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title: "Doing It: A New Edition of The Joy of Sex"
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Doing It: A New Edition of The Joy of Sex

The New Yorker • January 5, 2009

> “Our Bodies, Ourselves” covered much of the same material as “The Joy of Sex,” just with a different tone. It, too, had illustrations of a hirsute couple having intercourse in a series of positions. Both books said that everybody was bisexual, that sex should be a mutually satisfying, full-body experience, and that the communication of turn-ons could be of great benefit to this enterprise. And both books espoused the (distinctly seventies) notion that sex could be a value-neutral experience, as natural as eating, which undermined the traditional belief that sex ought to be in the service of procreation within the bounds of matrimony.

  
**Read the full story:** [Doing It: A New Edition of The Joy of Sex](http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/01/05/090105crbo_books_levy) by Ariel Levy

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