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NONFICTION 1. Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex, Reuben (2) 2. Up the Organization, Townsend(l) 3. The Sensuous Woman, "J" (3) 4. Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser (5) 5. The New English Bible (6) 6. Human Sexual Inadequacy, Masters and Johnson 7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou (8) 8. Love and Will, May (4) 9. Points of Rebellion, Douglas (9) 10. Operation Overflight, Powers
Psychiatrist David Reuben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) might better be titled More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex* (*Because You Didn't Know What to Ask). Using a question-and-answer technique, the author tours every inch of the sexual landscape, from abortion to "September sex." And then some. Who but Reuben, for instance, would dream of inquiring: "What's a ben-waT (A self-stimulating device used by Japanese women.) Or, "Do fetishists get married?" (They do.) Reuben wrote his book, he says, because...
...Reuben manages to convey enough common sense to make the book at least episodically informative. He reflects a matter-of-fact permissiveness about sexuality, and straightforwardly attacks a variety of common myths. But the book has probably infuriated as many readers as it has enlightened. "Human destiny," writes the author at one point, "is constant, relentless copulation"-unintentionally implying that sex is almost a reflex function, like bowel movement. Elsewhere, Reuben suggests that Coke is "the best douche available." REUBEN...
...also compares ejaculation to a missile launching into outer space-adding, jauntily, that the sexual launching is into "inner space." This too-calculated irreverence and tasteless tone undermine Reuben's attempt to inform...
...Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, Reuben...