Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

You are almost certainly normal. That is the answer Emily Nagoski, a sex educator, gives to the question she hears most from women — “Am I normal?” — and the whole book is an argument for why it’s true. Roughly 70% of women don’t orgasm reliably from intercourse alone. Many feel desire only once things are already underway rather than out of the blue. Many notice their bodies responding to something their minds don’t find arousing at all. None of that is a malfunction. It only looks like one because our culture keeps measuring women’s sexuality against a male template it was never built to match.

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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life