Coming November 6, 2011!
Sexologist Jill McDevitt's first book!
Pre-order your copy HERE!
Fighting The Crusade Against Sex:
Being Sex-Positive in a Sex-Negative World
Take an attractive young blonde, a sex shop, a political candidate, and add a Catholic Church for good measure, and you have the recipe for a riveting controversy that riddled a wealthy Philadelphia suburb and divided a community.
Follow the quandaries of Jill McDevitt, a determined recent college graduate with a degree in sexuality and a love of pushing the envelope. After opening a sex shop and education center with a focus on female pleasure at just 21 years old, Jill and her shop Feminique Boutique quickly become the center of a firestorm in conservative West Chester, Pennsylvania.
When a neighboring Catholic church, a Republican candidate for State Representative, and town officials publically cry out against the opening of the boutique and fight to have it shut down, the town revolts in a sexy modern day version of David and Goliath.
Part memoir, part social commentary, Jill reflects on a series of romantic relationships that sparked her interest in sexuality while contending with insulting catcalls from parishioners, navigating a legal battle, and managing an unexpected local media craze and the ensuing cause célèbre.
Fighting The Crusade Against Sex is a compelling story that exposes our culture's archaic shame of sexuality, the dangerous ability of the self-righteous to control the law, and the power of the American entrepreneurial spirit.
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"To be all of 26 and have lived enough to pen a fascinating memoir is remarkable, but to have learned enough to write a spot- on manifesto on sex in our culture is exceptional...Don't be surprised when the soon to be "Dr. Jill" is as well known as Dr. Phil!" -Bren Kinsey Draper, granddaughter of sex researcher Alfred Kinsey. |
