jss | May 16, 2009
I’m reading, lately, Ariel Levy’s Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, and am alternately deconstructing and enjoying it. I like her writing and reporting style. But pervasively, I think she overestimates the extent to which raunch is at the heart of American culture, even sexual culture. Raunch is more … an accoutrement, an activity, a slice of life, than it is a way of life for most women I know who might embrace it to some lesser or greater extent.
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Tags: Ariel Levy, Colbert, FCP, Female Chauvinist Pigs, sexual culture
jss | May 13, 2009
People are Dying to Have Funeral Sex …
I couldn’t resist the headline, could you? And we’re not talking about necrophilia. Or funeral orgies. We’re talking about the “after” life.
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Tags: Alison Tyler, dying, funeral, Obit Magazine, sex
jss | May 12, 2009
Thy Neighbor’s Wife, by Gay Talese, is back in print. I originally read it long ago, though probably not in 1980 when it came out. I was too busy getting out of college in the middle of a recession (sound familiar, anyone?) to have been picking and choosing from the bestseller lists.
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Tags: blogcritics.org, Gay Talese, Honor Thy Father, into temptation, Sexual Revolution, Thy Neighbor's Wife
jss | April 19, 2009
I think Thomas Maier’s new biography of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the premier physiological sex researchers of the last century, is going to go to the top of the pile when it comes in … but I’m going to have to get over my slight annoyance at the tone of the Newsweek article that serves as the coming-out party for this Big, Awaited Book. It’s not so much that a 26-year-old wrote it. Andrew Romano did not do a bad job, considering.
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Tags: Masters and Johnson, Masters of Sex, Newsweek, Thomas Meir
jss | March 1, 2009
Do Conservatives Consume More Porn? Well, ABC News says they do. New Scientist says they do. So it must be true, right? Well, not so fast.
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Tags: ABC News, Benjamin Edelstein, Bible Belt, Conservatives, Nate Silverman, New Scientist, porn, porn fiends, Suzi Parker, xtube.com
jss | February 24, 2009
… But anyway, for fun, I’ve made a list of 20 25 34 other kinds of sex that people have, or at least that I’ve had. It took me five minutes to make the list. Five. Minutes. If you’ve had all these kinds of sex with ONE partner … well, let me know. You win something or the other.
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Tags: 1001 nights, 34 things, book project, hot monogamy, kinds of sex, revenge sex, serial monogamy, sex list
"Into Temptation" is a usually-but-not-always safe-for-work forum about evolving social-sexual networks and how they have changed and are changing lives. It will also loosely chronicle the research, writing and publication, I hope in 2010, of a book by the same name.
