Reviews for Peace without profit

The average rating for Peace without profit based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-09-30 00:00:00 Lawrence Boehm Jr. I remember buying this as an undergraduate at Oxford. Unfortunately, while I was on holiday in the long vac my mother found my copy and was so scandalised by it that she destroyed it! My expostulations that it was a work of serious academic rigour cut no ice with her. "It was a nasty dirty book" she said. I've since replaced it, mainly for nostalgic reasons. I never met the author (who was a don at Oxford while I was there) but I did hear from a fellow student (now a distinguished historian) that Dover had originally written a preface along the lines of "Many people have wondered why a pipe smoking heterosexual like me should have had sufficient interest in this subject to have written a book on it...well, it's always been an interest of mine since a rather curious experience in my youth, which I now propose to describe..." My friend assured me that Dover was persuaded to excise this preface or he would have certainly become a laughing stock. The story is no doubt scurrilous and of doubtful veracity, but there is a certain ponderousness of style here which has the effect of causing unintentional humour - at least to a pervert like me - e.g. - - Dover's dry note to one decorated pottery vase: "A youth places his finger in the anus of another. Possibly intended as a jocular insult." For some reason the image of a highly respectable, tweed clad, uxorious Professor and Knight of the Realm carefully annotating a ludicrously lubricious piece of pottery in that manner gives me quite a lot of amusement.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-08-28 00:00:00 Dave Maida Jr. I read this book and told my lover that we had to try intercrural sex right now, I couldn't wait. I got into character and murmured sweet nothings to him in Classical Greek, using my best imitation of a willing young ephebe's voice. I'm sorry to say that he freaked. Wuss.