<![CDATA[Jezebel: the joy of sex]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: the joy of sex]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/thejoyofsex http://jezebel.com/tag/thejoyofsex <![CDATA[The (New) Joy of Sex]]> If you're still using Alex Comfort's 1972 The Joy of Sex as your guide to such topics as "frigidity," having sex on horseback, and "tactful ways to take a woman’s virginity," it's time to update.

British sexologist Susan Quilliam has revised the famous book, putting more focus where you need it most: the clit. In words oddly reminiscent of Obama's "McCain doesn't get it" speech, Quilliam says Comfort gave short shrift to the all-important bit of female anatomy "not because he was anti-clitoris, but because he just didn’t know." Also included now are sections on Internet porn, vulvar care, and a technique called the "Venus butterfly." [NY Times]

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<![CDATA[Joy To The World]]> For many of us, a covert peek into Alex Comfort M.B., Ph.D's The Joy of Sex was some of our first sex ed: highly explicit yet strangely unsexy, horrible to think of in connection to one's parents. While the newer editions have excised the joys of sex on motorcycles, sex on horseback and sex with hookers (all featured in the 1972 original), the latest update has gone one better, adding 43 new sections from a woman's perspective and reflecting a new clitoral consciousness. In addition, JOS 08 involves obligatory nods to cybersex, high-tech sex gadgetry and what the Guardian describes as "a harrowing section on penis injuries caused by vacuum cleaners." [The Guardian]

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