High Holiday Porn: A Memoir
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Imagine a cross between Chelsea Handler and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer... but it's all true.
High Holiday Porn is the story of an Orthodox boy in the Bronx who discovers masturbation during Passover dinner as a child, gets caught with porn on Yom Kippur, fantasizes about marrying his grade school classmate (if only he could get up the nerve to speak to her), and finally figures out that the way into a girl's pants is through her heart. But maybe the heart is all that ever mattered anyway.
Eytan Bayme's hilariously honest memoir is the true story of how an anxious boy finally stops masturbating in public, gets the girl, grows up, and begrudgingly makes peace with the unfairness of life and love. It's a heartwarming, fantasy-laden, usually embarrassing, sometimes raunchy and always outrageous look at coming of age. Bayme's stories of young love, fitting in, and social pressure will resonate with anyone who ever felt awkward growing up.
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Eytan Bayme. (2015). High Holiday Porn: A Memoir. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Eytan Bayme. 2015. High Holiday Porn: A Memoir. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Eytan Bayme, High Holiday Porn: A Memoir. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Eytan Bayme. High Holiday Porn: A Memoir. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2015.
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Imagine a cross between Chelsea Handler and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer... but it's all true.
High Holiday Porn is the story of an Orthodox boy in the Bronx who discovers masturbation during Passover dinner as a child, gets caught with porn on Yom Kippur, fantasizes about marrying his grade school classmate (if only he could get up the nerve to speak to her), and finally figures out that the way into a girl's pants is through her heart. But maybe the heart is all that ever mattered anyway.
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May 18, 2015
From prepubescent masturbation to prom-night infidelity, Bayme—College Humor writer and debut memoirist—lays bare every detail of his hypersexual development as an Orthodox Jew growing up in the 1990s. Any reader familiar with the trappings of a religious upbringing will recognize certain key factors in Bayme’s upbringing: his dogmatically strict father, his long-suffering but loyal mother, pressure to fit in with subcultural norms, and an all-consuming obsession with sexual deviance in all its forms. Bayme supplies plenty of wrinkles to the template, particularly his rocky scholastic experience and early behavioral troubles, but the overall tale never proves overly notable. Though Bayme pursues self-deprecating humor in every page, his jokes are too consistently self-aware for their own good. The result is a memoir that seeks to (raunchily) entertain, but instead makes the reader uncomfortable—and less than interested in its subject matter. Agent: Laurie Abkemeier, Defiore.
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A real-life Alex Portnoy tells of a childhood penchant for masturbating in public.The combination of comedic Jewish coming-of-age story and masturbation can't help but conjure up images of Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint. In Bayme's debut memoir, the masturbation in question is done by a much younger lad and is a strange combination of introverted self-pleasuring and unintentional exhibitionism referred to as "rocking." In fact, his first lustful encounter occurred at the age of 6, when he dreamed of tasting the scrumptious wares at his local Dunkin' Donuts, which was strictly forbidden by the edicts of his orthodox Jewish faith. "All I wanted were the simplest pleasures the world had to offer," writes the author, "but life is unfair when you are a six-year-old Jewish boy." Whether such statements are honest or ironic is anyone's guess, but regardless, Bayme goes on to recall the childhood travails of a young kid from the Bronx who rubbed up against inanimate objects at school and at home. He then used pornography to prepare himself for hypothetical sexual contact with a girl. The humor is light and airy and rarely comes off as anything other than confessional dirty talk. "In my imagination," he writes, "I was King Fuck, who charmed legions of women in the field and town squares before bedding many of them in my silk-festooned chambers." Once he went as far as he could go with imaginary sexual encounters, in high school, Bayme finally obtained the girl of his dreams. He dropped her, however, when she couldn't compete with his fantasies. After the first few chapters, the narrative begins to sound like every other boring recollection of growing up and experimenting with forbidden things like drugs and girlie magazines. The Jewish angle gives it some niche potential, but this is routine stuff. Fails to add anything transcendent to the canon of sexual-coming-of-age memoirs.COPYRIGHT(2015) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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