A year without sex; can she make it?

 Posted by on 20 June 2009  Modern Life
Jun 202009
 

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Personally, I wonder which came first: the chastity vow or the book deal? Still, writer Hephzibah Anderson went 12 months without sex, and wrote all about it. You can get the condensed version in The Guardian:

It’s only when you’ve sworn off sex you begin to notice that it is everywhere. It’s in the swing of a waiter’s hips, the tilt of a head, the gaze you know you shouldn’t hold. I make a date, feeling as if I need to test my vow in order to prove its existence. But the man sitting across from me isn’t Jake and, because of that, I’m not interested. At the end of the night I call a taxi, dropping my date at the nearest tube station with a peck on the cheek. Chastity will be easy, I think, and my heart sinks a little.

Grant Hamilton

  • Alawna

    I want to read this book.

  • Colin Corneau

    This is bookworthy…why, exactly?

  • http://pennywise-books.blogspot.com/ T. Keith Edmunds

    It’s practically a genre — “A Year Without…”, “A Year of Doing…”, “A Year Eating Only…”

    The front list catalogs are choked with them.

  • http://www.absurdintellectual.com/ Grant Hamilton

    Sounds like an easy way to get published! “A year of diligent blogging made me exactly no money” here I come!

  • http://pennywise-books.blogspot.com/ T. Keith Edmunds

    I’ll put in a word with the publishers.

  • the banana

    That’s nothing. I once went 18 years without sex. Maybe I need an agent.

  • Colin Corneau

    WOKKA WOKKA WOKKA!!!