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Jul 2021
39m 5s

Understanding Our Sexual Fantasies

Goop, Inc. and Audacy
About this episode
Tracy Clark-Flory is a senior staff writer at Jezebel and author of Want Me: A Sex Writer’s Journey Into the Heart of Desire. Her book explores the messages we receive from society about sex, intimacy, and pleasure and how this shapes our sexual lives and identities. She explains how sexual empowerment has been watered down and twisted into an individualisti ... Show More
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