A sizzling sex guide from the saucy creators of Cake, a burgeoning community promoting female sexuality...Empowering, enlightening and explosively entertaining, a must-have for any 21st-century woman ready to explore.- Kirkus Review

A Piece of CAKE: Recipes for Female Sexual Pleasure is the quintessential CAKE Girls’ guide to female sexuality with never before published information from CAKE and anecdotes, fantasies and experiences from thousands of women guaranteed to educate, titillate and turn you on - including, all new hot fantasies from Surrender the Pink, CAKE Bites, Pleasure Tips and product reviews that get the CAKE seal of approval along with oodles and oodles of CAKE Girl adventures and stories. We started asking women – what turns you on, and what gets you off? Thousands of testimonials, fantasies, adventures and real life exploration later, the next stage of female sexual culture begins.

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Kirkus Review - November 2005

For Gallagher and Kramer, Ivy educated twentysomethings living in New York, the Equal Rights Amendment was not nearly enough of a sexual revolution. Believing that women need their own space to celebrate and explore sexuality, they created a website, a mailing list (which now includes over 30,000 members) and a series of parties (average attendance 800-1000). As much an affirmation as it is an instruction manual, the book assures women that they are in fact sexual beings, and encourages them to act on such desires. They first take women through the art of masturbation, with chapters such as “It’s a Vibe Thing” and “Scream if You Want To,” and then move onto sex with partners, urging readers to think “Beyond the Missionary” and to start “Dirty Talkin.’” They debunk common myths, share questions and experiences from Cake members and offer countless gems of advice along the way. The spicy text is studded with sidebars lists and “Pleasure Tips” that you won’t want to miss. Armed with master’s degrees in human sexuality and the stories of thousands of card-carrying Cake members, Gallagher and Kramer are an authoritative voice on modern female sexuality.

For The Girls Review

Amidst the fun and games, A Piece Of Cake finds ways to make some quite relevant feminist statements. The CAKE ladies refuse to take the either/or approach toward sexuality that is so common in most feminist theory and steadfastly forge their own middle path. Take, for example, their treatment of the idea of “the male gaze” – the concept that in traditional sexuality, women are objects of men’s desire.

“According to one kind of feminist sensibility, we must demand we be subjects and avoid identification as sexual objects. Fine. However, women are brought up with our sexuality tied to our experience as objects. Our ability to feel sexy in many ways is rooted in our ability to be desirable i.e. to play the object role.”

Denying this kind of sexual sensibility is just another way to oppress women, the CAKE authors say. So, they introduce the idea of “the CAKE Gaze: women choosing to be subjects, objects, or both at the same time… The crucial point is that we knowingly choose this role as part of an equal sexual interaction.”

It’s a valid point, especially when women who choose to be overtly sexual are often condescendingly accused of dumbly playing out male fantasies. Ariel Levy’s book Female Chauvinist Pigs is the most recent expression of this mindset, and indeed, Levy specifically targets CAKE women as examples of what she thinks are poor, deluded victims, claiming they’re empowered by pole dancing when really they’re just playing into old-fashioned stereotypes.

A Piece Of Cake kicks sand in the face of that assumption simply because its basic premise is always one of female choice. Power arising from self awareness is a vital component of the CAKE manifesto, and that ultimately puts paid to any suggestions of male manipulation or oppression.

This rejection of some of the more uptight, Victorian feminist viewpoints is refreshing, and much needed. Karen Jackson - For the Girls

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