Hurray for Hedonism
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One of the cool things about living in a town like Seattle is sometimes there are some pretty interesting things you can do around here. Like, how about going to a reading of a new book about food and sex by a former sex worker this Saturday evening at 7:30pm at Eliot Bay Book Company? There is no way that can be boring.From the press release:
In Sex and Bacon: Why I Love Things That Are Very, Very Bad for Me (Seal Press / May 2008 / $14.95) Sarah Katherine Lewis tears down boundaries in a tribute to her lust for larder and lovemaking. In her uninhibited vignettes, Lewis exposes all that is deliciously nasty and delectably uncouth when it comes to her bountiful appetite. A follow-up to her first book, Indecent, which chronicles her time in the sex industry, Sex and Bacon is her homage to the culinary and the carnal.
Sex and Bacon is full of Lewis' snippets of wisdom accrued from her life, her reflections on pop culture icons, lots of talk about sex and her experiences as a sex worker, thoughts on female body image, Seattle weather (Lewis is a Seattle resident), Lewis' recipes, and more. Almost every paragraph is a little statement of Lewis' philosophy, or a naughty tidbit of her career in the sex industry.
I have a bag of fun size Reece's peanut butter cups in my cupboard. It's nearly Halloween so I'm allowed. I'm also allowed every other day of the year because I'm a grown-up, and if I want to have ten fun size pieces of candy for dinner I can.
Ah yes, we do indeed have the freedom to do stuff that is bad for us as adults like eat candy for dinner, but how far should we take it? Lewis took it pretty far, and I enjoyed reading about her thoughts on her life experiences. Sex and Bacon doesn't hold back when it prominently proves that Lewis is "an authority on the sins of the flesh, both culinary and carnal." Definitely adult reading material.
Location: Elliot Bay Book Company (map)
Date and Time: Saturday, May 10, 7:30pm
