The Sexual Life of Catherine M.

Description

A national best-seller that was featured on such lists as The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, and Publishers Weekly, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was the controversial sleeper hit of the year. Since her youth, Catherine Millet, the eminent editor of Art Press, has led an extraordinarily active and free sexual life -- from al fresco encounters in Italy to a gang bang on the edge of the Bois du Boulogne to a high-class orgy at a chichi Parisian restaurant. A graphic account of sex stripped of sentiment, of a life of physical gratification and a relentlessly honest look at the consequences -- both liberating and otherwise -- have created this candid, powerful, and deeply intelligent depiction of unfettered sexuality.

Description

"Since her youth, Catherine Millet, a prominent art critic, has led an extraordinarily active and free sexual life - from al-fresco encounters in Italy to gang bangs in the Bois de Boulogne to a high-class orgy at a chic Parisian swingers' club. She has taken pleasure in the indistinct darkness of a peep-show booth and under the probing light of a movie camera. And in The Sexual Life of Catherine M. she recounts it all, from tender interludes with a lover to situations where her partners were so numerous and simultaneous they became indistinguishable parts of a collective organism. The book is also an honest look at the consequences of sex stripped of sentiment - including the joys and sorrows of her open marriage - and a completely fearless unmasking of the fallacies we cling to, and the often shocking, sometimes disturbing, truths of female sexuality.". "In a time when female sexual liberation is a reality, when love and sex have gone their separate ways, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. is a valuable document of the furthest reaches of sexual exploration. As France's Le Nouvel Observateur wrote, "Sex is this woman's continent, which she explores tirelessly. No one has ever described it like this.""--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

• Biography.
• Case studies.

Other Editions

• The Sexual Life of Catherine M.Grove Press2002-01-01
• The Sexual Life of Catherine M.Grove Press2002-01-01
• The Sexual Life of Catherine M.Serpents Tail2002-01-01