Mehreen Moon

“Men admitted to being endlessly fascinated with the naked female form; they appreciated women in a detached, impersonal way that women, even those women who were flattered by such attention, rarely understood.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“Clearly, Nell was going crazy. (Well, she certainly had the hair for it.)”
― Lesley Kagen, Whistling In the Dark

“Interestingly, the historic case of 1868 in England that first defined obscenity-known among lawyers as the Hicklin decision- evolved out of the prosecution of a pamphlet describing how priests were often so sexually aroused while hearing women’s confessions that they sometimes masturbated and even copulated with their repentant subjects in the confessional.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS

“The penis, often regarded as a weapon, is also a burden, the male curse.”
― Gay Talese, Thy Neighbor's Wife: A Chronicle of American Permissiveness Before the Age of AIDS