The Illustrated Book of Situational Sex

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The long experience of one divorce practitioner is said to have impelled him to the conclusion that no circumstances or place should be regarded as impossible, save, perhaps, the ceiling.

Yet that very English euphemism of 'sleeping with' probably speaks volumes about English sexual techniques. As George Mikes said,

'The Continentals have sex. The English have hot-water bottles.'

There is often something two-dimensional about sex in bed, and the main aim of Richard Smithson's book is to throw the bed out of the window - or at least, to give the bedding a good airing. Taking the injunction to 'pick up thy bed and walk' more literally than usual, he follows lovers into the countryside, into railway carriages, into baths - and, in fact, anywhere that they might hope for a little privacy. (They don't always find it: there is something for the voyeur as well.)
     The element of surprise is essential in situational sex. The couples are apt to surprise each other by the immediacy of their urges (in very unlikely places), and the spectators are often very surprised indeed. Nothing was further from the spectator's mind than sex - until he opened the door, or turned the corner, or entered the shop. Another of Richard Smithson's aims in The Illustrated Book of Situational Sex is to broaden your repertoire. The Italian judge who declared that sexual intercourse was not possible in a Fiat126 should read this book.