Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

by Emily Nagoski

Honey, your body gets sexier every day, just by being the body of the woman I share my life with. Your belly is our belly. I’ve got one too. Do you love me less for it?”

We’ll start with three core cultural messages about women’s sexuality that my students grapple with as their established ideas about sex are challenged by the science: the Moral Message (you are evil), the Medical Message (you are diseased), and the Media Message (you are inadequate).

It will hurt the way your hands ache when you come in from the cold—gradually they get warmer and then they feel great.

No girl is born hating her body or feeling ashamed of her sexuality.