Future Sex - Brossura

Witt, Emily

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0374537275 ISBN 13: 9780374537272

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2017

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Emily Witt has written for The New Yorker, n+1, The New York Times, and the London Review of Books. She studied at Brown University, Columbia University, and the University of Cambridge and was a Fulbright Scholar in Mozambique. She grew up in Minneapolis and lives in Brooklyn. Future Sex is her first book.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0374537275
• ISBN 13: 9780374537272
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 210