Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask

"Dr. David Reuben, the new apostle of sanity in sex." That's how the back cover of the 1969 Best Seller, "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Sex (But Were Afraid To Ask)," depicted its author. At the time, the book was not very suprising; lurid books about the sex lives of just about every sector of society had been available for several years; as a collector of bad sex manuals from the past, I have a 1958 printing of "The Teenager and Sex," a book that is as shrill as any "abstinence only" website fifty years later. Perhaps what makes Reuben's book noteworthy is it's publisher-- Bantam Press-- and its very widespread distribution in mainstream bookstores. It was followed closely by the 1970 release of his "More Things You Wanted To Know (But Still Didn't Know To Ask)."

Reuben's book is atrocious.

( And I'm bringing up a forty-year-old sex manual... why? )

Night at The Little Red Studio

So my friend j5nn5r has recently been absorbed into some kind of avant-garde art collective downtown called The Little Red Studio, which bills itself as a place for "Beauty, Art, and the Erotic," and his wife, Desirae, invited me to come down and check the place out for last night's show. Omaha wanted to go as well but couldn't: Kouryou-chan was sick and someone needed to stay and watch over her.

( And Jenner said to me, "Here, Elf, tie her up." )

The only question remains: how much of that can I use in stories?