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The Professor of Desire

PHILIP ROTH

As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes". Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be - or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a mé...

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Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast

Matt McCusker recommended the title, calling it a classic of Jewish literature and saying he found it both poignant and funny. He described it as a story about a professor who denounces his sexuality, becomes depressed, and struggles with impotence. He encouraged listeners to read the book, highlighting its humor and depth.

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Episode: Ep 442 - The Devil's Day

He recommended this book, saying it's about a professor who denounces his sexuality and becomes depressed as a result. He said it's a classic of Jewish literature, and he enjoyed it.

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You got to read the Professor of Desire. You might like that.

No, it's so good. It's about a horny fucking professor.

It's by Philip Roth. A classic. I mean, it's classic Jewish literature. Mushies. Yeah.

Jews rock. Classic Jewish literature. Philip Roth, dude, my fucking bone is not working.

Episode: Ep 442 - The Devil's Day

This book was described as being about a horny professor who denounces his sexuality, leading to depression and an inability to get an erection. The speaker was enthusiastic about the book and found it both poignant and funny.

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You got to read the Professor of Desire. You might like that.

It's about a horny fucking professor.

He denounces his sexuality. He denounces his horniness, dude. And it's like him. Now he can't get a boner and he's depressed. And dude, it's the it might be the. It might be. It's by Philip Roth.

So he he's like kissing ladies bellies and they're like, bro, go away. You're kind of weird. And then he goes away to college and he is like he only gets along with one dude. It's belly time. Well, this time to explore this dude's gay.

I thought it was more of like you can follow your dreams or not. Either way, you know, it's talking there more about like like they thought like coming was the same back then. So this guy was like under the under the impression that like coming was bad.

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