Sex and the Unreal City

The Demolition of the Western Mind

The Unreal City is a zany cartoon megalopolis where towers are built of cotton candy, facts scatter like pixie dust, and the truth is whatever you feel it to be. But it's no fantasy. It's where we live. We dwell in Unreal City. We believe in un-being.

With saber-like wit, poet and professor Anthony Esolen leads readers on a tour through the ruins of their own Western world. This hilarious guide to a culture gone mad with sex and self-care minces no words and spares no egos. We the people of Unreal City are no better, and certainly no smarter, than our fathers were.

But fear not. Sex and the Unreal City insists there's no need to settle down in the ninth circle of unreality. Esolen lights a torch and heads up the well-trod path back to our ordered, kinder, truer homeland.