[Edgy Culture]

May, 2007

Though the terms encyclopedic and sex don't often couple titillatingly, French pub­lisher Assouhne takes a playful and largely successful stab at the match. Generously illustrated and certainly democratic (if to a fault—equal space is given to each of the 300-plus topics, from Mrs. Robinson tothe magazine you're reading to the his­tory of the prostitute), this Bntannica of erotica is a mix of cul­tural write-ups, Trivial Pursuit-style ques­tions and puzzles that is sure to amuse— maybe even arou...