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T he Kama Sutra could blithely assume a readership with sufficient time and resources to allow installation of the rope-and-pulley system required to lower a woman into the Crippled Starfish on a Spike position. But times have, alas, changed. The latest fashion in publishing, spreading faster than chlamydia at a mixed comprehensive, is for sex manuals aimed at people who don't have time to Do It any more. Sex for Busy People, the pressures of modern living are taking their toll on our willingness and ability to bump uglies, and we need to find new ways to combat our sexual anomie.

But of course, who has time to read an entire book to find out how? Fortunately, the Guardian can offer you 10 top tips, distilled from the latest publications. Mobile phones and email can alienate us from each other in a manner wholly antithetical to eroticism, or they can be pressed into useful sexual service.

Tracey Cox's Quickies advocates sx txtng yr lvr throughout the day so that by the time you fall through the door, you are a panting, lubricious heap of pulsating desire. Remember, however, that sex texting only works if your abbreviations remain comprehensible throughout. Nothing kills the erotic mood like having to request clarification "Darling, do you mean you want me to do this once a year or an And don't ignore the possibilities offered by more primitive technology either.

According to the photo on page 39, you can still have fun utilising the relatively low-concept wheelbarrow and a set of wedge heels. Don't, however, run away from the spiritual aspect of sex. Esther Perel's Mating in Captivity has much sensible advice on creating intimacy and reconnecting with your partner, but for a more direct connection, look to Barbara Carrellas's words in Urban Tantra on gently awakening your "chakras". Particularly Muladhara, located between the anus and the genitals. If you've found that, I would say that reconnection has occurred on a grand scale.

Recognise that love is an elevated state of being that promises that "with you and through you I will become that which I long to be". According to Perel, a New York couples and family therapist, remembering this can help to recapture the essence of the relationship. The author of Quickies, on the other hand, is a disciple of mind-body dualism, though admittedly Descartes himself might have some trouble reconciling the demands of "You might not feel like frequent sex, but your body sure as hell does!

Either by entangling yourself in the Split the Whisker, Crouching Tiger or Staging Post positions recommended by psychologist and woman presumably blessed with a preternaturally robust lumbar region Dr Pam Spurr in Sensational Sex, or by buying Rubess and Moerbeek's Pop-Up Book of Sex, which does exactly what it says on the tin.

Talking, all the authors agree, is good. Or, as Mating in Captivity puts it: The power of eye contact is lauded by everyone, but once again, Urban Tantra takes a basic principle and buffs it up until it can take its place in the Museum of Borderline Insanity with the exhortation to look only in your lover's non-dominant eye, because this is the gateway to the soul. Head to the countryside, says Quickies, and have lots of sex in barns and stables that throb with Lawrentian promise.

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