WANT ME.

• Author: Brown, Elizabeth Nolan
• Position: BOOK - Tracy Clark-Flory's "Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey Into the Heart of Desire"

How do we find our authentic sexual selves in a society so devoted to selling narrow visions of romance, beauty, and sexuality? Is it even possible, let alone desirable?

These themes run through Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey Into the Heart of Desire, a new memoir by the feminist journalist Tracy Clark-Flory. The book takes us from adolescent exposure to AOL chat rooms and HBO's Real Sex through young-adult encounters with pickup artistry, the porn clip site YouJizz, and Craigslist sex ads. We see the author in and out of long-term relationships and in and out of San Francisco strip clubs; we watch her search for answers in her hippie father's porn cache and in the Kink.com warehouse. She takes us through her early forays into sexting and BDSM, and eventually she grapples with married life and pregnancy.

Clark-Flory is an engaging writer willing to tell hard truths about herself--a good start for any personal...