The pleasures of love

An erotic guide to the senses

Elizabeth Nash & Richard Fox

Published by Pavilion Books London, hardcover with dustjacket, illustrated.

Only sex delights all five senses: Sight, Taste, Smell, Hearing and Touch. This provocative book offers a new way of looking at our sexuality, presenting it as the most completely human activity there is.
We have a rich erotic heritage. Writers and artists - famous and neglected - have been adding to our knowledge of sexuality since the beginning of civilization. But all too often this sexual culture is ignored in favour of a mechanistic approach to the subject: the ubiquitous 'sex manual'. This book is different. Each of our senses is examined in turn, from an erotic perspective, but in a broad cultural context. Peppered with extracts from the sexualliterature of East and West, and lavishly illustrated, it forms a unique and highly original guide to erotic pleasure - a celebration of life.