WhichBook- the sexual misadventures of the offspring of famous leftists?
June 3, 2020 7:26 PM
When I was a teen, my Dad borrowed an autobiography from the library for me. I think the author was the child of some famous '50s or '60s leftists/radicals/communists. (Maybe someone in the circle of the Rosenbergs?) He recounts his early, fumbling sexual experiences/misadventures. It may have been a general autobiography with a lot of sexual content, or strictly sexual memoirs. The only bit I really remember is NSFW and so below the fold:
The author goes to the woods or the park with a girl, she accidentally hurts his genitals with her teeth. The phrase I remember most precisely: "How was she to know that the penis is not a ceramic?" There's also something (paraphrasing) about how here she was, performing the most erotic act and he was going flaccid.
The author goes to the woods or the park with a girl, she accidentally hurts his genitals with her teeth. The phrase I remember most precisely: "How was she to know that the penis is not a ceramic?" There's also something (paraphrasing) about how here she was, performing the most erotic act and he was going flaccid.
Unfortunately that's not it, I graduated from college by the time Radical Son came out, so that's definitely too recent.
posted by Larry David Syndrome at 4:46 AM on June 4, 2020
posted by Larry David Syndrome at 4:46 AM on June 4, 2020
Richard Rhodes' Making Love (1992)? He's not the child of radicals, but he has written about the Rosenbergs.
posted by Mr.Know-it-some at 6:38 AM on June 4, 2020
posted by Mr.Know-it-some at 6:38 AM on June 4, 2020
Could it be Red Diaper Baby by Josh Kornbluth?
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 8:48 AM on June 4, 2020
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 8:48 AM on June 4, 2020
Richard Rhodes is familiar, maybe I read his book on the Rosenbergs, but the timing is off (I would have been off to college by the time it was published.) The internet archive has a copy of it so I was able to double check-no dice, although it's definitely the right kind of book (autobiographical sexual memoirs.)
Unfortunately, Red Diaper Baby and Going Away are not matches either. I think we can pretty safely say that whatever the book was, it would have been published no later than 1991. I could be wrong about the "son of leftists" thing or be conflating multiple books I was reading at the same time. Thanks to everyone who tried and if anyone wants to try some other guesses, I'm all in!
posted by Larry David Syndrome at 5:40 PM on June 4, 2020
Unfortunately, Red Diaper Baby and Going Away are not matches either. I think we can pretty safely say that whatever the book was, it would have been published no later than 1991. I could be wrong about the "son of leftists" thing or be conflating multiple books I was reading at the same time. Thanks to everyone who tried and if anyone wants to try some other guesses, I'm all in!
posted by Larry David Syndrome at 5:40 PM on June 4, 2020
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