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Rumpus Book ClubThe East The West and Sex
“As Richard Bernstein writes in “The East, the West, and Sex,” his book about the erotic allure of the East for Western men, “sex was a pleasure avidly pursued by the builders of empire going places where it was readily available.”
This is beyond dispute if only because sex was also a pleasure avidly pursued by those who stayed at home. Maybe it was more avidly – and successfully – pursued away from the prying eyes of neighbors, kin, police and the church. In any case, sex – kinky and straight – was very much part of the encounter of two worlds.”
A review of The East, the West, and Sex from the Chronicle.
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