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Author Friend, David, 1955- author.

Title The naughty nineties : the triumph of the American libido / David Friend.

Publication Info. New York : Twelve, 2017.
©2017

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  306.7097 FRIEND    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  306.7097 FRI    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  306.7 FRIEND    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  306.7097 FRIEND    Check Shelf
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 Southington Library - Adult  306.7097 FRI    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description vi, 631 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [563]-609) and index.
Contents A Wednesday in November -- Down the rabbit hole -- The night we met the Clintons -- The Bubba boomer -- On the third wave -- Empowerment icons -- The crying game -- A vagina travelogue -- The glory of O -- Culture warriors, man your battle stations -- Wanderlust -- The wild blue web -- Don't ask, don't tell -- The age of the long lie -- The oversexed, underexamined, media-soaked yadda yadda of everyday life -- Botox, booties, and bods -- the bust boom -- Celebrity sin -- Four moments that changed the narrative -- The Boomsie twins -- Objects in mirror are tinier than they appear -- Shadows on the wall of the man cave -- Dudes and subdudes -- Porn goes pop -- Chez Fleiss -- Hard currency -- The lowest-hanging fruit -- Culture wars, part II -- The hardener's tale -- Homo erectus -- The internet and the intern -- Afterword: The Trumpen Show.
Summary Discusses how the rise of the Internet, reality television, and tabloid culture transformed the boundaries of sexuality in the 1990s, providing first-hand accounts by such individuals as Monica Lewinsky, Joan Rivers, and Jesse Jackson.
Subject Sex -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sex in popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sexual ethics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sex scandals -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Moral conditions -- 20th century.
Moral conditions. (OCoLC)fst01026043
Sex. (OCoLC)fst01114160
Sex in popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01114483
Sex scandals. (OCoLC)fst01742913
Sexual ethics. (OCoLC)fst01114835
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780446556293 (hardcover)
0446556297 (hardcover)
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