Tidings Of Comfort and Joy

A witty and fanciful sex manual for the '70s is updated in cautionary fashion for the '90s

As tumult unfolds in the U.S.S.R., it is good to remember an earlier < upheaval of great moment. After years of oppression, thousands of angry and impatient Americans threw off the yoke of tyranny and declared themselves once and for all free -- to fornicate. Thus began the youth revolution of the '60s and '70s. The battle cry was "Gimme an S! . . . Gimme an E! . . . Gimme an X!," though frequently the word in question was spelled differently -- with four letters. So the rebels got plenty of sex, not to mention herpes.

But not all...

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