The Sex Diaries Project What We're Saying about What We're Doing

by Cohen, Arianne

• ISBN13: 9781118157251
• ISBN10: 1118157257
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-01-24
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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 Author has a strong and growing media platform 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.

Author Biography

ARIANNE COHEN collects sex diaries from all over the globe and partners with publishers, producers, and museums to share them with the world. Her work appears regularly in publications such as the New York Times, the Guardian, Elle, and Marie Claire, among many others, and she is executive producing a reality TV series based on the project. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. Cohen invites you to keep your own anonymous diary at www.sexdiariesproject.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Few Tantalizing Words from Your Sex Diaries Editor	p. 1
solo
Dalliancing: I'm Enjoying Myself	p. 11
Soloing: I Am My Own Soul Mate	p. 39
partnered
A Brief Intermission: Your Editors Sex Diaries Epiphany	p. 57
Dating: It's Simple: I Like You, You Like Me	p. 67
Committing: Together, Forever	p. 97
Recommitting: Round Two	p. 139
Ending: Dissonance, Breakups, Death and Other Mishaps	p. 159
poly
Cheating: On Paper I'm Monogamous, in Practice...	p. 207
Flourishing: The More, The Merrier	p. 235
Appendix: What Kind of Relationship Is It?: A Cheat Sheet	p. 275
The Sex Diarists	p. 277
Notes	p. 285
Acknowledgments	p. 287
Index	p. 289
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