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  • Want Me

  • A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire
  • Written by: Tracy Clark-Flory
  • Narrated by: Tracy Clark-Flory
  • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (9 ratings)

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Want Me

Written by: Tracy Clark-Flory
Narrated by: Tracy Clark-Flory
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Publisher's Summary

New York Times "New & Noteworthy" Book

A Bustle "Most Anticipated Book of 2021"

One of PureWow’s “Books We Can’t Wait to Read in February”

Vanity Fair’s “The Best Books to Buy This Valentine’s Day”

"Want Me is complicated, fun, shocking, and heart-warming all at once." (Jessica Valenti, New York Times best-selling author of Sex Object)

"Intimate, challenging, and so very smart. Want Me is a gift." (Rebecca Traister, New York Times best-selling author of Good and Mad)

Tracy Clark-Flory grew up wedged between fizzy declarations of "girl power" and the sexualized mandates of pop culture. It was "broken glass ceilings" and Girls Gone Wild infomercials. With a vague aim toward sexual empowerment, she set out to become what men wanted - or, at least, understand it.

In her moving, fresh, and darkly humorous memoir, she shares the thrilling and heartbreaking events that led to discovering conflicting truths about her own desire, first as a woman coming of age and then as a veteran journalist covering the sex beat. Tracing her experiences on adult film sets, at fetish conventions, and during an orgasmic meditation retreat (to name just a few), Clark-Flory weaves in statistics and expert voices to reckon with our views on sexual freedom.

Want Me is about looking for love, sex, and power as a woman in a culture that is "freer" than ever, yet defined by unprecedented pressures and enduring constraints. This is a firsthand example of one woman who navigated the mixed messages of sexual expectation, only to discover the complexity of her own wants and our collective need to change the limitations of that journey.

©2021 Tracy Clark-Flory (P)2021 Penguin Audio

What the critics say

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year

"Luminous, funny, big-hearted...this is a book of insight, both cultural and personal. It is majestic to behold." (San Francisco Chronicle)

"A fun, intimate and honest look at how modern women can and do approach their own sensuality." (PureWow

"[Want Me is] a rallying cry for the generations of women coming up behind [Clark-Flory].” (The Los Angeles Times

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An interesting and insightful story one’s self throughout life’s ups and downs. Was sad to finish it.

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