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The "Sex Book"book sold 150,000 copies on the first day, out of 500,000 printed for American distribution and 500,000 copy's sold by the [31st Oct 1992]

And from the looks of things last Wednesday morning, [21 Oct 1992] "Sex" measured up. Dismissive reviews,splashed across the tabloids like news of Pearl Harbor, couldn't stop the ambush. Bookstores, record stores, anybody who carried it got swamped. Priced at $49.95 and packaged in a Mylar bag that warned ADULTs ONLY!, the book sold 150,000 copies on the first day, out of 500,000 printed for American distribution. Who says we're in a recession? Laurence J. Kirshbaum, president of Warner Books, called it "reviewproof." Many stores pre-sold their shipments before they arrived. Others couldn't restock fast enough to keep pace with demand
But while the book sold like crazy, it sparked little of the anticipated outrage. Even the professionally offended couldn't lure camera crews up to the mountaintop, whence to hurl thunderbolts (or at least boycotts) at Madonna. The lone visible protest came from a group of concerned Roman Catholics in New York, outside a store that was offering one-minute looks at the book for a buck donation to an AIDS charity. The complaint? The viewing booth was called a confessional. Once the store changed the name, the protesters went about their business. Her pansexual "Erotica" video, poised to follow in the spike-heeled footsteps of 1990's notoriously banned "Justify My Love," entered MTV (after midnight) to no clamor. Madonna, who throughout her career has been able to turn an exposed belly button into a major-league scandal, here couldn't parlay a legitimate publishing event into a hubbub worthy of Sinead O'Connor's clipping file.


Source & More : http://www.newsweek.com/madonnas-sex-book-new-voyeurism-196758

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