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The naughty nineties : the triumph of the American libido / David Friend.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friend, David, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--United States--History--20th century.
- Sex.
- Sex in popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Sex in popular culture.
- Sexual ethics--United States--History--20th century.
- Sexual ethics.
- Sex scandals--United States--History--20th century.
- Sex scandals.
- Moral conditions.
- History.
- United States--Moral conditions--20th century.
- United States.
- Scandals--United States--History.
- sex in popular culture--United States--History.
- Sexual ethics--United States--History.
- Sex--History.
- Nineteen nineties--United States.
- United States--Moral conditions.
- Local Subjects:
- Scandals--United States--History.
- sex in popular culture--United States--History.
- Sexual ethics--United States--History.
- Sex--History.
- Nineteen nineties--United States.
- United States--Moral conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 631 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Twelve, 2017.
- Summary:
- Discusses how the rise of the Internet, reality television, and tabloid culture transformed the boundaries of sexuality in the 1990s, providing first-hand accounts by such individuals as Monica Lewinsky, Joan Rivers, and Jesse Jackson.
- Contents:
- A Wednesday in November
- Down the rabbit hole
- The night we met the Clintons
- The Bubba boomer
- On the third wave
- Empowerment icons
- The crying game
- A vagina travelogue
- The glory of O
- Culture warriors, man your battle stations
- Wanderlust
- The wild blue web
- Don't ask, don't tell
- The age of the long lie
- The oversexed, underexamined, media-soaked yadda yadda of everyday life
- Botox, booties, and bods
- the bust boom
- Celebrity sin
- Four moments that changed the narrative
- The Boomsie twins
- Objects in mirror are tinier than they appear
- Shadows on the wall of the man cave
- Dudes and subdudes
- Porn goes pop
- Chez Fleiss
- Hard currency
- The lowest-hanging fruit
- Culture wars, part II
- The hardener's tale
- Homo erectus
- The internet and the intern
- Afterword: The Trumpen Show.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [563]-609) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780446556293
- 0446556297
- OCLC:
- 951764295
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