More Sex is Safer Sex!

Browsing through a Nantucket bookstore with my (very Baptist) cousin, I picked this book up and thumbed through it. Just released in hardcover, it was a little beyond my book budget. I don't tend to use library books because they get a little testy if you mark them up and I tend to read with a pencil in hand. (Which also makes me reluctant to lend books out, since you have instant access to my inner world reading through it!)

The title essay is the result of applying economic theory to lower the infection rate of sexually transmitted infections. There is something a little off-kilter about applying cost-benefit analysis to this topic (or my favorite chapter which "proves" that having daughters increases the chances of divorce for parents). But it definitely gets your mind moving in new circles.

If you enjoy the occasional mind jump, this is a great book for short, bite size shots of alterna-thinking.