Carnal Knowledge: Baxter's Concise Encyclopedia of Modern Sex

John Baxter

HarperCollins, Feb 10, 2009 - Reference - 400 pages

Averitable smorgasbord of sin, John Baxter's Carnal Knowledge is a delightfully unabashed education in sex and erotic culture. Would you ever consent to a knee-trembler at a love hotel? Would you enjoy a hot lunch while watching kinbaku? Would you consider wearing a French tickler, a merkin, a strap-on, or pasties . . . or would you rather just go commando at the Mine Shaft? From Deep Throat to Debbie Does Dallas, from the mile-high club to the Emperor's Club, John Baxter explains it all to you in this decadently definitive work on the many ins and outs of s-e-x, guaranteed to tantalize, edify, and titillate whether you're a novice or an expert in the arts of eros.

About the author

John Baxter is an acclaimed film critic and biographer. His subjects have included Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, and Robert De Niro. The co-director of the Paris Writers' Workshop, he is the translator of Harper Perennial's Naughty French Novels series, and is the author of Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas, We'll Always Have Paris, and A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict. He lives in Paris.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Carnal Knowledge: Baxter's Concise Encyclopedia of Modern Sex
• Author: John Baxter
• Publisher: HarperCollins, 2009
• ISBN: 0060874341, 9780060874346
• Length: 400 pages
• Subjects: Reference / Encyclopedias; Self-Help / Sexual Instruction