Satyricon USA: A Journey Across the New Sexual Frontier

By Eurydice (Eurudice) and Eurydice

Book Overview

In what Gear magazine deemed a "rich and fascinating portrait of sex in America," Eurydice gives us a frontline report on the reality of sex life in the United States -- from "fringe" sexual behavior... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684839512
• ISBN13: 9780684839516
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Scribner
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

American Eroticism Inside and Out

This book is sexy and brainy at once, which is a rarity. The author takes us to many American towns and communities where we meet soldiers, teachers, bankers, doctors, crossdressers, sex addicts, strippers, knife-loving lesbians, sadomasochists, necrophiliacs, people who sleep with aliens, you name it. The author makes all these people seem normal even as they are so bizarre. She knows sex and human nature and has brilliant comments throughout that make you think. It's exciting, it's informative, it's original. I don't think there's another book on sex so good anywhere around. I heard Eurydice on Bob Berkowitz's Lovebytes on e-yada last week. She writes the Sex Files column for Gear magazine and has an erotic novel out called f/32 I think.

A Classic About Sex in 1999

This is a book chockful of ideas, scenes, suggestions,and a great pleasure to read. I never looked up. The topic is intriguing, the characters real and wild. Sex is everywhere in it and so is America. It's a classic, and there aren't many on this topic. It's not dumbed down, but there's nothing wrong with having moments of brilliance. This will be around a long time, much longer than most books written about sex these days, and books will be written about it. It is a travelogue and a philosophical treatise on modern sexuality. It turned me on And it made me think.

intelligent synopsis of fringe sexuality

This is a smart book, thoughtful and perceptive. It's obviously not meant to provide juicy tidbits -- the reader from Austin, Texas is right, there's nothing new and shocking, but then he obviously missed the point entirely and picked up the book for the wrong reason (recommendation to him/her: try the animal section at your local porn store). I think the author of the book captures well the hypocracy (sp?) of sexuality in America at the end of the century, where "abnormal" sex is so common as to not be aberrant anymore, yet where puritanism still permeates the culture. No jollies here, just good analyis and some very interesting characters opening themselves up. I recommend it.