In early summer of 1978 my agent asked me if I would be interested in ghost writing a book for Jerry Rubin about his small penis. Rubin, the former anti-war protestor and activist, had signed a deal with Harcourt Brace Jovanovich for $35,000 to pen a self-help book for men with small endowments and premature ejaculation issues. If I were interested in collaborating with him, half of the advance would be mine.... Rubin really didn’t have much of a book. There was no research, no thesis. He had no remedies for men with small penises. The best palliative he could suggest to his readers was that men shouldn’t put so much importance on penis size. ... I was fired the next day....The book got terrible reviews. It was in part a compilation of other self-help books, all listed in the bibliography, peppered with Rubin’s irreverent observations and chapter headings like, “Three Cheers for the Tongue and the Finger” or “Learning from Lesbians.” The book was quickly pulped and forgotten.