Sara Pascoe to publish new book 'Sex Power Money'

Wednesday 26th July 2017, 10:46am

Sara Pascoe's new book, due to be bublished in August 2018, is to be titled Sex Power Money
The book will focus on "male physiology, psychology and hormones" and also look at the topic of money
Publishers say the book will be "funny, enlightening and open-minded all at the same time"

Sara Pascoe's new book is to be titled Sex Power Money.

Due to be published in 2018, the new book will be a follow-up to the stand-up comedian's top-selling 2016 offering Animal, which was billed as providing a "funny and illuminating tour of the female body".

Sex Power Money will see Pascoe again look to evolution to explain why modern humans are "struggling to be better", however this time the focus will be on male physiology and psychology.

The Bookseller explains: "The book will be part comedy, part anthropological investigation of the human condition with a focus on male physiology, psychology and hormones. Pascoe will ask questions about masculinity, the contradictory messages bombarding men and how 'maleness' is constructed by our culture."

Publishers Faber & Faber say: "Much like Pascoe's Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body, this book will be funny, enlightening and open-minded all at the same time."

The book will also focus on the topic of money. Pascoe said that during research for Animal, she kept finding that many of the issues affecting human beings were split "not along gender lines but financial".

She explains: "There is a direct correlation between vulnerability and poverty and I wanted to explore issues such as sex work and domestic violence not only as purely feminist issues. I also wanted to balance my exploration of the female body with my new fascination for the male - which is equally mysterious, surprising, and occasionally shocking. Our prehistoric ape behaviours have to be at the front of our minds if we want to improve as a species: we have to understand where we came from."

Speaking about Pascoe's writing, Laura Hassan from Faber & Faber, says: "She takes on the big knotty stuff of life and makes sense of it all. This will be an essential and enlightening read."

Sex Power Money will be out in August 2018.

Sex Power Money

By Sara Pascoe

"Joji, a 50-year-old man from Japan, was squished to death by his porn collection in 2016. He might have been a really funny man, very kind, brilliant at crosswords or a super good swimmer. But we don't know anything about him, because his death is the kind that obliterates any life. People don't usually get physically hurt by their pornography use. Marjorie didn't get papercut to death by her copy of Fifty Shades of Grey. But there remains much discussion about the danger, the harmful effects of porn..."

Part comedy, part anthropological study, here is everything Sara Pascoe has learned from scientists, sex ed teachers, pornographers, psychologists, sex workers, and serial daters; about masculinity, status, porn, and stuff. Like her first book, Animal, Pascoe overthinks and overshares in the name of our entertainment and education. This is a whipsmart, winningly funny look into who - and what - we are and what makes us tick.

First released: Tuesday 27th August 2019

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