Sex: How to Do Everything by Em & Lo, Lorelei Sharkey, Rankin (Photographer)

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Synopsis

In a totally fresh and appealing take on the subject, SEX is a completely new kind of sex book. This is a sex book for people who like having sex, who want to have more, and want to know how to do everything better. Unlike other sex manuals, which try to solve problems with sex, this is a book for people who love sex and want to expand their horizons. Written by the young, hip "super-sexpert" duo Em and Lo of nerve.com notoriety, this book promises to be as witty and cool as it is instructive. It's a fun and energetic romp with over 300 explicit and authentic, but beautiful, "live" shots by renowned fashion and portrait photographer, Rankin.

Publishers Weekly

This latest, full-color installment from former Nerve.com "sex advisers" Em & Lo (The Big Bang) bemoans sterile sex manuals that take all the fun and mystery out of sex. Their latest and most comprehensive guide tackles every variety of sexual congress and the minutiae of seduction, fantasy, filming erotic videos and capped with the obligatory public-service "sexual health" section. The text is concise and clear, replete with (fairly familiar) puns ("there's the rub," "the ties that bind")-but the real draw isn't the information, all of which is available elsewhere in more detail-it's the pictures. The images shot by the influential British fashion and portrait photographer Rankin feature a range of aesthetically pleasing yet satisfyingly real-looking and ethnically diverse-although exclusively heterosexual-couples that are soft-core, but still racy enough to inspire "naughty ideas," one of the authors' stated aims. (May)

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Biography

Em & Lo (aka Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey) are the self-proclaimed Emily Posts of the modern bedroom. They have co-authored Rec Sex and Sex Toy, the sex manual The Big Bang: Nerve's Guide to the New Sexual Universe, and The handbook Sex Etiquette for Ladies and Gentlemen. They have also contributed to numerous publications, including Glamour, New York, Cosmo, GQ, The Boston Globe, ReadyMade, Men's Health, Marie Claire, and, in the UK, The Times, The Observer, The Financial Times, The Telgraph, Arena, FHM, Metro, Cosmo, Scarlet, , and GQ. After four years as Nerve's resident advice gurus they now write about all things love- and sex-related on their own website. They have also written a sex column for the UK newspaper The Guardian and currently write the Mating column for New York magazine.