The Guide to Getting it On

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The Guide To Getting It On! is a sexuality guide by research psychoanalyst Paul Joannides, illustrated by the comic book artist Dærick Gröss Sr. A 10th edition was released in 2022.

Style

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The book uses informal language and quotations extensively to illustrate the points the author makes. These quotations are from males and females, of a broad age range, that the author has interviewed during his research or who sent letters to him after the publication of previous editions of the book.

It is illustrated throughout with realistic body drawings. It also uses comic-like drawings to maintain a light-hearted approach, such as a drawing of a vagina and a penis, both with eyes, a mouth, a nose, hands and feet having a dialogue.

English editions

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In the English language, Guide to Getting It On! has ten editions.

  1. Guide To Getting It On! A New and Mostly Wonderful Book About Sex for Adults of All Ages (1st edition, June 1996) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. 376 pages.
  2. Guide To Getting It On! A New and Mostly Wonderful Book About Sex for Adults of All Ages (2nd edition, September 1998) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. 432 pages.
  3. Guide To Getting It On! (3rd edition, February 2000) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. 698 pages.
  4. Guide To Getting It On! (4th edition, April 2004) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. 782 pages.
  5. Guide To Getting It On! (5th edition, September 2006) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. 854 pages.
  6. Guide To Getting It On! (6th edition, January 2009) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. 992 pages.
  7. Guide To Getting It On! (7th edition, October 2012) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. 1,184 pages.
  8. Guide To Getting It On! (8th edition, April 2015) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. 1,152 pages.
  9. Guide To Getting It On: Unzipped (9th edition, 2017) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. 624 pages.
  10. Guide To Getting It On (10th edition, 2022) Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).. 810 pages.

Translations

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The Guide To Getting It On! has been translated into 14 languages: Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Croatian, German (Wild Thing: Sex-Tips for Boys and Girls),[1] Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian and Slovenian.[2]

Reviews

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  • Oprah Magazine reports ″You've never read a manual as warm, friendly, liberating, thorough, and potentially sex-life-changing as the Guide to Getting It On!"[3]
  • Perry Tsai, Co-director American Medical Student Association Sexual Health Scholars Program (AMSA SHSP) “Very few medical schools are teaching about the importance of sexual pleasure, so doctors are not prepared to care for this aspect of their patients’ health and well-being. We use the Guide to Getting It On to help our scholars gain a more complete understanding of sexuality and to help them promote the sexual health of their patients and peers.”
  • Christian Perring points out that ″the book contains answers to just about every sexual question″ the readers of The Guide to Getting it On ″ever had″. He criticizes, however, that the readers of the book might have trouble in finding the answers to their questions.[4]

Awards

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Guide To Getting It On! has won the following awards:[5]

  • American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists Book Award
  • Ben Franklin Book Award
  • Firecracker Alternative Book Award[6]
  • Sexuality.org Best Heterosexual Book Award
  • USABookNews.com Best Book Award
  • American Foundation for Gender & Genital Medicine Book Award
  • Independent Press Award for Sexuality, 2022

References

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  1. ^ Wild Thing: Sex-Tips for Boys and Girls Online
  2. ^ Goofy Foot Press, publisher, Guide To Getting It On Description from the US publisher
  3. ^ Oprah Magazine Interview with Paul Joannides
  4. ^ Review on metapsychology.com, December 18, 2007
  5. ^ A list of awards that Guide To Getting It On! has won
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