Unlike Cattrall’s brazenly sexual onscreen alter-ego, the book is more earnest (with over 75 tasteful illustrations) than flash. But despite protest she’s nothing like Samantha, Kim’s savvy enough to know her onscreen persona should lure a horde of curious readers. “I saw this as an opportunity to help people,” she says. After all, she’s accustomed to being regularly stopped by Sex fans who assume she’s a Dr. Ruth on what to do in the bedroom. “We need to drag sex out from whatever carpet we’ve put it under and expose it to the light.”

"We need to drag sex out from whatever carpet we’ve put it under and expose it to the light."

But Cattrall, who admits she and Levinson have tried Viagra (“It really does work!”), is quick to point out sex is much more than mere technique: The key to good sex and a winning relationship is communication. “There’s nothing I can’t tell Mark,” she says with a Samantha-like purr: “He’s devoted to my unending pleasure. There isn’t anything physically or emotionally in our past we haven’t shared. There are certain things we’re working on, but I feel I know him really well. I truly understand when people say ‘I’ve met my soul mate’—because I have.”

Cattrall can’t guarantee readers will find the perfect partner, but she hopes they’ll have more fun looking. “Millions of women have unsatisfactory sex lives—most when they don’t know what to do. We hope the book will also work for couples who read it.” Adds Levinson: “We’re a couple who found our way. We wanted to share what we discovered.”

Cattrall didn’t inherit her openness about sexuality from her British-Canadian parents who emigrated from Liverpool, England, to the rural Little River on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island when she was a toddler. She grew up poor with four siblings while her construction-worker dad and housewife mom endured a thankless marriage and ultimately divorced. “They never talked about sex,” she says. “Now my mother wishes things had been different.”

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