Good Sex Illustrated

Tony Duvert, Bruce Benderson, Bruce Benderson

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French

Semiotext (E)
02 November 2007

Cultural studies; Gender studies, gender groups

Series: Good Sex Illustrated

A scathing view of sex manuals for children and society's hypocrisy of over sex that argues for the rights of children to their own bodies and their own sexuality.

Why is pleasure ""doubled"" when it's ""shared""?... Do you really have to cut pleasure in two so that it'll exist? I mean, if it's doubled when there are two of you, then it must be tripled when there are three, quadrupled when there are four, centupled when there are a hundred, right? Is it O.K. for a hundred to share? And if I get used to trying it all alone, why is it that I'll never love anyone again? Is it that good alone and that awful with others? ; from Good Sex Illustrated First published in France in 1973, Good Sex Illustrated gleefully deciphers the subtext of a popular sex education manual for children produced during that period. In so doing, Duvert mounts a scabrous and scathing critique of how deftly the ""sex-positive"" ethos was harnessed to promote the ideal of the nuclear family. Like Michel Houllebecq, Duvert is highly attuned to all the hypocrisies of late twentieth century western ""sexual liberation"" mass movements. As Bruce Benderson notes in his introduction, Good Sex Illustrated shows that, ""in our sexual order, orgasm follows the patterns of any other kind of capital... 'good sex' is a voracious profit machine."" But unlike Houllebecq, Duvert writes from a passionate belief in the integrity of unpoliced sex and of pleasure. Even more controversially now than when the book was first published, Duvert asserts the child's right to his or her own playful, unproductive sexuality. Bruce Benderson's translation will belatedly introduce English-speaking audiences to the most infamous gay French writer since Jean Ganet.

By: Tony Duvert
Introduction by: Bruce Benderson
Translated by: Bruce Benderson
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781584350439
ISBN 10: 1584350431
Series: Good Sex Illustrated
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 02 November 2007
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tony Duvert (1945-2008) is the author of fourteen books of fiction and nonfiction. His fifth novel, Strange Landscape, won the prestigious Prix Medicis in 1973. Other books translated into English include the novels When Jonathan Died and Diary of an Innocent as well as the essay Good Sex Illustrated, the last two both available from Semiotext(e). Novelist, translator, and essayist Bruce Benderson is the author of a memoir, The Romanian- Story of an Obsession, winner of France's prestigious Prix de Flore in French translation, and Pacific Agony (Semiotext(e), 2009.) Novelist, translator, and essayist Bruce Benderson is the author of a memoir, The Romanian- Story of an Obsession, winner of France's prestigious Prix de Flore in French translation, and Pacific Agony (Semiotext(e), 2009.)

Reviews for Good Sex Illustrated

A writer criminally undertranslated and consequently barely known in the primarily English-speaking areas of the world... Duvert is one of the more significant and idiosyncratic contemporary French fiction writers. He s also one of the most mysterious. Dennis Cooper