Bibliograph

Bad sex, truth, pleasure, and an unfinished revolution, Nona Willis Aronowitz

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Bad sex, truth, pleasure, and an unfinished revolution, Nona Willis Aronowitz

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-321)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bad sex

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1336963856

Responsibility statement

Nona Willis Aronowitz

Sub title

truth, pleasure, and an unfinished revolution

Summary

"From Teen Vogue sex and love columnist Nona Willis Aronowitz, a blend of memoir, social history, and cultural criticism that probes the true meaning of desire and sexual freedom in today's age. At thirty-two years old, everything in Nona's life, and in America, was in disarray. Her marriage was falling apart. Her nuclear family was slipping away. Her heart and libido were both in overdrive. Embroiled in an era of fear, reckoning, and reimagining, her assumptions of what "sexual liberation" meant were suddenly up for debate. In the thick of personal and political turmoil, Nona turned to the words of history's sexual revolutionaries -- including her late mother, early radical pro-sex feminist Ellen Willis. At a time when sex has never been more accepted and feminism has never been more mainstream, Nona asked herself: What, exactly, do I want? And are my sexual and romantic desires even possible amid the horrors and bribes of patriarchy, capitalism, and white supremacy? Nona's attempts to find the answers place her search for authentic intimacy alongside her family history and other stories stretching back nearly two hundred years. Stories of ambivalent wives and unchill sluts, free lovers and radical lesbians, sensitive men and woke misogynists, women who risk everything for sex -- who buy sex, reject sex, have bad sex and good sex. The result is a brave, bold, and vulnerable exploration of what sexual freedom can mean. <i>Bad Sex</i> is Nona's own journey to sexual satisfaction and romantic happiness, which not only lays bare the triumphs and flaws of contemporary feminism but also shines a light on universal questions of desire." --Book jacket

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Bad sex -- Status bump -- I want this -- The vulnerability paradox -- The vulnerability gradient -- An old male revolt in a new disguise -- In it for the dick -- The fallow period -- Fire needs air -- The real experts -- Good sex

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