Structure and Content of The Sixth Edition
The Sixth edition of the Guide to Getting It On! is 992 pages long. It is divided into nine sections, described below, each containing a number of shorter chapters.
- How to & Then Some: 27 chapters (374 pages) which discuss the full spectrum of sexual expression and its practical aspects, starting from romance and kissing through the different ways people have sex.
- Your First Time: Two chapters about losing one's virginity.
- Technology & Culture: deals with internet dating, cybersex and MRIs of Sexual Arousal.
- Orientation & Gender: discusses sexual orientation (hetero- and homosexual) and gender benders, and Intersex or disorders of sex development.
- Sex & the Human Condition: deals with sex for the disabled, sex and cancer, sex and diabetes, sex and hysterectomy, having sex after you have experienced rape or abuse, when your partner snores or has excessive flatulence as well psychological states that affect sex life.
- Beyond Vanilla: discusses threesomes, double penetration and kink in general.
- Below the Belt: deals with vulva care, sex and the menstrual period, hair removal and related problems, STIs, premature ejaculation, delayed ejaculation, hypospadias and erection problems and other sexual problems.
- Pregnancy (or Not) & Parenting: discusses birth control, adoption and sex related issues of pregnancy and explaining sex to children for their parents.
- Sex in History & Popular Culture: discusses cultural and historical aspects of sex, including hooking-up sex, Barbie as a cultural icon, a history of the breast and bra, what's masculine, feminine, and erotic, marriage, sex in the military, sex and God, and an extensive chapter on sex in America during the 1800s from a US perspective and how it helps understanding sex today.
An extensive glossary of sexual slang terms is included at the back of the book.
The scope of the book regarding the type of sex discussed is depicted by the way the chapter Kinky Corner begins: "Readers will hopefully appreciate that vanilla is The Guide's favorite flavor. So rather than being an introduction to BDSM, this chapter is an attempt to explain a little of this and that."
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