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Brazilian Waxes, Lazy Ovaries & Outrageous Orgasms by Lisa Sussman
Ulysses Press, 224 Pages, $14.95

Sex is one of those topics that everyone is interested in but no one really wants to talk about. Which is a shame, because so much of your potential pleasure in one of life’s most pleasurable activities comes from understanding what’s going on and having open communication with your partner about how things are going. Knowledge is power.

Lisa Sussman gives women all the power they need in her entertaining and educational book Brazilian waxes, Lazy Ovaries & Outrageous Orgasms: Embarrassing Questions and sassy Answers on Women’s Sexual Health. Set up in a question and answer format with numerous sidebars, tidbits, trivia and quizzes, this book provides an immense amount of information on all sorts of sexy topics.

From breasts to vaginas, periods to orgasms, safe sex and pregnancy to STDs and male sexuality, this book has it all. You’ve probably wondered some of these things before. Others you might not have known to question. Either way, you’ll find out all you need to know about your body’s sexual health, and maybe even a little more than you wanted to know.

This book is great for women who missed “the talk” when they were growing up, or who want to scare their young daughters into not having sex, or at least educate their older daughters about how to approach sex in a healthy way that will result in happiness in bed and health all around.

My favorite part of this book is the little fun facts sprinkled through, such as that women should have 21 minutes of foreplay to guarantee orgasm, that women who weigh over 155 pounds should get a higher-dose pill to protect against pregnancy, and that a Viagra pill is consumed somewhere in the world every three minutes.

The book also provides resources for more information on many of the topics in the book, making it an excellent and approachable resource on sexual health and well-being. If you’ve got some sexy questions (or is this normal? questions) you’re afraid to ask your doctor or your girlfriends, ask Lisa Sussman instead. This book can give you real piece of mind and a good education on things they didn’t tell you when they separated the girls and the boys that day in grade school.

Sarah White wrote this on May 15th, 2006 and filed it under Healthy Living, Women's Health |