High-Five Fridays #23

High-Five Fridays is still on hiatus; but I'm still playing.

1) Ethan Persoff posted about "me" -- well, this blog, anyway -- and I'm so tickled.

2) More for those who find the brainy sexy: Our Fair Kari.

3) You may have see this elsewhere, but still... Finding books which hide the private Polaroid porn is cool. (Via Sex Is A Red-Blooded Thing who added his 2-cents.)

4) Reflecting on the Good Old Days: A Reality Check, a review of Otto L. Bettmann's The Good Old Days – They Were Terrible! (I wonder if there's a chapter on sex?)

5) Think you know your Casanova?

In the classic eighteenth-century sense, Casanova is a poor example of a libertine in that he had so little interest in conquest or coercion. He was no Valmont or de Sade. He is outclassed ten to one by his fictional alter ego Don Giovanni with his catalogue of 1800 conquests. Casanova's is not a compulsion or sex addiction. Indeed, he might not register at all as having a "Casanova" complex in the sense in which the term is used today. Rather, he enjoyed the game of love and seduction, a sport or art of unsurpassed fashionability in the generation that preceded the French Revolution. He narrates affairs, rather than one-night stands. Romantically, he was indefatigable.