Sex and the Confessional

New York: Stein and Day. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0812816811 . This specific hardback book is in fine condition with very minimal wear and a hard board cover that has sharp edges and corners and a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. There is a blank white label on the first end page. The dust jacket is in near fine condition with a slight bit of cover or edge wear. We package all books in custom cardboard book boxes for shipment and ship daily with tracking numbers.; "This book was a bestseller in Italy in 1973. In it the authors, two young Italian journalists, a man and a woman (both excommunicated as the result of this book), go undercover and enter Catholic confessionals all over Italy pretending to be conflicted people who want to discuss their personal, sexual problems with priests. They talk about premarital sex, sexual experimentation, birth control, and extramarital affairs in order to get the priests to "expose" themselves as backward, silly, closed-minded, and dogmatic. From the first the authors present themselves as progressive, mature, open-minded, and carriers of the voice of truth."; 9.30 X 6.30 X 0.90 inches; 213 pages .