The Cartoon Guide to Sex

Description

From the first eye contact to the therapist's couch, from the throes of ecstasy to the nitty-gritty of safer sex, from the world's sexiest animal to the dating jungle, The Cartoon Guide to Sex covers everything you've always wanted to know about sex. Frank, informative, and written with Larry Gonick's characteristic comic verve and scientific accuracy, this book gives a comprehensive discussion of the spectrum of human sexuality, including sexual structures and functions, gender roles and sexual identity, sexual arousal and response, sexual communication, love, marriage and other arrangements, contraception, and sexual health -- without the fig leaves.

Larry Gonick has been creating comics that explain history, science, and other big subjects for more than forty years. He wrote his first guide, Blood from a Stone: A Cartoon Guide to Tax Reform, in 1977. He has been a calculus instructor at Harvard (where he earned his BA and MA in mathematics) and a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and he is staff cartoonist for Muse magazine.

"A far cry from the marriage manuals of yore with all the crucial words written in Latin, this book not only spells them out but illustrates them too. is a cheerful, thorough how-to as well as how-come primer on human sexuality. I recommend it." -- Isadora Alman, Syndicated Sex And Relationship Columnist "Ask Isadora""Very informative and very funny. "The Cartoon Guide to Sex" has info and insights for old hands and beginners alike. Even I learned a few things." -- Dan Savage, Columnist ""Savage Love""