Dimensions
190 x 235 x 32mm
Jennifer Lehr spent over a decade building up a respectable resume of sexual experience . . . as well as countless hours spilling her heart out to therapists, trying to repair damage wrought by the string of destined-to-fail relationships she seemed unable to sidestep. So when she found herself, at age twenty-eight, falling in love with a brilliant, kind, adorable, supportive comic named John Lehr, it seemed like a sweet reward for years of love-life angst.
Happily ever after? Not so fast. True love, Lehr soon discovers, doesn’t necessarily go hand-in-hand with a white-hot sex life. Far from it, in fact.
Soon Jennifer begins grappling with the question: What do you do when you find the committed, loving relationship you’ve always hoped for, but the sex is just so-so . . . that is, when it takes place at all? Simultaneously looking back at her life’s patterns (sexual history; neurotic parents) while tracing her and John’s progress toward marriage, what emerges is a provocative, courageously honest, poignant, and ultimately cheering chronicle of one woman’s sexual odyssey. Loaded with colorful characters and hilarious anecdotes (from an awkward first kiss to choice moments in couples’ therapy), 'Ill-Equipped for a Life of Sex' is the modern-era love story, complete with well-examined double standards, confused expectations, myths of romantic love - and the overriding hope that a successful relationship can be forged from the rubble.
