The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating and Sex

by David Borgenicht, Jennifer Worick, Joshua Piven

The authors of the best-selling The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook are back--and they've brought a date. Whatever your own dating nightmares are, take it from the professionals, things can get worse. Just in time for Valentine's Day, here are dozens of scenarios covering every phase of the romantic--or not so romantic--turn of events. Learn how to remove stubborn articles of clothing, slip away from a blind date, and get rid of unsightly stains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811832414
• ISBN13: 9780811832410
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Really great and really funny - and that's how it's intended

Some of the reviewers of this book have seemed not to understand that the point of this book series is not to give advice that will be seriously useful, nor is it to give advice on situations that are completely improbable either. The point is to be FUNNY, and it is! There are a lot of very funny bits - and really, who doesn't need to know how to have sex in an airplane lavatory?This is a great read and I'm already planning on making it a gift to someone in the near future. Happy disaster dating. ;)

Things Can Always Get Worse

This book teeters between gut-splitting entertainment and must-have knowledge. Some of the chapters are too far-fetched to be realistic, but they are hysterical to read nonetheless. Once I picked up the book, I couldn't put it down. I was amazed to learn some things-like how to deal with body odor on a date, how to avoid gas, and how to deal with bad breath. Other chapters were more fun than reruns of Seinfeld. For example, How to Fake an Orgasm, How to Determine if Your Date is an Axe Murderer, and How to Stop a Wedding are all reminiscent of recent cult comedies that are now available from your local video store.The fun continues in the index, as the authors teach you how to write a "Dear John" letter, (all you have to do is insert your name and the name of the person you're dumping!) and the worst pick-up lines that you should NEVER use. But tucked into the index is something very useful-a chart of good and bad body language signals.As a relationship expert, body language is extremely important if you want to deal from a position of strength. If you learn to read body language correctly, you can avoid wasting your time on someone who just isn't interested, or you can change your tactics so your date will be more responsive to you. Reading body language will also weed out the sickos, weirdos, liars,..., and married folks that we all want to avoid.Bottom Line-this is a great book to read when you want to recover from a bad date. After all, things can always get worse, and laughter is the best medicine.

Hilerous & Useful

The Worst-Case Scenario : Dating and Sex describes situations that made laugh, like I haven't in a long time: How to find out if your date is serial killer? How to carry your drunk date? and many more.Reading this book I thanked god for being married, but than once again, Marriage can be the subject of another book in this great series...

NO JOKE! Serious advice on funny situations!

This is my favorite "Worst-Case" book and probably the most practical. I think it will make a great gift for the holidays. It makes for interesting reading and is a conversational piece. If you wanted to, I'm sure that you could read the whole book in a couple of hours.Some of the advice is very practical, helpful and important for serious dating like: How to Determine If Your Date is Married, How to Deal with Bad Breath, How to Deal with a Drunken Date, How to Survive If You Are Stopped by the Police, and How to Survive Snoring.Others are mostly amusing (especially the diagrams!) like: How to Determine the Gender of Your Date, How to Escape From a Bad Date, How to Spot a Fake (Boob job and hair pieces), How to Fend Off Competition For Your Date, and How to Remove Difficult Clothing...and of course the faking of the Big "O".Some things that are in the book may not be such a good idea in the first place like How to Have an Affair and Not Get Caught. Maybe you can avoid the whole problem by not having an affair, right?And the bit about How to Determine if Your Date is a Con-Artist...the entire thing about the eye patterns is such a bunch of neuro-baloney. Trust your intuition and if he seems kind of weird then he probably is.All in all this is a fun read, a great gift, a practical guide to a few situations that may apply to you or one of your friends, and if you live on the dating "edge", this probably can save your behind....at least temporarily until you wise up. Like a professional baseball player, this book helps an enlightened woman anticipate rare situations so that she can respond with action instead of react in panic. And for this, we can be thankful that this book exists.In today's pop culture society, I'm sure this is destined to be a National Best-Seller.

Worst-Case Scenario has you smiling again...

If you loved "Worst Case Scenario and Worst Case Scenario travel, you will absolutely love the latest version on dating and sex. If you didn't catch them, this is a great place to start. Once again, the authors have taken a light-hearted approach to serious situations and offered up some advice on how to get out of them. While most of us would hate to find ourselves in the situations in the three books, I find Dating and Sex to be the most useful. It covers a wide range of topics, like how to deal with bad dates, all the way to how to tell if your date is an axe murderer (something we all need to know). For the sometime downright hilarious to the lighter-hearted side of dating, this is a great book to own.