Useless Sexual Trivia: Tastefully Prurient Facts about Everyone's Favorite Subject

by Shane Mooney

Book Overview

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Never Knew to Ask
Did you know that in Middle-Eastern Islamic countries it is not only a sin but also a crime to eat a lamb that you've had sex with? Or that the world vanilla comes from a Latin word meaning "vagina" because of the vanilla pod's resemblance to the female genitalia? Or that Grand Tetons literally means "big tits"?
You've probably never even thought about such things. But here they are, in this unusual compilation of strange facts about the facts of life that will make you laugh out loud while your hair stands on end. Highlights include:
* Just the Factoids, Man -- For instance, the number of human ova necessary to repopulate the world could fit into a chicken egg.
* When Sex Goes Horribly Awry -- Don't be caught with your pants down. Learn once and for all the words you didn't find on your SATs, such as "acrotomophilia," "oculolinctus," and "taphephilia."
* Animal Lust -- There is more to sex in the animal kingdom than doing it doggie style. Did you know that a barnacle's penis is 150 percent of its body length?
* They Said What?! -- They said plenty: "I knew her before she was a virgin." (Oscar Levant on Doris Day)
* Sex Styles of the Rich and Famous -- Forget Bill and Monica. Adolf Hitler was a coprophiliac.
* Sex in History -- Catherine the Great did not die under a horse, but she did love to have her feet tickled and her bottom slapped.
* Around the World -- It's good to know, for the next time you're invited to the dinner party of a North-African Siwa man, that he believes you will find him irresistible if he laces your food with his semen.
* Crimes of Passion -- Did you know that in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it is illegal to have sex with a truck driver in a tollbooth?
Wonderfully outrageous and absolutely deadpan, this book is, unbelievably, all true.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684859270
• ISBN13: 9780684859279
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Gallery Books
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Some interesting, some just creepy

Read all of the facts in this book. Some of them will make you laugh out loud. Others ... will really make you think. A great book - lots of good trivia questions!

The leader in a VERY small field

The world of sex trivia books is small - at best (and you thought size didn't matter). "Useless Sexual Trivia" is the most comprehensive of the bunch. This is a well-organized, funny list of some of the most unusual, bizarre and just plain creepy sexual practices and habits in the world. We publish a sex trivia newsletter, and for us, this is an indispensable reference work.

Just the Facts Pt. 2

What a wonderful book. Not only will you learn more than you'd ever need to know, but you can chuckle right along with the author as he puts his 2 cents in. Wanna find out once and for all what the average size of a penis is? Do you have any idea what oculolinctus is? I dare ya to find out. Thank me later!

Humorous sex with a deadpan face.

Any book with the word "Useless" in the title can hardly be criticized for content. But this is actually a surprisingly tasteful dip into what the human race has been doing in and out of bed since the year dot. Chapter titles such as The Unkindest Cut Of All, Animal Lust and Sexual Healing say it all. How the author actually knows that reproductive women have sex three thousand times on average in their life or that Casanova ate fifty oysters for breakfast is not made clear. However, Cosmopolitan magazine is mentioned as a source more than once. There are many memorable one liners here. When Gore Vidal was asked if the first person he had sex with was male or female, he apparently replied that he had been too polite to ask. If other people's sex lives interest you, and they do tend to be more interesting than yours, you are in for a sensational read.