Where else but in surfing could a product such as Sex Wax have flourished? Here's Peter Robinson of The Surfing Museum with a review of a book that illumines the history of a substance that is a sine qua non of surfing.
These days it’s something you buy with hardly a thought – surfboard wax. You pop down your local surf shop, you’ve usually got your favourite brand, you decide what temperature water you’ll be surfing, wax up and head off to the waves. It’s probably the most basic product in surfing, but where did surf wax come from, who invented it and what did people do ‘before’ wax? You can now find out some of the hilarious history behind these fragrant little bars that we’ve come to rely upon so much in a new book Surfboard Wax – A History.
