Talk Dirty to Me - Softcover

We live in a world in which almost every public image, every interaction, carries an element of sexual desire. And yet it is nearly impossible for us to talk openly and honestly about sex. Personally we find the subject awkward, and as a culture we're stuck in puberty. Talk Dirty To Me -- frank, funny, enlightening, and, of course, arousing -- is the conversation we've been waiting for but have been afraid to start. Most people who agree that you could pay someone to rub your back, but would then add that you shouldn't pay that same person to rub your penis. Two women can kiss on the cheek, but not on the mouth -- because in each of the latter cases, something we call sex has begun, a boundry has been crossed... Sallie Tisdale takes us on a journey through gender and desire, romance and pornography, prostitution and morality, fantasies and orgasm. She takes us behind bedroom doors, to peep shows, XXX stores, and even to the pornography collection at the British Library, still kept under lock and key. She interviews prostitutes, transsexuals, and Freudian analysts, integrates her findings with research from experts as diverse as Masters & Johnson and Pobert Graves, and brings it all down to earth with her own personal feelings and experiences. Sex is a symphony of experiences, infinitely complicated with meaning, rich and unpredictable, disturbing and illuminating, and Talk Dirty To Me is all those things too -- a brilliant, fascinating, wholly original portrait of sex and sexuality in America.

We live in a world in which almost every public image--every interaction--carries an element of sexual desire. And yet it is nearly impossible for us to talk openly and honestly about sex. "Talk Dirty to Me is author Sallie Tisdale's frank, funny, and provocative invitation to the conversation we've been waiting for--but have been too afraid to start.
Sallie Tisdale shuns the dry style of academics and takes us on a journey through gender and desire, romance and pornography, prostitution and morality, fantasies and orgasm. She guides us through her field research of peep shows, XXX stores, and even the pornography collection of the British Library. Interweaving her own personal feelings, experiences, and revelations, she presents a brilliant, fascinating, and wholly original portrait of sex and sexuality in America, while encouraging us to explore and create our own "intimate philosophies."