Opening Up
A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
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Narrated by:
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Jo Anna Perrin
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Written by:
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Tristan Taormino
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Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships - from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Taormino offers solutions for making an open relationship work, including tips on dealing with jealousy, negotiating boundaries, finding community, parenting and time management. Opening Up will change the way you think about intimacy.
Tristan Taormino is an authority in the field of erotica and sexuality. Along with working as a feminist author, columnist, activist, and educator, she has been featured as Out magazines 100 Gay Success Stories of the Year and The Advocate's Best and Brightest Gay & Lesbian People Under 30. In addition to all of this, Taormino recently appeared in the E! Special "The Real 50 Shades of Grey."
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-01-07
Content is Fabulous. Narrator is Terrible.
The content of this book is wonderful. It answers a lot of questions about open relationships and covers a wide range of topics. Where this book falls apart is with the narrator, while her voice is okay, it is very nasal, and when she attempts to change her tone to suit “characters” it is ridiculous and takes away from the content.
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