Kate Zambreno

"Aren't they pretty?" I cooed to a coworker when flipping through my new copy of "Sexy Toys 101," lusting at the candy-shop spread of fun vibrators and dildos and other pretty plastic things that really look like actual toys. Her Catholic blush made me realize that this "playfully uninhibited guide" by the founders of the acclaimed women-run sex-toy shop, Toys in Babeland, is not the kind of book you throw around the office. This illustrated guide to everything you ever wanted to know about doing it and doing it well is the kind of book you give your girlfriends or highlight for your lovers. I've already read aloud over the phone various hilarious and playful hints and histories from this Cliff Notes to kink--Reason #7 to Try Butt Sex: "Closed-minded bigots think it's a sin, so it must be fun"--everything from the bend-over-boyfriend evolution to "S & M 101" to the phenomenology of the pocket rocket. Now that we all own a vibrator, this is the next present that gives and keeps on giving, the female version of the Sharper Image catalogue. However, plenty of useful hints will serve boys well, too, like that on page 20--how exactly to reach that mysterious G-spot. Your girlfriend/lover/whomever will thank you.

Sex Toys 101: A Playfully Uninhibited Guide

By Rachel Venning and Claire Cavanah

Simon & Schuster, 176 pages, $16.

The authors discuss and sign copies at 7:30pm on November 5 at Early to Bed, 5232 North Sheridan, (773)271-1219.

(2003-10-29)

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