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[a Journey Across the New Sexual Frontier] Euryd -A'*..^-.».>. ^^^•\/\/ Can.$32.50 ^%atyricon USA is a groundbreaking tour of % America's contemporary sexual landscape, C# written by a young woman who has already been called "the most compelling writer of sex in the English language."Like Petronius,the ancient Roman writer she takes as her model, Eurydice presents a firsthand account ofthe chaos ofhuman sexualityin all itskinky,confused,andtransgressive expressions.With a style that combines erudition, wit, and hipness, and audaciously draws on both the factual authority ofjournalism and the atmos- pheric license of fiction, Eurydice transports us inside the nightmarish, breathtaking realms of dungeons and bloodletting clubs, cross-dressing conferences, supersized strip emporiums, as well as military bases and Catholic monasteries. In one chapter she accompanies a sex addict on a voracious nightlong escapade, in the next she meets with men and women who claim to have ongoing sexual relations with aliens, in another she describes the bone-chilling desires of neigh- borhood necrophiliacs. Her aim is to understand these people who are drawn to the farthest sexual "fringe." On her journeys, Eurydice learns that, in fact, they are well-educated middle- to upper-class professional Americans. They are housewives and stockbro- kers, college students and grandparents, doctors and priests. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, Eurydice probes people's dual lives to answer some fundamental questions: Why is our society simultaneously obsessed with and afraid of sex? How does this widespread sexual eccentricity coexist with our puritanical hysteria about sexual (tmiliiit on bisk lltf) WITH ^ Ho long^theprq?3l^ tw* PuW^Ubwy- Boston \ Sale ofthis maiertrf bcwefltedtheL8H«ffi^ i atyricon A Journey Across the New Sexual Frontier Eurydice s c r b n e r i SCRIBNER 1230AvenueoftheAmericas NewYork, NY 10020 © Copyright 1999byEurydice All rightsreserved, includingtherightofreproduction inwholeorinpart inanyform. SCRIBNERand designare trademarksof Simon& SchusterInc. Manufacturedinthe UnitedStatesofAmerica 13579 8642 10 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Eurydice. Satyricon: ajourneyacrossthenewsexual frontier/Eurydice. — p. cm.— 1. Sex UnitedSt—ates Philosophy. 2. Sexcustoms United States. — — 3. Sex Moral andethi—calaspects UnitedStates. 4. UnitedStates Social conditions. I.Title. HQ18.U5E83 1999 306.7'0973^c21 98-46448 CIP ISBN0-684-83951-2 Deep, tender thanks to Randallfor so much, to myparentsfor everything, to thefriends whoguided me through obscure communities or drafts, and to Heather Schroder, Biz Mitchell, and Bob Guccione Jr.forfirst imagining this

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