Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (book) 100 million readers. In 1972 it was parodied by Woody Allen in the comedy film of the same name and received a favorable response from movie critics. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (book) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) is a book (1969, updated 1999) by U.S. physician David Reuben. It was one of the first sex manuals that entered mainstream culture in the 1960s, and had a profound effect on sex education and in liberalizing attitudes towards sex. It was the most popular non-fiction
Literature in the 1970s such as those of Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and J. R. R. Tolkien. By 1975, the independence and freedom themes evolved into the swinging singles scene, with "Looking for Mr. Goodbar" by Judith Rossner at number four on the fiction top ten list. Sex hit the top of the non-fiction charts in 1970, with authors taking advantage of the lifted censorship laws on literature in the sixties. "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)" by David Reuben, M.D. took the number one spot, winning out over The "New English Bible" at number two, a