"Sexual Intelligence is almost like a prequel to Satisfaction," says Cattrall, who is a partner in Fertile Ground Productions, which produced the book and documentary. Sexual Intelligence, she says, attempts to explain why and how men and women feel sexual desire and how world culture and nature influence our impulses and attitudes toward sex.

"We wanted to call it Sexual Intelligence because we wanted to bring intelligence to something that is shrouded in a lot of mystery," Cattrall says.

The full-color book includes numerous photos of classic paintings and sculptures that celebrate the human body. Cattrall's role is that of a tour guide, setting the scene for discussions about sexual attraction, fantasies, taboos and physical chemistry.

"Instead of me being in any kind of role as an expert," she says, "we went about finding experts and everyday people courageous enough to talk about their desires and needs and then using nature, culture and history to highlight that."

For the project, Cattrall traveled to Italy: to the ancient streets of Pompeii, where sexually explicit art was commonplace; and the Secret (erotic) Museum in Naples; a 2,000-year-old earthwork figure of a naked man in Dorset, England; and the beaches of Cyprus, where the love goddess Aphrodite is said to have been born.

"I feel like we're putting this warm light on it, this glow on it." As for whether she believes Americans take sex too seriously or not seriously enough, she says with a laugh, "A little bit of both. Humor is a huge part of sex. It should not be left outside the bedroom.

And people struggling with understanding their sexuality, she says, should know "you really aren't alone. . . . We're all trying to find the answers. That's why I want to continue being the searcher. I don't ever want to be the expert." In addition to a book tour, which will take her to London, Berlin and Amsterdam, Netherlands, Cattrall is tackling projects that will take her in new directions.

She's planning another book and companion documentary titled Everything I Ever Learned About Being a Girl, a self-help and advice guide for young women.

She hopes to produce an English version of a French film (she won't reveal the title) for which she has acquired the rights, and would like to perform in another play in London.

Her personal life also is keeping her busy. She is dating a 26-year-old chef she met in Toronto last year when she was working on the film Ice Princess.

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