Jan 09
21
A Newer, More Politically Correct “Joy of Sex”
I remember hearing about the book that enjoyed enormous popularity during the seventies and into the early eighties called “Joy of Sex”, but I never really knew what it was, and by the time I was old enough to understand sex and what it meant, I had forgotten about it. As a matter of fact, I’m sure I had seen the book somewhere when I was younger, too young to understand, maybe at a family member’s house or something.
What it was considered as was revolutionary for the time. It spelled out sex and even had somewhat deviant descriptions of ways you can let it all go and enjoy different kinds of sex, including orgies and things that really were considered socially and ethically tabu at the time, and still are today.
Funny thing is, that now, in the day and age of what is supposed to be eroding moral values, the newer version of Joy of Sex, which is supposedly completely overhauled and made more modern, there are more politically correct entries in this book, such as references to people missing limbs, having sex on horseback, and extramarital affairs or orgies.
I think it’s a funny dichotomy we have going these days as far as morality and socially acceptable standards, because while we supposedly do have progressively lessened ideals or morality, there is still this stickler-like censorship against use of certain words, terms and stereotypes that are socially unacceptable. Politically Incorrect has become somewhat of a buzzword that you never really even heard before the nineteen ninties hit.
The new Joy of Sex tells men how to please their women and women how to please their men basically. It allows couples to read the book and experiment with various sexual fantasies, as well as to talk about it more openly. Early reviews of the newly revised book though, make it sound pretty tame and almost downright prudish in comparison with the older, wilder, hippie and almost perverse in some people’s eyes, version of the immensely popular and well known book of sexual self help and healing.
Making us all feel a little less perverse, or pherhaps opening some of us up to the fact that maybe we’re a bit too subdued in bed, was the fun of the original and it sounds like the new one gives a whole new meaning to “watering” down in this day and age of political correctness.
