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Getting it on : a condom reader
- Title
- Getting it on : a condom reader / edited by Mitch Roberson and Julia Dubner.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- New York : Soho Press, c1999.
- Description
- xv, 240 p. ; 23 cm.
- Other contributors
- Roberson, Mitch, 1966- Dubner, Julia, 1966-
- Notes
- Paperback.
- Contents
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- Modern love / T. Coraghessan Boyle
- All that talk about 'High-Tech" in the future notwithstanding, why the 21st century might well turn out to be full of a whole lot of clumsy people! / Michael Benedikt
- Excerpt from Babycakes: Campmates / Armistead Maupin
- Condoms, then and now / William Matthews
- A brief history of condoms / Kim Addonizio
- Excerpt from Roustabout: How I pay / Michelle Chalfoun
- Flush / William Feustle
- Excerpt from The world according to Garp: Graduation / John Irving
- Buying stock / Denise Duhamel
- On the narrow side / Hester Kaplan
- Condomology in twelve easy lessons / Cathryn Alpert
- For the relief of unbearable urges / Nathan Englander
- Protection / Gregg Shapiro
- Excerpt from The Rachel papers: Eleven ten: The Rachel papers, volume two / Martin Amis
- The condom tree / Chase Twichell
- The condom / Philip Dacey
- Excerpt from A disturbance in one place: Brooklyn Ts / Binnie Kirshenbaum
- Condom / April Lindner
- Safety speech / Cynthia Baughman
- Condoms / Ronald Wallace
- Excerpt from The tale of the body thief / Anne Rice
- Joy / Elizabeth Benedict
- Conveniences / Ewing Campbell
- Since '81 / Alison Stone
- Devices / James Seay
- Excerpts from Praise / Andrew McGahan
- Roberta says the world has gone to plastic / Martha Elizabeth
- We didn't / Stuart Dybek
- In terms / Albert Goldbarth.
- Summary
- Twenty-nine essays, stories, book excerpts and poems on the subject of condoms. They range from Kim Addonizio's A Brief History of Condoms, to Cathryn Alpert's Condomology in Twelve Easy Lessons, on embarrassing moments associated with their use.
- Kinsey subjects
- Condoms.
- ISBN
- 1569471258 (alk. paper) 1569471452 (cloth)