cover image Mayflower Manners

Mayflower Manners

Sydney Biddle Barrows. Doubleday Books, $9.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-385-41745-7

This attempt to amuse and to instruct on points of sexual decorum offers advice on persuading a lover to shower before intercourse and on ``talking dirty'' as well as injunctions against showing favoritism during a menage a trois. ``The humor is less than witty, but the guide will no doubt attract those curious to learn from a paragon of vice,'' predicted PW. Author tour. (Feb.)