abstract:Frank Browning is an American author and former correspondent for National Public Radio. His books include 'The Monk & the Skeptic: Dialogues on Sex, Faith and Religion" (forthcoming October 2013), 'The American Way of Crime: From Salem to Watergate (1980), The Culture of Desire: Paradox and Perversity in Gay Lives Today (1993), A Queer Geography: Journeys Toward a Sexual Self (1996) and Apples: Story of the Fruit of Temptation (1996).