Title: Threesomes for Couples who Want to Know More Author: Lainie Speiser Publisher: Quiver Books Publish Date: 2007 Pages: 160 Genres:: How-To Guide, Bisexual, Non-Fiction, Self-Help Reviewer: Layla Tichtchenko

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Threesomes for Couples who Want to Know More runs the gamut on sexual openness and adventure. Lainie Speiser fills this tantalizing tome with full-color photographs of delicious, decadent bodies in the throes of passion. If only all the people that you could potentially have threesomes with were as attractive as these models… It is an open and unapologetic guide to—you guessed it—obtaining a third partner. Whether you are in a relationship, bisexual, or just want to try something new in your sexual life, this book gives you reasonable and practical ways in which to go about making your erotic fantasy come true.

It is not without warnings, such as using safe sex practices, even if you and your significant other usually don’t. Speiser gives you realistic expectations and tips on how to handle awkwardness in the relationship. First rule in Threesomes: Don’t do anything that makes you feel awkward in the first place. She encourages people to be adventurous in their sex lives as long as both people are 100 percent interested in the ménage a trois. In other words, it’s okay to give your boyfriend a threesome for his birthday, but don’t only do it for him if you’re not into it; otherwise, the entire experience would be ruined.

Threesomes is a very bold, forward-thinking book for these modern times of sexual pursuit, where women have just as much sexual power as men. Lainie Speiser encourages women to be the ones to take the lead in their pursuits of that ‘third wheel’ as it were. She has a humorous and light-hearted approach to the dating, relationship, and threesome parts of life. She starts off slow, with suggestions for very tame and subtle places for encounters to take place. Then as the book progresses, she gives you the more daring arenas, such as sex clubs and calling an escort for your encounter. It’s a bit of saving the best for last, as she evolves and intermingles her advice with anecdotes about other successful and erotic encounters that other couples have had.

Some of the anecdotes are a little far-fetched sounding. But in the realm of playing out sexual fantasies, perhaps it’s a little like Vegas: what happens there, stays there. And although she says that only men are comfortable in a bar alone, one has to wonder how many bars she’s been to? Regardless if the stories she regales us with throughout this book are all true or contain a bit of Penthouse embellishment, they are hot and quite a turn-on. You can’t help but get excited with the glossy, well-done, tasteful photography. Also, even someone who may have never entertained the idea of having a threesome, or even someone who has had one and didn’t see what all the fuss was about may find themselves rethinking their views. It makes you see threesomes in a new way, as an equal sharing of sexual desire. So the next time you think of what to do for that special someone on their birthday or to celebrate a big promotion, you need think of only one word: threesome.