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Sex Rules!
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2017909204
ISBN: (paperback) 978-1-63353-593-0 , (ebook) 978-1-63353-594-7
BISAC category code PER004010 PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production
Printed in the United States of America
Praise for Sex Rules!
“Toss your preconceptions overboard and jump on a wild tour of ‘No-way!’ sexual customs, LOL gender switcheroos, and plenty of eye-popping moments. This is the world’s weirdest and funniest reality show. But it’s more. It’s fascinating and smart, and all true. It will give you a new way of looking at the world. And when you feel your most bizarre, it offers a comforting lesson: You’re not alone! There’s a place in this world for everyone.”
–Richard Bangs, often called “the Father of Modern Adventure Travel,” led “firsts” in travel worldwide, writes for HuffingtonPost.com, produces and hosts the National Public TV series Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose. He blogs on Quests: Keep the Quest Alive (http://www.richardbangs.com)
“It’s a scientific fact! Women have better orgasms with funny partners. Read this hilarious book and you’ll have more and better sex, happier relationships and a healthier libido! Quote it to friends and you’ll never be lonely. And if your lover/boss/parent/spouse catches you doubled over, gasping with laughter, just look superior and say you’ve taken up anthropology.”
–Joanne Sandler, former Deputy Executive Director of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), is a senior associate of Gender@Work, an international collaborative that strengthens organizations to build cultures of equality and social justice. She co-produces the popular podcast Two Old Bitches.
(http://www.twooldbitches.com/)
“From its first pages, Sex Rules! Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World opens a door onto a page-turning world rich with variety, humor and unexpected twists of sexual practices around the world. It’s fresh, intriguing and of course titillating. But it’s also thought-provoking and timely. We in the Western world have locked sex into norms only now being challenged on so many levels. This book’s look at diverse world cultures and their ‘acceptable’ sexual practice is fascinating, often funny in the telling, and deeply surprising. I highly recommend Sex Rules! to anyone who has a hunger to delve into rarely seen corners of the world, enjoy a good laugh, and learn from a trained scholar as she takes you on this journey that reveals ‘Sex Rules’ in all their staggering variety.”
–Ed Robbins is an award-winning Director-Writer-Producer and Digital Journalist. His programs have aired on PBS, Discovery Channel, TLC, Nat Geo Channel, ABC, NBC, BBC2 and Channel 4; his stories have been published in the NY Times, Time Magazine, and the International Reporting Project. He’s an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University.
“The world needs more laughs, more fun, wider caring and understanding. Enter, this book. Yes, it’s very funny, but it’s so much more. Stunning facts about intriguing cultures you didn’t even know exist – and may not much longer. ‘Weird’ cultures that give insights into our own. The author clearly likes and respects these folks, who seem strange from our POV but have their own logic. She tackles sexism, dogmatism, and intolerance with that powerful force: marvelous humor.”
–Isa Maria Infante, Ph.D., J.D., Green Party candidate for Governor of Tennessee, former dean at SUNY, leader of Sugar Tree Bluegrass, an all-women’s bluegrass band, playwright and performer of her international one-woman show, Las Cucarachas.
Acknowledgements
My deepest thanks to my family, who inspire and delight me, to Isa, who helped create the book’s initial concept, and most of all to Stuart, whose support and curiosity have made life a pleasure and this book possible.
Contents
Sex, Lies, and Virgins’ Tastes or How to Pick a Lover
Is that a vibrator in your pocket, or are you glad to see me?
Keep those wholesome family traditions
Men are from Venus, Women are from Mars...