Sex In The South: Unbuckling the Bible Belt

In 2003, I published my first non-fiction book "Sex in the South: Unbuckling the Bible Belt."

The American South is a land of intrigue and mystery. To those who have never tasted her personally, a mention of the South often conjures Hollywood visions of debutante balls, hoop skirts, and a faint whiff of brimstone emanating from the pulpit. To the uninitiated, this is an anachronistic land where gentlemen and ladies live lives governed entirely by genteel manners and the Good Book.

Peel back the seersucker and organdy exterior, though, and you'll find another world entirely. A world of public propriety, and private libertinism; where rectitude rules from Sunday to Friday, but sin rides on Saturday night.

Moral repression often breeds sexual creativity, and nowhere is that more true than in the South.

Join me on a private journey with this excerpt to an eccentric side of sin where Southerners secretly (and not-so-secretly) defy sexual convention. In a region where towns often have more churches than liquor stores, you'll encounter a host of unforgettable characters.