What changes did industrial civilization bring to human production and life, and how did people adapt to the new rules brought by the industrial revolution? In 1925, Samuel Roth, a down-and-out underground bookseller in New York, serialized "Ulysses" in the magazine he founded. After that, he also published and sold books such as "Memoirs of a Woman in Pleasure", "Lady Chatterley's Lover", and "Kama Sutra", and was frequently convicted and sentenced;
In 1956, Roth lost the case "Roth v. United States of America" and was imprisoned for five years. However, the definition of obscene works in the judgment of the case liberated a large number of publishers and producers who followed in Roth's footsteps;
In 1953, veteran Hugh Hefner composed and edited articles on his kitchen table in Chicago, and launched the first issue of Playboy, which quickly became the fastest-growing magazine in the United States.
In 1957, William Masters and Virginia Johnson began to use homemade "sex machines" to study the secrets of sexual satisfaction;
In 1968, John Williamson and his wife Barbara Cramer founded the free-sex Sandstone Club;
In 1973, Guy Tellis, a writer who planned to depict the sexual liberalization and the prevalence of middle-class erotic consumerism in the United States, walked into a massage parlor near his residence in New York, paid $15 to "enjoy" a service, and thus started his own sexual odyssey...
First published in 1981, "The Neighbor's Wife" shocked American society with its realistic depiction of American sexuality and sexual fetishes. With miraculous journalistic courage and skill, Tellis shows us a new world built on a new moral foundation. He takes us through the Playboy mansion, the Supreme Court, the backyards and hotbeds of massage parlors, and reveals the rise of the porn industry and group sex culture, the corresponding legal efforts to combat obscenity, and the sexual psychology and attitudes of ordinary people. Although the subject involved the lower body, Tellis's writing was never frivolous, and the book revolutionized the way Americans viewed themselves.
