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BEHAVIOR A famous how-to sex manual gets a revamp for the age of AIDS...
...were ignorant or incautious. The smart ones had a textbook. It was The Joy of Sex, a 1972 how-to "gourmet guide," written in breezy language by British physician Alex Comfort, who persuaded his readers that with a little imagination and a sense of adventure, lovemaking could be more fun than sex. Comfort was widely derided as a flaky guru who took the mystery out of sex by describing it with the exactitude of a cookbook recipe. But he had it right: The Joy of Sex, witty, fanciful and mercifully free of moralizing, sold more than 8 million copies...
...how-to guide to the confirmation process...
Most how-to books instruct readers in ways to refinish furniture, profit from a recession, communicate with one's in-laws or cook some exotic ethnic casserole. But one of the hottest tomes of the moment -- it has sold out its first printing of 41,000 copies and will top next week's best-seller list of how-to and advice volumes in the New York Times -- explains, step by step, how to end a human life...
ETHICS Why is a how-to book on suicide a best seller...