Description: Reviews from: PAPER JANE Photographer Talmage Cooley and creative powerhouse Andy Spade have collected 44 tales of public acts of sexuality, recounted here in the participants' own words and illustrated with Cooley's images. The subjects' plain words convey the spontaneity and power of desire, as well as the apprehension and fear (of getting caught, perhaps, but sometimes of one's partner) inherent in an act that blurs the boundary between public and private. Almost all of the color photographs, often grainy and over- or underlit, are devoid of people: Moments like these can indeed make an elevator, a stairwell, a subway or a roadside seem the most private in the world. If your telescope is broken and the neighbors are keeping the blinds down, don't fret: Just pick up Public Love, a voyeuristic new book that lets you observe the sex lives of strangers with out feeling skeevy. It's Talmage Cooley and Andy Spade (Kate's hubby, Davey's brother) and relays 44 hot, real-life tales of non-bedroom sex under a semi at a truck stop; in playground grass with a big rat watching; with a spicy stranger on a New Orleans-bound train all told from a frank, first-person perspective. It raised my temperature: After reading it on a sunny weekday, I wanted to ditch work and head to the top of the Empire State Building for a nooner. But what makes Public Love even hotter are the photos of spots like the ones where the deeds went down: shots of empty parking lots and picnic tables, locked in time. It's perfect reading material for a boring plane ride you'll be inspired to slyly invite the cute boy across the aisle to the aptly named cockpit.

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