Bawdy Language: Everything You Always Wanted to Do but Were Afraid to Say

A reference book like no other, it features a wide ranging survey of taboo language, both sex and toilet talk, to help you express the inexpressible. No mere catalogue of phrases, however, it's several books in one -a history of sex, a personal body manual, a social commentary, and a tasteful but biting editorial statement against the forces of restraint and convention —a delightful mix of Eric Partridge, Lenny Bruce, and Monty Python.

Lawrence Paros is a master teacher whose work in alternative education has received national recognition; an amateur neuroscientist who has helped design and market a unique device for the treatment of stress, and a professional writer, and self-described authority on language. His published works include numerous articles and a book on education, two earlier books on language, "The Great American Cliché" (Workman) and "The Erotic Tongue" (Madrona and Holt), and "Smashcaps," a children's book (Avon). He is also a former op-ed page columnist for the Seattle Post Intelligencer and commentator on KUOW-FM, the NPR affiliate in Seattle.

His website, "A Word with You", has garnered numerous awards and attracted more then a half million visitors since its inception. It has also inspired two self-published volumes ("A Word with You America"), one version of which is soon to be published in China. He is currently working on his magnum opus on education, "The Once and Future School: The Story of the Y.S.H.S."

An accomplished public speaker, Paros has had extensive teaching and lecturing experience; in the course of promoting his earlier works, he has been interviewed on dozens of TV shows and over 100 radio stations.

A cantankerous sexagenarian (what else?), he lives quietly on the periphery of Seattle Washington with his two cats and a teenage son to whom he is an endless source of embarrassment.