The text printed on the previous pages is devoted to three issues: the joy of sex, intimate massage, and erotic games and foreplay. Their keystone is intimate touch. Its function cannot be overestimated, not only in its relation to sex but also to health, personal well-being, cheerfulness and life energy, etc. Its most evident role is in intimate massage. Of course, things are different between people dear to one another and strangers. In the first instance, intimate massage can be a prelude to sex, while in the second case it is just a service performed for a specific purpose. This publication is intended just as much for the single audience as it is for couples. This is why sex and massage are intertwined together in this book. However, it does not mean that the author is encouraging sexual intercourse at the end of a massage. Unless, of course, it is a result of the partners' closeness and spontaneity. First of all, this publication shows the outstanding role of intimate touch for our health and well-being. Therapeutic intimate massage is not an overstatement for this special kind of massage because, its proper use, leads to the production of large amounts of endorphins which affect our mood. This mechanism of our brain activity was described in Sexual Healing by Barbara Keesling, PhD. It turns out that the same results can be achieved during intimate massage. So, this is why more than 300 ways of erotic and intimate touch are described in the book. One does not have to check out all of them but instead finding a reasonable quantity that corresponds to the temperament is recommended.

Winner of the 2020 Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry 2020. The Guardian's Poetry Book of the Month August 2019. So Many Rooms, the debut collection from Geoffrey Dearmer Prize-winning poet Laura Scott, moves with its own lyric strangeness, opening up different rooms and also different worlds.

Laura Scott's second collection, The Fourth Sister, is a book of unusual love poems. It features an assorted cast: lovers and sisters, but also parents and children, the living and the dead, birds and trees, painters, playwrights and their characters, a godfather who married the wrong man and a godmother who was surely a spy. The book's energy flows out into other lives, discovering vital connections and the gaps between them. Scott writes as a poet in Wordsworth's sense: 'an upholder and preserver, carrying everywhere relationship and love.'