- About the Authors
- About the Editor
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Ooo, what’s that?
That’s Anal Pleasure and Health: A Guide for Men and Women by Jack Morin, PhD, and it’s probably the most overdue review in the history of reviews. My apologies and gratitude go out to the awesome people at Babeland Toys, who assigned me this review ages ago and haven’t lobbed my head off for not having it finished.
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: A Quarter Century of Anal Exploration
- Ch. 1: A Brief History of Anal Pleasure
- Ch. 2: Confronting the Anal Taboo
- Ch. 3: How to Use This Book
- Ch. 4: Looking and Touching
- Ch. 5: Beneath the Skin
- Ch. 6: Mind and Body
- Ch. 7: Inside the Anus
- Ch. 8: Anal Eroticism
- Ch. 9: Discovering the Rectum
- Ch. 10: Attitudes Toward Rectal Stimulation
- Ch. 11: Mutual Exploration
- Ch. 12: Anal Intercourse
- Ch. 13: Realms of Power
- Ch. 14: A Lifetime of Anal Pleasure
- Appendix A Health Problems INvolving the Anus and Rectum
- Appendix B Summary of Research and Findings
- Bibliography
- Index
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Ooo, what’s that?
So a month or so ago, I was asked if I do book reviews. And I said, “Well, I guess it really depends on the book.” Because I have a super short attention span, and reading anything even remotely resembling a textbook just doesn’t end well with me.
I was sort of surprised when I was told that for Oral Sex Month, the Naked Reader Book Club was reading oral sex books. I mean, whole books of nothing but oral sex? Won’t that eventually get… boring?
I decided I had to start somewhere, though, and chose Tasting Him, edited by Rachel Kramer Bussel, from the three books I was offered. Read more…
Today I finished Slaughterhouse-Five, an anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. I’ve never read Kurt Vonnegut before. I’d been urged by a friend ages ago to give him a try. I’d heard him mentioned on shows I love by characters I admire. But until I saw in the news that he died, I was only mildly interested in what was captivating so many I had spoken to or heard speaking of him.
I expected him to be dry and boring. People I consider insanely intelligent read him, so he must be boring! Slaughterhouse-Five left me pleasantly surprised and astonishingly hooked. I can’t wait to pick up another Vonnegut novel on our next trip to the library.
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