Word: dubelman
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Have you gotten feedback from any of the men who were written about? Dubelman: I got a lot of Facebook messages from old boyfriends who said, "The book's great - I'm not that guy, am I?" Davilman: Liz got an e-mail from a guy I wrote about in the book. He asked to get in contact with me. And I said yes because we didn't end on terrible terms. Dubelman: I'm not 100% sure he knew he was the guy in the book. Davilman: He did not know! So I wrote him back and I said...
...authors in this collection range in age from 19 to almost 70. Did you notice any generational difference between the stories told by young women and those who were older? Dubelman: Younger women were more explicit about sex. That's really the only thing. They wrote about sex more openly and they used more explicit language. But the sentiments were all the same...
...ever get any stories in which you felt the woman was at fault? Dubelman: Oh, sure. And the women are so great at confessing their own faults. There's a story in the book where the woman has sex in a bar bathroom. She absolutely knew that this was a crazy idea, the bathroom was dirty, it was not a nice place, she didn't even really want to do it. It was a horrible idea - and gross - but she's willing to confess that she did it. So you don't blame her for it, 'cause she says...
Will there be a second book? Dubelman: We hope so. We want to do a book from the man's perspective. And we want to get some same-sex couples...
...have your own relationship tale? Davilman and Dubelman are still accepting stories about bad boyfriends and girlfriends on their website...