Emily Witt

" Un récit éclairant et hilarant sur le sexe et les rencontres amoureuses à lère digitale, quand culture et technologie de la drague ont largement altéré le romantisme. "Publishers weekly.Alors quell

" Un récit éclairant et hilarant sur le sexe et les rencontres amoureuses à lère digitale, quand culture et technologie de la drague ont largement altéré le romantisme. "Publishers weekly.Alors quell

Emily Witt, periodista, colaboradora de distintos medios de comunicación de Nueva York, soltera y treintañera, explora a través de una serie de artículos las actitudes sexuales de nuestro tiempo. El sexo se ha diversificado más allá de las filias clásicas. Pornografía en internet, poliamor, subculturas sexuales de vanguardia… Witt se interna en la jungla de las nuevas posibilidades en torno al sexo y experimenta una mezcla de extrañeza, ridiculez y belleza. Opta por narrarlo todo de un modo abierto y honesto; pero sin descuidar nunca que, en realidad, tras la aparente accesibilidad de todo este nuevo universo, se esconde una realidad complicada y no siempre placentera. El amor se ha convertido en un fenómeno raro y se han roto las fórmulas tradicionales de una relación.

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NEW YORKER, PITCHFORK, LITHUB, AND NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW From the New Yorker staff writer and acclaimed author of Future Sex comes a memoir about drugs, techno, and New York City"The first great book about what it was like to live through the Trump presidency"Emily Gould, The CutIn the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt, who would soon publish her first book on sex in the digital age, had recently quit antidepressants for a more expansive world of psychedelic experimentation. From her apartment in Brooklyn, she began to catch glimpses of the clandestine nightlife scene thrumming around her.In Health and Safety, Witt charts her immersion into New York Citys dance music underground. She would come to lead a double life: By day she worked as a journalist, covering gun violence, climate catastrophes, and the rallies of right-wing militias. And by night she pushed the limits of consciousness in hollowed-out office spaces and warehouses to music that sounded like the future. But no counterculture, no matter how utopian, could stave off the squalor of American politics and the cataclysm of 2020.Affectionate yet never sentimental, Health and Safety is a lament for a broken relationship, for a changed nightlife scene, and for New York City just before the fall. Sparing no oneleast of all herselfWitt offers her life as a lens into an era of American delirium and dissolution.

Emily Witt is single and in her thirties. She has slept with most of her male friends. Most of her male friends have slept with most of her female friends. Sexual promiscuity is the norm. But up until a few years ago, she still envisioned her sexual experience achieving a sense of finality, like a monorail gliding to a stop at Epcot Center. Like many people, she imagined herself disembarking, finding herself face-to-face with another human being, and there we would remain in our permanent station in life: the future.But, as we all know, things are more complicated than that. Love is rare and frequently unreciprocated. Sexual acquisitiveness is risky and can be hurtful. And generalizing about what women want or dont want or should want or should do seems to lead nowhere. Dont our temperaments, our hang-ups, and our histories define our lives as much as our gender?In Future Sex, Witt captures the experiences of going to bars alone, online dating, and hooking up with strangers. After moving to San Francisco, she decides to say yes to everything and to find her own path. From public health clinics to cafe conversations about coregasms, she observes the subcultures she encounters with awry sense of humour, capturing them in all their strangeness, ridiculousness, and beauty. The result is an open-minded, honest account of the contemporary pursuit of connection and pleasure, and an inspiring new model of female sexuality - open, forgiving, and unafraid.