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Talk Dirty to Me

An Intimate Philosophy of Sex

by Sallie Tisdale
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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."

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    May 25, 2011

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      • ISBN: 9780307795281

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      • ISBN: 9780307795281
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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 3, 1994
      Tisdale, who stirred controversy with her 1992 essay on pornography in Harper's, combines simplistic thinking and provocative insight in this freewheeling but tiresome meditation on female desire, sexual jealousy, orgasm, horniness, adult sex shows and much else. She argues that ``alternative sexuality''-everything that is taboo, from homosexuality to masturbation-is punished because it is nonreproductive. Recounting her own enjoyment of pornographic films, Tisdale contends that pornography, though often crude and adolescent, is nevertheless a positive force because it emphasizes a broad view of what is erotic, and separates sex from reproduction, marriage and the heterosexual relationship, ``which most feminists would agree have been oppressive to women.'' Seeking to dispel stereotypes surrounding prostitutes, she cites a study that concludes that whores and their customers are happy and healthy; she also advocates decriminalization of prostitution. Her embrace of sexuality is sprinkled with allusions to Plato, James Joyce, Nietzsche, Freud and Wilhelm Reich. First serial to Esquire and Elle; author tour.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 2, 1995
      Tisdale's provocative look at sexuality relates personal experiences alongside meditations on subjects such as pornography and prostitution.

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