It had to happen sooner or later. Somebody went to the trouble to compile a reference book of sorts for smut. Filth. Dirt. Bawdiness. “Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex” might not be the complete and unabridged guide to smut, but takes its best shot at 94 sex-related terms, as Advertising Age’s Media Guy says, “in often unexpected ways. What’s genius about this book, edited by Ellen Sussman, is that it features some 100 writers (including Jonathan Ames, Phillip Lopate and Patricia Marx), so the definitions (from cyber sex to… way, way beyond) are often deeply, charmingly (and sometimes bizarrely) idiosyncratic and personal.”
Kind of like sex itself.
If you act quickly, the Media Guy is giving away one free copy to some lucky e-mailer on or about Aug. 28. For more details, CLICK HERE.

New York photographer Phillip Toledano went deep behind the scenes to develop the material for his new picture book, Phonesex, due out this fall. Even if you haven’t, um, participated, you’ve seen the TV ads for phone “companionship” featuring attractive people playfully cavorting as they chat on the phone.

Well, if you think that’s how it actually works, you might be a tad disappointed.
Writes VerShortList.com: “Its putative allure lies partly in the mystery of who could be on the other end of the phone line, but in his new photo gallery at the online magazine the Morning News, New York–based photographer Phillip Toledano puts faces to the disembodied voices.

“Not surprisingly, the subjects aren’t beauties, but their appearance gives the images more punch: When you think of the roles the operators play convincingly and what they really look like, you know you’re seeing a true testament to the power of the imagination.”

What redeeming quality does this book offer society? We’re not sure, maybe it humanizes the disembodied voice we imagine is talking on the other end of the line. But we never call those lines, do we?
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Sex and the City fans are turning the book world upside down in search of a book that’s never been written. In a Sex and the City scene Carrie Bradshaw is reading from Love Letters of Great Men to Mr. Big in bed.
Problem is, there is no Love Letters of Great Men. It’s a prop.
The closest thing to that is a tome titled Love Letters of Great Men and Women: From Eighteenth Century to Present Day (1920s).
Kessinger Publishing, which reissued that title last year, is suddenly very popular. The book is registered at no. 134 on Amazon.com.
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