Woman’s Experience of Sex [HARDCOVER] [RARE BOOKS]

Written by a woman-and from a woman’s point of view-this major, new, sensitively illustrated book explores sex and sexuality in a way that other sex books rarely dare. For it places techniques and methods of lovemaking in the context of who we are as people, our values, our relationships with others and the emotions that our experiences arouse in us.

Sheila Kitzinger writes about women’s feelings concerning their bodies and the many different dimensions and facets of sexual experience, in terms of both sexual preferences and phases of life. Quite unashamedly, she dares to write about love and how it can be expressed in sex, and her practical guidance on what to do when things go wrong is suffused with that sense of positive compassion for which she is already celebrated as an author and childbirth educator.

Female sexuality has for too long been oversimplified and seen predominantly through the eyes of male “experts.” Ms. Kitzinger breaks new ground here, casting aside the all too common taboos and inbuilt prejudices surrounding the way women of all ages feel and talk about their bodies, their selves, and their sex lives. She draws upon the accounts of hundreds of women who have talked to her and explores every area of their sexual needs: as lovers, mothers, patients, and widows-but, above all, as women.