My Pleasure: An Intimate Guide to Loving Your Body and Having Great Sex - Hardcover

Delarato, Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1797210742 ISBN 13: 9781797210742

Verlag: Chronicle Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Practice pleasure as a form of self-care with this empowering, accessible, and inclusive guide to loving your body and your sex life.

"My Pleasure gives us what so many of us really need: an invitation to look inward, to accept ourselves, and to ask hard questions. This precious book is one part tactical guide, one part deep soul search." –Virgie Tovar, author of The Body Positive Journal and You Have the Right to Remain Fat, and founder of Babecamp and #LoseHateNotWeight

This sumptuously illustrated guide will empower you to explore your body and cultivate a satisfying sex life no matter your relationship status. In these pages, body image advocate and sexual wellness expert Laura Delarato teaches that sexual pleasure is an essential form of self-care, and it begins with loving your body and yourself. With a no-holds-barred approach, this engaging bedside book tackles everything from self-confidence to solo play and partner play, including:

• How to quiet your inner critic and embrace your body as it is
• How to take amazing nudes
• What sex toy is best for you and your body
• How to experiment with different forms of kink
• How to set boundaries in any situationship

Brimming with practical tips, sensual activities, and lush visuals throughout, My Pleasure is a must-have handbook for anyone who seeks a self-determined, pleasure-filled life.

ON TREND: Things that were once considered taboo—like sex toys and women's pleasure—are now commonplace in mainstream media. My Pleasure speaks to the growing number of people who are embracing their sexuality and their size, and who want to speak openly and frankly about their body and their needs.

INCLUSIVE: This book is inclusive to people of all genders, sexualities, abilities, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Everyone is welcome here.

PERENNIAL TOPIC: Regardless of what's happening in the world, people will always be having sex, in all its forms. This book is packed with encouraging reminders, practical information, and playful activities that teach readers how to accept and love themselves more fully, and prioritize their pleasure as a form of self-care—because everyone deserves that.

Perfect for:

• Fans of the sexual wellness and body positivity movement
• Readers of Goop, Refinery29, Come As You Are, and The Body Is Not An Apology
• Followers of body image advocates like Tess Holliday, Katie Sturino, Jessamyn Stanley, and Lizzo

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Laura Delarato is a body image advocate, sexual wellness educator, and writer. Her essays, written work, and art have appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, Coveteur, The Cut, Healthyish, Travel & Leisure, Men's Health, Refinery29, Allure, and People.com, and have been featured by sex tech companies like Dame Products, Le Wand, and b-Vibe. She writes erotica for the sex-positive magazine Aurore. Laura's weekly newsletter Hey Laura speaks to her experience with sex, pleasure, fatness, anxiety, and beauty. She has been a brand ambassador for companies such as Universal Standard, Eloquii, Dia & Co, Loop Social, ClassPass, and more. In her 9 to 5, Laura is a creative director working on branded content and publisher advertising for Vox Media, and previously Refinery29. She lives in New York.

Amber Vittoria is an award-winning artist based in New York City. Her work draws on her relationship to femininity, anxiety, and societal expectations. She has collaborated with brands, such as NBC, Warby Parker, Gucci, the New York Times, and Instagram.

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MY PLEASURE is an invaluable guide that empowers readers to explore their bodies and cultivate a satisfying sex life, no matter their relationship status. Body positivity advocate and sexual wellness writer Laura Delarato teaches that sexual pleasure is an essential form of self-care, and it starts with loving your body and yourself. With a no-holds-barred approach, this engaging bedside book includes chapters on body image, self-love, solo play, sex toys, and partner play, and explores such topics as how to quiet your inner critic and embrace your body as it is; how to take amazing nudes; how to experiment with different forms of kink; and how to set boundaries in any situationship. Brimming with practical tips, sensual activities, and lush visuals throughout, and packaged in a luxe hardcover with a trippy foil effect on the jacket, this inclusive handbook will appeal to readers of Goop and Refinery29, owners of a Dame or Maude sex toy, fans of the body positive and sex positive movements, and anyone who seeks a self-determined, pleasure-filled life.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Chronicle Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1797210742
• ISBN 13: 9781797210742
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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