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Author:
Tracy Clark-Flory
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Date:
February 16, 2021
Sex journalist Clark-Flory shares the confusing, funny, and sometimes painful moments that shaped her young adulthood, offering a look at sex and culture for modern young women.
What The Reviewers Say
... luminous.
Clark-Flory writes of this dissonance fearlessly. She throws herself completely into the world of porn sets, sex shops, strip clubs, and BDSM dungeons in search of deeper truths about society’s oldest obsession. Amid her theoretical research, Clark-Flory comes of age before readers’ eyes. Subtly chronological, this memoir-in-essays follows Clark-Flory through destructive hookups, faked orgasms, job insecurity, the loss of her mother, marriage, childbirth, and parenting. It is a wonder to witness an essay about Magic Mike Live (the Vegas strip show response to the 2012 film) become an existential exploration of mortality. The book is so brilliantly niche that it becomes completely universal..
... savvy, deliciously racy.
