The joy of sex book

Published in , when sex was still supposed to take place in the dark and under the sheets, the book thrust itself into public consciousness with all the subtlety of a gigolo at a convention of bishops. It was also stunningly popular, a well-thumbed fixture of bedside tables across America that spent weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. The book has undergone various tweaks and expansions over the years, and six years ago the Hairy Man and his somewhat less hairy female partner were relegated to wherever old hippies go to retire. But now comes a completely revised version of the book, written, for the first time, for women as much as for men. It tackles an array of modern topics unheard of in the s, like Internet pornography, AIDS and Viagra , and features photographs and drawings, when things get too graphic of a suitably buff 21st-century couple. But still.

To browse Academia. Skip to main content. You're using an out-of-date version of Internet Explorer. Log In Sign Up. Songyos Pongrojphaw. Updated and reillustrated editions were published in , , , and by Mitchell Beazley, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd. Originally published: New York : Crown, ; 1st American ed.

Your purchase helps support NPR programming. An updated version of the guide first published in features updated text and illustrations and covers such topics as sexually transmitted diseases and achieving healthy intimacy. Note: Book excerpts are provided by the publisher and may contain language some find offensive. On Gourmet Lovemaking All of us, barring any physical limitations, are able to dance and sing — after a fashion. This, if you think about it, summarizes the justification for learning to make love.

John McAlley. Looking back from a distance of more than three decades, there's something hilariously off about sexologist Alex Comfort's best-selling ode to getting it on, The Joy of Sex. That groundbreaking first edition, published in , brims with hippie wisdom, general male cluelessness — and hair. A woman's armpits, it counseled, "should on no account be shaved," as not to soften their furry eroticism, and deodorant for both sexes was to be "banned absolutely.