Future Sex

ISBN-13: 9780374537272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017

Emily Witt

Opis

A funny, fresh, and moving antidote to conventional attitudes about sex and the single womanEmily 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.

Recenzje

"Witt erforscht das Kernproblem vieler Frauen mit großem Feinsinn, mit intelligenz und einem bemerkenswerten Experimentierwillen."
Publishers Weekly 06.12.2016

O autorze

Emily Witt ist Mitte dreißig, Journalistin und Schriftstellerin und lebt in New York. Sie studierte u. a. an der Columbia University und in Cambridge. Witt schreibt für n+1, The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ und The London Review of Books. Future Sex ist ihr erstes Buch.