- Farrar Straus and Giroux
Future Sex
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- Emily Witt
- Farrar Straus and Giroux
- Paperback
- 9780374537272
- 8.2 X 5.4 X 0.7 inches
- 0.48 pounds
- Health & Fitness > Sexuality
- English
Book Description
A funny, fresh, and moving antidote to conventional attitudes about sex and the single woman
Emily Witt is single and in her thirties. Up until a few years ago, she still envisioned her sexual experience eventually reaching a terminus, like a monorail gliding to a stop at Epcot Center. Like many people, she imagined herself disembarking, finding herself face-to-face with another human being, and there we would remain in our permanent station in life: the future.
But, as many of us have found, things are more complicated than that. Love is rare and frequently unreciprocated. Sexual experience doesn't necessarily lead to a future of traditional monogamy--and why should it? Have we given up too quickly on the alternatives?
In Future Sex, Witt explores Internet dating, Internet pornography, polyamory, and avant-garde sexual subcultures as sites of possibility. She observes these scenes from within, capturing them in all their strangeness, ridiculousness, and beauty. The result is an open-minded, honest account of the contemporary pursuit of connection and pleasure.
Author Bio
Emily Witt is a writer in New York City. She is the author of Future Sex (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) and Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire (Columbia Global Reports, 2017).
Currently a staff writer at The New Yorker, she has also written for n+1, The New York Times, GQ, the London Review of Books, and many other places.
She has degrees from Brown, Columbia, and Cambridge, and was a Fulbright scholar in Mozambique.
Source: emilywitt.net
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