BY Lux Alptraum
January 16, 2008
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There’s something fundamentally weird about sex position books. Maybe it’s just our bias — or laziness — but we have a hard time imagining that there are any intense sensations or mind blowing sexual experiences that could possibly justify the acrobatics required by many of the positions that litter the pages of these books.

The other day, not one, but two, of these books showed up on our doorstep: Sex 365, a picture book that offers “a position for every day,” and Tracey Cox‘s Kama Sutra, an updated version of the ancient manual’s sexy bits (both released by DK Publishing). In the interest of science, we put away our biases (and laziness) and tried to view them with an open, sex position loving mind.

Heavier on the pretty pictures than the actual information, Sex 365 seems more like an edgy coffee table book than a guide for wouldbe sexplorers. Sure, the pictures are hot, and the taglines that accompany each image are witty and cute, but there’s not much advice on how to best achieve the positions — even the ones that look really, really hard.

In contrast, Kama Sutra provides a great deal of detail about each position, even breaking some of the more complicated ones down into a series of steps. It’s not just sex positions, either: a sex, body language, and relationships expert, Cox offers advice on getting the most out of your sex life, with information on hand jobs, blow jobs, PC muscle exercises, entry level kink, and much, much more. And, like Sex 365, Kama Sutra comes loaded with a whole lot of hot pictures to rev your engine as you prepare to make use of its advice.

[An aside: when looking through sex books, we're often disappointed by the overwhelming lack of non-white faces and bodies. Thankfully, both of these books manage to mix it up a bit, with a bit of diversity among the model couples (though we could still use some more). Can someone tell the world of sex books that white people aren't the only ones getting it on?]