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Penn Jillette<\/a><\/u><\/b>, magician, atheist, libertarian and writer has written a new book entitled God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales<\/b>.<\/p>\n

In one interesting section of the book, Jillette writes about his own visit to a gay bathhouse in San Francisco. This was during the height of the AIDS crisis in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

He writes that he went to the baths, to show a co-worker how open-minded he is. I have not read the book. But Linda Holmes<\/a><\/u><\/b> from NPR<\/a><\/u><\/b> has. In her blog review she writes:<\/p>\n

His story about visiting a San Francisco bathhouse, for instance, takes forever and is played mostly for the opportunity for a straight guy to talk about gay sex a lot, and when the punch line arrives, it’s really not as satisfying as it should be. God, No! is at its best when it combines Jillette’s taste for high-level philosophy (whether you agree with him or not) with dips into his very unusual life (his house had a sex dungeon that he turned into a playroom, if that tells you anything). It’s at its worst when his defiance of convention seems to have become, in its own way, very punishing toward other people’s individual rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To read more of Linda Holmes<\/a><\/u><\/b> review go to Penn Jillette’s ‘God, No!’: An Atheist Libertarian On Tricks, Bacon, And The TSA<\/a><\/u><\/b>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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