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Definition: Sex Manual |
Sex ManualNoun1. A manual containing instruction in sexual techniques; intended to enhance the reader's sexual life. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sex manuals are books which explain how to perform sexual intercourse and other sexual practices. They often also feature advice on birth control.
Ancient sex manuals
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, believed to have been written in the 1st to 6th centuries, has a notorious reputation as a sex manual, although only a small part of its text is devoted to sex.
Other ancient sex manuals include the Ananga Ranga, a 12th century collection of Hindu erotic works, and The Perfumed Garden for the Soul's Recreation, a 16th century Arabian work by Sheikh Nefzaoui.
Modern sex manuals
In spite of the existence of ancient sex manuals in other cultures, sex manuals were banned in Western culture for many years. What sexual information was available was generally only available in the form of illicit pornography or medical books, which generally discussed either sexual physiology or sexual disorders. The authors of medical works went so far as to write the most sexually explicit parts of their texts in Latin, so as to make them inaccessible to the general public. (See Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis as an example).
A few translations of the ancient works were circulated privately, such as Sir Richard Burton's translations of the Ananga Ranga and The Perfumed Garden.
Married Love by Marie Stopes, published in 1918, was a ground-breaking sex manual, although it was limited in the detail in which it could discuss sex acts.
The Joy of Sex by Dr. Alex Comfort was the first sexually explicit sex manual to be widely published. Its publication in the 1970s opened the way to the widespread publication of sex manuals in the West. As a result, hundreds of sex manuals are now available in print.
See also:
- Sexology
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sex manual."
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Books | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sex manual | 94 |
online sex manual | 5 |
gay sex manual | 5 |
oral sex manual | 4 |
illustrated sex manual | 2 |
anal sex manual | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-l-m-n-s-u-x" | |
-2 letters: alumnae, asexual, manuals. | |
-3 letters: alumna, axeman, lauans, lemans, lumens, manual, mensal, nausea, seaman, sexual, ulamas, ulemas, unseal, unseam. | |
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| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-l-m-n-s-u-x" | |
+5 letters: antihomosexual, transsexualism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 78 4D 61 6E 75 61 6C |
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HTML Code (1990) (references)S e x   M a n u a l |
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