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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The title is taken from a hitherto unpublished poem of Whitman's unearthed in recent scholarly researches on the Master.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.
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PORNOGRAPHY. The very word arouses emotion - and the subject is one about which it is difficult to be uncommitted.
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"A big city wife tells the almost unbelievable story of how she and her husband became embroiled in today's new kind of "modern" social life, where marriage ties become only a passport to a party!."
Lisa Daimler: The Underground Society, Cleveland, OH: Century 015, soft cover, 192pp.
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Discussions of globalization usually focus on political, economic, and technological transformations, but fail to recognize how we experience these processes in our daily lives, including our most intimate acts and practices. In this volume, anthropologists and sociologists draw on long-term ethnographic research on love, gender, and sexuality in a broad range of regions to discuss how global forces shape marriage, commercial sex, the political economy of intimacy, and lesbian and gay expressions of companionship. The richly-textured ethnographies provoke a series of questions about emerging vocabularies for friendship and romance; the adoption of cultural forms from faraway places; the emergence of new desires, pleasures, and emotions that circulate as commodities in the global marketplace; and the ways economic processes shape public and private expressions of sexual intimacy.
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In this controversial book, David Ley debunks the myth of sex addiction, showing how labeling it a disorder has wrested responsibility away from philandering men and excused their bad behavior as being out of their control. He takes on those who would label it a disease and challenges us to reexamine our approach to male sexuality.
David Ley, The Myth of Sex Addiction, Rownman & Littlefield, 2014. soft cover, 270pp.
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The experiences of a real UK swinging couple, a biography of their journey into the secretive world of recreational sex, based on exclusive and candid interviews.Although already very open minded within their own relationship, they had not considered involving others and had little or no knowledge of the hidden world of swinging until an online conversation with a new acquaintance resulted an exciting revelation. A very graphic, erotic, interesting and at times highly amusing account of their experiences, thoughts and feelings. The couple started out on their journey back in early 2003 and their story brings us right up to 2021.
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Everything you've ever wanted to know about how to have a threesome--plus everything you'd never think to ask! The Ultimate Guide to Threesomes will teach you how to have ethical, consensual encounters that give pleasure to everyone involved. Fantasy exploration, finding threesome partners, making your dreams come true--sex educator Stella Harris guides you through the whole process. You'll also find plenty of positions and scenarios for beginners and veterans alike, plus information about safer sex and aftercare. And if you want threesomes to stay a fantasy? That's okay too! This book teaches how to use threesomes in dirty talk and role play. Whether you're just starting out on your threesome journey, or you've been having threesomes for years, you'll find something here to suit your needs. Harris is used to hearing, "Wow, I never thought of that!"--what new ideas will you find in these pages?
