Thy Neighbor's Wife

The provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey across Americas changing sexual landscape When first published Gay Taleses 1981 groundbreaking work Thy Neighbors Wife shocked a nation with its powerful eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS. A marvel of journalistic courage and craft the book opened a window into a new world built on a new moral foundation carrying the reader on a remarkable journey from the Playboy Mansion to the Supreme Court to the backyards and bedrooms of suburbia through the development of the porn industry the rise of the "swinger" culture the legal fight to define obscenity and the daily sex lives of "ordinary" people. It is the book that forever changed the way Americans look at themselves and one another.