Opening Up, Tristan Taormino
Opening Up, Tristan Taormino
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Opening Up
A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

Author: Tristan Taormino

Narrator: Jo Anna Perrin

Unabridged: 11 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/30/2011

Synopsis

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.

About Tristan Taormino

Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, and educator. She is the author of four books and editor of eighteen anthologies, and her popular Village Voice column "Pucker Up" is nationally syndicated. Tristan has been featured in over 250 publications, including the New York Times, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Entertainment Weekly, New York Magazine, and Men's Health. She has appeared on HBO, CNN, MTV, and the Discovery Channel, and lectures at top colleges and universities and teaches workshops around the world.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Win on July 27, 2011

May I start this review off with a somewhat snarky anecdote? My friend Jenny and I were on the train and she started to read The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac for about 2 minutes before she got frustrated and switched over to reading her NYS driver's instruction manual. We lamented over having a mutu......more

Goodreads review by Zyriel on January 19, 2020

Ultimately, this book is dated. Polyamory, as a general relationship model has progressed and an ethical foundation has been defined that is being adopted. This book is sort of training-wheel mode and I think could teach bad turns of thinking when applied to romantic relationships, rather than just......more

Goodreads review by Elevate Difference on February 16, 2009

I’ve been waiting for this book for a decade! I read The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt in 1998, but found the information they provided rather basic. I’ve waited ten years to read something even more enlightening and instructive. Tristan Taormino has made my wish come true with......more

Goodreads review by Eric on December 31, 2008

Basically the Strunk and White of polyamory. One of the best, most comprehensive guides to the topic, from all angles. Extraordinarily great advice, filled with real world experience, and extremely easy to read.......more

Goodreads review by Dawn on May 28, 2024

This book is for anyone looking for ways to make their relationships stronger. Yes, the book is about open relationships, non monogamy, polyamory, etc. But, throughout the book Taormino has so many powerful suggestions and insights into navigating any kind of relationship - whether it's monogamous,......more

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