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"This book brings together all the brightest stars among natural sex-enhancement methods, but you'll need to navigate your own itinerary through the galaxy of information it offers, find what works best for you, and select a unique niche in your constellation of choice. The number of ways to arrive at great sex may be, like the number of stars in the universe, in the sextillions."
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"Perhaps you wake up one morning and realize that sex has become just another word. You know you're missing something, because you vividly recall the rich connotation those three letters used to hold for you-how they once conveyed a sense of energy, mystery, and excitement, and seemed to conduct an almost palpable electrical charge. You may wonder what happened, and how such an alluring word could ever have lost its luster. Are you often more interested in watching television than making love? Did you somehow sublimate all your desire into accomplishments, friends, or family? Are you allotted only a limited supply of sexual energy to spend in your lifetime-a certain karmic quota-and can it be that you've already exhausted yours?
"For many who practice conventional medicine, the answer is yes: your libido wanes, they may tell you, as your hormones change over the course of your life. This book invites you to not only question that answer, but disprove it in a hundred ways. It offers a refreshing perspective: you were designed by nature to be a sensual, vibrant, energetic woman for your entire life. Your sexuality changes through time, but that doesn't mean loss; a waning libido can be a symptom of underlying imbalances-and opportunities for greater balance and sexual health. The truth is that at any age you can take charge of your sexuality and restore your libido, and sex can once again convey a sense of mystery, power, and passion in your life. As much as ever before, you can experience how it feels for your sexual energy to flourish, and know what it means to treasure pleasure . . .
"One of the central ideas of this book-that your capacity for sexual pleasure and your overall health are profoundly connected-isn't new. Many have alluded to it down through the ages. The idea appears in ancient Chinese medicine, which holds that sex is essential for health, and in some Western writings: in the 1900s, the controversial psychologist Wilhelm Reich was considered a pioneer by many for his work exploring the relationship between sexuality and health-although 21st-century women may find some of his ideas eccentric or difficult to grasp. Today, we have the advantage of a large body of accumulated scientific research to support the thesis that sexual pleasure and health are inextricably linked.
"As we did research for this book, it was surprising to find how much of its material hasn't yet been clearly elucidated or extensively published. This is, after all, the topic of sex; you tend to assume that it's all been said before. Yet many priceless pearls of information-including even some specific aphrodisiacs-haven't been made accessible in a reader-friendly way. (It seems hardly possible, for example, that everyone doesn't already know all about such natural wonders as cordyceps, epimedium, catuaba, muira puama, and damiana, to name a few.) This book puts at your fingertips everything you need to naturally enhance your sexuality and take control of your sexual health in ways that will forever change your life. You can use it as your personal guide to what really works-the most effective tools and techniques on the subject, some handed down from one generation to the next for millennia, and others discovered in modern times."
-From pages xvi-xviii of Great Sex, Naturally
"Although this book charts a general course you can follow, your personal journey to great sex is like no one else's . . . Not every woman's sexuality neatly fits the 'sexual response cycle' often used as the blueprint for sizing up sexual health. This book brings together all the brightest stars among natural sex-enhancement methods, but you'll need to navigate your own itinerary through the galaxy of information it offers, find what works best for you, and select a unique niche in your constellation of choice. The number of ways to arrive at great sex may be, like the number of stars in the universe, in the sextillions."
-From page xviii of Great Sex, Naturally
"In a health-care system dominated by pharmaceutical corporations intent on pushing drugs like Viagra, there's little knowledge of your natural alternatives for sexual enhancement (and even less inclination to tell you about them). Chapter 5-the one you're not supposed to flip ahead to, but probably will anyway-is chock-full of unique morsels of sex-enhancing information that can transform your libido in ways no drug can. You'll discover how to get the most out of the world's best natural aphrodisiacs, including legendary Chinese herbal formulas that recharge both your sexuality and your overall health. Many of these natural alternatives are, in a sense, your rightful inheritance, since they were passed down to us over the course of centuries. Their tradition lives on, or you wouldn't be holding this book in your hands . . .
"With its exploration of both modern and time-honored sensual enhancers, Chapter 6 includes sexual secrets that were readily available to your forebears but are typically off the radar of present-day conventional doctors, who are trained primarily in the use of drugs. Some of the natural sex-enhancers mentioned can be thought of, like the traditional aphrodisiacs in Chapter 5, as your natural heritage, carefully preserved, handed down over many generations, and bequeathed to you. By using them to enhance your sexuality, you become the heir to some very long traditions, and a living legacy of their effectiveness and staying power."
-From pages xxii-xxiii of Great Sex, Naturally
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"Just as sex makes love, love makes sex better; it is your most powerful aphrodisiac."
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"Great sex involves something greater than great sex. It's about your longing for love and your desire to be whole . . . Sex is your most primal form of reaching out, touching, joining, receiving, giving, sharing, and expressing love . . . The expression of love through sex can give you a sense of being 'one,' not only with another human but with the universe-transporting you to a state of blissful interconnectedness that, perhaps for just a few fleeting moments, seems eternal.
"That's why this book, although it's about sex, is also about much more than sex . . . Your sexuality isn't only a matter of genital pleasure, intercourse, and orgasm; research shows that sex activates many of your other physical, cognitive, and emotional capacities . . . Your sexuality lies at the core of your life energy, in the wellspring of your creativity and spirit.
"This is the greater meaning of 'great sex,' and what this book is all about. You can use the information gathered in these pages not only to recharge your libido and electrify your sexuality, but also as a way of tapping into the power of your sexual energy to light up your life on all levels . . . This is why, if you incorporate what you discover in this book into your life, you may find that your partner, friends, or co-workers notice quantum leaps in the amount of energy, confidence, and joie de vivre that you exude.
"When we refer to sex as 'making love,' we imply that it literally creates love. The phrase illuminates our intuitive awareness that sex can manifest the strongest possible state of emotional bonding and unity; we know that real eroticism engenders intense compassion and empathy. Sex and love are inseparable, it seems, even linguistically; the words libido and love share a common ancestor.
"By expanding your capacity for sexual union through the natural means described in this book, you can liberate the formidable influence of love in your life more fully. Love repairs relationships, changes cultures, moves mountains, and makes the world go 'round, but sex without it does none of these. To paraphrase the famous saying: without love, it is nothing.
"Just as sex makes love, love makes sex better; it is your most powerful aphrodisiac. Intriguing research on sexual pleasure and the brain's emotional center suggests that orgasms may be more euphoric when people are in love.
"This is a multifaceted book; sex, like love, is a many-splendored thing. But while the chapters ahead give you a wide assortment of tools you can use to achieve great sex-and many involve physical methods for enhancing your libido-it's important to remember that great sex can be a natural consequence of great intimacy. Paradoxically, you may find that the greatest sex derives not from focusing on whether you have the greatest sex, but from focusing on whether you have the greatest love."
-From pages xxvii-xxviii of Great Sex, Naturally
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