Photo: Hulu I grew up learning about sex through a steady diet of teen TV, where a moody slow-rock track always played in the background, both participants knew exactly what they were doing, and the bras always stayed on. And whether or not the CW’s Tuesday-night lineup was your preferred mode of entertainment, many of us were under the impression that sex was pretty effortlessly sexy until we started having it.
If Normal People Felt a Little Too Straight ‘Written on the Body,’ by Jeanette Winterson $16 I read Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body for the first time in college. I wasn’t out yet, but Winterson’s tale of a lovelorn narrator entangled with a married woman spoke to me. And it wasn’t just the inherent queerness of the book’s conceit or even the sex, which is depicted spectacularly.
$14 at Amazon Buy $16 at Bookshop Buy @media screen and { .page-header .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } @media screen and { .tertiary .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } If You Actually Do Miss Gossip Girl ‘Prep,’ by Curtis Sittenfeld $22 now 5% off $21 Is there anything more romantic than a high-school crush? That’s how I felt reading Normal People and also how I felt reading Prep, by Curtis Sittenfeld.
$16 at Bookshop Buy @media screen and { .page-header .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } @media screen and { .tertiary .disclaimer-text_revenue { display: block; } } If You Want to Be Turned on But Also a Little Scared ‘Verity,’ by Colleen Hoover $15 now 20% off $12 This book was recommended to me by Book TikTok — I am 31, so this is brave of me to say.
ha! so i want to. puhlease. I AM reading a sexy book. how about that? you like them apples? as a matter of fact the only books i’ve ever read were sexy!
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