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What Really Happens in Bed

A Demystification of Sex

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What Really Happens in Bed

By: Julia Sokol, Steven Carter
Narrated by: Ruby Westwood
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From the authors of the best-selling Men Who Can't Love comes a frank, revealing, and reassuringly honest book about sexual relationships. The truth about people's intimate behavior, gained from hundreds of interviews, provides relevant and valuable insights in today's real-life sexual practices.

©1989 Steven Carter and Julia Sokol Coopersmith (P)2012 Audible, Inc. Relationships Psychology Marriage & Long-Term Partnerships Personal Development Psychology & Mental Health

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Sex is of course a driving, foundational element of human life. In What Really Happens in Bed: A Demystification of Sex, fellow psychologists and frequent collaborators Steven Carter and Julia Sokol share their findings after conducting 250 interviews. Their diverse subjects explain what they want, what they do, who they do it with, what enables sex, and what impedes it. What do Carter and Sokol learn? Among other things, that everyone withholds feelings of dissatisfaction, and that many single and married people feel isolated and sexually frustrated. More interestingly, the authors unearth core differences in how men and women feel about their sexual needs, concerns, and practices. Narrator Ruby Westwood shares this sobering text, of relevance to anyone who has a less-than-perfect sex life.
Informative Content • Qualitative Approach • Candid Information • Worthwhile Insights • Helpful Compilation

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I enjoyed this book as it was a qualitative approach to discussing sexual experiences. It is dated but still has good information in it.

Good book

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A validation that sexual thoughts and experiences, no matter how crqzy, are common. Interviews are from years ago but still mostly valid

Interesting

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This work is from 1989. I’d be interested to hear an updated one which could address things like the hook-up culture, using tinder, or struggling with gender nonconformity.

While dated, I found the book to be very worthwhile. It is a qualitative study that is a compilation of stories that the researchers gathered about men and women who shared about their (mostly heterosexual) sex life.

Yes. It’s worth a listen.

Dated but still relevant

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Although the information is 35 years old, it was helpful to my understanding modern human sexual relationships. The book is a barrage of ideas and concepts and by the time I was done I thought “well there are a lot of possibilities and we are definitely not all the same.” Anyone struggling with or without sex likely will find the information useful.

Helpful compilation of ideas.

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Definitely worth the read to know more about your partner and sex in general .
worth the time , and easy to listen to

very eye opening

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