{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Sex Writer\u2019s Journey in Desire and Pleasure with Tracy Clark-Flory","description":"Journalist Tracy Clark Flory joins Tristan Taormino to talk about her new memoir Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire. They discuss her early interest in sex and how her attitudes were influenced by her hippie parents, the media, and HBO\u2019s Real Sex. As a young adult, she struggles with failing at being a woman, and she searches for \u201cwhat men want\u201d and her own desirability through porn, strip clubs, sex writing, and a lot of casual sex. She comes clean about being an orgasm faker during this time, and they unpack why. She shares when she began to challenge the paradoxical sexual norms of our society and center her own desire, pleasure, and power. They delve into how her mother\u2019s death affected her sex life, her orgasmic breakthrough, and what she\u2019s learned from visiting porn film sets. The book is deeply personal, yet brilliantly analyzes the social and political forces that shape the current sexual landscape. Special thanks to Calm and Sakara for their support of this episode. Tracy Clark-Flory is a senior staff writer at Jezebel. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan, Elle, Esquire, Marie Claire, Salon, The Guardian, Women\u2019s Health, and the yearly \u201cBest Sex Writing\u201d anthology. She has appeared on \u201c20\/20,\u201d MSNBC and NPR. She is the author of the memoir Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey into the Heart of Desire. ","author_name":"Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino","author_url":"http:\/\/sexoutloud.libsyn.com\/","html":"