Slap and Tickle: The Unusual History of Sex and the People Who Have it

"Since our forebears started walking upright, sex and hunger have been two vital motivating forces," writes Tom Cutler in this frisky miscellany. "Things haven't changed much, either.... I was in Wardour Street recently and saw a man selling hot dogs outside a porn cinema." Also the author of The Gentleman's Bedside Book, and the self-confessed son of a sex therapist and a sometime Dominican friar, Cutler takes us on a romp through an enduringly popular subject, embracing vivid literature, language, history, and personalities, and drawing on the intimate true-life stories of sex-havers young and old, professional and amateur.