“Straying isn't what it used to be, Silvio” Pamela Drukerman notes in her article written about the same time I also commented on Veronica Lario’s front-page letter of rebuke to her ever flirting, flamboyant, billionaire husband Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister of Italy.
Writes the former Wall Street Journal correspondent, Druckerman, “The authors of ‘Sexus Politicus’ recently concluded that Charles de Gaulle was the only French president in modern memory who didn't enjoy a few petites amies. European statesmen may not be able to enjoy this private club for much longer, however. Wives are rebelling.”
But European marital sparring somehow manages to sound more passionate and even elevated compared to the rehab, romance (and rabidly worse) stories about, say, Britney and Anna Nicole.
Extramarital affairs and how they differ around the world have been on Druckerman’s mind for some while. In April, you’ll learn what she’s discovered when her book comes out, Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee.
After talking with Pamela’s publisher’s publicist, Buzz Girl wrote, that the book is “a global look at how and why people cheat on their spouses and how different rules govern illicit love in different parts of the world. No surprise, we are the true puritans.”
It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that she won’t have trouble getting TV and other media interviews.
Here’s an excerpt from Publishers Weekly: “Druckerman concludes from one study that people in warmer climes cheat more (Scandinavia is the exception), while people in wealthy countries tend to cheat less than those in poor countries (exception: Kazakhstan). Druckerman found that the rules of sexual cultures differ widely: adultery is the least dangerous social evil in Russia, while in Japan, buying sex doesn't count as cheating.”
Global buzz is already building for this book.
“When the phone rang in his hotel room in Xian, China, Jim Benning expected to face a frustrating language barrier. He never could have imagined a woman with a sultry voice cooing at the other end…”
“Increasingly, however, Japan’s inveterate train gropers — among other fetishists — are finding new avenues for gratification….”
“Who says a communication gap between Mandarin and English should ruin a pleasant conversation between a visitor and a "business woman"? ....
Bradford Plumer “assumed that Pamela Druckerman's book was great fun to write. But she says that's not wholly true.”
