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By: Kirsten Law
Date: 2nd Jul 08
Format: Book
Motivation: Improve your dinner conversation
What:
Good Sex Illustrated
Who:
Tony Duvert translated by Bruce Benderson
Where:
Here
How much:
$15.66
In 1973 French writer Tony Duvert conducted a close reading of a series of children's sex manuals with the aim of revealing how the ‘sex-positive' culture of the 1960s had been officially rerouted into promoting the nuclear family. Perhaps because of his passionate belief in the integrity of unpoliced sex and pleasure and the contention that sex education retards what might otherwise be naturally developed sexual behaviour and attitudes, Good Sex Illustrated was met with controversy.
Bruce Benderson's English translation of the text, published last November by Semiotext(e) - who will follow this publication with Duvert's novel Journal d'un innocent - is a must for all cultural studies students or anyone interested in examining the machinations of Western capitalism. Black and white and pink all over, this edition of Good Sex Illustrated is well worthy of your bookcase (which is a great place for it, because reading it on the train might attract some unwanted attention).