![]() Members proposed “walks” (dates) or “dates” (sex appointments) with other Zendiks by lodging requests with administrators, who acted as go-betweens in scheduling assignations women were denied dates if group gynecological exams indicated they were in a fertile phase. Meanwhile, sex on the farm was rigidly bureaucratized. ![]() ![]() Members supported the commune by hawking its magazine, music CDs, and bumper stickers-“Stop Bitching Start a Revolution”-on the streets, which made maniacal salesmanship a Zendik must. In Zuman’s telling, Zendik’s reality is strange and crass. Founded in the 1960s on countercultural blather, Zendik preached back-to-the-land living, contempt for the “Deathculture” of competitive capitalism, and psycho-motivational aphorisms-“Dare to demand the impossible and it becomes possible”-from deceased guru Wulf Zendik’s The Affirmative Life. ![]() ![]() A young woman experiences a sexual awakening-and romantic frustration-in a kooky cult in this debut coming-of-age memoir.Īfter her graduation from Harvard in 1999, Zuman’s search for herself took her to the Zendik Farm commune in North Carolina. ![]()
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