Ah, The Joy Of Humor, And The Quoting Thereof

Just about any topic can be enhanced by the addition of humor. Even stuff that’s already popular. Like sex. Or a critique of a book about sex. Ariel Levy writes in this week’s issue of The New Yorker magazine:

If you were a child of the seventies and were raised on “The Joy of Sex,” you are not likely to have forgotten the illustrations. The woman depicted in these drawings is lovely, and, even nearly forty years later, quite chic. Her gentleman friend, however, looks like a werewolf with a hangover. He is heavily bearded; his hair is long, and, it always seemed, a little greasy. His eyelids are usually at half-mast, adding to his feral appearance. In some of the pictures, you can practically smell him. (The smell is unpleasant.)

Har har har! (Wipe eyes.) She had me at “werewolf with a hangover”! It’s funny because it’s true. If you wanna, the entire article is called “Doing It: A new edition of “The Joy of Sex’” and is found here. (Warning: It talks about what you’d expect.)