cover image Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Sex: 2every Woman's Guide to Pleasure and Beyond

Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Sex: 2every Woman's Guide to Pleasure and Beyond

Sandra R. Scantling. Dutton Books, $20 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-525-93640-4

``Supersexual'' women, according to the authors, have erotic experiences approaching spiritual ecstasy. Their 86 interviews describe a sense of oneness with themselves, with their lovers and with the universe. Some speak of ``zooming into hyperspace,'' others get ``lost in the stars.'' Scantling, a sex therapist and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, and Browder, a contributing editor of New Woman , claim that supersexual women, in their everyday lives, tend to empower themselves, choose their own path and enjoy clarity of mind and spirit. The authors link their subjects' purported erotic rapture to an ability to become fully absorbed in the moment and to a keen enjoyment of imagery and fantasy. The women's own descriptions of their intense sexual experiences are the most interesting and credible part of this upbeat self-help manual. First serial to New Woman; author tour. (Oct.)