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Behind The Bedroom Door:Getting It, Giving It, Loving It, Missing It
Edited by Paula Derrow Delacorte, 334 pages, $25
In her introduction to Behind the Bedroom Door, Paula Derrow bemoans “how little the women I know [talk] about the awkward couplings and surprising urges, the long dry spells or messy, mind-blowing encounters that make up a person’s sexual history.”
Hmmm. Ms. Derrow must know some women I don’t know.
But she may have a point when she goes on to assert that the media, post–Sex and the City, has given us a warped view of what others are up to, making us insecure about our own “less than HBO-worthy experiences.” Hence the need for this latest feisty collection of essays from women writers, which, in the vein of other catchily titled tomes like The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage, and Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves, aims to unleash the voices of the day on a provocative personal topic, providing a more “honest” view of things.