Volume 14, Number 11 · June 4, 1970
Number One
By Gore Vidal
Everything you always wanted to know about sex*…*but were afraid to ask
by David Reuben M.D.
David McKay, 342 pp., $6.95
The Hand-Reared Boy
by Brain W. Aldiss
McCall, 189 pp., $5.95
The Sensuous Woman
by "J."
Lyle Stuart, 192 pp., $6.00
Everything you always wanted to know about sex* explained by David Reuben, M.D., *but were afraid to ask. The title of the current number-one nonfiction best seller is cute as a bug's ear, and we know what Freud thought of those who were cute about sex ('Very uptight,' Sigmund Freud, M.D.). If a jocose approach to sexual matters is a mask for unease, then David Reuben, M.D. ('currently in private psychiatric practice in San Diego, California'), is in a state of communicable panic and I would be most unwilling to have him privately practice psychiatry on me, even in San Diego, the Vatican of the John Birch Society.
Review, 5726 words
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