I’m in Bulgaria right now and it’s time for Phase 1 of the launch of my new book, Sex 3.0. I have to do it in phases because I will probably be spending different parts of 2012 focusing on the four largest markets for English-language books — the U.S., U.K., Canada and Australia. (If you know anyone in the media in those territories that would like to interview me, please let me know.)
So why am I in Bulgaria? Well, to answer that question, it’s worth taking a look at the unconventional way in which the book was researched and written.
In August 2009, I packed my bags and embarked on the beginning of a round-the-world trip armed with nothing but a backpack, a bunch of clothes, toiletries and my not-so-faithful laptop.
The plan was simply to head west from London and keep going until I got back to London again. Several motherboard failures, battery failures and a new laptop later — and many, many countries later — Sex 3.0 was born.
As such, this book was not written in any one country. Parts of the book were written at the end of the world in snowy Patagonia, the eternal spring of Medellín, sultry Mexico, overlooking Ipanema beach or during a break from the delightful chaos of the SFSX music festival in Austin, Texas.
At times, L.A. provided the backdrop and inspiration. Other times Machu Picchu, Sydney harbour, Hong Kong bay, Boracay white beach and the ancient city of Petra.
In total, the research during the writing of this book took place across more than 40 countries over more than two years and three months of travel, taking in most of Europe, South America, North America, Australasia, and Southeast Asia, as well as parts of the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.
I am in Bulgaria now because I realised that I would never get the book finished by the end of 2011 and ready for a Jan 2012 launch unless I stopped traveling.
So since November, I have been cosily sheltering from the snow in my Balkan apartment, where I happily reached my goal of finishing the book by the end of 2011.
What is in the Book?
The book takes a global look at the history of human sexual relationships in the Sex 1.0 era before property or marriage even existed, how we evolved to our modern day Sex 2.0 lifestyle, and how and why we created the problems that make modern day sexual relationships so hard.
Far more importantly, it details a way forward to a Sex 3.0 world — a world of mutual understanding between men and women and a return to nature.
Sure, we take a look at the same thing on the official website too. In fact, the early posts on the official website are largely taken from the early chapters of the book, but I am never going to make the entire content of the book available there (I gotta eat too after all).
Essentially the articles that I write and publish here and and on the official site give you a look at parts of my mind map, but to see the whole map, you have to buy the book.
For both readers of the book and readers of the official website, being able to read about and understand background ‘primer’ concepts like people’s mind maps, relationship duress, fenced and unfenced relationships and so on is essential.
Without the primer concepts being understood, you can’t understand either the writing on the Sex 3.0 website or in the book.
Hope you enjoy the book! — JJ
About the Author
JJ Roberts is a former English rock journalist who followed the standard script of conventional dating, or what he terms in his book “fenced relationships,” for the first half of his adult life, before exploring sexual relationships not based on enforced monogamy, or what he terms “unfenced relationships,” for the second half.
The result was his first book, Sex 3.0, a fascinating insight into the modern-day culture of Sex 2.0, which is based on fear, control and deception, and its replacement, Sex 3.0, which represents the death of fear and a return to nature.
An early reviewer writes about Sex 3.0 — “One of the most mind blowing books I’ve ever read. Reading it has had a profound impact on how I view sexual relationships. I will recommend this to everyone I know. Bravo J J!” — Mark, Dublin
Another reviewers says — “Finally someone who gets it! A sane voice in a sea of insanity. I never heard anyone speak with this voice before. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” –- Sarah, NY
Launch Discount
As a special launch discount, I am offering up to $10 USD off the paperback version of the book. You can find out how to claim that by clicking here. This offer will only be available for a limited time.
Where Can You Buy It?
Sex 3.0 is available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle versions. It’s also available from CreateSpace in paperback form here.
The industry standard ePub format (for iPad and pretty much all other eReaders) can be bought from the Sex 3.0 E-Book Store, from Lulu, or from Smashwords. Smashwords also has Sex 3.0 in Kindle format, as well as LRF and PDB.
Cross posted at Sex 3.0.
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Okay with WHY you are in Bulgaria, even in the winter. It’s not much more severe a winter than that of New England, IMHO – though my experience was short, a bit less than two weeks of January in a town halfway between Sofia and the Black Sea. (Troyan, to be exact. Their “Military Cartographic Service.” I had some experiences there that “ended the Cold War” for me.)
My question, J J, is WHY you’re in Bulgaria, in the winter, in January? It couldn’t be to pick up some Bulgarian attar-of roses, could it? (Bulgarian Rose Perfume is probably the best rose perfume you can find. That, at least, was my experience.)
I will admit, I saw a few “young lovelies” who could have claimed my love, in Troyan. They were honestly young enough to have been my daughters, or maybe even my granddaughters. If I hadn’t been there for Official Diplomatic Business, I might probably have claimed myself a fuck-buddy darling, and have bought myself a farmstead with a plum orchard big enough to service my appetite for “Troyanska Slivova,” or plum brandy. (My translator and “handler”, Colonel Angel Angelov, had an ancestral farm in the vicinity of Troyan, and I liked his home-distilled plum brandy better than the best imported Scotch whiskey in Bulgaria … Ballantine’s.)
So … what’s your excuse?
(BTW – I haven’t quite finished reading Sex 3.0 yet. Circumstances have led to my founding my own Web site, “www.beijaflorbeyondthehorizon.wordpress.com”, before I finished your magnum opus. I’d better do so and publish a review in the next few days – promise!)
Oh, what the hell.
My Sony Reader is still charging up, and I won’t be able to read any more until it’s finished. Somehow, that reminds me of a woman – I won’t “get any more” until the time when my receptacle admits me again.
Go ahead and buy “Sex 3.0″ – especially if you are young enough and horny enough to benefit from the situation of having enough pussy to please you.
@ BeijaFlor – My excuse ? Everything is cheap. More rocks bars than you can shake a stick at (my kinda music). Nightlife is 7 days a week (if you know where to go). Good live music although mostly rock cover bands and the local poker players at the casino suck so I get to live for free here ;-)
JJ Roberts,
I don’t know who you think you are but I can allow you to write about sex until the matriarchy of Amanda Marcotte, Clarisse Thorn, Hugo Schwyzer and Robert Jensen approve you to be a Feminist friendly writer who never questions Feminist dogma and always demonizes male sexuality……
I WON’T HAVE IT….
SUBMITT to the MATRIARCHY!!!!
@ – David, feminism is covered in the book in the chapter called “Feminism Is Dead And How Feminists Killed it”
no, no you don’t have signed permission in triplicate….
you must erase that chapter….
the matriarchy demands it, you, you, red blooded misogynist, you…….
ahh misogynist … I remember a time when that word actually had a meaning
donchya know, the word has tons of meaning!!!!!
it is designed to make the enemies of Feminism cower in fear….
you don’t want anyone thinking you hate women, now do ya?
it’s misandry that isn’t real, that’s why it’s not even in your spellchecker you dunce….
It’s only those evillle whiney MRA types who talk about it anyways. I wish they’d just shut up because NO ONE should take the limelight away from women’s problems….
Feminism is the way, never mind that men die 7 years earlier, it must be from being so lazy from all that privilege…..