A Brief History Of Sex Tricks

September, 1996

Last year while researching what would become the book 365 Ways to Improve Your Sex Life, I went through every sex manual in the Playboy library. I read the collected wisdom of M.D.s, Ph.D.s, RNs, therapists, feminists, fantasists and sexual explorers. I was looking for tricks -- techniques, that would accelerate passion and produce astonishing sex.The tricks were there, but so was something unexpected. I found that sex manuals over the years reflect America's changing view of sex. In the first...