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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Many couples put more planning into the wedding ceremony than they do for what comes after the wedding. Intelligent, deliberate preparation for a lifetime of sexual leasure is a worthy investment you won't regret. In Getting Your Sex Life Off to a Great Start, renowned sexual counselors and best-selling authors Clifford and Joyce Penner guide you through an encouraging process that begins by dispelling sexual myths and then guides you in getting to know yourself and each other emotionally and physically. With reassuring enthusiasm and straightforward advice, the Penners show you how to clarify your expectations and pursue the joyous marital passion described in Scripture. Through creative, step-by-step exercises and easy-to-understand examples, you'll learn how to: - Design a successful honeymoon
- Prepare for your first sexual time together
- Choose and use family planning
- Create a mutually enjoyable wedding night
- Get past disappointments
- Keep the spark alive
Thousands of couples have discovered the marvelous gift of a positive sexual relationship through the Penners' helpful books and enlightening seminars. As your wedding day nears-or even if you're already newlyweds-this extraordinary book will help you get your sex life off to a great start. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Clifford L. Penner | | Paperback: | 256 pages | | Publisher: | Thomas Nelson | | Publication Date: | November 23, 1994 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0849935156 | | Product Width: | 119.5 centimeters | | Product Height: | 251.0 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 0.81 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.8 inches | | Package Width: | 6.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.8 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.8 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 17 reviews |
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37 of 38 found the following review helpful:
 Helpful Dec 01, 2004
By Mikered1
"mike"
I read this book two months before I got married, and found it helpful for me. I prefer it over Tim LaHaye's book "The Act of Marriage" and Ed Wheat's "Intended For Pleasure". It was Biblical and covered the physical, psychological, and spiritual matters of sex. This book will help remove misconceptions about sex. My advice to any man getting married and purchasing this book is to make sure your future spouse reads it also, BEFORE you get married, regardless of her sexual past. The reason I say this is I could not get my wife to read this book, and she still holds on to her misconceptions.
37 of 40 found the following review helpful:
 Great information for first timers! Mar 14, 2002
I liked this book a lot because it gives information
about sex from a Christian perspective. Unlike other
books on sex, it gives detailed information about
the first time, how to prepare for your honeymoon,
the first night together, etc. It even gives advice
about how to prepare physically for that night. Very
informative.
74 of 85 found the following review helpful:
 Book without a "backbone." Jul 09, 2008
By Beverly Watson
"Avid Book Reader"
I am a young woman preparing for a Godly marriage. In my early teen years, I was rather promiscuous and engaged in activites that resulted in a 3-year long battle with masturbation and perverted thoughts and desires and the guilt and shame that came with it.
I bought this book hoping to move past all of that and into a holy marriage that continued to encourage purity of thought and action until the wedding night. I was greatly disappointed.
Although "Getting Your Sex Life Off to a Great Start" has a lot of great material on love and commitment and some very practical advice on "the first time" and creating a romantic atmosphere and inviting God to share the experience, I disagree strongly with many of their suggestions. I am writing this review to warn those like me who are looking for a book that lines up with conservative Christian convictions.
The book not only condones but encourages masturbation "in preparation for" and in marriage. The authors encourage men the masturbate before the wedding night to reduce the risk of premature ejaculation. I found this very offensive as I love my fiance and am not going to be disappointed if he doesn't last very long. Please hear me when I say that as a sexually-experienced woman, the performance isn't what's important; it's trust and commitment and being in it together, and when he "pleasures" himself without my involvement, that is offensive to me. I don't care how inexperienced my sweet, loving, gorgeous man is, I want to teach him and I want to enjoy how he touches me, not how I touch myself.
Additionally, the Penners encourage engaged couples to participate in activites that "arouse" one another in order to "prepare" for the wedding behaviors. Additionally, they seem to ignore the Jesus' commandment that any man who looks at a woman who is not his wife lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. I am not married to my fiance yet. I am not his wife. By masturbation, self-stimulation, and engaging in "arousing" activites, I am encouraging him and myself to lust after each other, and this is adultery.
As a final note, I am incredibly attracted to my fiance and he to me, and I disagree with the authors and would like to say that by choosing to stay pure in mind and thought and deed, we will be enhancing our anxiety for our upcoming wedding night. It may not be the best time and I may not perform perfectly, but we are learning together. We are connecting. And I don't need to teach myself how to be stimulated. I am waiting for my husband.
19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Sensitive, Informative, and helpful Aug 24, 2007
By D. Brundage
We've been preparing for our wedding and marriage (well, mostly the marriage, but wedding prep has to happen some time) and we've read a few books on sex. This was the best book so far. It's very informative and frank without being offensive. Some readers may find the Penners a tad too liberal (if they can't find a Scriptural command for or against something, they generally leave it up to the reader), but I found them dead-on. The book starts with the necessary relational foundation for sex and leads into the technical how-tos.
The beginning of the book starts out like a pre-marital counseling session. My fiance and I have done our share, so we tried to do some of the exercises, but found them a bit repetitive (we did similar things in counseling) and fluffy (I wanted a book that just spelled everything out). Don't read through this book and put it down after the first few chapters, however. Especially if you don't like fluff. They are necessary building blocks to a fantastic sexual relationship and the Penners emphasize again and again that a good relationship that is open and honest and free is necessary for a healthy sex life. The rest of the book is pretty straight forward.
The next few chapters explain the body parts involved in sex, and then explains the technical how-tos. Their explanations were very good and the emphasis was continually on not just having good technique -- but having a good relationship.
Then they explain everything about the honeymoon -- how to plan a successful honeymoon and what [not] to expect on the first night. They really emphasize that couples should have few expectations so they won't be let down. They also explain how to maintain the sex life after the honeymoon.
This book mirrors The Gift of Sex - both are great resources.
I read this book in conjunction with Intended for Pleasure and I really enjoyed both books. I found this book was a little clearer and easier to understand, so if you have a choice of only one book to buy, I recommend this. However, if you can buy and read both, try to read Intended for Pleasure first (it's more technical and a bit drier) and then read this one. Or read them together. Both are great resources.
I'm stil waiting to put knowledge into practice, but until then...
28 of 30 found the following review helpful:
A Real Treat Jan 25, 2004
I just bought this book recently, and I think it's just great. I'm engaged, and although I'm not completely inexperienced, I was wondering what to do on my wedding night. This book is the best that I've read so far. They lay it all out, as naked as you'll be on your honeymoon! The authors don't skirt around their complete discussion of different sexual topics. Although this is definitely a Christian book, you never get the feeling that the authors are moralizing or condemning you for things you have done in your past, or choose to do in your marriage. The drawings are very dry and clinical, and the text needs some editing. However, this still doesn't detract from the overall quality of the book. Especially if you're a virgin and are a little apprehensive of the first time, I would highly recommend this book.
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