Women Loving Women

by Jamye Waxman

Women Loving Women explores the phenomenon of the contemporary "bi-sexual" or "lesbian" experience for the heterosexual woman. However, while women loving women is indeed an emerging trend, it is also an age-old obsession that this book also addresses and places in a historical perspective. The book investigates the reasons modern women are more open to same-sex encounters, how these experiences can connect people and help them grow, and how regardless of one's sexual orientation, there is much to learn here about the nature of love, sex, and physical attraction and its unconscious determinants. In addition, Women Loving Women also responds to how these same-sex encounters are less apt to create conflict in their heterosexual relationships, and actually might spice things up with their male partner (many men fantasize about same-sex women relationships), break the ice with a best friend, or simply add a new dimension to their sexual history. Women Loving Women features sophisticated photographs that will capture the warm and enlightening approach of exploring erotic possibilities with other women, even when you don't identify yourself as a bisexual or lesbian. Testimonials from heterosexual women who have experienced same-sex romantic encounters will be featured throughout. Sidebars will also feature quotations from women-who-have-loved-women throughout history, such as Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Anais Nin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, amongst others. The photographs, shot on location in New Hampshire, tell a story of three beautiful women who leave their boyfriends/husbands behind for a "girls weekend"-and discover a new dimension to their friendship

Genres: LGBT, Sexuality, Photography

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Jamye Waxman is a writer, author, sex educator and maker of erotic videos. She has written sex advice and other articles for magazines including Playgirl, Men's Health, Women's Health, Zink and on Zug.com.

Reviews

[Lissa]

This book is definitely geared toward the latent bisexual woman. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, and there's some good information here for those women who want to have sex with another woman but haven't done so yet. If you're a lesbian or have had a female lover before, then the information in the book is rather useless, unless you're super closeted and have never been in a relationship with a woman yet, I guess. And the chapter about threesomes was the worst to me, mainly because it was geared toward m/f/f (although the author did use "he or she" for the third partner) and that is definitely not my thing. But I am sure that it is others' thing, and more power to them.

There are some lovely pictures in the book, although they are often reused. I'm usually not attracted to femmes, but the redhead with freckles was really cute.

[J.A. Carter-Winward]

Women are beautiful and her view of female sexuality is exquisite.....