Even more than hockey, what unites Canadians from coast to coast is sex. Inspired by a recent poll that ranked Canadians among the sexiest peoples on Earth, Chris Gudgeon set out to investigate the truth about sex and sexuality in Canada. Based on original research and interviews with historians, sexperts, and social commentators, his book covers everything from homosexuality (officially illegal in Canada until 1969) to scandals (like the Munsinger Affair, where a woman actually had sex with members of the Diefenbaker cabinet) to censorship, to Canada's version of the sexual revolution (which saw men in Toronto freely engaging in intercourse with their spouses).

Bracketed by visits to two of Canada's nude beaches, in Vancouver and Halifax, Gudgeon's explorations take him to a pei swing club, a Montreal strip club, a Toronto gay bar, and an Edmonton porn movie theatre, as well as other adventures.
Finally, Gudgeon talks to sociologists, police officers, and futurists about the future of sex in Canada and how technology will change the way we love each other. Will we slip from our standing as the world's seventh best lover? Or will we rise to new virtual sexual heights?

Ever since his first piece of fiction was published 25 years ago in the small literary magazine Thrust, Chris Gudgeon has been honing his literary craft. Although his influences range from Will Self and Tibour Smith to fifteenth-century Japanese pornography, Chris Gudgeon has written, in this instance, a collection of stories with subtle echoes of Kurt Vonnegut. In addition to The Naked Truth, Chris Gudgeon's works of non-fiction include An Unfinished Conversation: The Life and Music of Stan Rogers and The Luck of the Draw: True Life Tales of Lottery Winners and Losers, both national bestsellers, and Out of This World, a controversial biography of the poet Milton Acorn. A resident of Victoria, Chris Gudgeon writes regularly for radio, television, film, and print publications as diverse as Mad, The Globe and Mail, Canadian Wildlife, and Playboy.

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