I just took a short trip to the Castro and saw two very cool things I didn’t buy but might go back for; one was the IOU Sex check set from Chronicle Books, which is the best treatment of erotic coupons I’ve ever seen. (They look ugly on Amazon’s bad scan, but great in person.) Tear one out and give it to a lover — no gender is assumed so anyone can use them — and the wickedness ranges from makeout sessions to spankings, role-play, sex in public and even sex toys! Nice.

The other cool thing I didn’t buy is Use This Book, a spiral-bound reference book full of really useful, odd things like dance steps, instructions for building a sundial, tear-out tags and signs like “do not disturb”, a poisonous plant guide, Scrabble words list, common ailments and their remedies, cool muscular/skeleton charts, a fast food nutrition guide (!) and more. Someone needs to do a sex version of this… vibrator repair, lube ingredients lists, porn search tips, erogenous zone map, etc…