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Hilarious miscellany of sex advice throughout the ages from
seven-week long Balinese foreplay and Victorian Viagra to swinging
tips from the 1970s. It is one of the oldest questions in the
world: How do you do sex? And it has prompted some of the most
stupid answers in human history. Since the dawn of civilization, a
bizarrely eccentric host of self-appointed experts has befuddled,
frightened and confused questioners by selling them bull about the
birds and bees. Ancient Chinese Viagra was made from wasps.
Medieval Indian advice books warned lovers never to have sex in
front of the priest or in the middle of the road. Middle-Ages
Britons claimed drunkenness was the best way to conceive, while
Persians thought they could enlarge themselves with ginger and
honey. And as for the Victorians and Edwardians, hot blankets were
the devil's work, banisters should be banned and tight corsets
could cause nymphomania. The odd playful slap wouldn't do any harm
though. Here, then, is the cream of thousands of years of advice on
where, when and how to put it, how to receive it, what to spread on
it first and how to spend your time after it's all over. It makes
you wonder how humankind ever got this far.
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Enough (Paperback)
John Naish
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R398
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Discovery Miles 3 600
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For millions of years, humankind has used a brilliantly successful
survival strategy. If we like something, we chase after more of it:
more status, more food, more info, more stuff. Then we chase again.
Its how we survived famine, disease and disaster to colonise the
world. But now, thanks to technology, weve suddenly got more of
everything than we can ever use, enjoy or afford. That doesnt stop
us from striving though and its making us sick, tired, overweight,
angry and in debt. It burns up our personal ecologies and the
planets ecology too. We urgently need to develop a sense of enough.
Our culture keeps telling us that we dont yet have all we need to
be happy, but in fact we need to nurture a new skill the ability to
bask in the bounties all around us. ENOUGH explores how our
Neolithic brain-wiring spurs us to build a world of overabundance
that keeps us hooked on more. John explains how, through adopting
the art of enoughness, we can break from this wrecking cycle. With
ten chapters on topics such as Enough food, Enough stuff, Enough
hurry and Enough information, he explores how we created the
problem and gives us practical ways to make our lives better.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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