# Jake's Thing

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- Book: [Jake's Thing](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis/jakes-thing) ([Jake's Thing.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis/jakes-thing.md))
- Authors: [Kingsley Amis](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9951-217-2
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2007-10-04
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Jake Richardson, an Oxford don nearing sixty with a lifetime's lechery behind him, is in pursuit of his lost libido and heads off to the consulting room of a miniature sex therapist. Not one to disobey a doctor's orders, he runs the full humiliating gamut of sex labs and trendy 'workshops', where more than souls are bared. He decks himself with cunning gadgetry, dreams up a weekly fantasy, pets diligently with his overweight wife and browses listlessly through porn magazines behind locked doors. Is sex really worth it? As liberationists abuse him, a campus hostess bores him into bed - and even his own wife starts acting oddly - Jake seriously begins to wonder.