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Nycsex
by David Gluck
NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America, the companion book to the exhibition of the same name, is an engaging and highly entertaining contribution to preserving the oral history of sex in our own times. As background, the book opens with an essay by Grady T. Turner, Executive Curator of The Museum of Sex, surveying the city's impact on modern ideas about Sex and Sexuality in the years before World War II. Subjects include well-known figures such as Margaret Sanger, Florenz Ziegfeld and Mae West, as well as such lesser-known people as Madame Restell (a 19th-century abortionist reviled as "the wickedest woman in the city"), Gladys Bentley (a 300 pound cross-dressing lesbian blues singer who wowed audiences in Harlem), and Bernarr Macfadden (progenitor of muscle magazines and aspirant to the presidency). NYC Sex also includes four conversational interviews that look at the more recent past, as historians and icons of the Sexual revolution discuss the influence of the city and its people. Contributors are: Martin Duberman, P.h.D. and Joan Nestle on gay and lesbian history, and its relevance to the study of heteroSexuality Timothy J. Gilfoyle, P.h.D., Xaviera Hollander and Tracy Quan on the history and current practice of prostitution Karen Finley, Luc Sante, Gene Simmons and Art Spiegelman on the city's subcultures and their influence on the mainstream Vanessa del Rio, Legs McNeil and Annie Sprinkle, P.h.D. on the so-called "golden age" of porn production in New York.NYC Sex is richly illustrated, including photographs by Bob Adelman, Mariette Pathy Allen, Donna Ferrato, Charles Gatewood, Annie Sprinkle, P.h.D., and Harvey Wang, and includes previously unpublished items from the archives of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, and The New-York Historical Society.
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