Product Description

With a warm, quiet place and a bottle of oil--and this incredible book--you can spread pleasure over every inch of your partner's body. For more than a million readers The Art of Sensual Massage is more than a book, it's an unforgettable sensual experience. Techniques are beautifully illustrated with hundreds of gorgeous black and white photos. Instructions are easy-to-learn. Ten minutes after you open this book you will be doing a sensual massage. This updated edition has the best paper and photo reproduction plus many text updates. From the book: In a world full of expensive gadgets futilely designed to increase enjoyment of life it is enormously satisfying to realize that you can give so much pleasure just using your hands.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34648 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 161 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780974853529
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
Beautifully produced: a book to give, especially if you'd like its techniques used on you. --Cosmopolitan

Do learn The Art of Sensual Massage. It's the gentlest form, not of seduction but of introduction. It's also an excellent way to learn to use and accept your body and other people's. --More Joy, Edited by Alex Comfort

If you want to encourage the man in your life to be more sensual , romantic and inventive...put The Art of Sensual Massage in his stocking. --Ms London

About the Author
Gordon InkelesÂ’ bestselling books have become standard reference works on massage throughout the world. His work has been translated into ten languages and reprinted more than sixty times. His book The Art of Sensual Massage has sold over one million copies. His film/video The Art of Sensual Massage played to SRO crowds at the Cannes Film Festival. Nationally known as a college lecturer and leader of massage workshops, he lives with his family in Northern California.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
There are no special tricks to massage--no hours of practicing weird techniques--no tedious new vocabulary to learn. With a warn quiet place and a bottle of scented oil you can spread pleasure over every inch of your partner’s body. You don’t need a lot of money or a room full of special equipment to do this. People were massaging each other before money and special equipment existed. And you don’t need an intensive course in anatomy to lay your hands on another human being. The Art of Sensual Massage is much older than any labels moderns have invented for the body.

Customer Reviews

The Best Massage Teaching Tool Ever
Gordon Inkeles has not only mastered the art of massage, but he is a master teacher. His descriptions and instructions are superb. Tasteful nude photographs and detailed drawings of muscles and tendons illustrate each technique. Each step of the massage is easy to understand and duplicate. One evening of review allowed me to confidently provide my wife an hour of stress relieving massage. The next hour was one of the most sensual of our 23-year marriage.

Raising 4 children and balancing two careers, doesn't allow for much stress-free togetherness. We had truly forgotten how much stress interferes with intimacy.

Mr. Inkeles, we can't thank you enough for teaching us how to give each other such a marvelous gift: the release of stress through magic fingers. Not only is it therapeutic, it is extremely sensual. When mom and dad are more relaxed and romantic, the children benefit also.

One final note regarding the nude photographs: while there is full frontal nudity, it is not senseless nudity. The photographs demonstrate the text. It would be difficult for me to duplicate the techniques from simply reading the text or studying drawings.

The Demystification of Massage
As a practitioner and teacher of sensual massage, I've noticed a peculiar complex in students, clients and the general public. The idea that the ability to perform a good, healthy massage requires some special magic, or years of professional training, is something deeply ingrained in many of us (largely as a result of the clinicization and licensure of this ancient art). Gordon Inkeles brings massage back to where it originated -- the common people.

Tasteful, artistic B&W photos and encouraging, descriptive text make his book both inspiring and instructional. Every step, from making your own oils to massaging each part of the body, are covered in exquisite detail. Other special treats are also included, such as tips on erotic massage for couples, and basic plans to build your own massage table.

Gordon's books have been invaluable to me; I own them all. Although the trend these days seems to be going in the direction of video (and he has one available too), the amount of detail in this book can't be adequately covered on tape -- unless it was made into a box set.

I highly recommend this book for people of all levels of knowledge, but particularly for those wanting to learn massage. This book will give you the encouragement you need to get started, then guide you as you learn.

Great for the beginner!
I read the reviews for this book and I'm happy to say that it lived up to them: 5 stars! I've been wanting to try massage for a long time and this book is great for anyone that doesn't know much about the techniques. The book gives simple instruction, clear pictures and even handy tips. The nudity in the pictures isn't offensive at all, it's rather beautiful. The people in the pictures aren't models, they are actual couples and you can see that they really are enjoying each other on a new level. The photographer did a wonderful job. The techniques in this book are easy to learn, in fact I read the book, jotted down some notes and in the same night was able to surprise my work-stressed boyfriend with a sensual massage. He gives it 5 stars too.