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Once your partner has been established as witful, responsible and caring, writes Comfort, "the whole joy of sex-with-love is that there are no rules, so long as you enjoy, and the choice is practically unlimited." For devotees of the old Joy, all this is familiar. Like a dinner menu, sexual activity is divided into ingredients, appetizers, main courses and sauces, which, taken together, suggest that the French really did invent sex. You have your pattes d'araignee, your diligence de Lyon, your flanquette, your paresseuse, your postillionage, your negresse, your croupade, your pompoir, your cuissade, your ligottage and your florentine, none of which will bear elaboration here without provoking the wrath of Jesse Helms, even if his French is rusty.
It may be that much of this information is old hat to the jaded 10-year-olds of the '90s, but New Joy is strictly an adult's book. Wait till the kids are 12 or 13 before asking if they have read it.