Sexplorations: Journeys to the Erongenous Frontier

Details magazine sex columnist Radakovich (The Wild Girls Club) has carved out a franchise as a (very) pro-sex feminist whose sense of humor coexists with undaunted lust. These brief dispatches from the worlds of swinging, bondage, bodybuilding and other demimondes where fantasies are made to come true (padded with some not-quite-frontier ventures like Radakovich's search for a ""research assistant"" and a Q&A with her parents) are consistently amusing and at least periodically titillating. At a nudist colony, she dutifully reports the shibboleth ""looking is fine, staring is not"" before noting how the men she met became distracted by her charms. In party-hearty Aspen, Colo., she finds herself dissing the ski bunnies wearing skintight pants, while her experiences at the Cannes Film Festival lead her to dub it the ""international festival du molestation."" Radakovich's exuberant ego can annoy, but deep down, she's a bitter romantic; her three-part recounting of her ""Win-a-Date with Anka"" contest reveals that the prince she met in San Francisco turned into a toad when he visited her in New York. Elsewhere, her venture into cross-dressing leads to some genuine insight about gender difference. Though these pieces, all reprinted from Radakovich's column, are too short to be thorough, those wanting a sexual Virgil will find Radakovich to be an intrepid reporter and a vocal tour guide. (Mar.)