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The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex
Viking
July 2010
On Sale: June 24, 2010
256 pages
ISBN: 0670021865
EAN: 9780670021864
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Seeking love in an age obsessed with sex, a journalist
chronicles her year without On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Hephzibah Anderson
glimpsed her college boyfriend going into a jewelry store
with a smiling blonde-and in that moment realized it had
been years since a man told her he loved her. This discovery
led her to question a decade of emotionally frustrating
relationships with commitment phobes. As she examined her
past, she recognized that most of these relationships went
off course at the precise moment sex was involved. Anderson
decided it was time to spend a full year without sex to
rediscover its meaning and purpose in her life. In this
confessional account, Anderson shares the results of that
year, narrating each month as she flirts, dates, and swoons
but doesn't have sex. The results-her feelings about
femininity, her body, and romance-are illuminating. Told with Elizabeth Gilbertesque candor, Chastened reveals
much about our contradictory cultural attitudes towards sex
and the ways intercourse has been used as a shortcut to
deeper intimacies. An antidote to the growing genre of
another-notch-in-the-bedpost memoirs, Chastened is a
refreshing look at what's to be gained by going without.
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