Sarah Barmak
Autor de Closer: Notes from the Orgasmic Frontier of Female Sexuality (Exploded Views)
Obras de Sarah Barmak
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
- Lugares de residencia
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
non-fiction author
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Miembros
- 35
- Popularidad
- #405,584
- Valoración
- 4.2
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 6
- Idiomas
- 1
So basically, even though a lot of this book describes some stuff that sounds real bullshitty to me (the word "yoni" was mentioned by white folks a lot), it's kind of understandable when you think that these are modern women who are trying to live in the space between being shamed for being sexual and being shamed for not being sexual (this idea is partially from porn, where multiple orgasms are the norm, and partially from the narrative of the liberated strong feminist woman who is fully in control of her own sexuality - both almost impossible standards to meet when girls aren't taught about pleasure in sex ed and aren't expected to masturbate (and therefore learn about their bodies and what they like) in the same way that boys are)...basically there's a lot of baggage and it's not weird that some women are trying to find their orgasms through some scammy-sounding yoni retreats.… (más)