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By Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal: Sexually conversing provides the author’s frequently provocative and constantly attractive innovations on sexuality. the following, fourteen essays and 3 infrequent, classic interviews released over the last 4 many years take on hot-button issues akin to homosexual American founding fathers, intercourse and the Catholic church, homosexual bashing and the U.S. Congress, and bedding Jack Kerouac. “Vidal’s erudition, candor, and unheard of humorousness shine.” ―San Francisco Chronicle

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The decline of incest as a marketable theme is probably due to today's inadequate middle-class housing. In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown. Homosexuality is now taken entirely for granted by pornogra-phers because we take it for granted. But though there is considerable awareness nowadays of what people actually do, the ancient somewhat ambivalent hostility of the tribe persists; witness Time magazine's recent diagnosis of homosexuality as a "pernicious sickness" like influenza or opposing the war in Vietnam.

The looniest of Dr. Reuben's folklore is "Food seems to have a mysterious fascination for homosexuals. " (Who? I'm really curious. ). "Some of the fattest people are homosexuals" (King Farouk? Orson Welles? ). " It certainly is, since there is no evidence one way or the other. But if there were, Dr. well, butterball; since then, according to the dustjacket photo, he has "matured" and lost weight). But Reuben the folklorist is nothing compared to Reuben the statistician. " And of course those 70 to 80 percent of men who engage in cunnilingus.

Incest, mysteriously, seldom figures in current pornographies. This is odd. The tribal taboo remains as strong as ever, even though we now know that when members of the same family mate the result is seldom more Pornography • 39 cretinous or more sickly than its parents. The decline of incest as a marketable theme is probably due to today's inadequate middle-class housing. In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be.

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