Sexx Laws; WAS: Patrick twisted my arm so now I'm reading Pynchon's latest

[Dave Monroe]

On 11/28/07, Daniel Julius <daniel.julius at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2007 7:43 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Patrick twisted my arm, so now I'm reading Pynchon's latest 1085pp opus!
> >
> http://groups.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=groups.groupProfile&groupid=104370525
>
> This is part of what that guy Patrick had to say about AtD:
> "Frankly, something should be said about the sex in this book. Not that I'm
> a prude, but Pynchon goes a long way towards ruining this book with the
> frequent bedroom [...] shenanigans. And it's not that graphic or unusual
> sexual action ruins a book, but too often the sex seemed gratuitous &
> juvenile."

Maybe that guy SHOULDn"t read GR then ...

> WHICH REMINDS ME, does anyone have a recommendation for a good primer
> on sexual deviation?  (I know, whatever that means).  I'd like sort of a
> glossary of paraphilias, and ideally something drawing connections between
> the sexual acts discussed and insights into the other non-sexual parts of
> the lives of the fetishists, real or hypothetical.  For example, what
> non-sexual experiences tend to lead someone to be attracted to domination?

Here's a classic, at any rate ...

http://www.archive.org/details/psychopathiasexu00krafuoft