The New York Times has now published its second article in two months about a book that tells readers how to clean sex toys. The first article, an interview with the author, was the subject of an earlier Smartertimes post here. Today's Times article, a book review, reports:
What other book will advise you to wash your sex toys — your unmotorized ones, at any rate — in the top rack of the dishwasher? Or will note that STP Fuel Injector & Carburetor Treatment helps remove certain lube stains? Or will have a trick up its sleeve for getting bong water out of a carpet?
Plenty of books published get no attention from the New York Times at all, so one has to wonder a little when a book gets this much attention. My reflexive assumption in these cases is that the author has some kind of close personal or family connection on the Times staff, but I don't know that to be so in this instance. Maybe the Times is just fascinated by the subject matter.