24-Hour Read-a-Thon: Post 5

For Read-a-Thon information, see The Hidden Side of a Leaf. For my own Read-a-Thon posts, see the deblog's Read-a-Thon category archive.

Currently reading: Peter Sagal, The Book of Vice: Naughty Things (And How to Do Them)

Pages read: 31 (since last post) | 137 (total for Read-a-Thon)
Time spent reading: 35 (since last post) | 2:19 (total for Read-a-Thon)

Thoughts: In chapter 3 of his book, "Strip Clubs, or, Sure, They Like You. Really," Sagal returns to the business of sex. He recounts his various experiences visiting strip clubs, both pre- and mid-research. He talks to various strippers and to a pair of female sociologists (with whom he visited one strip club), and comes to terms with the "callous anonymity" of the whole business.

Sagal's writing continues to charm:

"There we were, soaking the $30 steaks in our stomachs with $8 longneck beers and all we had to look at was stuff we could see on a French beach, albeit not a French beach we had ever been to or that even probably actually existed, but still. We were gentlemen at a bachelor party in Las Vegas, for God's sake, and not to put too fine a point on it, we demanded both $8 longnecks and pudenda. Or pudendae; authorities differ."

Comments

[Eva]

1.

Wow! This guy sounds hilarious. :)