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In this beguiling, incisive book, critically acclaimed writer Katherine Angel examines the place of fathers in contemporary culture with her characteristic mix of boldness and nuance, asking how the mixture of love and hatred we feel toward our fathers—and patriarchal father figures—can be turned into a relationship that is generative rather than destructive.

American culture is more sexually liberal than ever. But compared to men, women's sexual pleasure has not grown: Up to 40 percent of American women experience the sexual malaise clinically known as low sexual desire. Between this low desire, muted pleasure, and experiencing sex in terms of labor...

Mientras las sociedades latinoamericanas a veces dan la apariencia de avanzar en las conquistas de igualdad de género, la realidad se impone constantemente ante las mujeres demostrando que las cosas no mejoran en realidad. Los relatos de Mónica Sarmiento en "en busca del sexo perdido" son...

In this book, Katherine Angel surveys medical and psychoanalytic understandings of female desire, from Freud to Kinsey to present-day science; MeToo-era debates over consent, assault, and feminism; and popular culture, TV, and film to challenge our assumptions about female desire. Why, she asks, do we expect desire to be easily understood? In contrast to the endless exhortation to know what we want, Angel proposes that sex can be a conversation, requiring insight, interaction, and mutual vulnerability.

Désir, excitation, plaisir, douleur pendant les rapports, orgasme, fétichismes, fantasmes… Nous nous posons toutes des questions sur notre sexualité. Sexothérapeute internationalement reconnue, Emily Nagoski nous convie à un véritable voyage au coeur de notre sexualité et nous aide à comprendre pourquoi il ne peut y avoir de normes en matière de plaisir féminin. Les dernières recherches scientifiques ont en effet révélé qu'il existe des différences physiologiques, neurologiques et psychologiques bien plus grandes d'une femme à l'autre que d'un homme à l'autre.