Sex tips from Samantha: sex and the city's most carnal character reveals the surprising truth about her real lust life and shares tips for getting satisfaction in the sack. (Bedroom Bonus).(Brief Article)

* It's easy to assume that since Kim Cattrall plays Samantha Jones--the sexually insatiable, orgasm-obsessed siren--on Sex and the City that in real life, she must have always had fabulous sex. But when we caught up with Kim on a recent morning in her Beverly Hills hotel room, she confessed, "Until a few years ago, I wasn't able to have an orgasm with a man. It was very frustrating, and I started to think that I was just not a sexual person. So I shut down and put all of my energy into my work." No wonder Kim's character has always been so libidinous--she was the beneficiary of all that untapped sexual energy.

But how could the go-get-him girl we see on TV--the one who let her trainer shave her in the shower and willingly hopped into a sex swing--ever have had a lust life that was anything less than steamy? Well, none of her bedmates knew how to satisfy her, and she felt embarrassed to bring it up. "Premature ejaculators were the bane of my existence," Kim says. "I felt used and unfulfilled, but I didn't know how to fix the problem without humiliating the guy."

But then Kim met Mark Levinson (now her husband), and all that frustration became a thing of the past. She realized that she was sexual--she just hadn't met a man who could please her. "I learned that one of the biggest limitations to a gratifying sex life is that many men don't know how to bring a woman to orgasm," she says. "And many women are not informed or confident enough to tell men what to do."

Because of Samantha's openness, people feel like they can ask Kim how to get more bang, so to speak, in the bedroom. So she decided to write a book with her husband in which she shares her newfound sexual knowledge: Satisfaction: The Art of the Female Orgasm. But if you're looking for a salacious peek at Samantha's onscreen antics, this isn't it. In fact, there isn't a solitary mention of her character's outlandish passion proclivities. If you want to use a sex swing or any other toy, then by all ...