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A courageous bill of 1 woman's unflinching and finally hopeful quest through love-making and porn addiction. A fixation on porn and climax, strings of failed interactions and serial hook-ups with strangers, inevitable blackouts to blunt the pity - these are not things we often notice women reveal publicly, and not with the candor, eloquence and introspection Erica Garza brings to Getting Off. What sets this courageous and riveting bill aside from your typical misery memoir is the lack of any precipitating stress beyond your garden variety of damage we've all needed to undergo in simply learning to be a person - reckoning with family, learning to be interpersonal, integrating what it means to be intimate. Whatever tenor of violence or mistreatment Erica's life needed on through her tendencies was of her own making, fueled by fear, guilt, self-loathing, self-pity, loneliness, and the hopelessness those feelings brought on as she operates from one aspect of the world to the other in order to break her practices - from East Los Angeles to Hawaii and Southeast Asia, through the brothels of Bangkok and the yoga exercise studios of Bali to disappointing stabs at therapy and 12-steps back. In this amazing audiobook, Garza attracts an evocative, analyzed family portrait of the stress that fuels her obsessions as well as the exhilaration and expectation she begins to feel when she suspects she might be free of them. Yet there is absolutely no incorrect or prepackaged sense of redemption here. Even her marriage with the person she will finally marry seems credibly, painfully rocky as it confirms its legs with several incorrect begins. Erica's increasing sense of self-acceptance and tranquility by journey's end feels utterly acquired and absent of recovery platitudes. In checking out the ethnical taboos surrounding love-making and porn from a lady perspective, Garza offers a fearless and necessary tone to our innovating conversations about habit and the impact that Internet culture has already established on us all.
