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ROMANTIC HAWAII - Sun, Sand, Surf & Sex!

by Boye De Mente on Sep 15, 2009

ROMANTIC HAWAII—Sun, Sand, Surf & Sex! (Then & Now!), by Boyé Lafayette De Mente. Phoenix Books/Publishers. Trade paperback, 6x9, 132 pages, 4-color cover. $12.95. ISBN: 0-914778-60-9. Distributors to the trade: Ingram Book Company, Baker & Taylor. Consumer distribution: Amazon.com, Borders, Barnes & Noble, etc.   When the first white men showed up in Hawaii in 1778 it was the middle of a long fall and winter festival during which various sexual techniques were demonstrated by nude hula dancers, couples engaged in a “bowling for partners” game, and people played various other competitive sports. The foreign explorers assumed that the Hawaiians never worked and that sex was a universal sport—so to speak.        American missionaries soon put a stop to this enlightened custom, and tried their best to completely and permanently ban hula dancing and surfing (in the nude, of course). But as time passed...Read More >>