Arianne Cohen spent four years collecting 1,500 Sex Diaries and in this book she takes us on a tantalizing tour of American bedrooms through the all-new, provocative, often moving, sometimes shocking, always entertaining real diaries of forty Sex Diarists. From the Madly-In-Love 17-Year-Old Who Might be Pregnant to the Cheating Father of Three and the Grandma Who Is Perfectly Happy Alone, these tales of love, lust, longing and leaving will shock, titillate, and educate. Cohen serves as tour guide, drawing on her deep database of Sex Diaries for her incisive and illuminating commentary. Cohen was the first editor of the Sex Diaries column, a popular feature in New York magazine, editing it from 2007 to 2010. Her work regularly appears in Marie Claire and the New York Times and she is a contributing editor at Woman's Day. She is executive producing a TV reality series based on this book.

• Presents a groundbreaking portrait of relationships in America?including myriad options beyond single, dating, and married
• Includes Sex Diaries of straight, gay, bi, single, married, young, and older Sex Diarists, published here for the first time
• Gives readers tips on how to evaluate their own relationships and sex lives

Sex is everywhere in our culture?yet how people best connect and disconnect is largely a mystery. The Sex Diaries Project turns the lights on to reveal the secrets that lie behind closed bedroom doors.

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ARIANNE COHEN collects sex diaries from all over the globe and partners with publishers, producers, and museums to share them with the world. Her work appears regularly in publications such as the New York Times, the Guardian, Elle, and Marie Claire, among many others, and she is executive producing a reality TV series based on the project. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard. Cohen invites you to keep your own anonymous diary at www.sexdiariesproject.com.

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"The Sex Diaries Project is the ultimate snoop fest: a peephole with pages. Because we all want to know if they're doing it the same way we are."
—Laura Zigman, New York Times bestselling author of Animal Husbandry and coauthor of Get Over Yourself!

"If it weren't for sex, you wouldn't be here. The Sex Diaries Project opens the door to priceless real-life tips, tricks, and experiences. I promise that you're not the only one?who hasn't had sex in five months, is obsessed with someone, or has a fetish. You'll laugh out loud and see the lighter side of your sexy self—it's liberating."?
—Steve Santagati, author of the New York Times bestselling The Manual

A tantalizing tour through the private lives of ordinary people

The Sex Diaries Project turns the lights on to reveal the secrets behind closed bedroom doors, presenting a groundbreaking portrait of relationships in America—including the options beyond single, dating, or married—and a brilliant, witty analysis of how Americans relate. It includes sex diaries of straight, gay, bi, single, married, young, and older diarists, published here for the first time.

"As a gay man who is married to a wonderful husband, I found this book completely fascinating. The Sex Diaries Project presents the diverse spectrum of sexuality in America today in a nonjudgmental and brilliantly insightful manner."
—Ryan Nickulas, The A-List: New York

Inhalt
Introduction: A Few Tantalizing Words from Your Sex Diaries Editor 1

Part One Solo

1 Dalliancing: I'm Enjoying Myself 11

2 Soloing: I Am My Own Soul Mate 39

Part Two Partnered

A Brief Intermission: Your Editor's Sex Diaries Epiphany 57

3 Dating: It's Simple: I Like You, You Like Me 67

4 Committing: Together, Forever 97

5 Recommitting: Round Two 139

6 Ending: Dissonance, Breakups, Death and Other Mishaps 159

Part Three Poly

7 Cheating: On Paper I'm Monogamous, in Practice . . . 207

8 Flourishing: The More, The Merrier 235

Appendix: What Kind of Relationship Is It?: A Cheat Sheet 275

The Sex Diarists 277

Notes 285

Acknowledgments 287

Index 289