The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies And Reality [EPUB]

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Fifty years after the sexual revolution, we are told that we live in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom: that if anything, we are too free now. But beneath the veneer of glossy hedonism, millennial journalist Rachel Hills argues, we are controlled by a new brand of sexual convention: one that influences all of us - woman or man, straight or gay, liberal or conservative. At the root of this silent code lies the sex myth - the defining significance we invest in sexuality that once meant we were dirty if we did have sex and now means we are defective if we don't do it enough. Equal parts social commentary, pop culture, and powerful personal anecdotes from people across the English-speaking world, The Sex Myth exposes the invisible norms and unspoken assumptions that shape the way we think about sex today.

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E-Book Information

• Year: 4 Aug 2015

• Edition: Original retail

• Pages: 289

• Language: English

• Topic: 198

• Identifier: 1451685785,978-1451685787

• Asin: B00P434FRC

• Commentary: “Rachel Hills has written a bracing and brave interrogation of contemporary assumptions about sex – how and with whom and why we have it, and what it means if we don’t. Here is a fresh voice and a welcome perspective, cutting through attitudes that are supposed to be progressive and liberating, but can too often oppress and stifle us just as effectively as older taboos.” (Rebecca Traister author of Big Girls Don’t Cry)

• Color: 1

• Cleaned: 1

• Paginated: 1

• Org File Size: 2,173,859

• Extension: epub

• Tags: Psychology of Human Sexuality