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I'm not suggesting that all sex must be great!

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I'm not suggesting that all sex must be great!

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sex can be messy and awkward...

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Why? Because of our patriarchal heteronormative culture. 

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Why? Because of our patriarchal heteronormative culture. 

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We have a history of women's sexuality to be the source of disease, ill health, problematic behaviour and anxiety.
The word hysteria comes from the greek word uterus 'Andreas Vesalius'. Medieval anatomists even called women's external genitalia the 'Pudendum' which is rooted in the latin word 'Podere' which means to make ashamed.
Centuries later there continues to be myths and stereotypes as a way of controlling women's sexuality.

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Hi there i am a mom of 3 wonderful daughters and i want to share our experience with this show. Sadly its not what we were hoping for. When I heard this show was coming to Netflix I was ecstatic! "Finally!" I thought, something for me and my daughters that we can watch and learn something together! It seemed great at first but after watching the entire show that is currently available we very quickly realized that it's not a documentary at all or informative in any constructive way at all.

They gathered many different women, none of whom seemed like they had EVER even or been to any kind of biology or Anatomy class. "Vulva????" That was literally stuff we learned in fifth grade. The informative discussion went from a great start very quickly to "Its everyone's fault I somehow don't know about my body!" Now look I lean hard left, but these women only make us look like absolute idiots who know almost nothing but how to blame others for our own issues. There was also a large lack of real sources backing any "facts" that we saw, also tried to look up the credentials of the "PH. Ds" we saw (found none) in the end my oldest looked at me and said "as long as we don't end up like them (women in video) I think we will be just fine. I'm ashamed for my entire gender being represented here. WE ARE NOT ALL IDIOTS!

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The Principles of Pleasure (TV Mini Series 2022) - IMDb

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Hi there i am a mom of 3 wonderful daughters and i want to share our experience with this show. Sadly its not what we were hoping for. When I heard this show was coming to Netflix I was ecstatic! "Finally!" I thought, something for me and my daughters that we can watch and learn something together!

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What would happen if women were really able to tune into their pleasure?

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What would happen if women were really able to tune into their pleasure?

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So many people are left out of the pleasure conversation

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So many people are left out of the pleasure conversation

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Women's expectations when it comes to sex are unexpectedly low

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Women's expectations when it comes to sex are unexpectedly low

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Women suffer disproportionately from sexual difficulties, pain and anxiety.

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Women suffer disproportionately from sexual difficulties, pain and anxiety.

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Pleasure, and the right to it, are not equally distributed.

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Pleasure, and the right to it, are not equally distributed.

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- Orgasm gap

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Did you know that there is an orgasm gap of around 30% between heterosexual couples when they have sex? In Mind The Gap, Dr Karen Gurney, a clinical psychologist and certified psychosexologist, explores not just this gap, but the gaps in our knowledge of so much of the most important new science around sex and desire. In this book, you will learn that nearly everything that you've been led to believe about female sexuality isn't actually true.

And that, despite what you might think, it is possible to simultaneously feel little to no spontaneous desire and have a happy and mutually satisfying sex life long term. Exploring the mismatch between ideas about sex in our society and what the science tells us, Mind The Gap also explains how this disconnect lies at the root of many of our sexual problems. Combining science with case studies, practical exercises and tips, this is a book for anyone who wants to better understand the mechanics of desire and future-proof their sex life, for life.

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Mind The Gap: The truth about desire and how to future-proof your sex life

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Did you know that there is an orgasm gap of around 30% between heterosexual couples when they have sex? In Mind The Gap, Dr Karen Gurney, a clinical psychologist and certified psychosexologist, explores not just this gap, but the gaps in our knowledge of so much of the most important new science around sex and desire.

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Knowing what we want is both something demanded of us and a source of punishment

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Knowing what we want is both something demanded of us and a source of punishment

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People with vulvas have to balance desire with risk

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People with vulvas have to balance desire with risk

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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again - Catherine Angel

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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again - Catherine Angel

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Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again

Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

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Katherine Angel's critically-acclaimed analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality.

Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must proclaim their desires clearly and confidently. Yet sex researchers suggest that women’s desire is often slow to emerge. And men are keen to insist that they know what women—and their bodies—want. Meanwhile, sexual violence abounds. How can women, in this environment, possibly know what they want? And why do we expect them to?

In this elegant, searching book—spanning science and popular culture; pornography and literature; debates on Me-Too, consent and feminism—Katherine Angel challenges our assumptions about women’s desire. Why, she asks, should they be expected to know their desires? And how do we take sexual violence seriously, when not knowing what we want is key to both eroticism and personhood?

In today’s crucial moment of renewed attention to violence and power, Angel urges that we remake our thinking about sex, pleasure, and autonomy without any illusions about perfect self-knowledge. Only then will we fulfil Michel Foucault’s teasing promise, in 1976, that “tomorrow sex will be good again.”

“[Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again] welcomes us to experience a twenty-first-century feminist version of Freud’s aporia.”

“An ardent, rigorous, nuanced investigation into the question of consent, at once illuminating and empowering. A truly vital guide to navigating the difficult waters of 21st century desire.”

– Olivia Laing, author of Funny Weather

“One of our most daring, exciting and nuanced writers on the complexities of female desire, pleasure, autonomy and imagination.”

– Deborah Levy, author of The Cost of Living

“She is reaching towards something else: a world where desire does not have to be known and fixed in advance to protect people from violence.”

– Hettie O’Brien, Guardian

“Voyeuristically fascinating … Angel dares to suggest that consent is not sexy … we should be aiming for something more complex.”

– Anna Leszkiewicz, New Statesman

“One of the smartest, most nuanced and thought-provoking books I’ve read about sex in the post-#MeToo era.”

– Moya Crockett, Stylist

“A vital and groundbreaking work that brings nuance to a thorny subject.”

– Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Guardian

“Erotic desire, Angel argues, does not sit within us, fully formed, waiting to be mined like ore. It takes shape through a process of exploration, and, ideally, collaboration... Vulnerability entails risk, Angel reminds us, and sex is never free from the dynamics of power. That is what makes it scary, and also, sometimes, wonderful.”

– Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker

“Angel has dissected much of what there is to know about consent, desire, arousal and vulnerability: the four cornerstones of sexuality. Resisting definitive and simplistic conclusions, Angel has been wide-reaching in her research”

– Emily S Cooper, Irish Times

“A well-researched exploration of what sex, sexism, desire and power mean now.”

– Mika Ross-Southall, Spectator

“[Angel] argues for uncertainty and vulnerability … Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again is part of an emancipatory project that, paradoxically, asserts a need not to be strong.”

– Anne Enright, New York Review of Books

“Brilliant... dig[s] into, among other things, sex and ethics; porn and pleasure; the way the criminal law tries – and often fails – to manage the line between sex and assault; the troubling rise of carceral feminism; the lie detector and the illusive history of the female orgasm.”

– Izabella Scott, White Review

“Angel is here to stick up for the timorous and to defend vulnerability as both a sexual virtue and a deep well of potential pleasure … a rich companion piece to [Unmastered].”

– Sarah Gilbert, Sydney Review of Books

“Intriguing, philosophical.”

– Laura Miller, Slate

“A clear-eyed intervention in the crossfire of post-#MeToo sexual politics.”

– TANK Magazine

“Incisive and elegant … in four searching essays that treat consent, desire, arousal, and vulnerability in turn, Angel does not reject legal and material remedies but looks beyond them, seeking succor in the interstices of our erotic relationships—in the sheer force and fact of desire itself.”

– Becca Rothfeld, Boston Review

“One of the most important books you’ll read all year.”

– Jessie Thompson, Evening Standard

“A much-needed intervention.”

– Vicky Spratt, Refinery29

“Gracefully argued and informed by flashes of brilliance … a powerful contribution to the not always rational debate about consent and feminine sexual autonomy.”

– Australian

“This work is misleadingly slender, more capacious than slight … [Angel] evokes the indeterminate radiance encountered in Georgia O’Keeffe’s floral paintings, a space where the possibilities of sex reside as ‘an unfolding.’”

– Tali Lavi, Saturday Paper

“Angel is measured and meticulous, which makes her book delightful, powerful, and worthwhile.”

– Joseph Fischel, Signs

“Timely … Angel does much more than merely refresh what has become a tired conversation about consent. … a slim, potent, elegantly argued polemic”

– Zora Simic, Australian Book Review

“A breath of fresh air … [Tomorrow Sex Will be Good Again] describes with great, sensitive accuracy the reality of being a woman with a sex life in the twenty-first century.”

– Marianela D’Aprile, Jacobin

“Angel makes the compelling argument that desire should not have to be known in advance in order to protect women from sexual violence and that consent is not static.”

– Daisy Schofield, Huck

“A necessary contribution to an important conversation.”

– The Week

“[Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again is] a necessary contribution to the many conversations about sex and power we have all had since 2017, and Angel’s prose, clear and lovely, nimbly navigates the complexities of her subject matter.”

– Madeleine Watts, Bookforum

“Eloquent and lucid.”

– Celia Walden, Telegraph

“Succinct and thought-provoking.”

– Stephanie Merritt, Observer

“It should not be women’s responsibility to keep sex safe. Angel argues powerfully that sexual ethics not be reduced to hard and fast prescriptions about consent”

– Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald

“Short but rich in ideas … [Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again] offers a thoughtful, nuanced articulation of the problems and issues we face surrounding sexual assault and bad sex, without rushing to a solution.”

– Elodie Rose Barnes, Lucy Writers’ Platform

“[Angel] is right—consent as a ‘yes’/‘no’ dichotomy cannot be everything we want it to be. We must recognise that language cannot say everything, especially for women, who have not historically been given the chance to shape it according to their own needs and desires.”

– The Arts Desk

“Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again offers readers a blend of cultural criticism and provocative theory.”

– Tobias Carroll, InsideHook

“This nonfiction tour-de-force is a must-read for anyone interested in exploring themes of consent, power, sex, and the Me Too movement. This is the kind of book that seeks not to create dichotomous binaries, but to complicate the narrative.”

– Rachel Krantz, The Millions

“Exquisite … A breathtaking, brilliant invitation not to turn away from complexity and vulnerability.”

– Hannah Dawson, editor of The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing

“Offers new ways of understanding the complexity of sexual relations … fresh and provoking.”

– The F-Word

“Tenderly inflected and meticulously argued, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again should be required reading.”

– New Internationalist (five-starred review)

“[Angel] writes about complex questions with such clarity and elegance, and amid all the polarised spats that currently pass for considered debate, her work is a breath of fresh air. [Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again] is a provocative but clear-sighted analysis of female sexuality in the wake of #MeToo … I’d urge anyone who cares about sexual ethics to read it.”

– Caroline Sanderson, Bookseller (“Editor’s Choice”)

“[Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again] takes a taboo topic and removes the stigma by providing facts. Its titular refrain advocates for a better tomorrow.”

– Ashley Holstrom, Foreword Reviews

“A provocative counterargument to recent feminist dogma … Angel raises intriguing questions about commonly accepted assumptions, and she offers reassurance to female readers.”

– Kirkus Reviews

“Thought-provoking … [Angel’s] jargon-free prose and nuanced readings of popular culture and postmodern theory enlighten. Readers will value this lively and incisive inquiry into the sexual dynamics of the #MeToo era.”

– Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

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In heterosexual relationships women face the double burden of satisfying her partner and demonstrating their satisfaction.

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In heterosexual relationships women face the double burden of satisfying her partner and demonstrating their satisfaction.

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We are told to be sexual, but not too sexual.

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Mention 'Uses of the Erotic' by Audre Lorde 

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Mention 'Uses of the Erotic' by Audre Lorde 

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What does pleasure mean to you?
How does the word pleasure relate to our bodies? and how does that relate to our ability to be sexual?

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There is a communal experience among women that - this can be better for me. Why is that?

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There is a communal experience among women that - this can be better for me. Why is that?

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Why is it important to talk about bad sex?

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Why is it important to talk about bad sex?

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"We don't always know what we want and we are not always able to express our desires clearly. This is in part due to the violence, misogyny and shame that makes desires discovery difficult, and its expression fraught" Katherine Angel

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-  The principles of pleasure on Netflix
- The second circle podcast