Magnificent Sex

Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers

By: Peggy J. Kleinplatz PhD, A. Dana Ménard PhD

Narrated by: Holly Adams

What makes sex magnificent? What are the qualities of extraordinary erotic intimacy, and what are the elements that help to bring it about? Is great sex the stuff that people remember nostalgically from the "honeymoon" phase of their relationships, or can sex improve over time?

Magnificent Sex is based on the largest, in-depth interview study ever conducted with people who are having extraordinary sex. It gathers the nuggets for remarkable sex from the "experts", distilling them into an attainable blueprint for ordinary lovers who want to make erotic intimacy grow over the course of a lifetime. Looking at factors including individual and relational qualities, empathic communication, and the myths and realities of magnificent sex, this book offers accessible and evidence-based guidance for lovers and therapists alike. It is replete with frank and often humorous interviews with straight and LGBTQ individuals and couples, those who are "vanilla" and "kinky", monogamous and consensually non-monogamous and healthy and chronically ill. This illuminating book explores the implications of the findings to develop a model that effectively tackles the common problems of low desire and frequency. The "cure" for low desire is to create desirable sex!

Contains mature themes.

©2020 Peggy J. Kleinplatz and A. Dana Ménard (P)2021 Tantor

The Ums

I think the book would have been thought provoking if there were 2000 less ums in it.. An audio book should not need to stop n think it slowed my mental processing of the message they were trying to convey

Annoying robotic narration

The constant direct quotes full of um and uh in a robot voice is annoying as it gets

Ummm. Aaah

This was really difficult to listen to. The book included interviewee quotes and the narrator read every "uh" and "ah" ad nauseum. To the point I couldn't finish. The information was repetitive and seemed to have no real point. Disappointed.

Good but repetitive

There is good stuff here, but it all could have been said much more efficiently. As others have noted, the “direct quotation style” of the writing (and therefore narration), including fillers like “um” and “ah,” is highly annoying.

Could not get through this book

For being based in research, this book is remarkably void of specific information. It repeats itself over and over, covering the same basic premise, which is the
that great sex is directly related to the quality of relationship and intentionality of the partners. The reading is positively infuriating to listen to, the editors opting to include every "ah" and "um" and pause when reading back quotes from survey participants. This does not read like a scientific work but rather a biased, curated summary with an advertisement tone.