The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World At Your Fingertips

by Rebecca Chalker

Book Overview

In The Clitoral Truth, Rebecca Chalker offers the only mainstream, in-depth exploration devoted solely to women's genital anatomy and sexual response. Female readers - straight, lesbian, and bisexual... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965172597
• ISBN13: 9780965172592
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

MUST READ!

Male or female, if you are the least bit sexual you must read this book. You will find everything you ever wanted to know about female genitalia and sexual response. Frankly, this information is available from many other sources. The true value of this book is the complete investigation of the G-spot and female ejaculation. In most straight books, mention of either is cursory and unconvincing. More amazingly, books by M.D.s published in the last few years still deny the existence of both. "The Clitoral Truth" blows that nonsense out of the water. The author traces female ejaculation back to 500 BC, examines the anatomical research on the G-spot then thoroughly discusses the search for the mystical spurt. Once you read this chapter, you will no longer doubt the existence of the G-spot nor will you fear the prospect of dousing the sheets. I was introduced to female ejaculation many years ago when a lover's orgasm drenched my bed in an unknown liquid. Since then, whenever I mention the phenomenon, I am greeted with derision and one word, "Pee." Now, I use this book to quietly convince my friends. Hooray for Ms Chalker! I also recommend "The Good Vibrations Guide to the G-spot" which is more of a owner/user manual.

Quite adequite, although possibly excessive.

This is quite an interesting book. Its central basis surrounds the clit but also describes it as the central pleasure point to pretty much everything else. It provides all the information necessary along with many anatomical and entertaining hand-sketched pictures, describing all the various muscles and functions and spots of the entire female genetalia. On this, I could not complain or ask for anything more.Indeed, the author has done her homework in writing this book, but I say excessive in the title because of how the material is presented along with the many accompanying details. Many a page are filled with backround information on the "Adventure of the Clitoris!"(no, they don't actually word it like that in the book). Strongly written in the female perspective, although it doesn't demean usefulness for the male readers, it gives the history of the clitorus all the way back to greek times as well as various stories and such. Although it does give the book some color, ideas throughout this 200-page book are often revealed slowly. I believe the same effect could have been established with half the space.The chapters, from female ejaculation to beyond intercourse, do cover quite a bit. I stand firmly by my 5-stars. Choose as you wish: Fulfilling/excessive, colorful/cumbersome, but I thoroughly enjoyed the book myself, though.

Buy this book. And a mirror.

Yes, this is indeed a feminist book (although since a "feminist", by definition, is simply someone who believes that women are equal human beings too, I'm not quite sure why some people have a problem with that). But to be honest, it's pretty hard to discover how ignorant most women are about this fairly crucial part of our bodies and NOT come to the conclusion that something's wrong with the way our society deals with women's sexuality. I thought I was well-informed, but I learnt important stuff about my body from this book that I'd never known before. If substantial numbers of men grew up not knowing they had a penis ... or not knowing where it was ... or how it worked ... or thinking that it was "dirty" to touch it ... or feeling ashamed of needing their lover to touch it in order for them to come ... I think you'd agree that something was wrong. Well, despite all the progress we've made, that's where far too many women are still at right now. Most sex ed classes still use diagrams that don't feature the clitoris at all, or at best show a tiny squiggle floating somewhere in space, and certainly don't give any information on what it actually *does*.And you don't have to be "man-hating" or believe in some vast conspiracy to feel that this situation doesn't do women any favours - or men either. Personally, I've never heard a straight man say "God, I just wish I could meet a women who is totally ignorant about her body and never has an orgasm! Then I'd have to nag her into sex and she'd just lie there feeling depressed! That'd be so HOT!".Buy this fun and fascinating book (I particularly love the cartoon illustrations - meticulously detailed and informative, but the opposite of the sterile diagrams so many books feature). And learn all the stuff you should have been taught in sex ed.

On the cutting edge of sexual liberation and knowledge

A male friend with many shared interests recommended this book and I bought it reluctantly, expecting to find the same old tired refrains about unresponsive women and the equivalent of another Mars/Venus dichotomy. Instead, I am happy to say that THE CLITORAL TRUTH makes information about women's anatomy and responsiveness more comprehensible than most books that make the same claims. I was particularly happy to see that the author tackles the issues of G-Spots and female ejaculation by relying on women's experience instead of the academic doubts of male "experts" who seem to have very limited experience with women. The reality of a range of responses in women, depending on their beliefs, circumstances, and level of arousal, reminds us all that what we are TOLD we do is usually very different from what we KNOW we do. This is true whether we talk about female ejaculation, multiple orgasm, ability to self-pleasure to orgasm, or teach our partners what we want and like. Her list of resources, books, Internet sites, and workshops is wonderful.This book is a terrific companion to Betty Dodson's SEX FOR ONE: THE JOY OF SELF-LOVING.~~Joan Mazza, author of Dream Back Your Life; Dreaming Your Real Self; Who's Crazy Anyway; and Exploring Your Sexual Self (a guided journal).

Every woman should read this book

Reading this book helped me understand and accept my own sexuality. The author knows what she's talking about and all the illustrations are helpful and fun to read. I wish this book had been around 10 years ago--my life might have been a lot different. But glad it's here now!