The Joy of Sex: The 1970's Book Receives a Modern Makeover
Mar/17/08 10:47 AM
A much loved manual has been updated
for the 21st century. Tamsin Kelly finds out whats' in and whats
out.
I 'm in pursuit of The Joy of Sex. The book, that is. But it's not there on the shelves - not under Health and Wellbeing, nor in the Mind, Body, Spirit section - and I am getting increasingly desperate. So much for being beyond embarrassment at my age. I am going to have to ask for a sex book in a full but alarmingly quiet bookshop.
Embracing change: the hirsute lover from 1972 has become a 21st century smoothie
Cue a bizarre and slightly too loud conversation with the rather too jolly bookseller about: 1) how he should have one, but often people take them off for a sneaky read, then pop them back in the wrong section; and 2) the attractiveness, or not, of bearded men...
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I 'm in pursuit of The Joy of Sex. The book, that is. But it's not there on the shelves - not under Health and Wellbeing, nor in the Mind, Body, Spirit section - and I am getting increasingly desperate. So much for being beyond embarrassment at my age. I am going to have to ask for a sex book in a full but alarmingly quiet bookshop.
Embracing change: the hirsute lover from 1972 has become a 21st century smoothie
Cue a bizarre and slightly too loud conversation with the rather too jolly bookseller about: 1) how he should have one, but often people take them off for a sneaky read, then pop them back in the wrong section; and 2) the attractiveness, or not, of bearded men...
Read More...
