Future Sex
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (549 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374537275 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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"the word love appears over and over and over" according to Thomas J. Brucia. A very bizarre book that was informative, interesting, and well-written. It doesn't have much to do with the future of sex, but it captures the anarchy, chaos, and variety of the past the word love appears over and over and over A very bizarre book that was informative, interesting, and well-written. It doesn't have much to do with the future of sex, but it captures the anarchy, chaos, and variety of the past 30 years up to the present. In fairness, it's an exploration of the outer edges, and folks (like myself) who live in "flyover country" may have trouble grasping the big picture -- if there is one. One quibble is . 0 years up to the present. In fairness, it's an exploration of the outer edges, and folks (like myself) who live in "flyover country" may have trouble grasping the big picture -- if there is one. One quibble is . Interesting book user225 Very nice reading, I enjoyed the narrative of the author telling her experiences, sometimes it gets a little complicated where she is going but that does not last too much. I do not think I understood where the last chapter was going but loved the Elizabeth story and burning man narrative. If you want to see another way of thinking about actual sex in the San Francisco way of thinking and how . Close But Never Makes Contact Interesting if you don't read a lot of "lifestyle magazines" like Cosmo or Esquire. If you do, or if you pop in the occasional porn film, you probably won't find much that's new. There's plenty of good stuff scattered throughout the book, such as the details of web cam sex experience and how little the girls working the cams can end up with after their "sponsors" have taken their cut. Otherwis
She studied at Brown University, Columbia University, and the University of Cambridge and was a Fulbright Scholar in Mozambique. . She grew up in Minneapolis and lives in Brooklyn. Future Sex is her first book. Emily Witt has written for The New Yorker, n+1, The New York Times, and the London Review of Books
Her first book, Future Sex, is provocative to say the least, but the journalist’s interest is more than just skin-deep. The result serves as a new economics of sex, or, equally, an economics of new sex.”Miranda Purves, Bloomberg Businessweek“Witt distinguishes herself in the nascent young-single-urban-woman-Tinder-tell-all-memoir genre by deploying admirable detachment and irony as she dabbles in orgasmic meditation, experiments with online dating, and navigates the disjuncture between sex and love.”
Sexual experience doesn’t necessarily lead to a future of traditional monogamyand why should it? Have we given up too quickly on the alternatives?In Future Sex, Witt explores Internet dating, Internet pornography, polyamory, and avant-garde sexual subcultures as sites of possibility. Up until a few years ago, she still envisioned her sexual experience “eventually reaching a terminus, like a monorail gliding to a stop at Epcot Center.” Like many people, she imagined herself disembarking, finding herself face-to-face with another human being, “and there we would remain in our permanent station in life: the future.”But, as many of us have found, things are more complicated than that. A funny, fresh, and moving antidote to conventional attitudes about sex and the single womanEmily Witt is single and in her thirties. The result is an open-minded, honest account of the contemporary pursuit of connection and pleasure.. She observes these scenes from within, capturing them in all their strangeness, ridiculousness, and beauty. Love is rare and frequently unreciprocated