Sex Coloring Books & Adult Books

A sex coloring book is an adult coloring book with explicit or suggestive illustrations in place of the usual mandalas and flowers. Same paper, same colored pencils, different subject matter.

They sell as gifts far more than as personal purchases, and that is the whole appeal. It is a gag gift that is not actually a gag, because the person you hand it to will genuinely sit down and use it.

The one thing worth checking before you buy any of them is whether the pages are printed single sided. Markers and gel pens bleed through thin stock, and a double-sided book loses half its pages the first time someone uses anything wetter than a pencil.

The range here is wider than most people expect, and the titles are almost always literal. These are the groups worth knowing before you pick one:

• Explicit coloring books: the ones that draw exactly what the cover says. Porn Coloring Book Classic XXX Edition, The Gay Porn Coloring Book, Huge Dicks and Cocks of P-Town all sit here.
• Rude but cartoonish coloring books: funnier than they are graphic. Cute as F*ck, Adults Doing Adult Shit, Fetishes Are Fun and Golden GILFS get laughs without putting anatomy on the coffee table.
• Position and technique coloring books: Sexiest Sex Positions, Oral Sex, Anal Sex. You pick something up while you color, which sounds like a stretch until you have done it.
• Illustrated guides and mini books: Kama Sutra Mini, Position of the Day Playbook, Bondage Basics and the pocket-sized minis. Real instruction from real publishers, not novelty.
• Reference and themed picks: Sextrology, Naughty Fairy Tales, the Little Big Butt and Penis books, Feminist Activity Book. These are the ones people actually keep on a shelf.

If you are buying as a gift rather than for yourself, the adult games and novelty gifts and gift sets sit in the same price range and land the same way. High AF belongs with the rest of the 420 shop, and Bondage Basics pairs naturally with a bondage beginner set if you want the book and the gear in one box.