Sophia C. reviewed Bachelor Party Confidential: A Real-Life Peek Behind the Closed-Door Tradition on + 289 more book reviews
Bachelor Party Confidential is a fun quick read about one of the last bastions of male-only bonding. The subtitle is accurate -- a "peek" is all that is offered. David Boyer, a gay man who acknowledges he has "no horse in this race," points out that no groom-to-be acknowledges personally cheating throughout his two-year research. There is no profound anthropological methodology or analysis, only a mash-up of anonymous interviews, internet forum transcripts, and factoid sidebars. However, Boyer does venture beyond the various participants of the stereotypically smutty alcohol and stripper-laced affair to bring perspectives from the entertainers, grooms from other cultures, religious backgrounds, and eras. In short, a light playful PG-13 look at a social ritual.
