Ultimate Sex

by Hooper, Anne; Farrow, Stephanie

• ISBN13: 9780789472656
• ISBN10: 0789472651
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-18
• Publisher: DK Publishing, Inc.

Summary

Spice up your live life with Anne Hooper's best-selling guide to Ultimate Sex. In this expanded and enhanced edition, noted sex therapist Anne Hooper shares her secrets on how to have even more fun in bed, and reveals ancient Chinese beliefs on maximizing sexual pleasure. With exciting new photos and clear illustrations of lovemaking positions, this is an irresistible book for everyone who wants to learn intimate erotic techniques and heighten their sexual enjoyment. There are extra features on Tantric sex, erotic foods, and sexual fantasies, designed to fire your imagination and tantalize your senses. A series of case studies complete with Anne Hooper's candid and imaginative advice will help you and your partner overcome common sexual problems. Tailored to particular sexual needs or concerns, these are based on Anne Hooper's experience in helping hundreds of couples to revitalize their relationships. Ultimate Sex, with its range of easy-to-follow techniques and tips, will provide you with the key to a stimulating and satisfying sex life.

Author Biography

Anne Hooper, a member of the British Association of Sexual and Relationship Therapists, specializes in working with people who have sexual, personal, and emotional problems. A former editor of Forum magazines, Anne was, for six years, the director of the Forum Clinic and the founder of the Women's Sexuality Workshop. Anne has contributed to numerous magazines and has appeared on television on both sides of the Atlantic. She is the author of several books, including Ultimate Sexual Touch, Sexual Intimacy, and Great Sex Games, as well as other many titles for Dorling Kindersley.

Table of Contents

Introduction	8	(12)
How can I show my interest in sex?	20	(12)
How can I tune in with what my partner wants?	32	(8)
How can I overcome my partner's inhibitions?	40	(8)
How can I fully arouse my partner?	48	(8)
How can we prolong the sexual experience?	56	(12)
How can I ask for what I want in bed?	68	(8)
How can I make lovemaking more intimate?	76	(10)
How can I extend sex play?	86	(12)
How can we reach the heights of sexual ecstasy?	98	(12)
How can we inject variety into our lovemaking?	110	(10)
How can I revive a partner's waning interest?	120	(12)
How can we explore our deepest fantasies?	132	(12)
How can I keep sex safe with a new partner?	144	(10)
How can we have good sex while I'm pregnant?	154	(10)
How can I achieve a deeper orgasm?	164	(12)
How can we find time to be lovers?	176	(6)
Recharging the sexual battery	182	(8)
How can sex make us feel whole?	190	(8)
How can we bring back desire?	198	(12)
How can we have more fun in bed?	210	(12)
How can I get over sexual rejection?	222	(12)
Using sex aids	234	(6)
His and her sex organs	240	(4)
Index	244

Excerpts

How The Book Works Many people express the opinion that sexuality only has value if it is worked out in private, solely between the two people involved. This, however, is faulty reasoning. Sex therapy, far from creating an artificial edge to the rapport between people, assists men and women in experiencing new thoughts and emotions as well as good physical sensations. Here, I offer assistance to all the thousands of people who choose not to meet a therapist face to face but who nevertheless look forward to resolving their sex problems. If you can make full use of the ideas, training methods, and therapeutic discussion I have gathered over the years, I sincerely hope you will be able to enhance your loving relationship in every way. The Ultimate Sex Book has been compiled to provide you with all the information you need to enhance or improve any sexual relationship. All the areas that are problematical for couples are covered in a similar, easy-to-follow way. Each single question such as "How can I make lovemaking more intimate?" is explored from several angles. For example, in that specific case history, the innermost anxieties and desires that we all may have are communicated safely through the circumstances of one couple in particular. In my assessment of the couple''s problem, I explain how emotional intimacy can be fostered, and in the accompanying program I set out a series of simple exercises that encourage physical intimacy. Finally, the program is supplemented by the illustrated exercise that follows it; this provides detailed pictorial instruction of an enjoyable form of touch therapy that will allow you to develop intimate sensual knowledge of each other. The Case Histories Throughout the pages of this book are case histories taken from my files, each specifically illustrating the sexual yearning and ambition every individual possesses but few care to admit to. The lovers on these pages are not struggling with premature ejaculation or inability to experience orgasm, but they do ask simple questions that sometimes lead to profound answers. "How can I achieve a deeper orgasm?" provokes, for example a complicated answer because it concerns stimulating the mind. The people whose problems I have concentrated on here encompass single men and women as well as those in short-term, long-term, and/or conjugal relationships. The age range is wide, too. This only reinforces the truth that disappointment with sexual experiences affects everyone at some time. These seemingly personal cases to in face have implications for us all. I have tried in my assessments to generalize from particular circumstances so that anyone reading the case histories would be able to pick up insights into aspects of their own behavior, and so perhaps be furnished with ways of adjusting that behavior for the better. The Programs Succeeding each case history are the therapy pages, where a sequence of stages" to deal with the problem are outlined. The different stages include techniques involving specific mood training, factual information, and touch maneuvers. In the early pages I deal with issues such as self-esteem and assertion, outlining simple confidence-building exercises for men and women. The connection between confidence and sexuality may not be an obvious, but it does exist. Having the courage to ask for what you want in lovemaking and the language in which to do it tactfully may, for some couples, be the deciding factor in the rise or fall of a relationship. The latter pages help expand imagination by helping partners to explore each other''s fantasies and by showing how to focus single-mindedly on expanding sensation and consciousness. In this way, the brink of orgasm and orgasm itself can become spiritual ecstasy. No one, of course, can experience ecstasy to order. But by laying the foundations, you have a greater chance of getting there than by leaving it to chance. Each program is directed toward a particular aspect of sexuality; some deal wi