“Every man who reads it will recognize himself. Every woman will discover, perhaps for the first time, the secret fantasies and public privations, the loneliness and passionate lusts, of most men.” — Chicago Sun-Times
“A sexual Pilgrim’s Progress...Few writers have lived so long, traveled so far, on the frontiers of the sexual revolution.” — Atlantic Monthly
“Talese does not proselytize, he informs...Readable and thoroughly entertaining.” — Vogue