Volume 27, Number 9 · May 29, 1980
Mr. P, Mrs. V, and Mr. T
By Alexander Cockburn
Thy Neighbor's Wife
by Gay Talese
Doubleday, 568 pp., $14.95
Poor Reich and the other crazies used to think that sex, proper orgasms, and so forth constituted a challenge to power, to the bourgeois order: a freer fuck means a freer world. Plodding along the trail marked out by the high priest of the orgone box comes Gay Talese with the same assumption.
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