Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey Into the Heart of Desire -- Tracy Clark-Flory, Paperback

A NEW YORK TIMES NEW & NOTEWORTHY BOOK A BUSTLE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2021 ONE OF PUREWOW'S "BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ IN FEBRUARY" VANITY FAIR'S "THE BEST BOOKS TO BUY THIS VALENTINE'S DAY"

Want Me is complicated, fun, shocking, and heart-warming all at once.
--Jessica Valenti, New York Times bestselling author of Sex Object

Intimate, challenging, and so very smart. Want Me is a gift.
--Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad

Tracy Clark-Flory grew up wedged between fizzy declarations of girl power and the sexualized mandates of pop culture. It was broken glass ceilings and Girls Gone Wild infomercials. With a vague aim toward sexual empowerment, she set out to become what men wanted--or, at least, understand it.

In her moving, fresh, and darkly humorous memoir, she shares the thrilling and heartbreaking events that led to discovering conflicting truths about her own desire, first as a woman coming of age and then as a veteran journalist covering the sex beat. Tracing her experiences on adult film sets, at fetish conventions, and during an orgasmic meditation retreat (to name just a few), Clark-Flory weaves in statistics and expert voices to reckon with our views on sexual freedom.

Want Me is about looking for love, sex, and power as a woman in a culture that is freer than ever, yet defined by unprecedented pressures and enduring constraints. This is a first-hand example of one woman who navigated the mixed messages of sexual expectation, only to discover the complexity of her own wants and our collective need to change the limitations of that journey.

Author: Tracy Clark-Flory
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 02/16/2021
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780143134619

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/2021 pg. 2
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2021

About the Author
Tracy Clark-Flory is a senior staff writer at Jezebel. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire, Marie Claire, Salon, The Guardian, Women's Health, and the yearly Best Sex Writing anthology. Prior to Jezebel, she was a senior staff writer at Salon. She has appeared on 20/20, MSNBC and NPR. Tracy lives in San Francisco with her family.