Emily Nagoski

Come as You Are

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An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research and brain science—that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.Researchers have spent the last decade trying to develop a “pink pill” for women to function like Viagra does for men. So where is it? Well, for reasons this book makes crystal clear, that pill will never exist—but as a result of the research that’s gone into it, scientists in the last few years have learned more about how women’s sexuality works than we ever thought possible, and Come as You Are explains it all. The first lesson in this essential, transformative book by Dr. Emily Nagoski is that every woman has her own unique sexuality, like a fingerprint, and that women vary more than men in our anatomy, our sexual response mechanisms, and the way our bodies respond to the sexual world. So we never need to judge…
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  • Сашаhas quoted3 years ago
    So what’s the right context?
    Think about what your body recognizes as the behaviors that save you from lions. When you’re being chased by a lion, what do you do?
    You run.
    So when you’re stressed out by your job (or by your sex life), what do you do?
    You run . . . or walk, or get on the elliptical machine or go out dancing or even just dance around your bedroom. Physical activity is the single most efficient strategy for completing the stress response cycle and recalibrating your central nervous system into a calm state. When people say, “Exercise is good for stress,” that is for realsie real
  • Kristina Mustafinahas quoted5 years ago
    At the end of one semester, I asked my 187 students to write down one really important thing they learned in my class. Here’s a small sample of what they wrote:
    I am normal!
    I AM NORMAL
  • Lilyhas quotedlast year
    Sexual Inhibition System (SIS). This is your sexual brake.

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