Make some strapping cabana boy happy today!
Can we ever get enough of mature women sex tourists on Viagra? I didn't think so! Commenter Jeannette Belliveau (I just hear that name and I'm already hooked) hipped us yesterday to her book "Romance on the Road," that describes female sex travel "as a qualified victory for feminism." The brief excerpt available on her site is terrific, in particular the "Sexual Geography" world maps, which feature fat and skinny arrows pointing all over the place and look like the rise-and-fall-of-the-Axis endpapers they used to have in histories of World War II. But Belliveau's world conquerors are even more impressive. Dig these feats from the sex travellers Hall of Fame:
In Jamaica, a tourist woman in one night took three lovers page 47
In the Dominican Republic, in 14 days a German woman took 18 lovers page 100
Hot stuff! And as demonstrated in this hilarious blog post detailing the nearly total fabrication of an interview with the Daily Mail, she's an effective critic of that weird combination of sweaty-palmed leering and pleasure-hating moralism with which the mainstream media always treat matters of lust. Check out her site.
the mainstream media
Dude, you work for the LA Times.
Posted by: Mitchell Young | July 25, 2008 at 07:33 AM
True that, Mitchell. But as far as I can tell we don't do any sweaty-palmed leering at all. It's all pleasure-hating moralism all the time around here!
Posted by: Tim Cavanaugh | July 25, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Tim -- I never before have written ROTFLMAO but there's a first time for everything! From the comparison of my sexual geography maps to history book endpapers to the leering-moralism binary wiring of the mainstream media, you have nailed what I am trying to write about and express.
Also, it's been unexpected but funny how much reaction I get on my random blog on Daily Mail interview fabrication, everyone from novelist friends to an acquaintance who runs a hardware store got a big kick out of that ...
Posted by: Jeannette Belliveau | July 28, 2008 at 05:22 AM