Your Erotic Personality: Identifying and Understanding Your Sexual Self

by Sage Vivant

Book Overview

The ultimate quiz for discovering your inner libido and getting the most out of sex. Who doesn'twant to know what kind of sexual personality lurks under their outward demeanor-and that of their lover?... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425214346
• ISBN13: 9780425214343
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

What fun

This is a fun and interesting read, my wife and I enjoyed a long ride while she and I took the quiz explored the results of identifying our individual personality traits! Highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to know what and why some things turn you on more than others.

Knowledge brings power--and a spicier sex life!

I was expecting a good read when I picked up Sage Vivant's Your Erotic Personality: Identifying and Understanding Your Sexual Self. After all, it's Sage's business to translate her clients' fantasies into stories at Custom Erotica Source. That means she's heard a lot of secrets from a lot of different people, and it's not surprising she's discovered "distinct personality trends" in the erotica she is asked to create. I'll admit, too, there is a bit of the thrill of the voyeur (or Watcher as Sage calls it) at the idea of stepping inside the fantasies of so many people who've whispered in her ear over the years. Don't we all want to know more about what goes on in other people's minds and bedrooms? Well, I was not disappointed. I got my good read and more. Your Erotic Personality is hard to put down. It breezes along with smooth prose and laugh-out-loud wit, especially the quizzes that open each chapter profile. I can only imagine how much fun it was to think up those! But this isn't just a sit-back-and-let-it-wash-over-you sort of book. By the second chapter, you've become an active participant with a quiz that makes you think seriously about your own erotic yearnings. Not that I expected to be "found out" as early as chapter three. Yes, I can't deny I have a lot of the Escapist in me--wild flights of fancy combined with a need for security. But it didn't stop there. As I read on, I recognized other aspects of my psyche in the chapters to follow. Apparently I'm also a bit of a Wanderer and have clear Show-Off tendencies, as well as a healthy dash of the Student's scientific curiosity. Gee, I'm more interesting than I thought! Sage writes that for her clients, the very process of articulating their desires--yearnings we are rarely if ever encouraged to talk about--brings self-knowledge. Knowledge, of course, is power, in this case, the power to accept, explore and enjoy who you are. The pang of recognition I felt not only made me feel less alone, which is always good, it also made me realize how my erotic imagination offers me so many flavors, so many options to explore. Throughout the book, Sage speaks with authority and a generous, nonjudgmental spirit. I found I not only understood myself and my partner better, but I got some intelligent insights into other erotic types that seemed foreign to me. In fact, I quickly realized that where this book really belongs is with the writing references, because I know this will be a very useful aid in creating characters for my own stories. If I have a character in a story who gets off watching his wife have sex with other men, I'll turn to the Cuckold chapter for some clues into what makes him tick--his dreams, his vulnerabilities, the range of behaviors this might involve. And because every human being is motivated by her/his sexual desires to some degree, the book could be a gold mine for any writer, not just those who specialize in erotica. Smart, witty, fun and educational.