Peggy Orenstein, author of Girls and Sex The book is definitely great for college students and for bright high schoolers as well. I am a total evangelist for Nagoski’s work.… You think you know how women’s sexuality works? I can guarantee that you do not. This is the best book I have ever read exploring the science of female sexuality. Goodreads Choice Awards, Top 5 Science and Technology Booksīuzzfeed’s 17 Things that Changed Our Sex Lives in 2015Īutostraddle’s Top 10 Queer and Feminist Books Read moreĬover: Come As You Are: Revised and Updated, by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D. This revised and updated edition continues that mission with new information and advanced research, demystifying and decoding the science of sex so that everyone can create a better sex life and discover more pleasure than you ever thought possible. In the years since the book’s initial publication, countless women have learned through Nagoski’s accessible and informative guide that things like stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing they are central to it-and that even if you don’t always feel like it, you are already sexually whole by just being yourself. That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them. A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.įor much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently-and far less seriously-than its male counterpart.

Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski