Saturday, 9. November 2002

Topic: - on November 9, 2002 at 11:56:49 AM CET

The Joy of Sex

The classic sex manual -- "Updated for the 21st Century!" -- offers good advice but has a fetish for underarm hair and a very unsexy cheeriness. Cheeriness is not sexy. A smile -- salacious, conspiratorial, sly -- is. And so are shared jokes, dirty or otherwise. But cheeriness, which can imply a sort of pep-talk falsity, is a real turn-off. And "The Joy of Sex," just reissued in an edition said to be "Fully Revised & Completely Updated for the 21st Century" (of which more later), fairly reeks of cheeriness.

¬> Salon

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