Sex Rules!

Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World

Janice Zarro Brodman

• Publisher: Mango Media
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781633535930
• eBook ISBN:
  9781633535947
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

"[Brodman] shares the results of years of research and world travel to show... just how wildly divergent ideas about sexuality and gender roles can be." — Vice This book is a humorous glimpse of a wide range of stereotype-busting sexual, relationship, and romantic mores around the world. It is fun, interesting, and eye-opening! For example, places where women control the mating game, set marriage rules, and marry one another for political power. The fact that it's all true also makes it fascinating. Take a romp through a rollicking worldwide tour with LOL views of extraordinary sexual customs. It will astound and regale you. At the same time, it proves sex is like happiness—universally sought but subjectively enjoyed. "This is the world's weirdest and funniest reality show. But it's more. It's fascinating and smart, and all true." —Richard Bangs, adventurer, author, and TV personality "It's a scientific fact! Women have better orgasms with funny partners. Read this hilarious book and you'll have more and better sex, happier relationships and a healthier libido!" —Joanne Sandler, former Deputy Executive Director of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), senior associate of Gender@Work, co-producer of the popular podcast Two Old Bitches "Fresh, intriguing and of course titillating... delve into rarely seen corners of the world, enjoy a good laugh, and learn from a trained scholar as she takes you on this journey that reveals 'Sex Rules' in all their staggering variety." —Ed Robbins, award-winning director-writer-producer and digital journalist

Table of contents

• Praise for Sex Rules!
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sex, Lies, and Virgins’ Tastes or How to Pick a Lover
• Is that a vibrator in your pocket, or are you glad to see me?
• Make love, not war
• Sugar in the evening…
• Don’t yap about your yoni
• Real dirty dancing…
• Keep those wholesome family traditions
• Looking for a few good men!
• Girls just wanna have fun!
• Men are from Venus, Women are from Mars...
• Sex scrooges need not apply…
• “Position open. Experience preferred...”
• You may kiss the brides…
• Junk Match.com!
• Obey your elders!
• Ditch the steroids…
• Make love…and war
• Readin’, writin’ and…sex?
• A boy and his soa…
• Land of the free, home of the party!
• Crotch-grabbers get lost!
• World’s most romantic country?
• Not just another pretty face…
• Ya gotta love Sadie Hawkins Day
• The “opposite” sex?
• What’s the most beautiful part of a woman?
• Wrestling for love
• Happy meals for real
• Marriage and Other Mysteries
• Only gold diggers need apply
• Great winter games
• I’ll always be true to you, darling, in my fashion…
• Tired of men?
• Rules of engagement
• All in the family…
• Test drive your marriage
• Lifetime bachelor party
• The first “Wives Club”
• Marry the strong, silent type
• Love, better than a blanket…
• Meetin’ in the Garden of Eatin’
• For the woman who wants to have it all
• Foxy Lad(y) or Dress for Success
• Don’t be a yahoo, be a Mahu!
• Hate that suit and tie?
• Who wears the nose rings in your family?
• Classic styles for men
• The World’s best-dressed choirboys…
• Redheads have more fun…
• In the Eye of the Beholder
• Somewhere in this world you’re a perfect 10...
• Pull yourself into prettiness…
• The good and the beautiful
• Somewhere on this planet, you’re the perfect hunk...
• Better start workin’ on that tan…
• Dieting? Who needs it?
• Family Ties
• Four letter words even Grandma wouldn’t mind…
• The family that eats together…
• Kissing cousins
• Hate those dishpan hands?
• Barbie for boys
• Little old lady power
• It’s wonderful, it’s paradise…
• Prayers for pudenda
• A special kiss on the cheek
• Morning sickness for men
• Sisterly love
• Mother knows best…
• Selected Sources