Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52366 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-02-04
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 51 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
The Lovers' Guide--What Women Really Want is part whistle-stop tour of modern female aspirations, part uninhibited and fast moving sex education documentary. Introduced by Dr Sarah Humphrey and unfolding like a video version of Cosmopolitan the five "chapters" cover "What Women Want From … Life, Their Bodies, Sex, Their Lover and Their Relationship". Vox pops from a variety of women preface sex sequences with different couples which cover safe sex, masturbation and becoming orgasmic, oral sex (receiving and giving) and the advantages of various positions for intercourse. 3-D computer models show what happens inside a woman's body during sex and there is enough information to give a better understanding of female sexuality to both women and men.

Unfortunately, in trying to be all things to all women and cover virtually all generally acceptable forms of sexuality--including lesbianism, bisexuality, fantasy, anal sex and a mention of bondage and sado-masochism--the programme does what it accuses men of: rushes to the end without giving full satisfaction. At 55 minutes, including a gratuitous pop video finale, longer would have been better as matters such as pregnancy, children and ageing are rapidly dispensed with and there is not a single mention of marriage.

While for a real insight into women's sexual experience The New Hite Report remains unsurpassed, anyone looking to improve their sex life will find graphically explicit scenes here easier to follow than static images in a sex manual.--Gary S Dalkin

Special Features
4:3
DVD 5
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital Stereo English
Dolby Digital Stereo
The Making Of The Lovers Guide

Synopsis
The Lover's Guide designed to offer advice for men and women on sexual techniques.

Customer Reviews

Good Stuff
... Whilst there is a heavy concentration on sex, that is what the video is supposed to be about. The video works by showing women talk about what they want in their love lives and how they want it. It also has Dr Sarah Humphrey giving valuable insights into the individual topics the video touches on. Finally there is explicit video footage that shows techniques that people can use to improve their love lives. This video is useful for both men and women. It helps women to explore and understand themselves more fully and therefore to be more confident in being able to demand what they want and need from a loving relationship. The video is useful for men in that it shows us that women have a sensitive and emotional side that needs to be satisfied before their physical side is satisfied. This video is more suitable for the younger adult who has not yet been in a long term relationship than it is for the older adult who has been in or is in a long term relationship. there is nothing new here, just the old stuff explained in an easily understandale way. My main gripe about the video is that it is very expensive and only an hour long.

Are you sure? Lover's Guide 3
Oh man! Both myself (being a male thank-you) and a group of female friends watched this DVD in disbelief. We all love sex, commitment and how to balance the two. We're only human and we've yet to discover love's secret. What this DVD does is almost claim it knows everything about love and why we succeed and fail. I think the writers have cut and spliced the DVD to suit themselves and not the viewers. If you make some of the claims on the DVD you need hard facts to back them up. Some of which are in contrast to more excepted discoveries by established scientists in human biology.
But even that is the icing on the cake. The rest of the DVD feels like it was written by snobbish career women's magazines. Everything "bad" in relationships, body smells, periods and lack of orgasms seemed to be dumped on the men.
Even a "fictional" series like "Sex and the City" made beter sense than this.
To be fair the couragous couples who give the only good advice on sex itself, carry the day. Hence three stars.

Not very helpful, not very subtle either
Do people watch these things to learn revelatory new techniques, or simply as an aid to arousal that doesn't seem too tacky? One of the recent Guides that are more bolshy, less discreet than the earlier ones. All rather porno, and all you'll learn is that women want to blame men for everything - including trapped wind - and want the guy to understand every little mood or inclination telepathically. Maybe some guys really will benefit, but I imagine most will be genuinely annoyed at the partner who insists upon their watching this together, except perhaps with the sound down.