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pearseanderson's review
4.0
A 26 hour audiobook! OK! I listened to this at 1.75 speed because Friend talked sooo slooowly and it was a pretty good read! 600+ pages that blended together a lot of interesting topics and combined Friend's Vanity Fair photography career, his interviews with 1990s sex icons, and the cumulative work of past historians. I learned a lot about the history of American sex and how many fucking problems the 1990s had socially and politically. Fuck, he makes a great argument for how the 2016 election started with the OJ trial, so much of the present day was impacted by the development of the internet fetish world, the Clintons' 60 Minutes interview, Viagra's origins and marketing, Newt's children, wow.
scoti's review against another edition
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
3.0
The structure of this book was odd at times. He tries to present it chronologically via the Clinton presidency but then also thematically so we end up jumping back and forth in chronology.... something wasn't really working here. Aside from that, this was pretty much what I expected. A sort of fun look back at the 90s and the culture shifts around sex. Nothing revolutionary happening here, but I think it delivers on its title and is a good reminder of how much has changed in the decade since as well.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault
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