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  • I'm a 28 year old woman who just read this book, and holy shit! [Hallelujah-music]

  • Mind blown!

  • Mind blown!

  • Mind blown!

  • I was like:

  • "What"?

  • And then I was like

  • "Why didn't no one tell me this"!?

  • And finally,

  • OH, MY GOD!

  • I wish I knew about this way earlier,

  • because, when my parents gave me the 'talk',

  • it wasn't informative,

  • at all.

  • [piano music starts] - Anna-kay, we need to have the talk with you.

  • - Oh, no. No, I don't want any fucking part of that

  • - No. - [whispers] Okay.

  • I know you're wondering a lot about

  • sex.

  • Anna, let's talk about the sex.

  • I know it's very scary and you probably have a lot of confusing feelings

  • And questions about what to do, and how it works. I just want you to know,

  • if you have a sex before you are married...

  • ... I will break your legs.

  • [music stops]

  • Okay, love you baby, bye-bye

  • - So, I went into my sexual awakening only with the knowledge that I had from anime porn,

  • reading my mom's romance novels and the few articles that were up on the Internet.

  • [Hallelujah-music and sound of early routers]

  • - Ooooohh...

  • - Okay, so let's get to the information, right? Here are the three things that that book taught me that I wish I knew about sex

  • way, way, way, way, way earlier.

  • One - arousal concordance: Even though you may be mentally aroused, your body may not match up.

  • According to sexual studies, men only get an erection 50% of the time that they're mentally aroused.

  • For women, it's 10%.

  • So when I'm turned on, my body only complies with the correct sexual response 10% of the time.

  • I mean TMI, I'm always, like, self-conscious of being dry, even if I'm very turned on,

  • because you're told that the amount of lubrication your body produces is an indicator of how aroused you are.

  • So, if my body doesn't line up with how I feel, I keep feeling like there's something wrong with me.

  • But no, it's totally normal - in fact,

  • it's the majority of our experiences.

  • And the book puts a very big emphasis that lube is your friend. Make lube a lifelong friend

  • Two - not experiencing orgasm from penetration is

  • completely normal.

  • In fact how far the clitoris is from the vaginal

  • canal, is a big predictor of whether or not you'll be able to orgasm from intercourse alone.

  • The farther away the harder it is.

  • Wow! You know my whole life

  • I thought something was wrong with me,

  • but it's just science and my body's physical limitations. Rejoice ladies with clits far away from their vaginal canal,

  • we are inhibited by factors out of our control.

  • Three - desire comes from context.

  • It may sound obvious, but not all people can actually experience

  • spontaneous desire. You know, I'm someone who can easily put myself in the context of like wanting to be intimate,

  • but some people simply need to create an environment to let desire emerge.

  • I used to feel like really rejected or disheartened if my partner didn't want me when I wanted them,

  • and this book outlines not only the different ways people get aroused, but all the factors that influence that arousal and how you can manipulate

  • them for your own benefit. As a whole, the book just basically reassured me that I am normal and all these misconceptions

  • that I've had about sex since middle school were completely addressed, because in sex ed you're kind of taught one approach to sex

  • that's not really informative still.

  • - Okay, class. Dicks, they're just like bananas, okay?

  • So all you need to know is, you can just open them up,

  • and they're nutritious,

  • an' it's good for you. *hrmupf*

  • - I'm Anna Akana.

  • [background music stops]

  • Don't - there's no sponsored message because no one wants to sponsor this.

I'm a 28 year old woman who just read this book, and holy shit! [Hallelujah-music]

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