Publisher: Penguin Books
Copyright: 1998
ISBN: 0140271449
I was introduced to the existence of the this book by Dr. Lindsay Doe the host of the YouTube channel "Sexplanations" which has been a fantastic resources for sexually curious people for many years.
At first I wasn't really too sure what the books would be about, but found it to be a fascinating review of how words came to sexually charged, and their real origins, various rituals that are common (and some that are not so common) throughout the world's different cultures both today and historically. He also looks at courtship, history of pin-ups and how that morphed into what we commonly term pornography today, prostitution, and so much more.
This books was a real eyeopener, and I think it should be on most peoples read me list especially in today's world where many people have little or no understanding of how the world really works when dealing with people who don't fit into their microscopically narrow viewpoints.
Mr. Panati is a former physicist and was science editor for Newsweek for six years. He is the author of a number of other books, and I will be reviewing a couple more of these in the future.
Highly recommended
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