Around the World in 80 Lays: Adventures in Sex Travel

The book is an effervescent account of "regular Joes" partying like rock
stars. Diamond writes with a zest and panache that I found irresistible. The
closest parallel I can think of is Neal Strauss's "The Game," another book
that indelibly captured a subculture of dedicated hedonists. The difference
is that the men in "Around the World in 80 Lays" "seduce" (if you can call
it that) with money.

What I really found intriguing, though, is how Diamond shatters
well-established myths. Amsterdam, for example, has long been considered
Europe's sex capital. But apparently Germany's the place to be. It's home to
a slew of "pay-one-price" brothels called "partytreffs" where "you can stay
as long as you want" and screw as many girls as you like (not to mention eat
and drink to your heart's content).
Diamond weaves fascinating historical facts into the book without sounding
like the History Channel. For example, he writes about a huge statue of a
prostitute in Germany meant to commemorate a medieval religious conference
where 1,500 courtesans were on hand to "serve the secular needs of the
attendees." He also shares juicy tidbits about the Nazis (and later the
communists) using hookers as bait to get foreign diplomats to spill secrets
during "pillow talk."

A sex traveler calling himself Jackyo reveals to Diamond that he's slept
with nearly 400 German prostitutes. He says some of Germany's brothels
aren't "for the fainthearted" because everyone has sex right out in the
open. One club erupts into hourly gang bangs. "The women would all find a
partner and the whole group would do it right there on the spot. If there
was a surplus of women, two of them would do one dude. Once, they dragged
the whole lot of us into the small hut in the back with the large mattress."

Why should rock stars have all the fun? Diamond shows that even regular guys
can "live the dream," if they're willing to pay a little for it.

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Around the World in 80 Lays: Adventures in Sex Travel Overview

"Joe Diamond is the Gulliver of sex travels." —Larry Flynt As globalization erodes national borders and the Internet spawns online communities for every conceivable interest or fetish, sex tourism is surging. Around the World in 80 Lays is the first book to explore the emergence of the online sex tourist subculture and its mounting impact on the world's flesh trade. The author, Joe Diamond, is himself an enthusiastic sex tourist, and an expert. In this groundbreaking travelogue, he traverses the globe to put sex tourism under the microscope. Through colorful anecdotes and solid research, "Rio Joe" takes readers to the world's most notorious sex havens: Brazil, Thailand, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, and many more. Around the World in 80 Lays provides an insider's view of a fascinating and lurid world that has never been exposed to the American public.

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