“The Pocket Book of Sex and Chocolate” is a short pocket-book written by Richard Craze and sold by Hunter House. The book is a softcover book that has full-color pages on the inside. The book is about four inches tall and about five inches in width. The book has 96 pages which are split into 8 different, short chapters. The book is rich in full-color photography as well. The book is a pretty short read at about just under a half an hour. The book is directed towards heterosexual couples in a monogamous relationship though it could be applied to others.
As you could guess, the theme for this book is “Sex and Chocolate”. It’s actually a pretty unique theme at that. I love reading unique books, and how often do you read an entire book about how chocolate and sex relate to one another? It’s really unique in the fact that the entire book does focus completely on chocolate; there isn’t much of a mention of any type of food, so if you enjoy chocolate and sex, this actually makes a neat and entertaining read.
The photography in this book is all pretty modern. The models all look like models, but a nice racial diversity is represented. There aren’t any blatant genital shots, but you will see a lot of bare breasts as well as a few bare butts. I actually don’t know if I’m very fond of the photography since all of the photography shows the couples eating or using chocolate sexually. I thought I’d like people sexually using chocolate more than I do. Now it just strikes me as a bit odd instead of being sexy. For example, some of the pictures are of a model eating a chocolate-covered strawberry or of a couple leaving a chocolate handprint on a breast.
I like how nice, short, and photography-filled this book is. With a book like this that is a bit more “fun” than educational, having photography is a must. If this had just been all text, it would not have had nearly the same effect. Instead, it ends up being a fun, but educational, book on how to incorporate chocolate into sex. The pictures make it more erotic while the text gives you good ideas to play out with your partner. The text is limited though. On each two-page spread, one page is a full-color picture while the other page is all text. A couple exceptions exist, but that’s how the majority of the book plays out.
The book is spread out into some pretty basic chapters. The book starts us off on the “History of Chocolate” which is the longest chapter in the book. However, don’t assume that it’s boring. It really isn’t. I learned quite a bit about where chocolate came from, why it’s considered sexual, how the price/quality of chocolate makes a difference, and some lists on why chocolate is better than sex (in a humorous way). It’s actually really fun to read.
The next chapter focuses on how to use chocolate for romance including how to give it as a gift. The chapter afterwards talks about how to use chocolate for foreplay including how to drizzle it on your partner, the different types of chocolate and what they signify, how to talk to your partner about using chocolate for sex, different ways to use chocolate (ice cream, candy bars, etc.) and some recipes for sexy chocolate food. The book finished up with how to use chocolate during intercourse then lists a bunch of fun chocolate games that you can play with your partner. There are some that included rolling dice to place handprints, others that just include taking turns passing chocolate until it melts as well as a lot of other suggestions. The game suggestions are actually really unique.
One thing that really bothered me was the unsafe suggestions. While using sex and chocolate made be really sexy and really fun to do, you do have to understand that some things can’t be done. For example, the book suggests slipping a candy bar into the female’s vagina then eating it out of her vagina. Not only might this be awkward, but at the same time, it puts sugar in the vagina that could lead to a yeast infection. This is definitely something that should have been mentioned somewhere in the book, but it wasn’t. Along with this, there are suggestions to cover the penis in chocolate before intercourse. Again, this leads to a risk of yeast infection that was never mentioned. While playing with chocolate is fun, you should always know your risks before you pursue it.
Aside from the lack of chocolate safety warnings and other practical advice (how to prepare the chocolate, how to avoid making messes on furniture), this book gives a good look into how to bring chocolate in your sex life. Some of the suggestions were way too adventurous/messy for me to want to try, but the book did make a lot of suggestions I honestly never would have thought of. If you have any interest in mixing sex and chocolate, this book does a great job explaining how.
