Jaid's Turi

September, 1995

If you want to help author and celebrity-mom Jaid Barrymore with her research--and given her chosen subject, who wouldn't?--you have to come equipped with a supply of hot wax, blindfolds and extra batteries for the vibrator. ''I drew on a lot of my own experiences for Secrets of World Class Lovers,'' she says of her recently published sex guide. ''Then I excavated the personal lives of my friends.'' She also had the publisher's wife test the erotic manifesto on her husband. The result? ''They ha...