Anka Radkovich’s “Sexplorations: Journeys to the Erogenous Frontier” is pretty much what you would expect from a book with that title. With years as a sex columnist for “Details Magazine” under her belt, Anka wrote about some of her own personal misadventures exploring the sexual cultures of the United States and Europe.

Despite the subject matter, the book wouldn’t get a ‘XXX’ or even an ‘X’ rating- I’d say that if books were rated for sexual content, “Sexplorations” would be Rated ‘R’.  Each chapter is devoted to a unique sexual adventure: some, like the chapter in which she tries and fails to have sex with a Christian Virgin, are even PG or maybe PG-13. Other chapters get quite a bit more racy, including the chapter called, “Swinging at the Wife-Swapping Convention” in which couples start making out in front of couples in order to pick them up.

In one chapter, Anka describes her experiences and feelings after having an expert make-up artist change she and her friend into men for a day. After their makeup and hair were applied, their breasts were bound and they were given “manly clothes” to wear. Both practiced their personas before going out.   Anka was disappointed not be a strikingly hot man and was instead more of a “sleazeball”, which didn’t prevent her from going to a few bars in her new gender. Of the many stops she made, the most interesting was at a Transvestite Bar where everyone was in drag, but failed to notice her true gender.

The book is mostly for fun, so if you are expecting any deep thoughts about gender roles, bisexuality, nudism, conservative Christians, or anything else that Anka covers in”Sexploration”, just remember that she is no Camille Paglia and doesn’t go beneath the surface all that often.

On the other hand,  if you like the idea of living vicariously through a woman who isn’t afraid to take a Dominatrix class and share her experiences with the public at large, you might find yourself pleasantly surprised for an hour or two.

She concludes in her Appendix with a great interview with her parents in which she asks them personal details about their sex lives. Either her parents are pretty straightforward with their children (I personally prefer it when my parents are not) or she fabricated what is probably the best dialog in the entire book.