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Seeking love in an age obsessed with love-making, a journalist chronicles her year without
Around the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Hephzibah Anderson glimpsed her university boyfriend going into a jewelry store with a smiling blonde-and in that moment realized it turned out years since a man told her he cherished her. This discovery led her to question a decade of emotionally annoying relationships with dedication phobes. As she examined her history, she acknowledged that the majority of these relationships went off course at the complete moment love-making was engaged. Anderson made a decision it was time to invest a full year without love-making to rediscover its interpretation and goal in her life. On this confessional profile, Anderson shares the results of that year, narrating each month as she flirts, dates, and swoons but does not have love-making. The results-her feelings about femininity, her body, and romance-are illuminating.
Told with Elizabeth Gilbertesque candor, Chastened reveals much about our contradictory ethnic attitudes towards love-making and the ways intercourse has been used as a shortcut to deeper intimacies. An antidote to the growing genre of another-notch-in-the-bedpost memoirs, Chastened is a stimulating check out what's to be gained by going without.