Most travel guidebooks you see for Paris have titles like Paris:  The Eyewitness Travel Guide or simply the Paris Travel Guide Book.  However, this travel guidebook caught my attention.  The full title is Naughty Paris:  A Lady’s Guide to the Sexy City. It’s a guidebook that takes a classy “not trashy” look at Paris’s erotic and sensual underside for women looking to have a sexy time in Paris.

What’s unique about Naughty Paris is that it is directed towards women and it’s written by a woman, Heather Stimmler-Stall.  When I first saw a link for the book online titled “Naughty Paris,” I, being a guy, immediately clicked on it thinking it was going to be a Paris guide to all the strip clubs and other questionable establishments that men sometimes like to frequent.  However, I was pleasantly surprised that it looked like a tasteful guidebook for women to explore the sexy side of Paris.  I mean it’s only fair that women have their share of the fun too.

So what kind of stuff would potential buyers of Naughty Paris expect to find in this guidebook?  Details about the best lingerie shops, female friendly bars, sexy bars, and event how to flirt with French men.  However, the author describes it best:

Written for and by the fairer sex, Naughty Paris: A Lady’s Guide to the Sexy City is the first guidebook that presents the city’s erotic underside in a sophisticated yet accessible tone that appeals to both the innocently intrigued and daring divas alike. Whether you want to be titillated by erotic art or seduced at the city’s most exclusive swingers’ clubs, this guide is the key to choosing your own adventure.

This is also the first guidebook that I’ve seen that even had an accompanying video trailer:

The author has an accompanying blog documenting the creation of her book.  She posted some interesting stats about the manuscript for the book:

First email exchanged about the idea of doing a Naughty Paris Guide: March 25, 2005

First chapter completed (Your Boudoir or Mine?):
April 30, 2007
Last chapter completed (Practical Info):
February 10, 2008

Number of men the author dated during the writing of this guide (for research purposes, of course!):
6 French, 2 American

So at least it seems the author has done her homework on the subject.  I didn’t realize how “naughty” of a city Paris is.  This might explain why French women are becoming more like sexual predators.  Anyway the book is on sale and you can find purchase information on the publisher’s website or you can find the book at Amazon (currently $25.74).  For those curious about the book you can download a free trial chapter (once there click on “add to cart”) they offer through the publisher’s website or check out the embedded document below:

Naughty Paris: A Lady’s Guide to the Sexy City (Free Trial) Chapter 1

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For better or for worse , I’ve started to notice a trend in foreign language education.  Apparently, pandas are the most qualified to teach children foreign languages.   Of all of nature’s animals–monkeys, giraffes, sharks, owls, etc … — pandas are the one animal who’s language ability surpasses all the other animals and is the animal that children will listen to while learning languages.  Don’t believe me?  Just take a look at some of the products out there which feature pandas as the teacher.

Panfu: virtual language learning world
	Panfu is an online language learning world for teaching children Spanish.  According to their website their pandas have taught over 4.5 million users.  If you follow their guide you can get a “virtual tour of the world of pandas!“
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Little Pim: language learning DVD’s
	Little Pim is a series of French, Chinese, and Spanish language immersion DVD’s for children.  It’s taught by none other than Little Pim, the PANDA!  Interestingly, this series of DVD’s was developed by the daughter of Paul Pimsleur (the famous applied linguist which the Pimsleur series of learning cd’s was named after).
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Mandy and Pandy: Chinese learning books
	Mandy and Pandy are a series of Chinese learning books for kids which feature Mandy (a little girl) and her friend Pandy, which if you haven’t guess…is a PANDA!  Together through their adventures they learn Chinese.
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Early Start Mandarin:  Chinese learning books and DVD’s
	Eartly Start Mandarin is a series of books and videos for learning Mandarin featuring Bao Bei the PANDA.  I don’t mean any disrespect to the company or what they are doing, but of all the pandas feature, I find this one the most disturbing…Bao Bei scares me.
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Pandamanda:  virtual language learning world
	I have to be honest, even I was not immune to the panda language teaching phenomenon.  A few years ago I entered a business plan competiton with a plan to create an online virtual language learning world for children called Pandamanda.   When I saw Panfu (above) it made me think of my own project.  However, in our world you were guided by Agent Pandamanda, a secret agent who was your partner as you solved various cases / mysteries out of the Pandamanda headquarters.  It was around the time where I had been watching a lot of the show 24 and was inspired (so in my case Agent Pandamanda was to be like Agent Jack Baur, minus all the violence of course…).  We never built the world, but we did for ask $4 million dollars to do so.  For some reason no one gave us the money

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