Enjoying Guilty Pleasures is an educational, sexually explicit DVD about sexual activities that some people have reservations about, or that are sometimes considered improper.  They include couples watching porn together, couples performing oral sex on each other, anal stimulation, double penetration, sex in unusual places, and S&M play.

The whole DVD is shot in a rather artificial studio, and there is often rather cheesy music in the background.  A host introduces the topic and gives a voice over with hints about how to perform sexual acts, and sex experts give their reassuring views about the normality of people giving each other pleasure, sometimes in voice over and sometimes appearing in interview.  A variety of couples demonstrate the actions.  A box on the screen appears in which the couple talks about the role that this sort of sex plays in their life. 

The production quality is good and the information of the DVD fits with the advice found in other sexual manuals.  The couples are comfortable in front of the camera, and they seem to be real couples.  They are in their twenties, thirties and forties, and are in good physical shape.  Some of the women have breast implants.  In the "Behind the Scenes" DVD extra one of the experts talks a little about the couples' choice to have sex in front of a camera, saying it is part of their own sexual experimentation, and commends them for it.  We also see some of the shooting of the DVD. 

So if a heterosexual couple is looking for ways to try sexual experimentation and needs ideas about how to do this, this DVD could be helpful. 

© 2007 Christian Perring. All rights reserved.

Christian Perring, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Dowling College, Long Island. He is also editor of Metapsychology Online Reviews.  His main research is on philosophical issues in medicine, psychiatry and psychology.

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