I Am My Lover: Women Pleasure Themselves
Author: Joani Blank, Phyllis Christopher, Ron Raffaelli, Michael A. Rosen
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ISBN: 0940208180
Publisher: Down There Pr (July, 1997)
Sales Rank: 91,096
Average Customer Rating: 3.42 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
This book unlocks the woman within.
What moved me most about this fine title is the reletive homliness of the women pictured. After all, women need not be beautiful to enjoy themselves and their bodies. In fact, this book can provide for the overweight or "ugly-in-the-eye-of-men" women I know with the method, insight and inspiration to experience true sensual pleasure. It would make a fine gift for any wife, daughter or mother seeking to not only increase their own sexual fufillment, but also expand their knowledge of their own anatomy -- something suppressed by our phallus-dominated society. If only I had this book when I was an unsure, lonely teen, I would not have lost so many years before my own erotic awakening.I encourage this book to be shared between women and made available in school libraries and health offices.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Photographic, beautiful, informative.
This is a beautiful, photographic book of twelve women masturbating, with short essays by most of them. The printing and presentation is of high quality. I appreciate the book for its beauty and because it is so rare to find a book that addresses female masturbation.The women are ordinary women -- some older than others, some larger than others, with the occasional tattoo or piercing; often using just their hands, sometimes using a vibrator or dildo.
This is clearly not a book of erotica designed to arouse, but a book of beauty designed to inform. This book joins Joani Blank's "Femalia" on my book shelves as a book I'm proud to own and proud to show around to friends.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Authentic and beautiful
This book is NOT for you if you are going to be freaked out by explicit (beautiful, poetic, explicit) images, or by women of various ages and body types (as opposed to silicone-implanted Barbie dolls), or if you think that the tensions and grimaces (and radiant smiles) of orgasm are "un-lady-like". It IS for you (whether you are female, male, straight, gay or bi) if you are interested in seeing real women gleefully demonstrating their favourite methods of masturbation in gorgeous black-and-white photographs by a selection of different photographers (some female, some male as well), accompanied by their own words and thoughts about solo sex.
"I Am My Lover" is joyous, liberatory, educational, and jaw-droppingly erotic. None of the photos are "staged" or designed to fit someone else's idea of what's sexy - the sexual energy is so real it seems to shine off the pages.
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