Sex Saved the Summer: Essays & Confessions

Funny. Messy. Honest.

Across eleven real stories, Joseph Adam Lee explores relationships, childhood, and New York City misadventures through dark humor and sharp self-awareness. In the opening essay, A Royal Rumble on Fire Island, Lee recounts his accidental starring role in a romantic spiral involving a Ghanaian princess. From there, the chaos deepens: housing a bohemian squatter with more confidence than hygiene (The Opulent Squatter), a college prank gone haywire (The Imposter of McIntire Hall), and a surreal family mix-up involving his grandfather, an orange VHS tape, and his own mother (My Mom, the Porn Dealer). And that’s just scratching the surface.