sex manual
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- noun
- /sɛks ˈmæn.ju.əl/
- NSFW
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manual sexual
- I first found this photograph while looking for my parents' copy of a sex manual, which I had found once before under my father's sweaters on the top shelf in his closet.
- a sex manual
Examples
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Many people turn to a sex manual to improve their intimate relationships.
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It originally started as a sex manual, this book that some guys brought back from Amsterdam in the early eighties.
Fiction book (1999) -
But then again, I thought my father was hiding the sex manual from my mother.
Fiction book (1993) -
When he had brought his books to the rented trailer, a most quixotic collection of books, sex manuals sat atop the environmental study of 1987, atop works by Schopenhauer and Kant near cookbooks.
Fiction book (1993) -
She discovered a helpful sex manual that offered various techniques for enhancing pleasure.
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After reading a popular sex manual, he felt more confident discussing his desires with his partner.
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward modifier+noun composition: 'sex' (topic) + 'manual' (instruction booklet) yields 'a manual about sex', so the meaning is directly derivable from the constituents. There is no idiomatic shift or metaphorical extension, and the construction is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would understand the MWE (though cultural sensitivity may affect willingness to discuss it).
Etymology
Sex manual joins sex and manual: a manual is a small 'how-to' book you hold in your hand, so a sex manual is a book that gives 'how-to' advice about sex. So, it means a guide to help people learn or improve their sex life.