They contrast the relatively short-term dynamics of stress in evolutionary times with modern-day stressors that often go unresolved, and discuss forms of affection and physical activity that help complete what they call the "stress cycle". In 2019, Nagoski and her twin sister Amelia co-wrote the book Burnout, on the causes and management of stress, including structural factors that particularly affect women. She also discusses "arousal non-concordance", estimating, based on experiments of responsiveness to sexual stimuli, that there is a roughly 50% overlap between what men find physically and mentally arousing, compared with only 10% for women. Come as You Are Īmong various topics, Come as You Are discusses the difference between "spontaneous" and "responsive" sexual desire, with Nagoski estimating that only around 15% of women experience the former.
She is the former director of wellness education at Smith College, where she teaches a course on women's sexuality. This revised and updated edition continues that mission with new information and advanced research, demystifying and decoding the science of sex so that everyone can create a better sex life and discover more pleasure than you ever thought possible.Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Change Your Sex Life, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress CycleĪmelia Nagoski (sister), Steph Nagoski (sister)Īn Agent Based Model of Disease Diffusion in the Context of Heterogeneous Sexual Motivation (2006)Įmily Nagoski (born 1977) is an American sex educator and researcher, and author of the book Come as You Are. In the years since the book’s initial publication, countless women have learned through Nagoski’s accessible and informative guide that things like stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing they are central to it-and that even if you don’t always feel like it, you are already sexually whole by just being yourself. That is, until Emily Nagoski’s Come As You Are, which used groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them. A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.įor much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less frequently-and far less seriously-than its male counterpart.
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