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The sex diaries project : what we're saying about what we're doing / Arianne Cohen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2012.Description: vi, 297 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1118157257 (hardback)
  • 9781118157251 (hardback)
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Contents:
Introduction: a few tantalizing words from your sex diaries editor -- Part one, solo. Dalliancing: I'm enjoying myself -- Soloing: I am my own soul mate -- Part two, partnered. A brief intermission: your editor's sex diaries epiphany -- Dating: It's simple: I like you, you like me -- Committing: together, forever -- Recommitting: round two -- Ending: dissonance, breakups, death and other mishaps -- Part three, poly. Cheating: on paper I'm monogamous, in practice... -- Flourishing: the more, the merrier -- Appendix: what kind of relationship is it?: A cheat sheet -- The sex diarists.
Summary: "The book includes a through line reflecting how we live out our desires over a lifetime. Cohen acts as narrator, sharing her own story, and the book also includes commentaries about the diaries from other diarists as well as credentialed experts who will offer relationship and psychological insights"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In the tradition of The Vagina Monologues and PostSecret , this provocative collection takes a peek behind bedroom doors?satisfying our insatiable desires to look into the private lives of ordinary people

Arianne Cohen spent four years collecting 1,500 Sex Diaries and in this book she takes us on a tantalizing tour of American bedrooms through the all-new, provocative, often moving, sometimes shocking, always entertaining real diaries of forty Sex Diarists. From the Madly-In-Love 17-Year-Old Who Might be Pregnant to the Cheating Father of Three and the Grandma Who Is Perfectly Happy Alone, these tales of love, lust, longing and leaving will shock, titillate, and educate. Cohen serves as tour guide, drawing on her deep database of Sex Diaries for her incisive and illuminating commentary. Cohen was the first editor of the Sex Diaries column, a popular feature in New York magazine, editing it from 2007 to 2010. Her work regularly appears in Marie Claire and the New York Times and she is a contributing editor at Woman's Day . She is executive producing a TV reality series based on this book.

Presents a groundbreaking portrait of relationships in America?including myriad options beyond single, dating, and married Includes Sex Diaries of straight, gay, bi, single, married, young, and older Sex Diarists, published here for the first time Gives readers tips on how to evaluate their own relationships and sex lives

Sex is everywhere in our culture?yet how people best connect and disconnect is largely a mystery. The Sex Diaries Project turns the lights on to reveal the secrets that lie behind closed bedroom doors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: a few tantalizing words from your sex diaries editor -- Part one, solo. Dalliancing: I'm enjoying myself -- Soloing: I am my own soul mate -- Part two, partnered. A brief intermission: your editor's sex diaries epiphany -- Dating: It's simple: I like you, you like me -- Committing: together, forever -- Recommitting: round two -- Ending: dissonance, breakups, death and other mishaps -- Part three, poly. Cheating: on paper I'm monogamous, in practice... -- Flourishing: the more, the merrier -- Appendix: what kind of relationship is it?: A cheat sheet -- The sex diarists.

"The book includes a through line reflecting how we live out our desires over a lifetime. Cohen acts as narrator, sharing her own story, and the book also includes commentaries about the diaries from other diarists as well as credentialed experts who will offer relationship and psychological insights"-- Provided by publisher.

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