“Don't worry about your orgasm. Don't care about it. You've had a million orgasms in your life. Want only this. Want only total obliteration. In this way too, you are returning to the girl you were -- the girl who didn't care about orgasms, but just wanted to fuck, and fuck, and fuck, without even knowing why. Those adult years of dutifully chasing clitoral orgasms -- they seem alien in retrospect. Now you just want sensation, less definable than orgasm, and weirdly more satisfying, more total.”
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Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning
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Claire Dederer
Claire Dederer is an American writer born on January 6, 1967. Her works are known for their profound psychological insights and portrayals of women's lives. more
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