Sex Carnival

A tongue-in-cheek odyssey through the sex capitals of the world. The applause
is near-deafening as crowd favourite Tristan Taormino makes her way to the
podium to pick up her award. "Oh my God! This is so wonderful," she gushes,
all the while trying to hold back tears. "Buttman, you gave me a chance when
no one else would, and the next thing I knew I was the subject of a gang-bang,
and now this? I just want to thank Mom and Dad." Welcome to the world of Sex
Carnival - a whimsical, eye-opening record of one man's travels into the bold
new world of porn. Bill Brownstein provides a guide for the uninitiated and
the bewildered, a hands-on intro for anyone who wonders why the porno biz has
become so mainstream in just the last few years. Brownstein's global travels
take him from watching Tristan and other sex superstars accept their trophies
at the annual porn awards ceremony in Las Vegas to witnessing the weekend
shopping sprees of Dutch families as the kids push their grocery carts through
the biggest sex supermarkets on earth. He takes us from dungeons and dragons
pleasure chambers in New York to a different kind of pleasure - the rough
trade in Hamburg. And along the way, he stops off to catch some lap-dancing in
Montreal and all kinds of unexpected action at the sex bars of Paris.  Sex
Carnival is no definitive history of porn. Instead, this book is fun.
Brownstein gives us a lively account of our obsession with the business of
sex, an odyssey of one man's encounters with a universe of titillation that is
fresh, original, naughty, and very bizarre.