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Feminist Author: I Wrote Lots Of Explicit Sex Not For Sales, But Because I’m Educating Women

Hank Berrien

Writing for TIME, author Stef Penney argues that the reason for the incessant explicit sex in her new book is not for triggering greater sales by titillating readers in a salacious way, but rather because she’s a feminist.

Forget about the past, when women had dignity and weren’t hopping from one partner to another with abandon; those days are gone, according to the breathless author. She notes that when she spoke to her female friends about the book, “We tumbled through a flood of questions. Why had we never talked about our sexual pleasure in explicit detail before? Why did we not achieve good, orgasmic sex until our mid-twenties, or later?”

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