Published over 30 years ago, a fascinating insight into the so-called sexual revolution. Where are we today?
http://www.amazon.com/Thy-Neighbors-Wife…
From an interview with Gay Talese…
I wonder if younger people watching Mad Men today could ever find orgies or adultery shocking.
I tell you this: Today, sex and the culture surrounding it doesn’t have the pop that it did in the ’60s. Back then, it was novel and wonderfully adventuresome. Today, I hear that a blow job is considered standard when people are getting together on college campuses, and back then, it was so intimate, so taboo! …Intercourse meant nothing to these businessmen, but oh, a blow job, that was wonderful and tremendously, marvelously rare. Now it’s common and, dare I say, boring. There’s a lack of sizzle. We were all feeling things for the first time then.
Read more:
http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/gay-talese-interview-mad-men-sexual-revolution.html
