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Magnificent Sex Lessons from Extraordinary Lovers

Peggy Kleinplatz

Winner of the 2021 SSTAR Consumer Book Award! What makes sex magnificent? What are the qualities of extraordinary erotic intimacy and what are the elements that help to bring it about? Is great sex the stuff that people remember nostalgically from the "honeymoon" phase of their relationships, or ca...

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It was mentioned as a great book that explored the experiences of individuals with extraordinary sex lives and focused on responsive desire and prioritizing sex.

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There's a wonderful book called Magnificent Sex by Peggy Kleinplatz, whom I just mentioned. She spent years interviewing people who self-identified as having extraordinary sex lives, and it included p...

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It was mentioned as a great book that explored the experiences of individuals with extraordinary sex lives and focused on responsive desire and prioritizing sex.

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There's a wonderful book called Magnificent Sex by Peggy Kleinplatz, whom I just mentioned. She spent years interviewing people who self-identified as having extraordinary sex lives, and it included people of all genders, all sexual orientations, all relationship structures. And she found out that what extraordinary sex looks like has nothing to do with the standard cultural narrative of sex. It's responsive desire. It's prioritizing sex, having sex mean enough in your relationship to be worth making time and space for.

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