![]() ![]() Throughout the first couple months of Anderson’s vow of chastity, she struggles to have a non-physical relationship with men. The book offers a profound argument on the female psyche and libido, allowing women to look at their own relationships and see that maybe they didn’t work out because they were blinded by the idea of love and that sex has become a counterpart in relationship woes. She mostly writes that women can live without sex or the co-dependency of a male, but that life would be better with it. This revelation sparks the beginning of her experimentation as she vows to date and write about defining the difference between love and sex and what a relationship can succumb to without intimacy.Īnderson’s book is far from a lecture on feminism. “Sex and its pursuit seem to have become such blood sports, their rules so confusing and their standards so exacting, that it is hard not to wonder occasionally whether it’s worth it,” Anderson said. Anderson realizes that in her efforts to find love, she has only found lust. British journalist Hephzibah Anderson’s memoir “Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex,” follows her yearlong experimentation with celibacy after she realizes that she has misunderstood the relationship between love and sex.įollowing the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Anderson sees her college boyfriend buying an engagement ring for another woman. ![]()
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