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Pagoda
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Posted - Nov 8 2006 : 4:47PM
Nina,

I wanted to publicly thank both you for your "Guide" series of DVDs. I work in a sex shop, and I get questions every day from men and women who want to improve their sex lives. Usually they're looking for a toy or an ointment, and I can provide those, but I always point them to your DVDs first. For example, I've sold about a dozen of your Guide to G-Spot Sex since I started working there only two months ago, usually in combination with a G-spot toy. My customers are very grateful, and they've come back to buy other Guides. I can't wait until we get your book on our shelves, because I'm going to push it like crazy.

So many people look for a "quick fix" to their sexual problems, thinking they can just buy a bunch of toys, lubes and creams and everything will work like magic. What's great about your series is that you teach people about their bodies, and you help them get into a sexy frame of mind. You also give people permission to enjoy their sexuality, and you take the stigma out of certain sex acts. Your approach is so accessible that everybody can learn from you. Thank you!

I do have reservations about some of the stuff I sell. For example, the anal desensitizing gels. I think they're no substitute for knowledge and technique, and I fear my customers will accidentally hurt themselves if they use them. What are your thoughts on these products?

Also, what do you think about clitoral stimulation formulas, particularly those that contain L-Argine? We sell a ton of those, often to people that think it will help increase their libidos. I think they're great for enhancing arousal if one is already aroused, but if the brain's not into it, no cream is going to help. Unless of course, you believe the cream is helping, in which case it is. Sometimes I feel like a snake-oil salesman. Do you know if these arousal creams have any side-effects?

Lastly, we sell herbal supplements for arousal and virility. They're basically herbal Viagra that hasn't gone through FDA approval. What's your take on those products?

Joey Starr
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Posted - Nov 8 2006 : 4:50PM
Gondola, more "sex talk" than "star crossed" IMVHO, but I'm no moderator...
Pagoda
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Posted - Nov 8 2006 : 4:54PM
Well you should be a mod, Joey, with those eagle-eyes of yours. Thing is, I started my post with the intention of heaping praise on Nina, and then I realized I had a bunch of questions. I still intend to smother Nina with heaps of praise.
Robbie
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Posted - Nov 8 2006 : 5:05PM
Gal looks like my mum. I dunno. I confirm her MILF status, bur reserve the right to retract...
Brian_Wallace
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Posted - Nov 8 2006 : 6:46PM

I agree with Pagoda. Everything I learned about sex I either learned from Nina Hartley or my dad. My dad is a sex ed. teacher. Lot of condoms and education video tapes around his house.

Anyhow in another thread Nina wrote:

"My next Guides are Erotic Massage and The Ultimate Sex Party (I do a five way with Byron Long, Alec Knight, Chris Cannon and TJ Hart). In July: Foot Fetish and Porn Star Sex Secrets. That will bring the series up to 32 titles and I think it will finally be done. I can't think of what to do next!"

I've come up with (in roughly the order they were released):

1. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Better Cunnilingus
2. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Better Fellatio
3. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Oral Sex
4. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Private Dancing
5. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Anal Sex
6. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Swinging
7. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Foreplay
8. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Alternative Sex
9. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Seduction
10. Nina Hartley’s Advanaced Guide to Oral Sex
11. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Sex Toys
12. Nina Hartley’s Making Love to Men
13. Nina Hartley’s Making Love to Women
14. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Couples Sexploration
15. Nina Hartley’s Advanced Guide to Sex Toys
16. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Sensual Domination 1
17. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Sensual Domination 2
18. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Sensual Submission 1
19. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Sensual Submission 2
20. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Young Men Older Women Sex
21. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Young Women Older Men Sex
22. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Masturbation
23. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Multiple Orgasms
24. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Spanking
25. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Double Penetration
26. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Threesomes: Two Girls & a Guy
27. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Threesomes: Two Guys & a Girl
28. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Erotic Bondage
29. Nina Hartley’s Guide to G-Spot Sex
30. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Strap-On Sex
31. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Female Ejaculation
32. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Erotic Massage
33. Nina Hartley’s Guide to the Ultimate Sex Party
34. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Porn Star Secrets
35. Nina Hartley’s Guide to Foot Fetish

Did Nina miscount or did I? She's produced more than she thought. Do the "Making Love to Men/Women" not count?

Oh, well. I'm a big fan of Nina's work and hope she does some book signing on the East Coast.

Thanks,

Brian

 
YogaDame All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Nov 12 2006 : 12:05PM
Brian, I believe some of the movies on your list are rereleases in double feature format. Nina Hartley's Guide to Seduction, for example, is simply the unedited volumes Foreplay and Private Dancing repackaged as a single disc. Very good value for the consumer, if you know ahead of time what you're getting.

Nina's been traveling on her book tour, so she might not be able to answer the other questions immediately. She has previously posted helpful information on a wide variety of topics at her forums, however, which can be easily searched even by nonmembers. So if you like, Pagoda, you can check out Nina's earlier posts on herbal Viagra (one here). In her new book, Nina Hartley's Guide to Anal Sex, she also writes: "I strongly advise against any lube that contains a numbing agent. Though such products promise to make anal play easier, in fact, they merely deaden the sensation and increase the odds of doing damage to fragile interior terrain. Pain is a warning from your body that something isn't right, and any product that silences that alarm puts you at risk of injury."

I absolutely love the book, incidentally. I hope to comment further on that soon, but I'm reading it cover to cover and still have two chapters to go.

Bob All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Nov 12 2006 : 1:19PM
Yay Nina!!!!!
YogaDame All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Nov 12 2006 : 3:25PM
Hey, I just discovered that Nina handy-dandily lists the 30 guides in the afterword to her book!

Brian, her list is five titles shorter than yours because she's excluding the three double features:

Nina Hartley's Guide to Oral Sex (unedited comp of Cunnilingus & Fellatio)
Nina Hartley's Guide to Seduction (unedited comp of Foreplay & Private Dancing)
Nina Hartley's Guide to Alternative Sex (edited comp of Swinging & Anal Sex)

And the also the two currently in post production:

Nina Hartley's Guide to Porn Star Secrets
Nina Hartley's Guide to Foot Fun

Hope that helps to clarify.

YogaDame All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Dec 7 2006 : 12:35PM
I think it's probably alright to mention this, since Nina has posted it to her home page. The next two installments of the Guide series were shot last weekend and will be Stripping for Your Partner and Bi-Curious Women.

The cast for Stripping is Nina Hartley & Marco Banderas and Marie Luv & Evan Stone. The cast for Bi-Curious Women is Nina Hartley & Justine Joli and Adrianna Nicole & Gia Paloma. It sounds like all four pairings were super hot! Street date is anticipated to be May 2007 or thereabouts.

Thanks, Nina, for keeping the series alive a little bit longer. I know you thought it was done, and I'm glad it isn't. Can't wait to see what you do next.

bono-ONE All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Dec 7 2006 : 12:42PM
I'd be very keen to watch Adriana Nicole fuck Gia Paloma!!
Nina Hartley
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Posted - Dec 7 2006 : 1:26PM
bono-One,

You won't be disappointed. They do some super-fun GG wrestling followed by plenty of vigorous toy action in every hole. One of the best GG scenes in the entire series, and we've had some good ones. It always helps when the girls are also good friends, which happens to the case with Adrianna and Gia. They even picked out great costumes together (though in truth, the costumes don't stay on long!).




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