Synopses & Reviews
Here's the ultimate guide to life for the millennium, packed with advice on love and sex and everything else you're too embarrassed to talk about--sometimes X-rated, always real --for today's generation, today's relationships, and tomorrow's world. As the hosts of the late-night radio program and MTV sensation
LoveLine, straight-talking physician Dr. Drew Pinsky and comedian Adam Carolla have become the duo you depend on for answers to questions about relationships going sour, truly embarrassing sexual problems, the dilemmas of finding the right partners... or dumping the wrong one.
In this first-of-its-kind guide, Dr. Drew gives you answers you can trust. Adam strips off the sugarcoating with wisecracking candor. Worried about masturbation? Virginity? Sexual etiquette? HIV and AIDS? You'll find real advice and more, including. . . the secret guys need to know to understand women sexually. . . how to help a friend who is threatening suicide. . . how to have good sex, maybe even great sex--or at least sex that won't make you pregnant or endanger your health. . . . PLUS Dr. Drew's primer on STDs. . . Adam's rules for who is not allowed to have sex. . . the Gay or Lesbian Aptitude Test. . . sidebars, quizzes, myth busters, and more. . .
Synopsis
More than ever before, young people are dealing with serious life issues (e.g., sex, chemical dependency, drug and alcohol abuse, date rape) at increasingly earlier ages. Loveline is where they tune in for advice and answers to their questions. Now the popular hosts have written a book for their audience. In a hip and accessible format that includes Q&As, lists, quizzes, sidebars, myth-busters, and more, this book offers thorough explanations about:
-- The Differences Between Genders
-- Male and Female Sexuality
-- Virginity and Becoming Sexually Active
-- Teen Pregnancy
-- When to Break Up, and How
-- How to Identify an Abusive Relationship and What to Do if You're in One
-- Psychological and Emotional Problems (including Bulimia and Anorexia)
and much more.
Helping Generation Y understand their sexual identities, how their bodies work, and the nuts and bolts of sex and romance, this book blends facts and humor to create a uniquely indispensable guide.
About the Author
Adam Carolla has had years of comedy training and performance experience with the Groundlings and Acme improvisation groups in Los Angeles. He has worked as a stand-up comedian at the Comedy Store and the Improv, and as a writer for TV's
Animaniacs. Besides the nightly
Loveline, he is heard several mornings a week as "Mr. Birchum the shop teacher" on KROQ's top-rated morning show.
Dr. Drew Pinsky is a board-certified internist in private practice. He is program medical director of chemical dependency at Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena. He is president of the Pasadena Medical Society and editor of the Los Angeles County Medical Association magazine. He and his wife are the parents of triplets.
Marshall Fine is a nationally syndicated writer for Gannett Newspapers. His work has appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Playboy, Premiere, USA Today, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of Bloody Sam: The Life and Time of Sam Peckinpah and Harvey Keitel: The Art of Darkness.
This publication has not been prepared, approved, or licensed by any entity that created or produced the radio show or TV program Loveline.