The Ultimate Guide to Adult Videos: How to Watch Adult Videos and Make Your Sex Life Sizzle

by Violet Blue

Book Overview

The first complete resource to enjoying adult videos and DVDs, featuring more than 100 hot reviews. With wit, expertise and an enthusiastic approach, the Good Vibrations sex editor and best-selling... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573441724
• ISBN13: 9781573441728
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Cleis Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Book!

Violet Blue does a great job at cracking open this once taboo topic. She is helping bring it to the mainstream. I read it when it first came out, and then reread it this week in anticipation of her appearance on Oprah to discuss women & erotica. The book is a great introduction, but in the world of Erotica this edition is quickly out of date. I recommend that you follow Violet's blog to keep up to date with some of the best releases that are geared for women + couples - which is a growing segment as she pointed out in her O! magazine article. Not interested in reading an entire book about it but you are interested her What's Worth Watching advice? The highlights include: Comstock Films's Real People, Real Life, Real Sex Series Cult Epics' Vintage Erotica Series Tristan Taormino's Chemistry, Erotica meets reality TV with this series from author Tristan Taormino The Bi Apple, Outspoken sex blogger and activist Audacia Ray's directoral debut Jenna Jameson Is The Masseuse Curious about learning more about what makes porn good, safe, hot and fun for couples? Read the book! Tristan Taormino's Chemistry, Vol 1

more than just a review book

This is the ultimate consumer guide to porn and it's perfect for women and couples. The female perspecitve is utmost here and it shows you how to steer clear of low quality and female degredation while still finding really hot porn. This is an encyclopedia of modern adult film and nothing has been left out. History, backstories, profiles on interesting people in the business, lots of women-made erotic films and even softcore and mainstream titles are covered here. Nice sections on finding and selecting porn to suit individual's tastes. This book is a welcome relief and is intelligent, funny and free of the usual judgement and stigma in other porn writing. Blue treates porn like an independent film genre, and it's about time.

Great Book!

I had no idea the spectrum of videos available until I read this book. It's also the perfect book if you want to get a video to watch with your lover and tells you how to introduce the idea to them. Plus it tells you who the good filmmakers are. Comprehensive and highly recommended.

Refreshing

I always thought I would watch adult movies if only there were any good ones! I was never very excited about adult movies but I am a fan of the author, and the video guide is not only her best book to date but made me want to go out and rent some of these movies. As a woman I am used to being insulted by adult movies, but the guide is written by an intelligent woman and she's pointed the way for me to find hot movies, and her recommendations have been right on the mark. She gives the reader a guide with which they can make informed decisions about what they do and do not want to watch. How refreshing.

funny and smart

This is a great book! My girlfriend and I love it, and she's now happily put herself in charge of renting our videos. Violet Blue's tone is warm, funny, and excited about sex and adult videos, and she takes no prisoners in her hilarious video reviews. There are hundreds of films in this book and she explains how to find the good stuff. My girlfriend liked where Blue explained how to avoid seeing things that are offensive and we cracked each other up reading the "porn glossary" out loud to each other. It's nice to see a guide that takes us readers and porn watchers seriously. It's a great book for us couples. Don't read it alone! Thank you Violet Blue!