Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century’s End

Katie Roiphe

KATIE ROIPHE depicts the inner landscape of a generation that practices condom etiquette yet fears that even the safest sex may not be safe enough. She shows how educators and ideologues have co-opted the fear of AIDS to promote their own moral agenda. Roiphe also writes about her sister Emily, who is herself HIV-positive, with a candor that makes Last Night in Paradise as much a personal document as it is a barometric reading of our sexual climate. Gripping, incisive, and at times incendiary, the result is a work of reportage in the tradition of Joan Didion’s Slouching Toward Bethlehem–a portrait of an era that will be read and debated long after that era has passed.

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genre	Sex & Gender » Sex Studies
publisher	Little, Brown and Company
publish date	March 20, 1997
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