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    Sex Rules!: Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World
    Sex Rules!: Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World
    Sex Rules!: Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World
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    Sex Rules!: Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World

    By Janice Zarro Brodman

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    “[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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateNov 14, 2017
    ISBN9781633535947
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    Janice Zarro Brodman

    With 24 years as a groundbreaking international development expert, Janice Zarro Brodman has lived, worked or traveled in 35 countries. After earning her PhD in political economy from Harvard University, she created and served as Director of the Center for Innovative Technologies at EDC, a global nonprofit organization founded by MIT scholars. Her projects for the UN, World Bank, and other international organizations focused on small business development and on ending violence against women and girls. As an innovator in using technology for international development, Dr. Brodman has written seminal articles published by The MIT Press, Idea Group Publishing, Harvard Institute for International Development, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Computerworld, Organizational Behavior, and Quest. She has been a frequent speaker at United Nations agencies, the World Bank, the US Agency for International Development, and other organizations. She researched hundreds of sources for Sex Rules! so that however weird, bizarre, and unreal the book’s content may seem, it’s all absolutely true. Her aim is to delight people who reject the notion that “there’s only one way to be sexually moral,” and to give tolerance a fun place to grow.

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      Book preview

      Sex Rules! - Janice Zarro Brodman

      Copyright © 2017 J. Zarro Brodman

      Published by Mango Publishing Group, a division of Mango Media Inc.

      Cover Design: Michele Shortley

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      Sex Rules!

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2017909204

      ISBN: (paperback) 978-1-63353-593-0 , (ebook) 978-1-63353-594-7

      BISAC category code PER004010 PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production

      Printed in the United States of America

      Praise for Sex Rules!

      Toss your preconceptions overboard and jump on a wild tour of ‘No-way!’ sexual customs, LOL gender switcheroos, and plenty of eye-popping moments. This is the world’s weirdest and funniest reality show. But it’s more. It’s fascinating and smart, and all true. It will give you a new way of looking at the world. And when you feel your most bizarre, it offers a comforting lesson: You’re not alone! There’s a place in this world for everyone.

      –Richard Bangs, often called the Father of Modern Adventure Travel, led firsts in travel worldwide, writes for HuffingtonPost.com, produces and hosts the National Public TV series Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose. He blogs on Quests: Keep the Quest Alive (http://www.richardbangs.com)

      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! Quote it to friends and you’ll never be lonely. And if your lover/boss/parent/spouse catches you doubled over, gasping with laughter, just look superior and say you’ve taken up anthropology.

      –Joanne Sandler, former Deputy Executive Director of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), is a senior associate of Gender@Work, an international collaborative that strengthens organizations to build cultures of equality and social justice. She co-produces the popular podcast Two Old Bitches.

      (http://www.twooldbitches.com/)

      "From its first pages, Sex Rules! Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World opens a door onto a page-turning world rich with variety, humor and unexpected twists of sexual practices around the world. It’s fresh, intriguing and of course titillating. But it’s also thought-provoking and timely. We in the Western world have locked sex into norms only now being challenged on so many levels. This book’s look at diverse world cultures and their ‘acceptable’ sexual practice is fascinating, often funny in the telling, and deeply surprising. I highly recommend Sex Rules! to anyone who has a hunger to 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 is an award-winning Director-Writer-Producer and Digital Journalist. His programs have aired on PBS, Discovery Channel, TLC, Nat Geo Channel, ABC, NBC, BBC2 and Channel 4; his stories have been published in the NY Times, Time Magazine, and the International Reporting Project. He’s an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University.

      The world needs more laughs, more fun, wider caring and understanding. Enter, this book. Yes, it’s very funny, but it’s so much more. Stunning facts about intriguing cultures you didn’t even know exist – and may not much longer. ‘Weird’ cultures that give insights into our own. The author clearly likes and respects these folks, who seem strange from our POV but have their own logic. She tackles sexism, dogmatism, and intolerance with that powerful force: marvelous humor.

      –Isa Maria Infante, Ph.D., J.D., Green Party candidate for Governor of Tennessee, former dean at SUNY, leader of Sugar Tree Bluegrass, an all-women’s bluegrass band, playwright and performer of her international one-woman show, Las Cucarachas.

      Acknowledgements

      My deepest thanks to my family, who inspire and delight me, to Isa, who helped create the book’s initial concept, and most of all to Stuart, whose support and curiosity have made life a pleasure and this book possible.

      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

      "Normal sex." Clear what it is, right?

      Think again.

      India, Ghana, Tunisia, Mali…dozens of countries, hundreds of cultures, and everywhere I go, people are curious.

      What do they wear in Ladakh? they ask.

      What’s the food like in Ghana?

      What do they do for fun in Suriname?

      Just one thing they never ask—because they figure sex is the same everywhere.

      I know better…

      I learned about weird sex at Harvard University. Not from a dirty old professor or horny undergrad, but from Tozzer, the Harvard Anthropology Library. I sat, drowsy and bored in the dim, silent Tozzer Reading Room. What demon convinced me to take anthropology? Pentadactylism…avunculocal…durophagy… Who makes up this crap?

      Suddenly, my eyes shot open.

      Hey, I’m from New Jersey. I know about weird sex. But…

      Husbands who fret if their wives don’t have enough lovers…? Teenagers required to take as many sex partners as possible…? Societies where all agree that every man should have a male lover…?

      It was a goldmine of screwball sex, flipped-out mating. All hidden under stodgy anthropology garble.

      It became a hobby. Fascinating, hilarious, astounding and—let’s face it—weird sex and gender rules and roles around the world. I could send people into hysterics, shock the most jaded, amaze the sophisticates.

      You’re kidding! friends would scream. "I don’t believe it! They couldn’t!"

      But they could. They did. They do.

      Sure, sometimes it seemed too much. But I don’t relish eating insects either, though millions of people love them. For me, the lesson was: no one way works for everyone—even for sex. If it doesn’t harm or endanger anyone, no need to adopt the differences, but do respect them. Just be smart. It really does take a village to raise a child.

      So if your lover complains your sex-play should be in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not...

      Your mom reveals her stash of kinky sex toys…

      Dad’s been modeling your favorite dress…

      Rejoice!

      There are places in

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