Culture August 26, 2009

If Alexander Portnoy had had a younger brother, he might have sounded a lot like Jonathan Ames. “You see, I’m something of a gentleman, even if I once labeled myself perverted, and it never seems quite proper to stare, like a stamp collector, at your lover’s vagina,” Ames writes in his new book, The Double Life Is Twice as Good, recounting an attempt to find out where the clitoris is located. Along with two other men—one in a black wig—Ames attends a class called “Sex Tips to Drive Women Wild,” where he is taught to suckle on a green balloon