ISBN-10: 0-15-142173-0
Writers: Anna K. and Robert T. Francoeur
Title: Hot &: Cool Sex
Subtitle: Cultures in Conflict
Introduction: Robert H. Rimmer
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York, London
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Year of Publication: 1974
Format: 145x220mm
Pages: xv+220
Illustrations: one black and white picture of the writers on the back flap by George A. Francoeur
Binding: cloth spine and boards in colour dust jacket designed by Linda Kosarin
Weight: 473gr.
Original Price: USD 7.95
Entry No.: 2013034
Entry Date: 15th October 2013
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Anna and Robert Francoeur examine here within a religious and historical context, the changing sexual and marriage patterns in American society. Birth control, women's liberation, and increased mobility and leisure are important factors in the inevitable and rapid process of change, “but the eye of the storm,” say the Francoeurs, “is a new way in which men and women relate to one another as sexual persons.”
Employing Marshall McLuhan's terminology, the Francoeurs analyze the shift from the constraints and artificiality of “hot” sex to the spontaneous enjoyment of “cool” sex. Organizationally, this means replacing the traditional “closed” marriage with the flexible “open” marriage. In terms of personal growth, it means equal communication in an environment of diffused sensuality and multilateral relations between men and women.
The time for drastic change in sexual relations is ripe, the Francoeurs believe. But the process is one of delicate balance. “If we use sex as a means to an end, it is cut off from the real essence of our lives,” but “when sex is integrated into our personality… human sexuality becomes communicative, contemplative, polymorphic, and aesthetic.”
A thoroughly documented and illustrated explanation of the modernday social phenomena, Mate-Swapping and Orgies
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Now available in a new paperback edition, this survey is different in both breadth and scope from all other reports on sexuality in the United States. It covers every topic imaginable, from a multicultural point of view, in order to reflect fully the complex society in which we live: the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual aspects of our sexual lives.
Robert T Francoeur, Patricia Koch and David Weis, Editors. Sexuality in America: Understanding our Sexual Values and Behavior, London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, hardcover.1997. 360pp.
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Sex is one of the great joys of life – satisfying to the body, sublime to the soul. But when we examine our sexual psychology with a careful eye, we will find a reservoir of fear toward sexual expression.
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At a time when almost any victimless sexual practice has its public advocates and almost every sexual act is fit for the front page, the easiest, least harmful, and most universal one is embarrassing, discomforting and genuinely radical when openly acknowledged.
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The most beautiful beach in the world... that happens to be a nude beach.
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Here is an odyssey through the wilds of American mating, and there has never been a look like it because Ralph Schoenstein has ever had the necessary blend of derring-do and ignorance.
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This isn't just another major novel. This is for readers who, having perhaps recently cruised in a number of such vehicular masterworks, might like a joyride in a jalopy. They will be whisked out along Iowa backroads to see the sexual revolution in full sway in what only yesterday was called the Bible Belt, with a marriage counselor named Bill Bumpers at the wheel, driving with the top down and the accelerator floored.
Wildly uncertain whether he is saving the demise, Dr. Bumpers nurses a rural union into ménage à trois, an that into a sort of updated Brook Farm commune, as hired men, shirtsleeve philosophers, and assorted other American folk archetypes Get With It. Using his familiar broad cartoon strokes, De Vries quickly sketches for us the utopia of total self-gratification we have been promised by rhapsodists urging us to scrap the work ethic along with the Puritan. Women's Lib is now a seminal (sic) force, and there is of course creative self-realization for all- the hired man turned primitive and critic is certainly one of the author's happier inspirations.
All this is orchestrated with our guide's own personal life, giving us stopovers at orgies, black masses, and what not as we wing our way merrily toward 1984 rather different from the one we had been fearing. By no means necessarily opposed to unfettered freedom, the author simply reminds us that the broader the front on which man pursues it, the greater his potential for absurdity. As Whitney Balliett long ago pointed out in The New Yorker, "De Vries, in a highly devious way, is battling both immorality and morality."
The title is taken from a hitherto unpublished poem of Whitman's unearthed in recent scholarly researches on the Master.
Peter De Vries (1910-1993). I Hear America Swinging, Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1976. 211pp.
