Want Me

Want Me is complicated, fun, shocking, and heart-warming all at once. -- Jessica Valenti , New York Times bestselling author of Sex Object Intimate, challenging, and so very smart. Want Me is a gift. --Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad A prominent sex journalist shares the confusing, funny, and sometimes painful moments that shaped her young adulthood, offering an honest look at sex and culture for modern young women. Tracy Clark-Flory grew up wedged between fizzy declarations of girl power and the sexualized mandates of pop culture. It was broken glass ceilings and Girls Gone Wild infomercials. With a vague aim toward sexual empowerment, she set out to become what men wanted--or, at least, understand it. In her moving, fresh, and darkly humorous memoir, she shares the thrilling and heartbreaking events that led to discovering conflicting truths about her own desire, first as a woman coming of age and then as a veteran journalist covering the sex beat. Tracing her experiences on adult film sets, at fetish conventions, and during an orgasmic meditation retreat (to name just a few), Clark-Flory weaves in statistics and expert voices to reckon with our views on sexual freedom. Want Me is about looking for love, sex, and power as a woman in a culture that is freer than ever, yet defined by unprecedented pressures and enduring constraints. This is a first-hand example of one woman who navigated the mixed messages of sexual expectation, only to discover the complexity of her own wants and our collective need to change the limitations of that journey.

Want Me is complicated, fun, shocking, and heart-warming all at once. -- Jessica Valenti , New York Times bestselling author of Sex Object Intimate, challenging, and so very smart. Want Me is a gift. --Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad A prominent sex journalist shares the confusing, funny, and sometimes painful moments that shaped her young adulthood, offering an honest look at sex and culture for modern young women. Tracy Clark-Flory grew up wedged between fizzy declarations of girl power and the sexualized mandates of pop culture. It was broken glass ceilings and Girls Gone Wild infomercials. With a vague aim toward sexual empowerment, she set out to become what men wanted--or, at least, understand it. In her moving, fresh, and darkly humorous memoir, she shares the thrilling and heartbreaking events that led to discovering conflicting truths about her own desire, first as a woman coming of age and then as a veteran journalist covering the sex beat. Tracing her experiences on adult film sets, at fetish conventions, and during an orgasmic meditation retreat (to name just a few), Clark-Flory weaves in statistics and expert voices to reckon with our views on sexual freedom. Want Me is about looking for love, sex, and power as a woman in a culture that is freer than ever, yet defined by unprecedented pressures and enduring constraints. This is a first-hand example of one woman who navigated the mixed messages of sexual expectation, only to discover the complexity of her own wants and our collective need to change the limitations of that journey.

Two roommates. One calculus exam. A whole lot of extracurricular activity. Living with four other guys, it's bound to happen. Every guy's been caught taking care of business at least once, right? It shouldn't be a big deal. But I don't know Eric as well as my other roommates, and things are a little awkward now. He's a loner. A mystery. Quietly confident. Smart. Sexy as hell. I've been happily subsisting on the typical frat guy diet of booze and sorority girls. But the way Eric looked at me that night? There was something there. Something that's got me curious. Something that's stirring up feelings I thought I'd left behind for good. Something that's making me think I'm not as straight as I thought I was. I can't get him off of my mind. I don't think I want to. So when he offers to help me study for a midterm, I take him up on it. It's innocent. Probably. Maybe. There's no way I could've known what it'd start... This is a steamy standalone new adult/college mm romance with HEA that unfolds across six episodes following Nate and Eric. Now bundled up in one collection with a bonus episode for a seamless reading experience. 87,000 words.

Two roommates. One calculus exam. A whole lot of extracurricular activity. Living with four other guys, it's bound to happen. Every guy's been caught taking care of business at least once, right? It shouldn't be a big deal. But I don't know Eric as well as my other roommates, and things are a little awkward now. He's a loner. A mystery. Quietly confident. Smart. Sexy as hell. I've been happily subsisting on the typical frat guy diet of booze and sorority girls. But the way Eric looked at me that night? There was something there. Something that's got me curious. Something that's stirring up feelings I thought I'd left behind for good. Something that's making me think I'm not as straight as I thought I was. I can't get him off of my mind. I don't think I want to. So when he offers to help me study for a midterm, I take him up on it. It's innocent. Probably. Maybe. There's no way I could've known what it'd start... This is a steamy standalone new adult/college mm romance with HEA that unfolds across six episodes following Nate and Eric. Now bundled up in one collection with a bonus episode for a seamless reading experience. 87,000 words.