Now That You've Got Me Here, What Are We Going to Do‪?‬

Having made a success and a series of cogent points about the complexities of Mistress-hood in her first book, MARRIED MEN MAKE THE BEST LOVERS, Ruth Dickson gets down to basics and tells us a lot more than the obvious about the ins and outs of lovemaking.

With her classic, breezy, entertaining style, she instructs the uninformed and enlightens the already educated with a bit of science and a lot of blunt truth about the hows, whys and special tricks of sex for fun, in or out of wedlock. The fact that she firmly believes that unwed sex-play is more fun than the married variety doesn’t detract from her wisdom and her expertise. From “The Nitty Gritty” (both his and hers) to “The Other Side of the Bed” and from the beginning explanation of “Why Are We Doing This?” to the grand summation of “What Is Sex, Really?” Dickson gives an advanced course in the art of love and the pleasures of sex in all its permutations.

One of the first of many sexual instruction guides that followed in its wake, NOW THAT YOU'VE GOT ME HERE, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? was the frontrunner of the genre, dispensing basic information and much more in this amusing, highly readable work. Readers of either sex will be the richer and the better informed for taking an opportunity to learn at the feet (and other areas) of a Master. Or, more accurately, Mistress.

Ruth Dickson was a bestselling lightning rod for controversy and a reliable source of entertainingly contrarian opinions about marriage, love, sex, adultery and how much any of these subjects had in common when she burst onto the publishing scene in the late 1960s. Among Dickson's titles are MARRIED MEN MAKE THE BEST LOVERS, a survival manual for mistresses, MARRIAGE IS A BAD HABIT, an impassioned argument for un-wedded bliss and NOW THAT YOU'VE GOT ME HERE, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?, which has been referred to as a Non-Marriage Manual.

She long ago lost count but Dickson has lived in more than 200 places on three continents but now calls Florida her (possibly temporary) home. Still going strong well into her 80's, Dickson recently published a new book, LIFE, DEATH AND OTHER TRIVIA: Outrageous Observations of a Wicked Old Broad, which includes many extracts from her blog. Just in case you were born yesterday, Dickson is here to tell you that SEX IN THE CITY did not start with Carrie Bradshaw.

Ruth Dickson was a writing and popularity rival for Helen Gurley Brown in Brown's heyday right after the publication of SEX AND THE SINGLE GIRL Current readers, given the perspective of time, will be best equipped to judge which of the two was the better, smarter and wittier writer.