Thy Neighbor's Wife (1981; new pref. 2009)

"Engrossing and provocative."--Library JournalThe provocative classic work newly updated An intimate personal odyssey
across America's changing sexual landscape When first published, Gay
Talese's 1981 groundbreaking work, Thy Neighbor's Wife, shocked a nation
with its powerful, eye-opening revelations about the sexual activities
and proclivities of the American public in the era before AIDS.
A
marvel of journalistic courage and craft, the book opened a window into a
new world built on a new moral foundation, carrying the reader on a
remarkable journey from the Playboy Mansion to the Supreme Court, to the
backyards and bedrooms of suburbia—through the development of the porn
industry, the rise of the "swinger" culture, the legal fight to define
obscenity, and the daily sex lives of "ordinary" people. It is the book
that forever changed the way Americans look at themselves and one
another.