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The pleasure gap : American women & the unfinished sexual revolution / Katherine Rowland.

by Rowland, Katherine, author.

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New York : Seal Press, 2020.

Women -- Sexual behavior -- United States.

Sex -- United States.

9781580058360 (hardcover) :

xi, 285 pages ; 24 cm

A note on how I wrote this book -- Sexuality in the crosshairs of culture. The pleasure gap ; What's all the fuss about? ; Learning (not) to lust ; What the body remembers ; Tradition and its discontents -- Closing the gap. It's all in your head ; You can change your mind ; The language of language and the language of touch ; Human potential on the open market ; Opening to choice ; Playing with power ; The limits of talk -- Conclusion: beyond the physical.

"Millions of women in our country experience some mix of low desire, absent pleasure, tanking lust, and elusive orgasms. It's just stress, motherhood, anxiety, poor body image, or plain old boring monogamy though, right? Wife loses interest, husband is left cold for too long--these and similar narratives have been accepted as the norm. With The Pleasure Gap, Katherine Rowland aims to dismantle such claims once and for all. Women aren't less sexual than men, she asserts, for one, and they're certainly not predetermined to lose sexual drive as they age. And, in fascinating new accounts featured by Rowland, a growing number of women are taking steps to reignite their sexuality"--

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