Exposing Sex Tips

Virgin Territory - One of the first known sex manuals was written in 300 BC and buried in a family tomb in China's Hunan province. It promised that any man who could sleep with 100 virgins in as many nights without ejaculating would become immortal. It sounds like the ancient Chinese were particularly fond of cold showers.

Size Matters - In 3 BC the Roman poet Ovid advised in "Ars Amatoria": "If you are short, go on top/If you're conspicuously tall, kneel with your head turned slightly sideways." And that was the long and the short of the matter.

Scarlet Women - A 12th century Sikh text, the Koke Shastra, warns men against: "Redheads. Any girl named after a mountain, a tree, a river or a bird...Any girl with inverted nipples, a beard, uneven breasts, flap ears, spindle legs...Girls whose big toes are disproportionately small. Girls who make the ground shake when they walk past."

The Birds, the bees...and the Trees? - An 1883 translation of the "Kama Sutra" urged those in need of an equipment upgrade to apply "the bristles of certain insects that live in trees," and oils for ten nights. "Swelling will gradually be produced. Then lie on a hammock with a hole on it and hang the penis through the hole. The swelling lasts for life." Swell advice-just be sure to avoid prickly pines and fire ants.

Ignorance is (not) Bliss - The clitoris, while important, is not nearly as important as many of us have been taught or led to believe," writes Edward Podolsky's in his 1947 book "Sex Technique for Husband and Wife." No wonder Betty Crocker was always in the kitchen, not the bedroom.

Housewives Beware - Dr. Alex Comfort's 1972 "The Joy of Sex: A Gourmet Guide to Love Making" (originally titled Cordon Bleu Sex) warns the experimental couple: "Never fool around sexually with a vacuum cleaner." Good advice, then and now.

Floss Daily - Jay Wiserman assures readers in his 2002 book "How to Please a Woman," that you "can achieve an eye popping effect by wrapping the nipple with dental floss. Is that mint flavored?