Title: 269 Amazing Sex Games Author: Hugh de Beer Publisher: Sourcebooks Publish Date: 2005 Pages: 151 Genres:: How-To Guide,Reviewer: J. Henry

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Hugh de Beer has had success in his native Australia with several self-published books and is the creator of the Foreplay board game. This explains why 269 Amazing Sex Games reads like game cards (Pass go, tickle your partner without touching their genitals, if they scream you win). De Beer practically dares partners to learn more about themselves and their partners by enacting fantasies or making the anticipation of sex rousing and pleasant.

De Beer divides these sex games into 10 parts, breaks the parts up into smaller sections and offering a fantasy for the reader to complete on their own before heading to the next level. Black and white photos of male and female couples are sprinkled throughout the 150 pages, but all of the frontal nudity is of the women.

The variation on the games included in this book can be considered sexually enticing, provoking the anticipation of being physically pleasured by your partner like #46 “Get into the 69 position and massage each other without touching the genitals." Other games range from mixing literature into your love-making. No. 140 “Memorize a Shakespeare sonnet and recite it while making love” to risqué #171 “Stimulate each other sexually while sitting in the backseat of a cab,” to wasteful of a prophylactic like #51 “Blow up a condom and play: tennis, volleyball, hockey." Some don’t even sound like games; in section one: Eat, Drink and Be Merry, Amazing Sex Game #2 “Every time you have sex, place $10 in a safe place. When you have enough money, spend it on a romantic dinner” simply incorporates sex into a suggestion for a way to save for a romantic night out.

If de Beer’s games are supposed to bring couples out of their sexual shell a few of them need a bit of tinkering because they come off as quite basic or not sexually gratifying enough. Why blindfold your lover and have them guess a meal correctly to win a full body massage? There are other ways to stimulate your lover while blindfolded. Why not blindfold him or her as you touch them sensually, having them anticipate where you’ll go or what you’ll do next all the while stimulating other senses of touch and possibly taste.

De Beer’s book will definitely relate to a wide array of people. Although, including the word ‘amazing’ in the title is a stretch for this book, appealing may be a better replacement or leaving out an adjective all together may be more suitable. Certain readers may consider many of these games too playful to participate in since this book does not supply enough information on ways to enhance an orgasm specifically or find the G-spot and thus will be disappointed in the promise for ‘amazing’ sex games. Others may find the playful suggestions just right in enticing their sexual arousal before they enter into further physical contact. There are aspects of this book that are fun without being overly raunchy and at times other games can be somewhat daring asking readers to push the envelope in public. Other games aren’t very original in contrast to the many how-to sex guides that supply tantric sex techniques, handling of sexual arousal in public places, etc. Instead de Beer’s also supplies some overly used suggestions, i.e.: role-playing, making a video of you and your partner having sex, eating food off one another’s bodies or having sex in unconventional places around the home like the kitchen floor or in a swivel chair.