Moan, Emma Koenig
Moan, Emma Koenig
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Moan
Anonymous Essays on Female Orgasm

Author: Emma Koenig, Rachel Bloom

Narrator: Emma Koenig, Rachel Bloom, Chloe Cannon, Melanie Cronin, Heidi Eklund, Grace Angela Henry, Zoe Hunter, Anna Morrow, Molly Parker Myers, Jennifer Coolidge, Annie Sullivan

Unabridged: 5 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/22/2018


Synopsis

Imagine you could give an essay entitled How to Make Me Come to a past, present or future sex partner, free of judgment or repercussion. In this book inspired by Emma Koenig's wildly popular website, a diverse collective of women do just that.

Emma Koenig was inspired to answer this question after a truly frustrating sexual experience with a partner. As she says, "The simplest version of this story devoid of all identifying details: He thought I had an orgasm. I hadn't." She knew she couldn't be the only woman to have been mystified by an experience such as this, and so her Tumblr, How to Make Me Come, was born as a safe space for women to talk honestly and openly. The website touched a major chord. It received tons of press and garnered over a million page views in a month. And now, a broad range of the best of these anonymous essays have been collected into Moan.

The ways through which women achieve sexual pleasure are often ignored, devalued, or misunderstood. Moan tackles the ideas surrounding the sometimes elusive orgasm head on. Here is a look into the spectrum of desire. Of frustration. Of experiences that have left an impact. From the hilarious to the tragic, from the intellectual to the erotic, these essays will leave you feeling inspired and excited to embark on your own journey of sexual exploration and empower women to do what most of the time is hardest for us: asking for what we want and don't in the bedroom and beyond.

What people are saying about it:

"Prioritizing women's pleasure is a critical part of our liberation. Not only is Moan an intimate, educational and funny collection about orgasm and desire but it pushes the cultural conversation forward." -- Rashida Jones, actress, writer, producer

"Koenig's book is exactly what we need to break the absurd, toxic silence around female sexual pleasure." -- Peggy Orenstein, bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria11 on May 19, 2018

3 1/2 Interesting at first but then seemed to get repetitive. It hit all kinds of age and sex. Mostly 20 some olds that seem to masterbate 24/7 and almost prefer that over everything. I have nothing against 20 some year olds. I like the idea of empowering woman to talk about sex and orgasms. It need......more

Goodreads review by Erika W. on May 04, 2018

the essays are so similar that the book got really repetitive. I wish there’d been more of an effort to showcase a wider variety of perspectives about sex and orgasms - the writers are all cis, almost all the writers are women who are writing about having sex with men, none of the writers are asexua......more

Goodreads review by Amy on July 06, 2020

This was a fun read. My only criticisms of it are ones that I see have come up in other reviews: 1. It got kinda repetitive after a while. A lot of the essays were pretty similar. 2. I don't understand WHY the need for repetition, as there's a whole range of experiences out there that could have been......more

Goodreads review by Cynthia (Bingeing On Books) on February 07, 2021

This was an interesting book and I liked that it was about empowering women to talk about sex and orgasms so openly. But I had the same problem that a lot of other reviewers did, which was that it became very repetitive. There were just so many stories that were alike in terms of what they thought a......more

Goodreads review by Julie on March 23, 2019

Couldn’t be any more explicit! Honest and open reflections by a variety of women, and pretty inspiring.......more