I like to cook for friends, read, camp and hike, visit museums and go to movies. I love science, as I'm a nurse by training, and like to keep up with the latest advances. I like dancing, especially ballroom, but I'm good with Israeli folk dance, too.I was part of the drama department in high school, and did costumes, as I was too shy to be on stage! I love costume to this day, especially anything with a corset or a kilt!I like to sit around with my friends and solve the world's problems, and we do a good job. Now, if only the powers that be would listen!I like history, too, and travel. Getting a massage is something I can't get enough of, and I give a good one, too!
Well, my job has me meeting a lot of people, and I'm happily married, so I'm not here to meet someone, exactly. I'm here because a friend signed me up! I look forward to meeting people online, though, if not in person.
Nina Hartley's Guide to Total Sex (Paperback)
by Nina Hartley (Author)
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Feminist, registered nurse, sex educator and star of more than 400 adult films, Hartley's sex guide is a thorough, level-headed and straightforward look at all things sexual. Eighteen witty, easy-to-read chapters cover subjects from foreplay and cunnilingus to fellatio, three-ways, domination, toys, bondage and spanking. Each chapter ends with a handy chart reviewing dos and don'ts for the acts explored in detail. Hartley's experienced and capable voice takes the mystery out of sex, viewing all manner of intercourse as healthy activity that often requires more communication and lubrication than partners realize. Intended mainly for heterosexuals and the bi-curious, Hartley and Levine, her husband, emphasize the enlightened female perspective, though advice on technique and position is useful for anyone. Unlike many other sex guides, this one does not include illustrations or photos, which makes it a comfortable choice for more reserved or reticent readers; as Hartley puts it, this is the sex guide "I wish I had owned when I turned eighteen."
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Margaret Cho
Truly amazing . . . I honestly think it is the best book written about sex, ever.
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, author of XXX: 30 Porn Star Portraits
Nina Hartley is a F****ing genius!
Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D., porn star turned sexologist, author of Dr. Sprinkle's Spectacular Sex
Nina Hartley ... shepherds so many people to greener sex pastures. ... Guide to Total Sex will be a pleasure seeker's bible.
Book Description
Legendary porn star Nina Hartley's guide to thrilling, liberating, mind-blowing, soul-fulfilling, and intimacy-building sex!
Witty, smart, and frankly provocative, Nina Hartley knows sex. As a sex performer, sexual adventurer, and sex educator, she's done the fieldwork and has taken extensive notes. Now, she's ready to share her research. Let's just say that she's had all the sex-the good, the bad, and the indifferent-so you won't necessarily have to!
Nina Hartley's Guide to Total Sex is for sexual pioneers and enthusiastic novices. Unabashedly erotic, the book covers a lot of territory, allowing readers to sample the whole smorgasbord or just nibble at what they see as the choicest bits. To start things off, Nina includes explicitly detailed chapters on foreplay, oral sex, masturbation, toys, and games. Sexual adventurers (and voyeurs) will find chapters on swinging, three-ways, anal sex, erotic domination, sensual submission, and much more.
Nina is a strong advocate of safe sex, physically and emotionally, and she helps readers establish personal ground rules. But as a sexual liberationist and a feminist, her core belief is that, between consenting adults, all sexual behaviors are a matter of personal choice. Whether you're trying to reignite the passion with a longtime spouse, or explore new terrain with a new lover, Nina offers a variety of ideas to achieve exhilarating, deeply satisfying, intimate, and profoundly liberating sex.
About the Author
Nina Hartley is a sexual entertainer, activist, educator, and registered nurse, who has starred in hundreds of adult entertainment films and videos, including Boogie Nights. As a "feminist porn star" and sex educator, Nina has taken her positive message to college campuses nationwide. Working with her husband and collaborator, I. S. LEVINE, together they've created a bestselling series of instructional videos.
My muscial tastes are eclectic, to put it mildly. I'm a Jazz fan first and foremost, and no, I don't consider Kenny G. "smooth jazz" or "soft jazz' to be actual Jazz. I like swing music, bebop and straight ahead Jazz the best. I love the music of WWII, when Jazz and popular music were one and the same. I dance a mean swing, too, as well as fox trot. Two of my favorite recording of all time are by Coltrane: "A Love Supreme" and "My Favorite Things."I love old musicals, and the songs that are part of the American Songbook. I especially love Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, of course.Through my parents I became aware of Paul Robeson, Leadbelly, Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie and Mahalia Jackson.Through my older siblings I was introduced to Dylan, the Beatles, the Stones, the Doors, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Joan Baez, Arlo Gutrie and the like. They also turned me on to Tom Leher, Alan Sherman, Roger Miller, Spike Jones and the Whacky Whacketeers, Burl Ives and Harry Belefonte.My husband has turned me on to Evlis Costelo, Steve Earle, Andy Prieboy and Lucinda Williams, among others.In high school, I became a fan of Santana, Herbie Hancock, Stanley Clarke, Sun Ra, Manhattan Transfer, Earth, Wind and Fire, Tower of Power.I love good classical music, as well, though I have little classical education. But one doesn't need music appreciation class to enjoy Beethoven!
I like movies, especially old ones, but I've also liked some of more recent releases. I loved LOTR, and liked "Batman Begins." I was underwhelmed by the "Revenge of the Sith" and have yet to see "War of the Worlds." I loved "Kinsey," and really liked "Shall We Dance," the movie about Cole Porter.I like "Patton," "Singing in the Rain," "American in Paris," "Top Hat," "Swing Time," anything by Kurosawa. "Eyes Wide Shut" notwitstanding, Kubrik is a freaking genius, and "A Clockwork Orange" is as relevant today as it was when it was released, and just as challenging. I loved "Cabaret" and "Rocky Horror," and saw them at least ten times each at the repatory theater in Berkeley. I never went to the live-action "Rocky" shows, as I had it out of my system.I wanted to like "Moulin Rouge" a lot, but was very disappointed in it.There's more, I'm sure, but my brain is foggy.
I do watch tv. I'm an ABC news person and will miss Peter Jennings terribly. I like "Nightline," "Six Feet Under," "Deadwood," "NYPD Blue," "Law and Order (before Jerry Orbach's departure)," "Bill Mahr," "Aaron Brown," "Sopranos," "ER," "60 Minutes," and "Entourage." If I like the guest or the topic, I do catch Oprah and Dr. Phil on occasion. I like Ellen DeGeneres, as she's sweet and funny and not mean. I liked, when they were on, "Murder, She Wrote," "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," "Touched by and Angel (believe it or not)," "Murphy Brown,' "The Nanny," and the orginal "Bewitched." I can't go back and watch many of the shows I liked as a kid, as I see how hokey they are, but I remember loving them at the time. I also like watching football on tv (my team is the Niners), and golf (!). I watch the Olympics every time, with pleasure.
I read mainly non-fiction and particularly like history and science. On sciene, I particularly like biology. "Defending Pornography," by Nadine Strossen, "A General Theory of Love," "Salt," "How the Irish Saved Civilization," "The Gifts of the Jews," "Care of the Soul," the works of Bishop J.S. Spong, the works of Elaine Pagels, "Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do," by Terry Mcwilliams. Heck, I can't list them all!
Helen Keller, Margaret Sanger, Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey, Maya Angelou, my parents, Carol Queen, Annie Sprinkle, Betty Dodson, Nadine Strossen, Malcom X, Dr. M. L. King, Paul Robeson, my maternal grandfather, Marion Anderson.