No, I Didn’t Come: Ten Women, Ten Stories, and Everything We Were Never Told About Pleasure
by Scarlett Bloom
Ten women confront the truths they were taught to hide.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Some women remember their first orgasm.
Others remember the first time they pretended to have one.
Ten women. Ten stories. And all the things women think in bed but rarely say out loud.
Madison learned to fake it because telling the truth felt harder.
Rachel learned to call pain “normal.”
Ashley became an expert in everyone else’s pleasure except her own.
And they are only three of the women you’ll meet.
No, I Didn’t Come is not a sex manual. And it isn’t erotica.
It is a funny, tender, and painfully recognizable journey through pleasure, pretending, body image, relationships, expectations, awkwardness, silence — and the complicated distance between what women feel and what they say they feel.
Through ten intimate stories, Scarlett Bloom explores the moments women rarely talk about: pretending because explaining feels harder, wondering whether everyone else knows something you don’t, accepting discomfort as normal, performing desire instead of feeling it, and sometimes being more concerned with someone else’s pleasure than your own.
There are no perfect lovers here.
No miraculous transformations.
No instructions for having better sex.
Just women being far more honest than women are usually allowed to be.
Some stories may make you laugh.
Some may make you uncomfortable.
Some may remind you of a friend.
And one of them might feel uncomfortably like you.
No, I Didn’t Come is for readers who enjoy candid, women-centered stories about intimacy, relationships, bodies, expectations, and the things we were taught not to say.
Maybe the most liberating thing about pleasure isn’t learning how to do it right.
Maybe it’s finally being able to tell the truth.
Book Details:
- Genre: Women’s Fiction, Contemporary Women’s Fiction, Relationship Fiction, Humorous Fiction
- Format: eBook
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