He's a lustful sexy animal. In bed, count on getting more than you bargained for. He has an intimate knowledge of female anatomy and an active erotic imagination. No holds are barred, and no prudery is allowed to interfere.

Every encounter must produce the maximum amount of delight. His energies are insatiable. He will start off on a high note and continue on an ascending scale. From the first kiss you know that he means business. He will go straight for his objective.

He isn't concerned with refinements of technique. All he wants to do is satisfy the uncontrollable imperious demands of his genitalia. Before he finishes undressing, he is ready to go. His compulsive need is all too evident when he stands there naked, legs apart. That turns on a woman, too. In fact, she will usually be panting with welcome before he enters her. One woman I know described making love with a Scorpio lover as "something like watching an avalanche come your way!"

He comes on strong. His kisses are not sweet pecks, but fierce rough male caresses. He enjoys biting and sucking, and is a past master at cunnilingus. Inflicting pain turns him on. During foreplay he may pinch the nipple or the inside of your thighs, insert his thumb into your vagina and his middle finger into the anus and then snap his fingers on the thin membrane (the perineum). This can cause tremendous erotic sensations along with the pain.

His need is to completely dominate a woman. If she will bear pain from him, that signifies her submission. He indulges himself in the fantasy that most women like to be sexually assaulted, physically overpowered.

Ruled by his genitalia, he enjoys having a lover worship at the throne. A tongue running over his penis, sucking, taking little nips, makes him throb with response. HE particularly likes to meet you coming from a hot tub, let you fellate him, then press your warm moist naked body against cool wall tiles and enter standing up. Wetness appeals to him (Scorpio will a water sign), and his sense of sexual urgency is satisfied by the quick union of naked bodies. He'll want to continue in the bedroom (Scorpio is always willing to continue), or he may put you back in the tub for an encore. Tip: You'd better have quick and easy access to the vaginal creams and jellies that lessen the soreness from returning so often to the fray.

Scorpio will go to unusual lengths to add pleasure to his couplings. One man I recall invariably masturbated before having intercourse; another bit his lips until they bled or pinched himself severely so that pain would temporarily halt his orgasm. One particularly interesting fellow told me he had discovered how to strengthen his penis muscles while urinating-simply haltering and starting the flow every few seconds. As a result, he assured me, women were absolutely delighted during intercourse with his prolonged spurts of sexual potency.

Scorpio male prefers making love when there is some chance of a conception, so he is excited by women who do not use contraceptives. He doesn't like to use condoms or such male contraceptive methods as coitus interruptus, in which the penis is withdrawn just before ejaculation. One method Scorpio will use is to bathe his testicles in hot water before intercourse, which sometimes achieves a temporary infertility. (It is a fact that the testicles are located outside the body because the sperm manufacture therein cannot live even in the body heat of 98.6 degrees.) A reason Scorpio male prefers this method is the pleasure-pain stimulation it gives to the genitalia.

One thing I have never found: a Scorpio male who asks me questions about how to enjoy better sex. That is not surprising to anyone who understands those born under the sign of the Scorpion. To ask questions would somehow indicate sexual ignorance or inferiority- and no true Scorpion would ever be guilty of that! Sex is far too serious a business.

Scorpio male is prone to kindness. He enjoys far-out sex and experiments with anything that will make the experience memorable. One of the least kinky is to make it larger and harder. Males born under this sign also tend to favor the more sophisticated type of dildoes-the new kind of artificial penises that exude warmth, ejaculate a semenlike substance, and even have built-in vibrators!

His latent violence can turn real and vicious. He has a strong tendency toward the paranoid when he feels he's being denied.

Scorpio derives pleasure from someone else's pain, and this leads easily into sadistic practices. Not long ago, newspaper accounts told of a man who had set up a dungeon in his basement where he brought girls to torture them before possessing them. He hung a victim by her arms, clamped her to the wall with ropes and chains, and gagged her with a handball and a cord that made it difficult for her to breathe. I don't need the confirmation of the sadist's birth date to recognize the signature of Scorpio!

For less obvious criminal types, there are milder forms of Scorpio obsession. He prefers coarse wood tables and hard floors to silk sheets and satin pillows. He likes to drive a woman to multiple-and I mean multiple orgasms, usually with the aid of electrical stimulation. It works this way: He straps a vibrator to his hand and, taking the clitoris between thumb and index fingers, lets the gentle surging motion bring her to orgasm after orgasm. Sometimes he varies the procedure by inserting two fingers in the vagina before throwing the switch on the vibrator or puts only the index finger in and his thumb on the clitoris. This kind of pleasure quickly becomes almost unendurable-and nothing pleases Scorpio male more than intermingling pleasure with pain.