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The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee
Penguin
April 2007
On Sale: April 19, 2007
304 pages
ISBN: 1594201145
EAN: 9781594201141
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
An irreverent and hilarious journey around the world to
examine how and why people cheat on their spouses; this
global look at infidelity reveals that Americans are
uniquely mixed up about being faithful. It's an adulterous world out there. Russian husbands and
wives don't believe that beach-resort flings violate their
marital vows. Japanese businessmen, armed with the aphorism
"If you pay, it's not cheating," flock to sex clubs where
the extramarital services on offer include "getting oral sex
without showering first." South Africans may be the masters
of creative accounting: Pollsters there had to create
separate categories for men who cheat, and men who only
cheat while drunk. In America, however, there is never a free pass when it
comes to infidelity. According to our national moral
compass, cheating is abominable no matter what the
circumstances. But do we actually behave differently than
everyone else? Pamela Druckerman, a former foreign
correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, decided to delve
into this incredibly taboo topic. She interviews people all
over the world, from retirees in South Florida to Muslim
polygamists in Indonesia; from Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn to
the men who keep their mistresses in a "concubine village"
outside Hong Kong. Druckerman talks to psychologists, sex researchers, marriage
counselors, and most of all, cheaters and the people they've
cheated on, and concludes that Americans are the least adept
at having affairs, have the most trouble enjoying them, and
suffer the most in their aftermath. Lust in Translation is a voyeuristic, statistics-packed,
sometimes shocking, often hysterical, worldwide glimpse into
the endlessly intriguing world of extramarital sex. It may
be politically incorrect to say so, but who knew infidelity
could be this fascinating?
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