New and improved "Joy of Sex" somewhat less joyful

The Hairy Man — skinny, skeezy, looks like a lost member of Jethro Tull? — must have represented some male ideal at some point, but that is a memory we have repressed. The big toe was surely never the “magnificent erotic organ” it was made out to be…

But it really did need an update. Sections of the original read like shag-carpeted relics. The anti-condoms attitude, especially, but also the sex on horseback (we’re outraged, too, PETA); the aversion to shaving anything (especially the Hairy Man); and the assertion that regular orgies were the way of the future (only in some exurbs). Reading him 37 years later, Comfort sounds a lot like your lecherous great-uncle.