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A provocative look at why our current understanding of female sexuality isnt getting us off.QUILL & QUIRE BEST OF 2016QUILL & QUIRE BEST COVER OF 2016We think of the modern woman as sexually liberated if anything, were told were oversexed. Yet a striking number of women are dissatisfied with their sex lives. Over half of women report having a sexual complaint, whether thats lack of desire or difficulty reaching orgasm. But this issue doesnt get much press; the urge is to ignore or medicalize it (witness the quest for pink Viagra). If so many ordinary women suffer from sexual frustration, then perhaps the problem isnt one that can be addressed by a pharmaceutical fix or isnt a problem. Maybe we need to get hot and bothered about a broader cultural cure: a reorienting of our current malefocused approach to sex and pleasure, and a rethinking of whats normal.Using a blend of reportage, interview and firstperson reflection, journalist Sarah Barmak explores the cuttingedge science and grassroots cultural trends that are getting us closer to truth of womens sexuality. Closer reveals how women are reshaping their sexuality today in wild, irrepressible ways: nude meetings, howto apps, transfriendly porn, therapeutic vulva massage, hourlong orgasms and public clitrubbing demonstrations and redefining female sexuality on its own terms.
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A provocative look at why our current understanding of female sexuality isnt getting us off.QUILL & QUIRE BEST OF 2016QUILL & QUIRE BEST COVER OF 2016We think of the modern woman as sexually liberated if anything, were told were oversexed. Yet a striking number of women are dissatisfied with their sex lives. Over half of women report having a sexual complaint, whether thats lack of desire or difficulty reaching orgasm. But this issue doesnt get much press; the urge is to ignore or medicalize it (witness the quest for pink Viagra). If so many ordinary women suffer from sexual frustration, then perhaps the problem isnt one that can be addressed by a pharmaceutical fix or isnt a problem. Maybe we need to get hot and bothered about a broader cultural cure: a reorienting of our current malefocused approach to sex and pleasure, and a rethinking of whats normal.Using a blend of reportage, interview and firstperson reflection, journalist Sarah Barmak explores the cuttingedge science and grassroots cultural trends that are getting us closer to truth of womens sexuality. Closer reveals how women are reshaping their sexuality today in wild, irrepressible ways: nude meetings, howto apps, transfriendly porn, therapeutic vulva massage, hourlong orgasms and public clitrubbing demonstrations and redefining female sexuality on its own terms.
