Women Who Love Sex

At least ``a few'' of the principal interviewees in this survey are ``composite women'' whose testimonies meld the words of clients whom Ogden, a marriage, family and sex therapist, has treated since the mid-1970s. Despite this lame device, which weakens credibility, her profiles of women who welcome sex as a life-enlarging experience, a source of energy and connectedness, add up to an affirmative, useful guide for both women and men, enriched by smart clinical insights. Ogden ( Sexual Recovery ) reports that more than half of the women interviewed experienced orgasm from stimulation by a lover of various areas--fingers, toes, lips, neck, earlobe, etc. For many, the pleasure of stimulating a partner was an important component of their own arousal and satisfaction. Ogden's respondents talk frankly about overcoming emotional hang-ups, sexual fulfillment and its meaning in their lives. Author tour. (May)