Lovemaking video offers enticing hints

*The following is a review of a video produced by Playboy Entertainment Group. If you are not comfortable reading material dealing with adult sexual relationships, please skip this article*

By Jessica Wolf
State Press Magazine

 

If you're looking for some visual stimulation to spice up your Valentines Day evening plans, but you (or your partner) are not into full-fledged pornography, the answer may be Playboy's latest release from the "For Couples Only" video series.

It's not quite porn, but it is certainly erotic. It's Playboy's Best Kept Sex Secrets. Yes, there is full-frontal nudity involved (but no penetration) so avoid this video if you are not into seeing female and male genitalia.

This video is well-intentioned, offering advice to couples and focusing on members of intimate, monogamous relationships. The idea is to offer suggestions that will stimulate increased intimacy, enhancing the sexual as well as emotional aspects of a couple's relationship.

The actors and actresses in Best Kept Sex Secrets are of a bit higher quality than what you may find at your favorite porn shop. The women are beautiful, the men are good looking and what little dialogue there is, is exchanged in a very believable, loving manner.

While you watch couples happily kissing and caressing each other against the backdrop of elaborate indoor settings and outdoor scenery, a soothing voice (it alternates between male and female) describes and outlines the tips to enhancing your sex life over gentle, rhythmic melodies.

The narration is informative and explicit at times, but not graphic. And if it seems downright cheesy at times, that's because the voice offers suggestions or describes situations that often would seem obvious to most people.

There are some good ideas offered in this video from role playing to the importance of extended foreplay. The 10 secrets are put across in a very detailed yet tasteful manner starting with the basics, like kissing and then gently building into more intense scenarios.

playboy's best kept sex secrets released january 25 suggested retail price $19.98

In one scene, a couple in an empty restaurant experiment with oral pleasure against (and on top of) the empty bar while a soothing female voice describes detailed techniques for performing fallatio and cunnilinguis.

Another interesting tip is the Tantric Sex portion of the video, aimed at helping a man discover the secrets to experiencing multiple orgasms as the same soothing female voice reveals the exact particulars of how this can be achieved.

It would be wrong to give away all of the secrets offered by this video, but probably the most intriguing suggestion comes in the portion devoted to using toys in lovemaking. "Toys are anything that can be used to create or enhance erotic sensations with your lover," the gentle male voice coos, then offers a few specifics like silk handkerchiefs or feathers.

In keeping with the overall tasteful quality of this intentionally erotic video...an entire segment is devoted to mental stimulation -- offering suggestions on how to communicate verbally erotic signals to your partner and how this communication can increase the emotional as well as physical potential of a relationship between two lovers.

Perhaps the cheesiest, but still intriguing scene, is the one dealing with water. The couple playing in the waterfall and entertwining limbs as they splash around in an outdoor swimming hole, certainly look like they're having a good time. But the narration over this scene goes a little overboard, and was it really necessary to film the fully nude man jumping off a cliff?

Overall, this is an informative, well-made, well edited erotic video in which many couples may find new ideas or stimulation.

Or you could pick it up just to see the guy jumping off a cliff butt-naked. It's good for a laugh.