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Good Sex Illustrated
by Tony Duvert
Publisher: (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)
Translated by Bruce Benderson
Originally published by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1974 as Le bon sexe illustré

Description:
A scathing view of sex manuals for children and society's hypocrisy of over sex that argues for the rights of children to their own bodies and their own sexuality.

Why is pleasure "doubled" when it's "shared"?... Do you really have to cut pleasure in two so that it'll exist? I mean, if it's doubled when there are two of you, then it must be tripled when there are three, quadrupled when there are four, centupled when there are a hundred, right? Is it O.K. for a hundred to share? And if I get used to trying it all alone, why is it that I'll never love anyone again? Is it that good alone and that awful with others?; from Good Sex Illustrated
First published in France in 1973, Good Sex Illustrated gleefully deciphers the subtext of a popular sex education manual for children produced during that period. In so doing, Duvert mounts a scabrous and scathing critique of how deftly the "sex-positive" ethos was harnessed to promote the ideal of the nuclear family. Like Michel Houllebecq, Duvert is highly attuned to all the hypocrisies of late twentieth-century western "sexual liberation" mass movements. As Bruce Benderson notes in his introduction, Good Sex Illustrated shows that, "in our sexual order, orgasm follows the patterns of any other kind of capital... 'good sex' is a voracious profit machine." But unlike Houllebecq, Duvert writes from a passionate belief in the integrity of unpoliced sex and of pleasure. Even more controversially now than when the book was first published, Duvert asserts the child's right to his or her own playful, unproductive sexuality. Bruce Benderson's translation will belatedly introduce English-speaking audiences to the most infamous gay French writer since Jean Genet.

About the author
Tony Duvert

"Tony Duvert is a French writer born in 1945. Polemist and champion of the rights of the children to have a right to their own body and sexuality, on which he’s published two controversial books of essays, Good Sex Illustrated (1974), L'Enfant au Masculin (1980), though these themes greatly shape his novels. He received the Prix Médicis in 1973 for his novel Paysage du Fantasie (published in America by Grove in 1976 as Strange Landscape). And in 1978, he published with the Éditions Fata Morgana, two works of prose poetry and short texts: District and Les Petits Métiers."
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/877412.Good_Sex_Illustrated?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=B72UFHpxBV&rank=1

BOYWIKI ARTICLE ABOUT TONY DUVERT (French) translation:
https://www-boywiki-org.translate.goog/fr/Tony_Duvert?_x_tr_sl=fr&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc

NOTE: Chapters are preceded by the silhouette in black of a boy with an erection. Be careful of restrictions on visual materials depending on the legal jurisdiction you live in.

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PROFESSIONAL REVIEW:

Good Sex Illustrated was originally published by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1974 as Le bon sexe illustré; it has now been translated for the first time by Bruce Benderson and published by Semiotext(e), an imprint of MIT Press. Its author Tony Duvert was born in 1945 and has written several novels and monographs. His novel Quand mourut Jonathan (1978) depicts the loving and sexual relationship between a man in his thirties and an eight year old boy. It has been translated and published by the Gay Men's Press with the title When Jonathan Died; the translation out of print and is available at online sellers only in used form at considerable cost. His novel Paysage de fantaisie (1973) is described by the publisher as having themes of childhood sexuality was translated as Strange Landscape and was published by Random House in 1976.

In Good Sex Illustrated, Duvert argues against conventional morality with an attack on a child's book on sex, Encyclopédie de la vie sexuelle, published by Hachette, in two volumes. The book is available today in a modern edition, now with its two volumes separated into separate books, the first being for children between 7 and 9, and the second for children between 10 and 13. Duvert ridicules the book for being so conventional, medical, and for completely denying the pleasure children can get from their sexuality. It emphasizes the reproductive function of sex, and since children can't reproduce, implies that it is inappropriate for children to be enjoying their sexuality. Duvert quotes extensively from the book, casting scorn on both its imagery and its text. He points out that sex isn't just for reproduction, and so the implication of the book that children can't enjoy sexuality is mistaken. He ends this monograph with a call for the sexual freedom of minors. Along the way, he also largely dismisses the problem of sexual assault and sexual abuse of children by adults by pointing out that conventional families can be dangerous to children. He cites statistics of children being beaten and murdered by their parents, and also points out that children and teens have a high suicide rate. It seems that he does acknowledge that children can be sexually abused by adults, as adults can be sexually abused by other adults. He does not believe that it follows that all children's sexual interactions with adults should be prohibited, but rather, damaging sexual relationships with children should be condemned. [...]
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https://metapsychology.net/index.php/book-review/good-sex-illustrated/

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REVIEWS FROM GOODREADS.COM:

Samuel
102 reviews4 followers
December 11, 2014
I soaked the book in the sink, ripped it apart, mushed up the pages into pulpy confetti, put the mess in a garbage sack, put the garbage sack on the curb in front of somebody else's house.

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Vincent Scarpa
May 9, 2016
A terrific translation by Bruce Benderson of Tony Duvert's masterpiece: a vivisection of sexual education literature, literature which Duvert wisely calls a "catechism of self-repression," and an overarching view and criticism of the attitudes held by so many about the adolescent as a (non?)sexual being. Written with "a pen warmed up in hell," and told with such indicting sarcasm. Benderson manages to grapple with certain issues that are inherently knotty—pedophilic tourism, the age of consent, etc.—without misstep, and without losing the voice that has carried us throughout the book, which is a testament to his vision and his ontological appetite to discuss that which we fail (and are failed by) by leaving unspoken.

A favorite (of many favorite) passages:

"Understanding what makes the word ‘masturbate’ accurate as a way of talking about jerking off is to discover how middle class medicine contrasts the language of its own class with popular language about sexuality, a language that is shocking because it eroticizes the phenomena being referred to, whereas scientific languages freezes it.”

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Brian
August 15, 2008
A critique of sex education with a pretty amazing POV: Pleasure is free, therefore pleasure must be sublimated or repressed in order to control individuals, society must repress sexuality for the good of the workforce. Duvert casts a wide net to critically discuss the perils of sexual education and the attack on individual freedom by "the state".

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Jennifer Doyle
Author
22 books18 followers
June 22, 2016
This is one of my absolute favorite books: it is a response to a guide for parents which teaches them how to raise a proper Bourgeois sexual subject. It is a scathing analysis of liberal sexual education as a process which steals the body from the subject. A scandalous text in the very best sense.

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Wikipedia article on the author:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Duvert




Highly recommended for "thinking" pedophiles.

Duvert died tragically, alone and without anyone caring or even noticing. His body was only discovered several weeks after his passing...

M.


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