Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love

by Emily Witt

Hardcover, 2016

Status

Available

Publication

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2016), 224 pages

Description

A funny, fresh, and moving antidote to conventional attitudes about sex and the single woman Emily Witt is single and in her thirties. Up until a few years ago, she still envisioned her sexual experience "eventually reaching a terminus, like a monorail gliding to a stop at Epcot Center." Like many people, she imagined herself disembarking, finding herself face-to-face with another human being, "and there we would remain in our permanent station in life: the future." But, as many of us have found, things are more complicated than that. Love is rare and frequently unreciprocated. Sexual experience doesn't necessarily lead to a future of traditional monogamy--and why should it? Have we given up too quickly on the alternatives? InFuture Sex, Witt explores Internet dating, Internet pornography, polyamory, and avant-garde sexual subcultures as sites of possibility. She observes these scenes from within, capturing them in all their strangeness, ridiculousness, and beauty. The result is an open-minded, honest account of the contemporary pursuit of connection and pleasure.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member HeatherWhitney
It's an extended and superficial magazine article. It was neither deep (in terms of engagement with the relevant literature) nor introspective (beyond the most basic back-of-the-envelope musings). If there was a substantive position on future sex staked out, I could not find it.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

224 p.; 5.88 inches

ISBN

0865478791 / 9780865478794

Local notes

sex/ sexuality

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