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
LGBT themes in comics 1971 stands out for attacking the homophobia of David Reuben's sex manual "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)", featuring explicit mutual gay sex acts, and promoting gay liberation. Eventually comics appeared aimed at a gay audience: the first documented example of a widely circulated underground gay comic was "Gay Heart Throbs", which produced several issues in the mid-1970s, but struggled to find an audience. Notable publications included "Gay Comix", which was created in 1980 by Howard Cruse, featured the work of LGBT artists, and had close ties with the gay liberation movement. Much