In the old days you would pluck your sex manual off the bookstore
shelf when no-one was looking, approach the till when the coast
was clear and pray the assistant wouldn’t smirk at your
selection of Tickle
His Pickle: Your Hands-On Guide to Penis Pleasing by
Sadie Allison.
Then along came the Internet, oh joy, and books that contained
sensitive or embarrassing content could be delivered straight
to your home in a plain brown package.
Thanks to the electronic transactions of the Internet, sex
manuals and many other books with sexual content are in demand
at AbeBooks.com. Sex manuals are proving more popular than ever–
there are manuals for sex in your 40s,
50s and
60s; manuals
for sex in public; manuals
for busy people; manuals
for phone sex...... Read on to discover what people are buying
from us. (Who’d have thought a Christian
sex manual would be so popular?)
But first if you own a sex manual (and by that we mean an instruction
manual of some sort and not a novel with heavy sexual
content), then please take our anonymous
poll – it takes just a minute or two.
AbeBooks.com's Top 10 Bestselling Sex Manuals in 2007
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Ed & Gaye Wheat
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David Schnarch
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Ian Kerner
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Stephen Thomas
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Hsi Lai
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Mantak Chia & Douglas Adams Arava
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Mantak Chia & Michael Winn
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Hsi Lai
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Kim Cattrall & Mark Levinson
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Patricia Love & Jo Robinson
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Other AbeBooks.com Sexy Bestsellers
Most Expensive Sale of a Sex Book
Sex
by Madonna ($1,500)
Commonly known as The Madonna Sex Book, this title is constantly
one of the most searched for titles in the out of print world with even
relatively poor copies listing for close to $100. The coffee table book
features over 100 photos of the pop star and an assorted cast of characters
in erotic poses and settings. Copies
in good condition are difficult to locate.
Sexual Memoir
How
to Make Love Like a Porn Star by Jenna Jameson
Sounds like a sex manual but it’s an autobiography. Penned by
one of the porn industry’s major icons, this book provides an
insider’s guide to the adult-film business but also goes much
further into Jenna Jameson’s personal life and the people who
shaped her remarkable career.
Erotic Novel
The
Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne
Rice)
Best known for Interview
With A Vampire, bestselling author Anne Rice wrote three ‘Sleeping
Beauty’ books under the pen name of A.N. Roquelaure (meaning
Anne under a cloak). The books are a modern, sexual take on the classic
fairytale with Sleeping Beauty awakening from her slumber to become
a sex slave.
Novel About Sex
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Strictly speaking Lotita is about sexual obsession rather than plain
old sex, but Nabokov’s 1955 classic still incites strong emotions
as it deals with a sexually precocious twelve-year-old girl. First
editions are highly desirable on the rare book market.
Book About Gay Sex
Queer
London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957
by Matt Houlbrook
A book about gay
culture rather than gay sex, but Matt Houlbrook's explores the queer
worlds of early 20th century London from parks and streets to restaurants,
pubs, dancehalls, bathhouses and hotels as well as attempts by the authorities
to crush the gay community.
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