Sex
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Molly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids’ bedtime—again—she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At a bar, she met Matt, a flirtatious younger man. When Molly told her husband that Matt had asked her out, she was surprised that Stewart encouraged her to accept.
So began Molly’s unexpected open marriage and, with it, a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Molly signs up for dating sites, enters into passionate flings, and has sex in hotels and public places around New York City. For Molly it’s a mystery why she wants what she wants. In therapy sessions, fueled by the discovery that her parents had an open marriage, too, she grapples with her past and what it means to be a mother and a whole person.
Molly and Stewart, who also begins to see other people, set ground rules: Don’t date an ex. Don’t date someone in the neighborhood. Don’t go to anyone’s home. And above all, don’t fall in love. In the years that follow, they break most of their rules, even the most important one. They grapple with jealousy, insecurity, and doubts, all the while wondering: Can they love others and stay true to their love for each other? Can they make the impossible work?
More is an electric debut that offers both steamy fun and poignant reflections on motherhood, daughterhood, marriage, and self-fulfillment. With warmth, humor, and style, Molly Roden Winter delivers an unputdownable journey of a woman becoming her most authentic self.
Molly Roden Winter (16/1/2024). MORE: A Memoir of Open Marriage. New York: Doubleday. Hardcover in colour dust cover. 290p. ISBN-13: 978-0-365-54945-6.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
What is about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage... almost everyone? In the last few years, middle-aged women have found themselves talked and written about as morally inferior beings: the face of bigotry, entitlement and selfishness, to be ignored, pities or abused.
In Hags, Victoria Smith asks why these women are treated with such active disdain, exploring the very specific reasons why this type og misogyny is so very now.
Victoria Smith (2024). Hags: The demonisation of middle-aged women. London: Fleet, An imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, softcover. 360p. ISBN-13: 978-0-349-72698-4.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
How do we talk about porn? Why is it that when we do talk about porn, we tend to retreat into the abstract? How do we have meaningful conversations about it with those closest to us? In Porn: An Oral History, Polly Barton interrogates the absence of discussion around a topic that is ubiquitous and influences our daily lives. In her search for understanding, she spent a year initiating intimate conversations with nineteen acquaintances of a range of ages, genders and sexualities about everything and anything related to porn: watching habits, emotions and feelings of guilt, embarrassment, disgust and shame, fantasy and desire. Soon, unfolding before her, wase exactly the book that she had been longing to encounter - not a traditional history, but the raw, honest truth about we aren't saying. A landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn, Porn is a thrilling, thought-provoking,revelatory, revealing, joyfully informative and informal exploration of a subject that has always retained an element of the taboo.
Polly Barton (2023). Porn: An Oral History. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions, Softcover. 356p. ISBN-978-1-80427-040-0.
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