I bought a copy of The Joy Of Sex at a used bookstore. I found reading it to be a surprisingly unerotic experience. It came out about thirty years ago, and you can tell.
I was looking at it with Secret Agent Scarlet, and she said, "It's like something you'd see on your mom and dad's bookshelf."
Part of the problem I have is that the male in all the illustrations is this creepy bearded bastard. The pictures don't exactly make me want to jerk off. In fact, they made me want to go shave, just to be on the safe side.
Geoffrey came in to the room when I was scanning the picture. "Is that The Joy Of Sex?" he asked.
"Yeah," I said. "Pretty cheesy."
"Oh I don't know, this was an important book in its time," said Geoffrey. "Changed a lot of people's lives." He picked up the book and flipped through it. "Y'know, I remember coming across a copy of this in my parents' dresser drawer."
"Heh," I said.
Geoffrey voiced admiration for the style of the coloured illustrations. Although even he shuddered a bit at this picture:
One thing I did enjoy about the book was finding out fancy names for different sexual positions (croupade: Woman taken squarely from behind).
I have Dr. Alex Comfort to thank for the term "buttered bun." Apparently, there are men who are turned on by the idea of having sex with a woman who is fresh from fucking someone else. The woman in question may be referred to as a "buttered bun."
I've taken to using "buttered bun" as a pet name for my lady friends. It sounds kind of cute if you don't know what it means. (Now that I've written about it I probably won't get away with it anymore.)
I wonder if there's an equivalent male term for "buttered bun." Lord knows I've fulfilled that role a few times.
Plenty of women don't want to know about any of that. Their egos can't handle it. Other women, from the questions they ask, seem to get turned on being with a buttered boy.
To truly qualify in my opinion, you have to go from one lover's house to another's without having a shower. Having a shower serves to negate the butteriness.