conception and contraception calendar

(854 pages)

Guide To Getting It On! by: Paul Joannides publisher: Goofy Foot Press released: 2006-07-25 ISBN: 1885535694 $18.68

The Guide To Getting It On! has won five awards and has been translated into 12 foreign languages. It has sold hundreds of thousands of copies from the dorms of UC San Diego to the bedrooms of Tripoli. Some people say The Guide is the best how-to book on sex ever written--we say it's the most fun to read. It is smart enough to be used in sex education courses, but is also a favorite at stores that sell the kind of sex toys that will land you in the slammer in Mississippi, Alabama and Texas. Schools even use it to train doctors. The Guide covers a full range of topics from romance, necking and losing your virginity, to things we can't even mention here.

Sorry, but I'm the author of this book, and they wouldn't print this note unless I gave the book a star rating.

We've been wrestling with Amazon for the past year to have the current 5th edition of the GUIDE TO GETTING IT ON come up first when shoppers do a search. It still doesn't. Instead, the 3rd edition from 2001 comes up. Heck, the German edition comes up before the current 5th edition!

I pride myself on making sure that you get the absolute latest information, and I put more work into each new edition than a lot of authors put into an entire new book. You are selling yourself short if you read anything other than the current 5th edition, which is light years better than the 4th edition.

You might ask, what's changed about sex? There's a tremendous amount of new information about human sexuality that is coming out all of the time. We are constantly finding out that we've been wrong about certain things, plus there's new research findings to analyze and integrate. At any given time, I've got a "must read" stack of new publications about sexuality that is at least three feet high--from the latest in the Journal of Sexual Medicine to learning about new sex slang.

If you are reading The Guide, I hope you'll make sure it is the latest edition--which for now is the 5th with a publication date of 2006. We did an updated 2nd printing of this edition in June of 2007.

This book is one of the best guides you can find for overall, general information about the sex act. It is very ambitious, and runs the gamut from top to bottom, left to right and every other direction. It's fun to read, and is a must for any sexually active couple. Couples may also like a more specific book about oral sex. The Sensuous Couple's (Flip Over) Guide to Seismic Oral Sex is highly recommended because it is a flip over book. One side is dedicated to cunnilingus; flip it over, and the other side is dedicated to fellatio. Both acts get equal treatment, and it is not necessarily heterosexually biased. Highly recommended.

I have been using this book since 1998 and I have been giving it as a gift to anyone interested in sex. This is well written, well researched book, and the authors know when to poke fun and when to be serious making it a balanced read.
The best part about this book is you can read it cover to cover and gain insight into all aspects of sex including the social history or you can grab the index and read only the sections that apply to you and you won't feel like you're missing something.

I purchased this book for myself at the age of 41. I am greatly impressed by it and I have only read Chapters 1-6 so far (out of 71). It presents the material in a casual and sometimes humorous manner. By doing that it makes you feel comfortable reading about things that are most often not talked about in our society. It is written so that it can appeal to and inform any age reader.

I happened upon this book mixed in with the cookbooks on the shelf at my boyfriend's bed & breakfast and flipped through it in a few free minutes this weekend. I found it very helpful and informative and am torn between asking to borrow his copy or just buying one & reading it privately. But I can't wait to read it again. As far as I could tell it was a nonjudgemental book for normal people.

(328 pages)

Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses by: Donna Freitas publisher: Oxford University Press, USA released: 2008-04-11 ISBN: 0195311655 $16.47

Today's college students are fascinated by religion but they are also more sexually active than previous generations. How do these young people reconcile their spiritual longings with sexual freedom on campus?
Based on dozens of face-to-face interviews, Sex and the Soul explores the sexual and spiritual lives of today's college students. Donna Freitas crisscrossed the country, visiting a range of America's colleges and universities--from public to private, Catholic to evangelical--to find out what students had to say about these highly personal subjects. Their stories will not only engage readers, but, in many cases, move them with the painful struggles these candid young women and men face. Indeed, the book uncovers aspects of college life that may unsettle some readers, especially parents. Many campuses, for instance, are dominated by the hook-up culture of casual sex. Moreover, a surprising number of students see little connection between sex and religion. Indeed, these observations hold true even at Catholic schools. Only at evangelical colleges is religion an important factor when deciding whether or not to engage in sex. But Freitas's research also reveals that, even at secular schools, students are not comfortable with the prevalence of casual sex, and that they do want religion to speak about what they should do and who they should try to be--not just what they should avoid doing.
Sex and the Soul will offer readers the chance to hear college students speaking honestly about extremely sensitive topics, in a book that will be of great interest to students, parents, clergy, teachers, and anyone who wants to know what's happening on today's college campuses.

This is an excellent ( at times appalling - at times hopeful) book. I don't usually find sociology books that I can't put down, but I read through this one in short order. What the author does quite brilliantly is weave her study of college students and how they integrate faith/religion and sex, around the personal stories of the students that she interviews. If you are a parent (like me) it is disheartening to see the influences that kids come under when they go away to college, and the soul-destroying nature of casual "hook-ups" with people one may or may not know well.

The book is hopeful (to my way of thinking) in that it is almost exclusively the evangelicals (I am one) who believe that there is a connection between spirituality and sex, and that it is important. While it is no surprise that virtually everyone struggles with how far to go physically before marriage, it is nice to see that evangelicals are generally trying to follow what they believe God desires in regards to dating and marriage.

This is a carefully researched and elegantly written book on the relationship between sexuality and spirituality on US college campuses. It is pretty well known among scholars that high school kids are quite religious in the US. When they go to college they start turning away from the religions of their parents, often toward more generic spirituality. Why does this happen? Freitas thinks sexual experience might hold the key. In other words, as college students start experimenting sexually they push away from religion, since religion is in their view "anti-sex." That's the argument, or part of it. But at the heart of the book lie stories about these students. Kids at evangelical, Catholic, and secular schools struggling with faith and sexuality. It's brilliantly done. It's sad in many ways to see the binds that "hookup culture" put young people in. It's balanced in that there are things in here that will infuriate (and delight) conservatives and liberals alike. And it's timely. Makes me wonder what the next generation is in for heading off to college.

(332 pages)

S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College by: Heather Corinna publisher: Da Capo Press released: 2007-05-03 ISBN: 1600940102 $11.53

If you're looking for the definitive guide to sex and sexuality, and everything that it entails, then look no further than Heather Corinna's fact-filled book. With straightforwardness, humor, insight, and directness, the founder and editor of Scarleen delves into every aspect of sexuality, and presents it in a way that teens and young adults (and us old adults, too!) can truly understand.

Everything -- and I mean everything! -- is covered within the pages of S.E.X. From Your Body: An Owner's Manual to To Be, Or Not To Be...Sexually Active, Ms. Corinna puts everything into perspective, for both girls and guys. There are thirteen main chapters included, along with appendixes that cover sexually transmitted diseases and infections and a bibliography and list of recommended sources (which include phone numbers and websites, as well as books).

If you've ever had questions of any type about sex, or about your sexuality, then this is the book to use as a reference. There's nothing silly or embarrassing in this book -- just straight questions and straight answers. There are parts that are humorous, but underneath it all is just frankness for the seriousness of the subject matter. Heather Corinna knows that sex is serious business, and that staying both healthy and happy is, too.

This is a great book! Give it to your sons and daughters, your nieces and nephews, your friends. Read it with them, and don't be afraid to discuss what you've read. If everyone -- regardless of age -- is informed, then sex and sexuality will never have to be a taboo subject.

Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"

I need several hundred copies of this book to give out to everyone I know! My mom and I read it together, my sister and I read it together, then I gave it to a friend and her mom, and never got it back! Now I have to buy another copy!!! It's amazing, as expected, with SO much information!!!! A must read for anyone over 12.

Note: I'm 19, sister is 16, friend is 16... associated parents are in their 40s. Just so you don't think I'm not in the target age group :)

It's a very detailed book. Not for your average 13 year old, but may be ideal for someone a little older, or begining to be or already sexually active. An instruction manual, really, for what to do, what not to do, and what you can do now, if you did what you wern't supposed to do!

Teens, this book will answer your questions about sex and relationships. You can trust the author Heather Corinna to care about you and tell it to you straight.

Adults, if you care about the teens in your life, buy them a copy. Ignorance will not protect them from pregnancy, relationship violence, disease, or the pain of being different and alone. And it certainly won't teach them to have fun and healthy sex when they're ready. For that matter, if you're not happy with any aspect of your own relationships or sex life, check this book out for yourself. You'll probably learn quite a few things that you wish someone had told you sooner.

When you give a teen this book, some suggestions:
- If you already have a great healthy dialogue about sex, by all means wrap up a copy and hand it over as a gift.
- If not, leave it around in a not too obvious place and never say anything when it disappears.

I'm not a teenager anymore, but in some ways I think some of my attitudes about sex are still rooted in what a learned about it as a teen. I was influenced by the ingrained shame and fear that was thinly veiled in my parents' attempts to infuse me with clinical knowledge about sex, and carried away by my own generation's sexual experimentation and freedom.

It was a funky mix, and my god, I wish I'd had this book when I was young. Heather Corinna's book is open and progressive, but doesn't hold one or the other form (kinky or not, straight or not) as sacrosanct. Heather clearly sees sex as an individual thing - yours, not anyone else's, so you get to own it. She comes from a grounding in the idea that sex is a natural and beautiful part of our lives.

I got this book because I was invited to the Seattle release party and have been impressed with Heather and Scarleteen for a long time now, but I find I refer to it even as an adult who has supposedly figured much of this stuff out. It always reminds me to respect myself, to bring my boundaries and desires to the table, and to have fun with sex.

I sincerely think that how we handle our sexuality has ripple effects into how we handle the rest of our lives. I think this book is a gift to society. Seriously.

(1152 pages)

The Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility: The Cervical Spine Research Society Editorial Committee (Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology and Infertility (Speroff)) by: Leon Speroff, Marc A Fritz publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins released: 2004-09-01 ISBN: 0781747953 $139.91

I bought this book through Amazon and quite happy with this service and book too.It is recommended for my masters course in Reproductive medicine.Thanks Amzone.

This text offers a straight-forward reference to assist in the management of gyn problems I commonly encounter as a Family Doctor. It goes into great detail about anatomy and physiology of gynecologic problems yet is well-organized for use as a "quick reference". For example, it took less than a minute to find the section on hirsuitism to refresh my memory as to what the initial work-up should consist of.

This is an incredible book. Speroff is still the king when it comes to infertility. In our OB/Gyn setting we refer to it many times in our treatment of basic infertiltiy and have had great success following the guidelines given by Speroff. It should be on the bookshelf of anyone who treats basic infertility!!

This is one of the bibles of the OB/GYN resident. Excellent reference for the in-service exams. Simple diagrams & tables make this text readable and easy to understand.

(720 pages)

Manual of Obstetrics (Spiral Manual Series) by: Leon Speroff, Marc A Fritz publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins released: 2007-04-01 ISBN: 0781796962 $44.96

This is a great, small sized book for review. I bought it to study for the RNC exam, and the small size allows me to take it along with me anywhere. The information contained in it is good and up to date.

(288 pages)

Veronica Monet's Sex Secrets of Escorts: What Men Really Want by: Veronica Monet publisher: Alpha released: 2005-09-06 ISBN: 1592573681 $11.53

What makes men pay Veronica Monet $2,500 an hour for her services?

After nearly 15 years of being an expensive escort, Veronica Monet shares her secrets in this intimate, funny, no-holds-barred guide, filled with anecdotes from her years in the “trenches.” Veronica Monet’s Sex Secrets of Escorts is a must-have guide for any woman interested in enriching the sex life she shares with her partner. Includes helpful hints on:
-Lingerie
-Mood
-Erotic toys
-Techniques that only the “working girls” know

The book starts well but fails to really deliver on the details. The book feels like a large survey of topics: personal hygiene; sex; love; and orgasms. No single topic is really addressed in great detail and often times there are very literal examples or courses of action one should take in the matters of seduction.

If you have read text dedicated to seduction, sex, orgasms, and relationships or have found yourself in midway through the course of a examined life, I would say that this book comes across as too simple and too literal. You, the reader, will likely feel bored. However, I feel as though this would make a decent primer for girls leaving adolescence with a number of unanswered questions.

For writing, this book deserves ONE star. It's so bad. I actually looked up Monet on line and read a few of her essays and they were okay, so I suspect she was on a time crunch without a strong editor. For content, I'd rate around 3 stars... that is, if you can set aside that creepy feeling that she doesn't quite understand she was an escort. As an example, while she has a point that women don't always let their intelligence be part of what makes them sexy (as I'm sure many of us have seen our female friends dumb themselves down in front of certain men), Monet misses an opportunity to observe that men have reason to flatter her. What is that cliché -- beautiful women want to be told they're smart and smart women want to be told they're beautiful? ...She also glosses over how men are not going to act the same towards an escort as they are around women they see every day. That being said, this book seems to contain valid male-pleasing advice.

Although the book was well written and somewhat entertaining, it wasn't what I was expecting. Rather than being a manual filled with "techniques" it is more about the psychology of why men pay to see escorts. If you are interested in that, then this book is a very good one. If you are looking for detailed "how-too's" its not.

I did not see the kind of detail I would expect from an escort with 18 years experience. You would expect that she could fill the book with remarkable anecdotes. Instead she will give examples of her husband's behavior! She talks about men who are ignorant and need advice about how to please a woman in bed. Her clients are all in love with their wives! It is quite a dull book of very banal sexual advice from a conventional woman's perspective. I am concerned if women should try to understand men using the author's "experience". Men will simply be bored.

Those of you who want to crucify Monet for being an escort - hold your stones. Open your awareness of sex as a sacred act. Monet answers the calling that sex and spirit are one. Ladies, lets face it. Sex is her bread and butter. We can depend on her functional knowledge and expertise. Her simple presentation is not technique driven. It is the art and grace of sex as a component of a spiritual journey told in practical format. The tips she gives are logical and simple. They empower you because behind them resonates an eternal hum reminding you of the woman you've always been. Her narrative journey highlights ancient sexual knowledge that emerged and blossomed from within Monet herself. Yes, this book gives you the skills to treat your man like a God. Better yet, it reawakens the Goddess and directs the music of your heart to yourself.

(592 pages)

War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by: Edwin Black publisher: Basic Books released: 2004-09 ISBN: 1568583214 $18.00

This is one of the most thorough volumes on the topic of eugenics that have surfaced in years. "War Against the Weak," gives a no-holds-barred look at this revolting practice and how it started in America. It chronicles the rise and fall of the eugenic movement, how Darwinism was embraced due to its notion of natural "superiority" and current practices that hint at other forms of eugenics in the world.

This is a great starter book for those new to the topic as well as a full reference for those familiar with it.

As a child in grade school in the mid-40s I wondered why our principal (and his preacher friend) were always ranting about 'bad blood' and 'sins of the father' - Edwin Black's book, War Against The Weak, sheds great light on their attitudes and demonstrates how famous, well-intentioned people get sucked into evil notions such as Eugenics and other 'absolutes'. Ideas, no matter how bright and glittery, can lead down
ugly paths and take that evil fork in the road which leads to holocast.
This book should be required reading for every freshman college class.

This book lays out a case, in plain language, that diseased ideas can propogate like wildfire, particularly when powerful people get behind them. Adolf Hitler did not just wake up one day and decide that Jews, homosexuals and the mentally disabled should be killed. That idea had been alive, spreading and in fact exported to Europe by US. This may explain why ships of Jewish refugees were turned back from entrance to this country during the war, eventhough everyone knew they would likely face death. This explains why so many Nazi scientists were welcomed into this country to continue biological research after the war.
But mostly what this well-researched work shows is the importance for standing up for all people and not assuming that any one of us has the right to determine who is fit or unfit to exist.

This book single-handedly was responsible for opening my eyes to the eugenics movement, and I've been fascinated ever since. It's cited in many of my papers, excellent source, well researched, and an exciting read. Highly recommended!

This book seems to be a fairly complete overview of the subject. Its one recurring flaw is that the text sometimes reads as if the author believes that he is the first to notice the connections between American (and European) Eugenics and the Nazis. I doubt if the author intended that, but that is still the impression sometimes left.

This is a very readable book, and well-suited for undergraduate use.

(304 pages)

Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by: Judith Levine publisher: Da Capo Press released: 2003-08-26 ISBN: 1560255161 $12.71

Judith Levine, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex (University of Minnesota Press, 2002)

I have read, over the years, a handful of books that I consider to be truly important, books that look at a particular aspect of our society, how it has damaged us (perhaps irreparably), and how we might change facets of our culture to stop further damage, and maybe heal some of the damage that's already been done-- Stanton Peele's The Diseasing of America, Gina Kolata's Rehtinking Thin, Philip K. Howard's The Death of Common Sense, and a few others. It's a very short list, mostly because these are books that do not fit in with the prevailing norms in the least. These are books that are unafraid to take a stand against the stupidity of our current culture. They are unpopular, and it's very hard to get them published. That, of course, makes them all the more important. And of them, perhaps, Judith Levine's Harmful to Minors is the most important. While all of them address very important topics, this one attacks the most wide-reaching subject I've found in one of these books: how America's puritanical attitude towards sex has resulted in generations of increasingly oversheltered, and dangerously uninformed, children, and how that oversheltering and lack of information have pushed America to the brink of disaster and allowed a number of social ills (of which AIDS is only the most visible) to fester unchecked.

When I started thinking about how to write this review, the obvious place to start, it seemed, would be with an extended quote from the book. Problem is, I couldn't come up with just one quote; so much of this book needs to be quoted, so much of what Levine has to say needs said, that singling out one or two paragraphs from the book seemed to be doing the rest of it a disservice. With one short exception (we'll get to that later), the entire book is quotable. Obviously, reprinting a 270-page book does not make for a good review, and yet if I could have done so here, I'd have done it in a heartbeat; this is a book that every American parent, or anyone who was raised in the increasingly oppressive anti-child culture that began to foment in the 1950s, desperately needs to read. Some will find validation in these pages that their embarrassing, socially unacceptable, or "morally repugnant" thoughts are universal. Some will come to understand that their beliefs about how they should be parenting their children are shared by many others. The majority, I think, will find that they are not alone, or nearly as rare as they had believed. It's the people whose voices have caused all these insane "protect the children" laws to be enacted who are in the minority; they just scream louder and know what buttons to press. When Levine traces the raft of onerous laws involving day-care workers (especially male day-care workers) not being allowed to show affection to children to the long-discredited McMartin case, the obvious reaction is, "well, since none of that actually happened, why do we still have the laws?" Indeed. And yet, somehow, we do.

I was prepared to stick this book far atop my list of best reads of the year for 2008, despite us being less than five months into the year, before I hit the epilogue. Levine stumbles a bit at the very end of the book; where she spent the majority of the book completely on-point, in the epilogue she suddenly starts lashing out at things that seem to have nothing to do with her thesis, drawing the most tenuous of connections at best. But this is in no way to say that the rest of the book is not well worth your time; in fact, were I drawing up a curriculum of must-read books for every American, this would most certainly be on it.

Children, especially those who are suffering between the onset of puberty and the so-called "magic age" at which we are all supposed to gain maturity overnight, are the last subclass of people it is considered socially acceptable to repress in America. Judith Levine is outraged by this, as we all should be, and Harmful to Minors is the result. The trouble she had getting the book published, which she recounts in the prologue, should set off major warning bells to everyone reading it. This is a deeply, deeply important book, and I strongly suggest you read it as soon as you possibly can. For in the six years since its release, not surprisingly, things have only gotten worse. The arm is already lopped off; the more of us who read this book, understand the consequences of our culture's actions, and speak up about them, the better a chance we have to stanch the bleeding. For if we don't, the patient may not survive the operation. **** ½

I would say this is one of the 5 most important books I've read in my life.

Finally...FINALLY someone has the courage to stand up and say what needs to be said. Our society is dysfunctional. Parents don't know how to talk about sex and earn their children's trust in sexual matters. They pass their ignorance and fear right down to the next generation. Children who do not trust their own parents are definitely more vulnerable to abuse from others, especially when they learn to trust others.

There is so much hysteria, paranoia and flat out ignorance about sex in America. It is astounding!!!

The controversy that this book generated is mostly due to the repressive, morally righteous environment in this country. But Ms. Levine is also sex-positive. She goes beyond simply providing objective information about sex or our dysfunctional ways of dealing with it, she actually advances many of her own opinions about the positive nature of sex and the negative consequences of repression.

To me, sex raises many questions. I don't have all the answers. The only criticism I could make of the book is that Ms. Levine is a little too opinionated and like a race horse at the starting gate. She comes on a little strong for the majority of Americans, many of whom are still struggling to understand how people can be gay. I'm sure many of these people are not yet able to fathom that children can enjoy and benefit from sex with adults. So that part created a lot of controversy.

I'm almost all the way done, and I absolutely adore this book. The author sets up and supports very firm arguments against the neo-cons and overprotective parents who seek to push their morality on the rest of the nation. This is a must-read for those who wish to understand how our system got to be the mess it is today concerning sex.

First I'll begin by saying that most of the 1 and 2 star reviews of this book are brought on by exactly what this book tries to address; the American sexual taboo. Those that have expressed that this book does not advance the morality of the current society have only supported the claims this book makes (using perfectly cited research).

The author communicates what she is trying to say in a very eloquent but straight forward way which is truly very successful. This book is truly a page turner and the foreword by Dr. Elders (former Surgeon General) is mind blowing.

This book is a must read for parents and teachers and a recommended read for everyone that wants to know a little bit about the least harmful taboo- sex.


Lastly, if you don't like your views and opinions challenged with facts then I don't think this book is for you.

At no time did the Doctor advocate, hint to, suggest, or other wise condone adults having sex with children. Where people got the idea the book will be used by pedophiles as a defense of their actions with children is beyond me. Maybe they should read the book first.

(110 pages)

College Life 102: The No-Bull Guide to a Great Freshman Year by: Andrew G Kadar publisher: iUniverse, Inc. released: 2006-07-21 ISBN: 0595388744 $10.76

“Filled with priceless advice for college freshmen”

Dr. Marye Anne Fox

Chancellor, University of California at San Diego

Do you know what to expect when you start college? Let the wit and wisdom of College Life 102 open your eyes to the endless possibilities!

Dr. Andrew G. Kadar offers a collection of tips and advice to help you become a star college student—both inside and outside the classroom. College Life 102 is not about mere survival in college; it is a more advanced course. Dr. Kadar discusses strategies not found in other college advice books, including how to:

• Get better grades by studying smarter rather than harder;
• Dodge the stress of deadlines;
• Enroll in classes after they’re officially filled;
• Avoid the dreaded “freshman 15”;
• Make confident decisions about which campus organizations to join and when.

A brief but meaty book, College Life 102 also includes fact-based sections on nutrition, illegal drugs, tattoos and piercings, and contraception. With the advice found in College Life 102, you’ll learn to make the most of your college years and collect memories you’ll treasure for the rest of your life!

Yet another student life book written by an old man out of touch with the reality of the contemporary college experience. I mean come on, who are these grey-haired authors kidding? Are we really to expect anything more than superficial advice from someone who graduated from college twenty-five years ago? Sure, some things never change. But there are many things that have changed over the years, and unless you lived it, you can't accurately explain it to people. If you want to read a book that offers more than generic student advice, then read Goat: A Memoir or COLLEGE LIFE EXTREME: Lies, Sex, Drugs and Violence. Both these books are memoirs from students who attended big party schools and have crazy-true stories to share.

Dr. Kadar has a good writing style. He gives good information. However, he seems a little "old" to be writing a book for a college freshman. Shouldn't a book like this, be written by someone with a recent college experience. It is hard to find fault with most of his advice. However, if you want to give someone a full taste of college, you'll need to balance it with a book written from a student's point of view. Remember, students often see things differently than faculty. When I was an undergrad, I saw the school's bureaucracy as the enemy. I'd recommend accompanying this book with something like College 101: The Book Your College Does Not Want You to Read

This book is clever, entertaining, and an overall informative read that every college freshman should relish. Dr. Kadar arms one with the knowledge in order to make educated decisions during the first year and beyond. The invaluable advice contained in this book will propel one to succeed both inside and outside the classroom. Upon reading this book one will be at a significant advantage upon entering freshman year!

I am a longtime friend of Dr. Kadar and a math teacher at Hollywood High School in Los Angeles.
I enjoyed the book immensely primarily because of its readability. Dr. Kadar has a real gift for communicating about topics on which others frequently just lecture . His candid, lucid style make this work approachable for his target audience: high school seniors, many of whom abhor reading anything. I can't think of anyone who would not benefit from the wit and wisdom contained in this book. The straightforward, yet whimsical approach to academics, campus social life, the trials and joys of this coming of age period--make this tome a pleasure to recommend to all.

Hello. I am the author of College Life 102. I started writing this book for my son, Kenny, as he went off to college. I wanted to share with him knowledge and insights from my eleven years of post-secondary education and over a quarter century of teaching college and medical students. I wanted to help him make a smooth transition to college and to thrive there from the start.
College Life 102 contains insights on how to study smarter instead of harder. It includes strategies I've not seen described anywhere else, such as technique for dodging the stress of deadlines that I call the "pre-deadline deadline."
One section of the book consists of science based information to enable students to make wiser decisions about their diet, alcohol consumption and other health related topics. As a medical doctor and educator, I feel particularly qualified to discuss these issues. My goal in these chapters is to be accurate and therefore credible, to neither exaggerate nor minimize the risks that students face.
Kenny shared the book with his friends and later with students at the University of Washington, when he became an instructor in their freshman orientation program. I received lots of useful and encouraging feedback. I added sections and modified others to update the book. Kenny graduated in four years, cum laude with distinction.
College Life 102, The No-Bull Guide to a Great Freshman Year, contains information I wish I had before I started college. Why 102 instead of 101? This is a more advanced course. It teaches students not to survive but to thrive. Carpe diem!

(432 pages)

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tantric Sex, 2nd Edition by: Dr. Judith Kuriansky publisher: Alpha released: 2004-12-07 ISBN: 1592572960 $13.57

Uncover the sacred side of sex—with this second edition of the bestselling guide.

In this updated, fully illustrated second edition of the bestselling book, Dr. Judy Kuriansky—a certified associate Ipsalu Tantra Teacher—uncovers every aspect of this ancient practice. From the sacred beliefs behind Tantra and Tantric loving to the practice of Tantric techniques, this book includes a new chapter on sacred sex, an updated chapter on Tantra rituals, the author’s own Tantric sex therapy technique, tips from world-renowned Tantric experts, and listings of national Tantra instructors and workshops.

• Fully illustrated
• Author is a tantric expert who has studied with pioneer Margot Anand
• A basic introduction to the principles of Tantra
• Tantric sex was recently featured in an episode of Sex and the City and in an article in New York magazine

The tantric approach to relationships is about blending the spiritual and the physical - it is a beautiful approach to compansionship and one that is missing in the west because we tend to split the spiritual from the physical (the old mind-body dualism). This book is an excellent introduction to tantric approaches to relationships and sex. It is aimed at someone who has no or limited background in tantric philosophies (or eastern approaches to spirituality). I highly recommend it.

This book is easy to follow and gets you started in the tantric practice easily. The content is sequenced in a way that flows, and actually makes it easy to follow through the learning stages. Dr. Judy doesn't leave out the spiritual part, neither does she overwhelm you with it, as I've seen in other Tantra books that are a bit "hippie" and over the top. Spirituality is very much a part of this book, though understated.

I was pleasantly surprised to find a Tantra book by Dr. Judy - I have been a fan of hers since the '90s when she was on Love Phones. I had no idea she had any knowledge of Tantra. I love the way she breaks down the concepts - easy to digest for the greenest of novices, but with enough interesting content to feed the more knowledgable readers. Kudos to Dr. Judy for bringing Tantra to mainstream America :)
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Re: the guy complaining that this is not "real" Tantra: this books is meant to bring Tantra to the mainstream, not to get devotees to an ashram. Keeping that in mind, it fulfills its purpose.

As for the poorly-written, one-star reviews above, please note: the purpose of writing a review is for (guess what??) THE BOOK. That's why the guidelines say "Your review should focus on the book's content and context." You should not be reviewing Amazon's technical flaws or Dr. Judy's perceived character flaws here. Unfortunately reviews such as these lower the avg rating of books that deserve better, and all for nothing because they arent' even about the content. (My 2 cents)

This is a not a review of the book. I met this woman over 20 years ago, just about when she was looking to break into radio talk. She struck me as someone solely interested in making a name for herself, with the least interest in the people she was advising. It is sad to see, people like this whose careers are the all encompassing monsters in their lives. It's all about money and fame, and this lady wants them both. I could be wrong. Who knows.

People like Judy Kuriansky, Margot Anand and all the various fakers who claim some affinity for Tantra have distorted it totally........Why??? Because books and schools that teach SEX make alot of money.

They have taken something beautiful and turned it into trash. I know, I studied the same distorted teachings before I found out how off the mark it was. These people manipulate lonely people for money.

Tantra is a path to walk, not about sexuality, except about uniting the male-female within, or the yin-yang, dark-light, etc.
It's about becoming a whole person and none of these people do anything but distort Tantra to make money off it selling SEX!!

Read here if you want more information about healthy Tantra:

http://anunda.com/tantra/sacred-tantra.htm

I didn't actually recieve it. This is a warning to those tempted to download the e-book version: DON'T. Well, until Amazon customer service staff actually have the basic human decency to reply to my emails (replies are 'usually made within 24 hours'. I don't think so. I'm slowly approaching my 144th. And I've sent three. And no, my email account doesn't filter communications from Amazon. I checked by setting up an events reminder service. Oh well, it's given me time to report it to IntelliSeek/Planet Feedback. I'm sure this won't be published on the site, and I'm sorry to those people who deal with editing customer reviews - it's not your fault. However, why should I have to resort to this to be heard? A prominent and available customer service number at the top of every page (and numbers international customers can dial) would not go astray.