The (Jewish) BODY ELECTRIC: Melvin Bukiet does it, so to speak, in new anthology that's the flip side of 'Kosher Sex.'

From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: November 12, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

The (Jewish) BODY ELECTRIC: Melvin Bukiet does it, so to speak, in new anthology that's the flip side of `Kosher Sex.'

SANDEE BRAWARSKY

JEWISH WEEK BOOK CRITIC

`Sex is a universal phenomenon. Birds do it; bees do it; even Cole Porter on his knees do it," Melvin Jules Bukiet writes in the opening to his introduction to "Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex" (Nortn), and he goes on to say that "from the ancient Aramaic ketubah that guarantees conjugal interaction to an early societal acceptance of divorce when things just didn't work out, it's been understood: Jews do it, too."

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