The Pleasure Gap
Subtitle: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution
Publisher: Seal Press
Published: Feb 04, 2020
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781580058360
Description: "Millions of women in our country experience some mix of low desire, absent pleasure, tanking lust, and elusive orgasms. It's just stress, motherhood, anxiety, poor body image, or plain old boring monogamy though, right? Wife loses interest, husband is left cold for too long--these and similar narratives have been accepted as the norm. With The Pleasure Gap, Katherine Rowland aims to dismantle such claims once and for all. Women aren't less sexual than men, she asserts, for one, and they're certainly not predetermined to lose sexual drive as they age. And, in fascinating new accounts featured by Rowland, a growing number of women are taking steps to reignite their sexuality"--
Notes: Source title: The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution