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Cargando... Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy (2022)por Rachel Krantz
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I am in awe! Rachel Krantz may have just become my new favorite author. Her scientific footnotes were vital. She sounded impartial, brutally honest about her experiences, and sexually empowering. What a liberating book! ( ) Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy, by Rachel Krantz, is a difficult book for me to come to a comfortable rating, though I bumped up because there is a wealth of information here. I just find some of her accounts to be self-serving and, to me, questionable in their presentation of "real life." First, the many positives of the book. This is well researched and includes both formal explanations and theories as well as personal accounts and remembrances (from others as well as Krantz). All of this information is very interesting and is, I think, food for thought when considering how we, as individuals and as a society, live. My issue has to do with the memoir approach. When one makes recordings of so many intimate moments, are they actually intimate or are they just moments of immersive research? I can't help but feel she was less than fully committed to the lifestyle and more fully committed to her research/writing project. Because I find her level of true involvement, beyond playing a role to get more research, questionable at best, I found myself discounting more of her personal views than I would have liked. Even with my distaste for her recording of so much I think the book is a valuable addition to the field. For a reader who might be more comfortable with recording equipment and interviews as part of your sex life her personal "insights" will mean more to you, so the book will offer you even more. Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"When Rachel Krantz met and fell for Jacob, he told her that he was looking to make a commitment--one that did not include exclusivity. Both anxious and excited at the prospect of a different way to commit, Krantz entered a relationship built equally on love and liberation. And as an inveterate journalist and writer of extraordinary perceptiveness and emotional nuance, she not only put her heart on the line, but kept painstakingly detailed notes, interviewed other couples, and relentlessly interrogated her own emotions as she went down the rabbit hole of non-monogamy. What results is a unique combination of memoir and immersion journalism that reads like sexy, page-turning fiction and casts an unflinching eye on non-monogamy, from the debilitating jealousy and anxiety spirals to the heart-opening connections and exhilarating eroticism. As she and Jacob attempt to rewrite the way love works, she runs up against power and gender dynamics either written by biology or engrained by culture--and must repeatedly face the question, is Jacob her liberator or her manipulator? Krantz fearlessly takes us inside both her interior and intimate moments as she also interviews experts and tells the stories of other couples who have created a range of relationship styles to fit their desires. Non-monogamy is the way into universal questions about love and happiness, which Krantz confronts with probing analysis and incredible candor: Can a person have both freedom and love? How do we reconcile closeness and lust? How can men and women achieve equality in relationships? What does it mean to trust someone? Can you love without jealousy? And, ultimately, is the pleasure worth the pain?"-- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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