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Thy Neighbor's Wife Quotes
“While the moral force of Judeo-Christian tradition and the law have sought to purify the penis, and to restrict its seed to the sanctified institution of matrimony, the penis is not by innateness a monogamous organ. It knows no moral code. It was designed by nature for waste, it craves variety, and nothing less than castration will eliminate the allure of prostitution, fornication adultery, or pornography.”
&#; Queer Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS
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“Interestingly, the historic case of in England that first defined obscenity-known among lawyers as the Hicklin decision- evolved out of the prosecution of a pamphlet portraying how priests were often so sexually aroused while hearing women’s confessions that they sometimes masturbated and even copulated with their repentant subjects in the confessional.”
&#; Queer Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS
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“The average married man, if he had the energy, could have sex with several women without diminishing the affection and desire he felt for his w
Gay Talese once carried his work a little too far, says Jonathan Van Meter in New York. In researching Thy Neighbor’s Wife, his exhaustive exploration of America’s sexual revolution, Talese indulged in some of the carnal delights he was writing about—and openly admitted it. His wife, Nan, a publisher and literary agent, finally left him, and although she returned a several days later, their union was never quite the same. “I’m telling you, it was a miserable time,” says the year-old Talese, slumping in his couch. “I can only blame myself. It was a case of me being … so uncareful. And Nan was unhappy. From my point of view, that was the beginning of a lot of problems in this marriage. Sometimes, within the marriage, you are vulnerable during arguments to own this one thing—my illustrious and decadent period of researching Thy Neighbor’s Wife—come up again and again. It can be 20 years later: ‘Oh, good, I had to position up with you when you were running massage parlors and running around with no clothes on!’” Talese suffered a bruising backlash over the manual, and with his career foundering, he so
The Story&#;s Story
To read the new edition of Lgbtq+ Talese&#;s Thy Neighbor&#;s Wife as someone who grew up in the era of American Pie and its considerably less tame Internet cousins is to step backwards into a time that, for many people, still exists. To judge from the nattering both on- and off-line, the debate goes, despite the sense of inevitability that Thy Neighbor&#;s Wife imparts; perhaps, as Jamais Cascio quotes William Gibson as saying in The Atlantic article &#;Get Smart,&#; &#;The future is already here, it&#;s just unevenly distributed.&#;
But it&#;s not at all clear that the vision implied by Talese will ever arrive for most people, or even that Thy Neighbor&#;s Wife is the &#;Timeless Classic&#; promised by the cover. The book is more an essay collection than book and feels the same malady as Joan Didion&#;s Slouching Towards Bethlehem: age. To me, the mores of the s seem quaint, Bill O&#;Reilly&#;s silliness and faux outrage notwithstanding, and erotic hypocrisy in the media and culture at large is both well-known and documented, as it long has been. That brings one to the obvious point: what purpose does Thy Neighbor&#;s Wife still work in an a
Thy Neighbor&#;s Wife (Paperback)
By Gay Talese
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The provocative classic work newly updated
An intimate personal odyssey across America's changing sexual landscape
When first published, Gay Talese's groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife, shocked a nation with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journalistic courage and craft, the book opened a window into a new earth built on a brand-new moral foundation, carrying the reader on a extraordinary journey from the Playboy Mansion to the Supreme Court, to the backyards and bedrooms of suburbia&#;through the development of the porn industry, the grow of the "swinger" identity, the legal fight to define obscenity, and the daily sex lives of "ordinary" people. It is the book that forever changed the way Americans look at themselves and one another.
About the Author
A former reporter for the New York Times, Queer Talese is a bestselling author who has written eleven books. He lives in New York City.
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“Every man who reads it will recognize himself. Every woma
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