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Emily Nagoski · 2015
Sequence ladder
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What this book knows
Women's sexual wellbeing is not broken instinct but a learnable system of context, brakes, and embodied self-trust.
desire
He said, 'Then why are you wet?' And I was so confused because I definitely wasn't into it, but my body was definitely responding.
CAY-001'I miss really wanting to have sex. I hate having to wind myself up to do it. It makes me feel broken.'
CAY-011shame
Her mother came up with disgust in every line of her face and said, 'What you were just doing out there? That's sex!' It took a long, long time to realize why I got so anxious.
CAY-003She turned bright red and finally asked, 'Isn't it dirty? Down there? The hair? The mucus?'
CAY-008embodiment
'I just feel a lot more confident in myself, in my body. I know now that I'm amazing to be with and I can revel in that.'
CAY-009The student's fifty-four-year-old mother said the most astonishing thing: 'I don't know where the clitoris is.'
CAY-004Illuminates
13 published passages · book excerpt · lived experience
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