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Introduction A hSaturday night. A night for dates, laughs, fun, adventure. A night for letting go and for holding on. A night for fun with a longstanding partner or a date with someone new and exciting. A night for wonderful traditional lovemaking or for moving on to exciting new bedroom pastimes. A night for lovers.
But is your Saturday night everything you want it to be? Are your evenings pretty ordinary? Dinner at an Italian restaurant? A movie? Sitting on the couch watching reruns of The Simpsons? Do you spend your time shuttling the kids around? An evening with your folks? Bridge with the Martins? The late news? A quickie? A longie thats exactly like most of the other longies you and your partner share?
Not anymore. What follows are fifty-two Saturday nights filled with new ideas, old ideas with new twists, and opportunities to create excitement and romance. Fifty-two Saturday nights. One year. A year to relish new pleasures. A year of creative fun and new adventures. A year to build on the wonderful things you and your partner have or to find new pleasures with someone you might not have even met yet. A year of new discoveries. A year of carefully moving to something just a bit unusual or a year of plunging headlong into new activities. A year of practical advice, useful suggestions, creative ideas. A year of teases, tips, and temptations. A year of serious learning. A year of frolic. Each week, youll find something new to read, to try, to learn. Each week, there will be something to make you smile, to make you thrill, to make you desire and to make you desirable. Together, well begin with the basics and then progress through the erotic to the exotic and unusual.
But all the new ideas in the world arent going to help much if you dont actually do something with the new information. Years ago, during my first marriage, I read what books and magazine articles there were about how to spice up my love life. Most of the hints, tips, and tricks were, however, really intimidating. I wasnt going to discuss making love in the living room with my husband, certainly not when we had children who wandered the house at night. I wasnt about to visit him at work dressed in only a trench coat or suggest unusual sexual games. I didnt know how to mention it, and I had no idea how he would react. Im sorry now that I didnt, because, although Im not sure it would have lengthened our relationship, it certainly would have made our time together much more fun for both of us.
Maybe youre not so different, even in this age of enlightenment. I hear you. Youre saying, I dont think I can really invite my husband into my bubble bath. Hed never go for making love on the kitchen counter or in the car. It sounds like fun, but real people dont do that. Brushing my hair as foreplay? Not John. Hes not like that. Hes a Lets get to it kind of guy. Well, I say to you, Not necessarily. Youll never know unless you give it a try, and Ill be here all year to help you. Ill suggest what to say, exactly what to do, and how to go about making it happen.
Read one selection for a Saturday night each week, or read the book all at once. Read by yourself or, better yet, read together. If you find something particularly delicious and have no idea how to carry the idea through, give it to your partner to read and then let nature take its course. If some of the ideas are exciting to read about but you wouldnt actually want to do them, share the section with your partner, while making it clear that this is for fantasy enjoyment only.
As you share some of the ideas with your partner, raise your radar antenna to the fullest. Try to catch the subtle clues about what turns him or her on. Try to send easy-to-catch messages about what you like. If you cant do it with words, use moans, sighs, and body movements. Help your partner as you wish your partner would help you. Good lovemaking involves both partners communicating and helping each other to create the best loving possible. Of course, Ill help you find new ways to do that, too.
So here, for you and your partner, are fifty-two Saturday nights of exciting new pleasures. Lets begin.
Saturday
Night #1
Begin at the Beginning of the Day
M aking love. It probably begins with a touch, a glance, whatever signal you and your partner exchange as the evening progresses that says, Lets. But anticipation is one of the most delicious parts of any sexual encounter.