IVIV sex

[Doug Millison]

Doc reminds me of guys I knew in 1970, in the Fort Worth-Dallas  
Metroplex, who wore hippie curls and smoked good stash and who would,  
as one saying had it, "fuck a snake if he could get away with it",  
cock-hounds whose objective was to get laid whenever, however, that  
was the prime directive, even if it mean first eating pussy for  
awhile, and of course some men enjoy it for its own pleasures, too.   
I'll leave it to the women to say what might have been happening on  
their end.  Published in 2009, Pynchon's take on 1970 sexual behavior  
seems a rather savage satire, in my view, and I wouldn't be surprised  
to learn that he includes himself among the targets of the satire.  IF  
so he wouldn't be the only man his age who has had a chance to see how  
the way that men routinely treated women back in that day, looks crude  
when exposed without sentimentality here in '09.  If the sex is the  
reason male book reviewers like IV -- did somebody say that? -- then  
they are either young enough so that they can laugh at Doc and the  
rest and not feel they're laughing at themselves, or if they are old  
enough and do remember the 60s, they may be among the men who would  
laugh and also feel a twinge of guilt.