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Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier
An exploration of the masterpiece of evolutionary biology that is female anatomy. Disagreeing with everyone from Darwin to Paglia, this book is a bit physiology, some anatomy, snippets of linguistic history, interviews, anecdotes, and the funniest of analogies. Read the Clean Sheets review by Kris Bierk and Brian Peters

Flogging by Joseph W. Bean
Everything you've ever wanted to know about flogging but were afraid to ask -- negotiating scenes, the basics of flogging, expert technique, cleaning your flogger, what to buy, and the history of whips. All that and lovely pen-and-ink drawings and sensuous writing too. Read the Clean Sheets review by William Dean

Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them by Hanne Blank
"The work, part creative nonfiction, part socially-aware sex ed, part "FA's (Fat Admirers) Bible," dances back and forth between playful, sassy and academic language, and comfortably so. Blank begins by addressing "fatphobes" from all walks of life, including the size-acceptance, LGBT and BDSM communities, and finishes the tome with a bang -- literally! If you define yourself as fat, "Big Big Love" is a road map for reclaiming your sexual geography, inch by precious inch." Read the Clean Sheets review by Jianda Johnson

The Penis Book by Joseph Cohen
The Penis Book celebrates the male member like nothing else before. So -- whether you're male, female, straight or gay -- get ready to learn, laugh and be downright titillated. Bet you don't know what hospitals do with foreskins once they've been snipped away. How fortunes were made in the war against wet dreams. The one song you should never whistle at a urinal. Or what life's really like working on a "hopping penis" assembly line. The Penis Book has the answers to all of these questions and many more, from ancient Japanese fertility rituals to the lowdown on how smoking can trigger impotency.-- Amazon

The Complete Kama Sutra by Alain Daneilou
More than just a pillow book, the Kama Sutra is a guide to the labyrinth of sexual etiquette, from how to bathe before meeting a lover to how lovers should entertain each other after making love. Rent or buy the X-movie version of the Kama Sutra through BlueDoor.com.

My Tiny Life : Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell
"This is the story of one user's experience at a virtual-reality community called LambdaMOO. Author Julian Dibbell begins by relating the facts surrounding the case of Mr. Bungle, a character who committed the crime of "virtual rape" in this fantastic electronic world, shocking LambdaMOO's members. However, the thread of discussion about this case is minimal and the book ultimately becomes Dibbell's diary of his "research" of this virtual world, which grows gradually more obsessive, and how it affects his RL (real life)." Read the Clean Sheets review by J. Hartman

Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving by Betty Dodson
For more than 20 years, Betty Dodson has been dedicated to taking the shame out of masturbation, showing it to be a healthy form of sexual expression. With warmth and intelligence, and informative line drawings, Dodson explains how anyone can learn to fully enjoy the pleasures of self-love, pointing out that masturbation is still the safest sex.

Long Ago In France by M.F.K. Fisher
Fisher's evocation of Dijon in 1929, her description of the birth of her European reverence for the table, and her self-amused, intimate tales of hunger and appetites and learning to be at home when not at home are simply gorgeous to read. "It was there that I started to grow up, to study, to make love, to eat and to drink, to be me and not what I was expected to be," she wrote of her three years living in France with her new husband while studying at the University of Dijon, and we get to grow up and fall in love with the world right along with her in this book. Read the Clean Sheets review by Susannah Indigo

The Guide to Getting It On!: America's Coolest and Most Informative Book About Sex by Paul Joannides
"But, look here, there's a chapter on sex during pregnancy. There's a chapter on sex for the disabled. There's a bullet list on the variations of finger-fucking. There are separate, detailed chapters on male anatomy, female anatomy, intercourse, anal sex, fellatio, cunnilingus, kissing, BDSM and more, and that's just about the technical act of sex. There are chapters on romance, religion, talking to your kids, birth control, sexual dysfunction, a mini-dictionary of sexual slang all over the world, and just when you thought you couldn't take any more, there are even cute illustrations by world-renowned fantasy and comic book artist, Dærick Gröss." Read the Clean Sheets review by Stacy Hellen

Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices by Brenda Love
If you're shy or reluctant to make that psychic friend more than just a friend, the Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices is chock full of other nifty dirty deeds and erotic techniques to drive yourself and others wild with pleasure. It may, in fact, be the ideal coffee table book to casually display among the glossy mags and large print picture books. What guest could resist at least thumbing through its 300-odd pages to see in what detail their particular kinks are described? Read the Clean Sheets review by William Dean.

Natacha Merritt Digital Diaries by Natacha Merritt
Merritt's written diaries from adolescence, interviews by her mentor, and brief interspersions of her own current commentary are included -- the photos don't cover every possible sex act, but they hit all the high spots. She has a special fondness for photographing herself, sometimes holding the camera at arm's length, while sucking on a cock. Read the Clean Sheets review by C.Z. Czelling

Screw the Roses, Send me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sado-Masochism by Phillip Miller & Molly Devon
"There is a nice matter of factness about the approach, reminding me of some of my favorite cookbooks. An excellent index makes it even more useful. ...All the practical things are made very clear, and the subtleties are there as well. I am grateful to the authors for this book -- it has been around a while (1995, seventh printing 1998). It is useful as a manual for any level of aficionado as well as a sourcebook for fantasy." Read the Clean Sheets Review by Elaine DiRico

The Bald Headed Hermit and the Artichoke: An Erotic Thesaurus by Allan D. Peterkin
"Toronto psychiatrist and journalist Peterkin has put together a seductive volume, consisting of the mundane four-letter words and phrases you see scrawled on walls, as well as some fairly cryptic stuff ("Jersey cities" and "chee-chees" for breasts, "go like a rat up a rhododendron" for "to copulate")." Read the Clean Sheets review by Kathryn Ptacek

Real Live Nude Girl by Carol Queen
With this book, sex worker, educator, and activist Carol Queen becomes heiress apparent to the mantle currently worn by the indispensable Susie Bright: all-American, bisexual pleasure polemicist, and erotic essayist. Read the Clean Sheets review by Mary Anne Mohanraj

Salon.Com's Wanderlust : Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance Edited by Don George
"Salon's "Wanderlust" section was always my favorite part of Salon -- even more so than 'Sex':). This book is a marvelous collection of authentic writing, and answers the kinds of questions good travel writing asks -- what is it like to be drinking absinthe in Spain? to be penniless and in love in Paris? to be a cynic at Club Med? to try to stay sober in Thailand? This is armchair travel at its very best. --from Susannah Indigo's Amazon review

The Loving Dominant by John Warren
Every page of this book explicitly or implicitly bears out the author's delight in control and mastery. Much of the book consists of practical advice about BDSM play. Warren's unabashed enjoyment of the whole bag of BDSM tricks comes across on every page. When he describes scenes, he resembles a director intent on taking charge of everything that happens in the theater, creating an all-encompassing synaesthetic experience. Read the Clean Sheets review by Naomi Darvell

The New Good Vibrations Guide to Sex by Cathy Winks and Anne Semans
This updated edition of the bestselling sex manual offers advice, anecdotes, and validation for a variety of sexual interests and activities. A compendium of in-depth answers to the top questions about toys and techniques asked by customers at Good Vibrations, America's favorite sex-toy store, this is a sex book for all readers.