Describes the factors that affect a woman's sexual wellbeing, including stress, mood, trust, and body image and explains how the complications of daily life can affect arousal and desire. -- Publisher An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy. Scientists in the last few years have learned more about how women’s sexuality works than we ever thought possible, and this book explains it all. The first lesson is that every woman has her own unique sexuality, like a fingerprint, and that women vary more than men in our anatomy, our sexual response mechanisms, and the way our bodies respond to the sexual world. So we never need to judge ourselves based on others’ experiences. Because women vary, and that’s normal. Second lesson: sex happens in a context. And all the complications of everyday life influence the context surrounding a woman’s arousal, desire, and orgasm. Cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines tells us that the most important factor for women in creating and sustaining a fulfilling sex life, is not what you do in bed or how you do it, but how you feel about it. Which means that stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing; they are central to it. Once you understand these factors, and how to influence them, you can create for yourself better sex and more profound pleasure than you ever thought possible.