Title: The Orgasm Bible: The Latest Research and Techniques for Reaching More Powerful Climaxes More Often Author: Susan Crain Bakos Publisher: Quiver Books Publish Date: 2008 Pages: 160 Genres:: Self-Help, How-To Guide, Non-Fiction, Sexual Health/Men, Sexual Health/Women Reviewer: Chris R. Morgan

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Sex instructionals are a bit of a mixed bag. People will either follow them intently with an ever-sincere longing to learn, or they will forego all forms of lesson and slop their way into the dripping coital abyss, as is so often the case. The one thing that can be said of this and all other sexual how-to’s is that it bears an advantage in that it’s all-inclusive. Granted, most of the full-color photos of the sex acts are depicted with a beefy, just-barely human heterosexual couple, but aside from that drawback, The Orgasm Bible is made for all shapes and, most certainly, all sizes, quite literally in fact. Take, for instance, the book's subsection on, of all things, penis size in the chapter on oral sex. To Bakos, size certainly matters, but not just one size. A smaller penis is, according to Bakos, useful for women who want to gain skill and confidence as deep throaters. A tiny member is a girl's ticket to maintaining a resistant gag reflex. 

Aside from that helpful little gem, Bakos' extensive book froths with information on how best for males and females should go about coming. Obviously, there are some more than subtle differences when it comes to the orgasms of dudes and chicks. However, Bakos insists that there are commonalities between the seemingly distinct genders. Apparently, both sexes have "spots" of some kind. Whereas the female has the fabled G-spot, the male counters that with their own G-spot which is behind the perineum. Go figure. Bakos offers guidance for both solitary and collaborative situations. Success, however, is in the details. For example, it says that mutual masturbation gets couples all into some kind of frenzy. But you can go one step further—and by you I mean the female—by participating in an unbuttoned button-down shirt and extravagant heels. It can only skyrocket from there. 

Of course, much of usefulness of this information is dependent upon personal tastes and range of comfort. Male jerk-off tips are a bit of a toss-up. Bakos offers an array of tips that offer the average dude ample opportunity to blow a superb load. However, male orgasm is not much of a science compared to that of the female orgasm. Mere boredom and repetition that stem from this process alone could elicit any male to come upon their own methods in their own way, some may even be listed here. Rub the moistened flat of your hand over the head of the cock? Sounds kind of adolescent. But there is some thing to be taken away from her ideas, at least in delaying climax, the real challenge of the male. Bakos suggests that masturbation is not just pleasure, but practice as well. Heed those words. 

On top of that is just about everything else you could possibly want to know about reaching a greater, more efficient climax. Using all that we already know of intercourse and foreplay, Bakos breaks it all down, each detail being significant to the experience that should hardly be taken for granted. Yet she doesn't sugarcoat it, either. The anal chapter offers fair warning that what goes in pornography does not necessarily go as smoothly in the real world. Better to know that now than to find out for yourself. The money shot of the work, however, is something Bakos claims to have invented. Coined by her as the "orgasm loop," it is some kind of "mind/body" thing that seems better grasped when witnessed. It's an innovation that Bakos has tested on countless women, for achieving orgasm while in the process of fucking. Throughout the book there are vast pictorials, instructions that, for the most part, are easy to digest. There are quotes from everyday women as well as everyone from the editor in chief of Cosmopolitan to Parker Posey. 

Like the actual Bible, The Orgasm Bible offers more than enough lessons—with a slight degree of philosophy—to make like all the more bearable, sexually that is. Let us hope that some power-mad demagogues out there don't turn this into strict dogma as well.