A story from the collection “I’m in Lisbon. Not alone" "Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are not important,” George Burns said ironically: we will hardly be able to check whether there was any truth in his joke. However, we can penetrate the holy of holies - “the art of the bedroom”. This book contains very different - both almost chaste and very frank texts of modern writers, whose work is united by extreme sincerity, lack of complexes and literary audacity: it is this that gives food for the mind and body, it is this that transforms the “ordinary” , it would seem, intercourse in an act of love or its antonym. “The Art of Loving,” or Ars Amandi, was the name given to the art of pleasure during the Renaissance. Read. Enjoy.(Natalia Rubanova)