Nowegians are too shy to buy erotica, making Norway’s most stolen book Pauline Reage’s Story of O. A charming piece of curiosity to start one’s week off with, eh?
Personally, I’d like to see the demographics of of the thieves. Mostly women? Curious teenagers? Dirty old men? BDSM hopefuls? The mind just reels at the possibilities.
The French courtesan as an exile experience? That’s author Virgina Rounding seems to be putting across in her Grandes Horizontales. Well, I have the other books mentioned in this review, so I’ll update my outgoing order to include this study as well. The review itself makes me wonder if Marie Duplessis was the Marilyn Monroe of her day And Clesinger’s scandalous portrayal of Apollonie Sabatier In Woman Bitten by a Snake (double entendre, anyone?) intrigued me enough to look the work up online. The result? All the more reason to read the book.
Passion as fantasy, marriage as reality. Erica Jong talks about the oddest of bedfellows. A rather realistic look at sex and marriage.
Snagging the link from Richard, I was pretty surprised to see the controversy about J. Michael Bailey’s The Man Who Would Be Queen taking a new turn: Two transsexual women have stepped forward to complain that they hadn’t consented to being interviewed for the book. Congressional Republicans aren’t too happy with Bailey either, but for different reasons. Both stories have been brewing for some time.
