IS SEX NECESSARY?: Or, WHY YOU FEEL THE WAY YOU DO?

New York, NY: Harper & Row/Perennial Libray, 1990. 2nd Edition, 5th Printing . Soft cover. Very Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW, showing faint margin discoloration. Blue softcover/VG w/trace edge & surface wear. 1929 classic satire as pseudo-scientifc sex manuals flooded the market after Freud turned sexuality into a science, just when both Thurber and White were "profoundly interested in earning a living". This book also marks the prose narrative published by either cartoonist, author & wit James Thurber (1894 - 1961) or by E. B. White (1899 - 1895) of Charlotte's Web fame. Masterpiece of comic, whimsical humor. What of life, ove, and marriage? Spoof on men, women, psychologists, and how-to-books. Illustrated w/52 drawings (originally rendered in penci) this reissue has an Introduction by White dated 1950. 190 pgs, in 8 chapters: I, The Nature of the American Male: A Study of Pedestalism; II, How to Tell Love from Passion; III, A Discussion of Femine Types; IV, The Sexual Revolution: Being a Rather Complete Survey of the Entire Sexual Scene; V, The Lilies-and-Bluebird Delusion; VI, What Should Children Tell Parents?; VII, Claustrophobia, or What Every Young Wife Should Know; and VIII, Frigidity in Men, followed by Glossay, and E.B. White's account on how Thurber's cartoons were assembled.