If you think our culture’s obsession with sex—be it Kris Jenner’s Tweeted nip-slip or the brouhaha around royalty-once-removed Pippa Middleton’s derriere—is a recent phenomenon, think again. As these books show, sex in excess has long been a hot topic among authors and readers. In fact, some of literature’s most beloved characters put today’s celebrities to shame with their outrageous debauchery.
This is How You Lose Her
By Junot Diaz
Tropic of Capricorn
By Henry Miller
Sabbath’s Theater
By Philip Roth
