Women Loving Women: Appreciating and Exploring the Beauty of Erotic Female Encounters
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.96086643
EAN: 9781592332588
ISBN: 1592332587
Label: Quiver
Manufacturer: Quiver
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: April 01, 2007
Publisher: Quiver
Studio: Quiver
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Women Loving Women explores the phenomenon of the contemporary 'bi-sexual' or 'lesbian' experience for the heterosexual woman. However, while women loving women is indeed an emerging trend, it is also an age-old obsession that this book also addresses and places in a historical perspective. The book investigates the reasons modern women are more open to same-sex encounters, how these experiences can connect people and help them grow, and how regardless of one's sexual orientation, there is much to learn here about the nature of love, sex, and physical attraction and its unconscious determinants. In addition, Women Loving Women also responds to how these same-sex encounters are less apt to create conflict in their heterosexual relationships, and actually might spice things up with their male partner (many men fantasize about same-sex women relationships), break the ice with a best friend, or simply add a new dimension to their sexual history. Women Loving Women features sophisticated photographs that will capture the warm and enlightening approach of exploring erotic possibilities with other women, even when you don't identify yourself as a bisexual or lesbian. Testimonials from heterosexual women who have experienced same-sex romantic encounters will be featured throughout. Sidebars will also feature quotations from women-who-have-loved-women throughout history, such as Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Anais Nin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, amongst others.
The photographs, shot on location in New Hampshire, tell a story of three beautiful women who leave their boyfriends/husbands behind for a 'girls weekend'-and discover a new dimension to their friendship
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Rating:  - Charming and playful
This gentle and cheerful book carries a unique approach to physical affection between women. There's no feminist or political agenda - in fact, there's very little about female homosexuality at all. It's just about the sexuality, sensuality, and attractiveness of women, and sees no reason to assign special meaning or labels when women feel that attraction, too. It arises naturally when a woman's love for her own feminine beauty and erotic potential becomes too much for her one body to contain.
Starting from that simple, un-charged premise, Waxman leads the female reader (which I'm not) through the basic steps of exploring another woman's sensuality. That starts, of course, with knowing her own - the things about herself that the woman will reach out to in another. Then there's the reaching out itself. Many of this book's intended readers have only had experience reaching out to (and being reached by) men, so this offers as much encouragement as education in how the experience might differ. Some of Waxman's advice might seem obvious, like observations on how intimate details differ between one woman and the next. But, if the reader has only herself as an example, how could she be expected to know the range of differences? Discovering them is part of the loving adventure.
This book's photos truly stand out. They depict beautiful young women singly, in pairs, or in small intimate groups. Every picture depicts delicate sensuality - happy people in enticing scenes and activities. Even discussions of mff threesomes features ladies-only photos. In keeping with the book's text, the pictures carry an explicitly sexual sense, but without vulgarity or negative overtone. One charming paradox appears in many of these images. They often spare the viewer direct genital confrontation, sometimes using a hand as figleaf. But, when that hand caresses instead of just covering, the scene's full sexual energy comes through - but gently.
This book expresses a woman's view of women's sensuality. That's such a huge topic that others will see it very differently, but that's not the point. It's describes how lots of women want to be loved, and that matters to anyone who loves them, whether man or woman.
-- wiredweird
Rating:  - Beautiful photography and inspiring text!!!
This book is not a polished, coffee table, collector's item of lesbian photography - it's an instructional manual. But one can be forgiven for this initial assumption given the astounding color photography laced throughout this work. Almost every page is adorned with gorgeous, full-page images of girl-on-girl sexuality. The photography is is simply breathtaking and holds absolutely nothing back. We're talking full-frontal assault here ... and the lesbian experience is showcased in all it's beautiful, romantic, intoxicating glory.
Heterosexual women are the targeted audience and the book's premise is introducing them to the beauty of the lesbian encounter. The author, renown sex expert Jayme Waxman, provides a host of very usable information that, besides being very accessible, is almost encyclopedic in it coverage. Topics include famous women who took female lovers; the sensory joys of touch, smell, and taste; how to find, approach, and engage with other women; toy play, girl-on-girl-on-girl encounters; she even explores, in great detail, the fine art of tongue play. Ms. Waxman is masterful in her prose. It's quite inspiring actually, and like Rodney Dangerfield in "Back to School", one feels compelled to stand-up in a crowded room and shout, "Yes! Yes! Oh Yes!"
The publisher Quiver does an excellent job too - the production quality is superb and despite being a paperback, this book is put together like a tank. Ultimately, despite it's lovely appearance, "Women Loving Women" is designed to be an inspiring, carry-with-you-everywhere instructional manual that will jettison its female readers into the ravishing depths of making love with other beautiful women. And I can personally that attest that men will love it too.
Rating: - Beautiful Book
This is a beautiful book printed on high quality paper. The substance is a little on the light side, but then again, this is more of a picture book than a how to book. I'd recommend the book to anyone who is generally interested in the subject matter (hetero girls getting together) and wants a pretty book of photography on that subject.
Rating: - Captivating! For Straight Women. . For Once!
This is the first (illustrated) book I've found which encourages love making between two hetero women - and it's utterly fantastic!
The cover photo - which resembles the timeless statue, "The Three Graces," by Antonio Canova -- was the first to catch my eye.
Once inside, I found the text to be both informative and poetic. Making love to each other is described in a very natural, matter-of-fact tone (with taboos only mentioned indirectly).
But it's easily the photos that are the most captivating. They are both breathtaking and sensual - without showing the most intimate places - or the most intimate contact (but pretty close).
The author teases us through all of the steps - starting with attraction (seeing other women as beautiful), the senses (touch, smell and taste), knowing thyself (masturbation), toys (getting things flowing), lips (for kissing everywhere first) and then tongues - as the key to girl/girl enjoyment (for both arousal and pleasure) -- and finally concluding with threesomes (not what you might think) and places (where to go online to meet others so inclined).
In two of my favorite photos, one depicts a girl being passionately kissed about her neck - while her friend slips her hand down the front of the girl's loosened jeans; and the second one captures the moment of discovery - as a pretty girl peeks under her friend's undies - as they are gently removed by two sets of hands. In later chapters, the young women are all nude - and the touching depicted is much more focused.
My favorite chapters - which were also the most instructional (and enthralling) - were those that dealt with oral sex. The author explains the power of the tongue for licking (and the benefits of kissing the same parts earlier) and how important it is to go slow - to allow your partner's arousal a chance to keep up.
Of special note, one of the later sections is entitled, "Three's Company," which is about having a threesome (duh!). Surprisingly, the ménage a trois suggested - is not with three women - but with a couple (male and female) and another girl. The author takes us through two points of view, 1) one being the woman in the couple, and 2) the other being the girl on the outside looking in. Each has its advantages.
Achieving a two-girl threesome - thus becomes another possible culmination for our same sex experiences - which is an idea I really liked. The difficulty of having a threesome, of course, is finding a single girl to play the third wheel - and helping her (or both women) to overcome their same sex inhibitions. Allowing women to "practice" by engaging in their own girl/girl experiences ahead of time is a great way to solve both problems. And as the author points out - making love to another female is also a great way for us to become more comfortable with our bodies - and with our sexuality as well!
The idea of loving other women before getting married (or having serious long-term relationship with guys) is not a new idea. The acronym, "LUG" for "Lesbians Until Graduation" demonstrates that girls may have already discovered this pleasurable experience for themselves.
To conclude, implicit in hetero women making love - is that doing so is not in competition with (nor is it a substitute for) making love with our men. I think of it as a very special and loving friendship. I hope that this beautiful tome, "Women Loving Women" signals - that we may have finally turned the corner. Please don't miss it.
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