Good Sex Illustrated by Tony Duvert Read Free Book Online

table, there’s already a television, a model with a spherical design.
    5.  Internal genital organs of a man, seen in cutaway.
    6.  Internal genital organs of a woman, seen in cutaway.
    7.  Ditto, showing an egg.
    8.  Couple , two-page spread. Mom pregnant and lying on a bed in a private hospital. On the left, the dog and a designer suitcase. On the right, the husband leaning affectionately toward his young wife. In the foreground, her hand holding a sheet of paper and a pencil; on the sheet of paper you can read her ideas for a first name, in two columns: Antoine/Jean/Eric, Anne/Sophie/Isabelle. At the bottom of the image, two identical illustrationsdepicting a baby in the uterus and reiterating the issue: girl on the left, boy on the right.
    9.  Couple, entering the maternity clinic. Taxi, trees, flowers, slender receptionist, pregnant woman. The man is holding her by the arm while clutching her hand; tall, healthy-and athletic-looking, he is carrying the designer suitcase.
    10.  Labor: finished. Mom on the bed looking happy, a young doctor to her left. On the right, a nurse dressed like a flight attendant is holding out the promised gift, I mean, the baby: of course, it’s a boy.
    11.  Mom in a lovely negligee, with long, soft manicured hands, as in an advertisement for dishwashing liquid, is nursing her baby.
    12.  School : two boys, a girl, a table, goldfish in a bowl, educational games, pretty schoolteacher, little girls painting freely on a wall.
    13.  Couple : love story in six images. I: in the subway, a young man, standing, and a young woman, seated, are looking at one another, stiffly (man) or dreamily (woman). II: same people, at a dance hall, smiling at each other, dancing decently. III: same people, lying on the grass; they are dressed, smiling, arms around each other in a decent manner. The woman’s position suggests controlled consenting-object; that is, leaning against the chest of the man, head under his, eyes raised, her arm supported by the man’s hand. IV: same people, at a restaurant. Flowers, applauding, a toast going on behind them. V: same people, mating. The man is naked, lying on the woman, who is naked and flat on her back, all of this seen in profile. They are smiling like they were at the dance hall, their faces at a decent distance from one another. At the lower part of their bodies, the future of the species is being achieved decently, but we understand what’s going on even so thanks to the cutaway view of VI: here the man becomes a blue silhouette with a protuberance, the woman a pink silhouette with a cavity containing the blue protuberance.
    14.  Family from the beginning. The lesson about things has born fruit; the couple hasn’t had a fifth child, but there is a portrait of ancestors (grandma clinging to grandpa), a birdcage with two adult and four fledgling birds, the dog couple with five little ones—and, alone in its pot but radiant with duty accomplished, a cherry tree with its red cherries. I didn’t count them.
    Such is this first volume, reduced to what conveys its “scientific” message. The book has a very difficult role to play; it reveals “the existence of sexual relations” to human beings who have no right to them. First, two comments. The book, in terms of the level of its information, illustrations and narrative, is comparable to books published for children 7 to 8; but for those turning 9 or 10, it is excessively puerile. Because the book grants the latter only information created for seven-year-old readers, it is pedagogically backward, notably in comparison to very articulated textbooks meant for the same age bracket—but which, it is true, deal with material for which there is no moral necessity to prolong the infantilizing of those being taught.
    The second comment is that the book pretends to initiate complete sexual ignoramuses, whereas no child could be considered to be one—except for the sons of priests, if that. The information is a