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Mother/Daughter Sex Advice
Mother/Daughter Sex Advice
Mother/Daughter Sex Advice
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Mother/Daughter Sex Advice

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Chapters include:

“Dumped After 4 Years... and Still a Virgin”

“Will I Ever Get Used To Anal Sex?”

“I Have A Tendency To Throw Up Every Time My Boyfriend Comes In My Mouth”

The Boy Who Didn’t Like Doggie

“How Can I Get My Girlfriend to Shave Her Pubic Hair?”

“I’m A Girl Who Comes Too Fast”

Susie and Aretha? —52 and 19 when the column started. Was this advice column going to be an unending nightmare of TMI? They had to open the envelope to find out. Each took turns with the same questions, and that’s when the eye-opening arguments began!

Mother/Daughter Sex Advice offers hilarious, thoughtful, and genuine advice— from two generations who respect each other's opinion “most of the time”— with problems that range from girls who come too fast, boys who can't get down with doggy, and knee-jerk vomit from oral sex.

If you want cutting-edge sex advice that goes beyond pregnancy-and-disease-control, if you’re ready to hear family conversations about sex that are real and refreshing (if not always agreeable!)— if you’re primed to move beyond “Our Bodies Ourselves”— this is the book for you.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherSusie Bright
Release dateMay 1, 2012
ISBN9780970881526
Mother/Daughter Sex Advice
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Susie Bright

Susie Bright is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including The Best American Erotica series, the first three editions of Herotica, Sexwise, and The Sexual State of the Union. She has written for Esquire, Playboy, Village Voice, New York Times Book Review, and is a regular columnist for the on-line magazine Salon. She lectures and performs at theaters and universities nationwide and currently lives in Northern California.

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    Mother/Daughter Sex Advice - Susie Bright

    Introduction from The Daughter

    My mom likes to work in bed. It’s not uncommon to see her laying on her bed, backed by millions of pillows, typing away on her computer. I usually barge right in and flop down. (Sometimes she likes the company, other times she lets me know I’m not welcome).

    On one such occasion, she asked me if I wanted to help her with a work project — she said it would be really fun. As soon as I found out that it was answering people’s sex problems, I jumped on board. I love giving advice!

    Usually I don’t have enough people to give advice to, but this time I got to sift through a bunch of Dear Susie… emails with my mom, and decide which ones we would feature in the column. My instinct was to answer all of them.

    My mom and I have read aloud advice columns together for a long time, everything from Dear Abby, Dear Prudence… to eventually, Dear Dan Savage. I loved disagreeing with the more conservative advice columnists, and ate up the intimate details and wilder material in Dan’s column or other adult magazines. The people who wrote us at Jezebel tended to disclose more, which was helpful — the more details, the better.

    The reaction that we got from Jezebel readers was super-mixed. Some applauded us for our wonderful mother-daughter relationship, and commented on how funny and witty we were. (Ego stroke!) Others found the idea of mother/daughter sex conversation disgusting or uncomfortable. I felt immune to that particular criticism because I had grown up my whole life with sex being an ordinary topic in my household and extended family.

    There was one strand of Jezebel comments that insisted that my mom shouldn’t be proud of me — because what kind of mother would want a daughter who was so sexually experienced by age 18, that she could give advice?

    Well, I never talked about the amount of personal sexual experience I had had. Insight and knowledge from growing up in an environment where relationships, sex, and politics were discussed in both informal and intellectual ways. I don’t think that’s typical. However, I think young people — teenagers in particular — have A LOT more wisdom and savvy intuition than people give us credit for. I’d encourage anyone to talk about sex and not feel inhibited, regardless of their relationship experience.

    Once our advice column debuted, the letters started pouring in. At the same time, I moved from my home to college, a couple hours away, so Susie and I couldn’t always replicate the writing room on her bed. Sometimes we did columns over the phone. Afterward, one of us would be in charge of writing up the notes, and edit it for our column format.

    Although our columns give a realistic feel of what was said, there was actually a lot more talking over each other, groaning, laughing, and random conversations in between.

    We answered three people a week, but that never seemed like enough for me. I wanted to do more like twenty. Everyone who wrote us sounded so sympathetic and nice; I felt a special connection with them. Although sometimes our reactions were flip or sassy (some of which are embarrassing for me to look at now) I really did care about everyone who asked for our help.

    I was obsessed with checking our column once it was published. I read the comments as they came in, sometimes by the minute. Jezebel readers are ready to be ruthless (I say that as a Jezebel reader myself) — and they can pile onto any little thing. A few commenters would criticize a small point that Susie or I said, and I would be devastated. I took it personally, and even though I knew it would make things worse if I rebutted every nit-pick, I was dying to defend myself, to explain the misunderstanding. No, really, I didn’t say that a girl should RAPE her boyfriend!

    Yes, I did cry on a few occasions.

    Fortunately, most readers loved our column, and had kind or interesting things to add to the discussion. But there was one commenter who reee-ally had it in for us. Anonymous, of course; I never knew who it was. Even though s/he attacked us repeatedly on every issue, and said from the start that we did not belong on Jezebel, this mystery critic read every single word we wrote. Each week, I waited for his or her criticism, looked for their avatar icon. I waited to see if there would be a crusade against us this week, or just snide comments. Since our column ended, I’ve looked for Our Troll elsewhere on Jezebel, but s/he has disappeared. Hmmm…

    I also liked to watch the traffic on our weekly post, and compare it to other articles that debuted the same day. I’d get grumpy if something big happened in the news on our Wednesday. I panicked if our column wasn’t at the top of the news feed for more than six hours. So neurotic. It’s kind of cute to think about now.

    Looking back at our columns, I’m proud of the work we did. Just like having sex for the first time, being a sex-advice columnist for the first time is a unique experience you can’t replicate. I’d like to thank everyone who supported us, the fans, Jezebel, and editor Anna Holmes for giving us the platform. Most of all, I’d like to thank my mom for giving me the opportunity, and for always giving me the best advice about anything.

    Aretha Bright

    February, 2012

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