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Sexual health education is a topic that is important to everyone, regardless of your life experiences. But we think it is especially important to adults who have experienced sexual and physical violence in their intimate relationships. We highly recommend this book as a resource for unlearning negative, incomplete, or incorrect teachings about sexuality and how our bodies work.
“An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works— based on groundbreaking research and brain science— that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.
“The first lesson in this essential, transformative book by Dr. Emily Nagoski is that every woman has her own unique sexuality, like a fingerprint, and that women vary more than men in our anatomy, our sexual response mechanisms, and the way our bodies respond to the sexual world. So we never need to judge ourselves based on others’ experiences. Because women vary, and that’s normal.
“Second lesson: sex happens in a context. All the complications of everyday life influence the context surrounding a women’s arousal, desire, and orgasm.
“Cutting edge research across multiple disciplines tells us that the most important factor for women in creating and sustaining a fulfilling sex life, is not what you do in bed or how you do it, but how you feel about it. Which means that stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing; they are central to it. Once you understand these factors, and how to influence them, you can create for yourself better sex and more profound pleasure than you ever thought possible.”
