9th Ave: Sarah Barmak on the female orgasm

This event will be held at our 9th Ave. store

Sarah Barmak discusses her new book, Closer: Notes from the Frontier of the Female Orgasm.

About Closer: Notes from the Frontier of the Female Orgasm:

We think of the modern woman as sexually liberated if anything, we re told we re oversexed. Yet a striking number of women are dissatisfied with their sex lives. Over half of women report having a sexual complaint, whether that's lack of desire or difficulty reaching orgasm. But this issue doesn t get much press; the urge is to ignore or medicalize it (witness the quest for pink Viagra ). If so many ordinary women suffer from sexual frustration, then perhaps the problem isn t one that can be addressed by a pharmaceutical fix or isn t a problem. Maybe we need to get hot and bothered about a broader cultural cure: a reorienting of our current male-focused approach to sex and pleasure, and a rethinking of what's normal.

Using a blend of reportage, interview and first-person reflection, journalist Sarah Barmak explores the cutting-edge science and grassroots cultural trends that are getting us closer to truth of women's sexuality. "Closer" reveals how women are reshaping their sexuality today in wild, irrepressible ways: nude meetings, how-to apps, trans-friendly porn, therapeutic vulva massage, hour-long orgasms and public clit-rubbing demonstrations and redefining female sexuality on its own terms.