Women Who Love Sex

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PRAISE FOR
"Breaks new ground with its broad understanding of the nature
and power of women's sexual pleasure This readable and woman-
affirming book opens a conversation which has rich possibilities for
women both personally and in our public lives."
— Boston Women's Health Book Collective, authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves
"This book offers the possibility of spontaneous combustion
Every woman alive should read it!"
— Cybili Shepherd
"Women! Be alert! Anything as powerful as our sexuality we
had best understand and enjoy. WOMEN WHO LOVE SEX
is about taking control of our lives."
— Holly Near
"An innovative approach A truly significant contribution to the
way in which we think about human sexuality."
— Ward ell B. Pomeroy, Ph.D., coauthor of The Kirwey Reports
"Endorsement for those women who celebrate their sexuality and
hope for those who want to With WOMEN WHO LOVE SEX,
Gina Ogden has found her place among the consummate sex
researchers of our time. Her... Tovább

Fülszöveg

PRAISE FOR
"Breaks new ground with its broad understanding of the nature
and power of women's sexual pleasure This readable and woman-
affirming book opens a conversation which has rich possibilities for
women both personally and in our public lives."
— Boston Women's Health Book Collective, authors of Our Bodies, Ourselves
"This book offers the possibility of spontaneous combustion
Every woman alive should read it!"
— Cybili Shepherd
"Women! Be alert! Anything as powerful as our sexuality we
had best understand and enjoy. WOMEN WHO LOVE SEX
is about taking control of our lives."
— Holly Near
"An innovative approach A truly significant contribution to the
way in which we think about human sexuality."
— Ward ell B. Pomeroy, Ph.D., coauthor of The Kirwey Reports
"Endorsement for those women who celebrate their sexuality and
hope for those who want to With WOMEN WHO LOVE SEX,
Gina Ogden has found her place among the consummate sex
researchers of our time. Her insights, her humanity, her humor
and her passion are penned on each page."
— Judith H. Seifer, Ph.D., R.N., President, American Association of
Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists
"Men who read this book will find an understanding of women's sexuality that
opens communication with sexual partners and enhances delight in our gender
difference highly recommended for couples to read together."
— Terry Hunt, Ed.D., coauthor of Emotional Healing
"An expansive, warmhearted book that redefines and re frames women's
sexual pleasure. Gina Ogden stays with these women —
never judging, pathologizing or abandoning them."
— Dalma Heyn, author of The Erotic Silence of the American Wife
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all aspects of our lives. In this revolutionary book,
women who love sex talk in intimate detail about what
gives them the greatest pleasure. They redefine sex —
based on how women really experience sexual
pleasure — confirming what every woman knows
instinctively, while creating a new language that every
woman will understand. With complete candor, these
women who love sex share their erotic encounters,
fantasies, and desires, opening up exciting new paths
A quantum leap in sex research, WOMEN WHO
LOVE SEX explores vital areas never addressed in
any other sex report. Author and psychotherapist
Gina Ogden spent twenty years on this ground-
breaking work, conducting one-on-one interviews
with hundreds of women who consider themselves
highly sexually responsive. Discussing a wide range
of sexual experiences, they give us inspiration and
encouragement to experiment with and enjoy, in our
own lives, all the sexual pleasure of which we are
capable. The aspects of female sexuality covered here
will challenge and transform us, as WOMEN WHO
LOVE SEX ex

the surprising truth about women's sex
response — how women really feel about
sexual desire
"thinking off"—women who come to orgasm
spontaneously, without any touching at all
broadening the scope of sexual satisfaction
— choosing for oumelvej what we enjoy, what
wre consider "normal" or "hot"
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• language that revitalizes how women
and men communicate in the bedroom,
and beyond
• extragenital arousal —discovering the rich
erotic zones all over the body
• narrowing the gender gap —removing taboos
that inhibit women's responses and behaviors
• the connection between our sensuous
potential, and bonding and nurturing
From simple lust to the tenderest of intimacies
WOMEN WHO LOVE SEX offers women and
men everywhere new paths to pleasure, even to
sexual ecstasy. Thought-provoking and wise,
compassionate and moving, this unprecedented
work will transform how we view sex and power
by giving us unique new ways to think about sex-
ual pleasure. Long after the joy of reading it is
over, the life-changing message of WOMEN
WHO LOVE SEX will resonate in our lives.
GINA OGDEN, Ph.D., is coauthor of
Safe Encounters and is the author of Sexual Re coven/
and Food for Body and Soul. A licensed marriage
and family therapist and certi Pied sex th erapist,
she is often quoted in national magazines and is
known across the country for her dynamic semi-
nars and workshops on women's issues, sexuality,
and social change. Ms Ogden, a recovering
"Proper Bostonian," is extending her research of
women who love sex all over the world—most
recently, China. Vissza