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Thanks for Coming: One Young Woman's Quest for an Orgasm Paperback – April 14 2009

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By turns uproarious and touching, the memoir of a young woman's search for an orgasm—and for the elusive connections between sex and love

Twenty-six-year-old Mara Altman wanted to know what all the screaming was about. She'd lost her virginity at seventeen; grown up in southern California with sexually free parents; had lovers in India, Burma, and Peru; and spent a year in Bangkok observing all manner of depravity. And yet she was an attractive, successful, single woman in New York who'd never had an orgasm.

And so she embarked on a wildly funny, emotionally resonant odyssey—a journey both inside and outside herself—only to discover that, for Mara, orgasm was connected to a part of her that no vibrator could reach. Thanks for Coming is one woman's look at our obsession with and anxiety over the female orgasm. Her quest to get her own yields poignant results that will surprise even the sexually awakened among us. From sex shows to sex conventions, from a therapist's couch to her own couch, from the bedroom to the bar, Mara Altman proves to be a guide as hilarious as she is investigative.

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April 14 2009
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13.49 x 2.29 x 20.32 cm
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0061577111
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Mara Altman received her M.S. in journalism from Columbia University in 2005. A former staff writer at the Village Voice, she has also written for the New York Times and New York. She lives in Brooklyn.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial (April 14 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061577111
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061577116
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 292 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.49 x 2.29 x 20.32 cm

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Mara Altman writes about issues that embarrass her (i.e. chin hair), because she has found that putting shame on the page defuses the stigma, leaving her with a sense of empowerment and freedom. Her newest book, Gross Anatomy: Dispatches From the Front (And Back), publishes August 2018.

Over time, Mara has become progressively fearful of airplane flights, but less concerned with getting fat (in the Spring of 2010, she started to eat bacon). She feels most inspired when walking across bridges and lives the perpetual Catch-22 of not being able to go to sleep without first drinking a glass of water, but then having to get up to pee at 3 a.m. She reminds herself that things could always be worse. Then she's stuck thinking about all the bad things that could happen. And then she can't get back to sleep.

Mara has published seven best-selling Kindle Singles. Thanks for Coming, her first book, which follows her on an adventure to find her orgasm, was translated into three languages - German, Spanish and Portuguese. The book was also optioned by HBO. Before going freelance, she worked at daily newspapers both in India and Thailand and was a staff writer for the Village Voice. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine and other outlets.

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Marlene Savary

Guilty pleasure, and educational!

Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2010

Really enjoyed this book! I was a little embarassed about having it around the house, but am now shoving it down friends' throats! A hilarious, touching and educational ride that will leave you laughing out loud and with a certain empathy for the author.

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Cindy Yeates

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Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2015

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This book is slow in parts throughout the book but stick with to the end. This book is a major turn on. I mean major.

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BlueTurtle

Humorous

Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2013

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This book won't be listed among the world's great works of literature. Still, I found it an entertaining read. It's a good effort by Altman to take a look at a subject not much openly discussed. Inviting the world in to come along on her search for orgasm couldn't have been easy but she did it with self depreciating style. It's one person's quest and she invited everyone along for the ride. The best part, from my perspective, was reading about all the different viewpoints on female orgasm. If you're looking for War and Peace, don't bother. If you're looking for a fun read on an interesting topic you could do worse. I'm glad I read it. Just for the record, I'm male.

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Richard H. Opper

Thanks for Coming

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I absolutely loved this book! Full disclosure: I'm a man. I was browsing the Kindle Store and happened upon a book about a woman's search for an orgasm. Don't ask what I was searching for. Okay, the subject matter piqued my interest. What could go wrong with a book about a woman searching for an orgasm? Plenty, actually. It could be boring, like she was shopping for the perfect pair of pumps (shoes, that is). She could blame all her frustrations on men. She could be a lousy writer. What I found was an incredibly engaging, almost painfully honest, hilarious, insightful book about human relations - physical and otherwise. Two pages into it, I was already hooked. I also thought: funny, insightful, neurotic as hell, liberal, guilt ridden, self-effacing - she's gotta be Jewish! Her humor lured me in, but her insights are what really set the hook. I couldn't put it down. I was amazed at her courage; her journey bordered on the dangerous, and she was often on the wrong side of the border. But she pulled through, with me slavishly following her through each of her incredible adventures. It was a great trip, a great read. In the end, I understood her, women, and myself just a little bit better. And isn't that the most you could possibly hope for in a book?

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TS Plucker

...and coming and coming and coming.

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2013

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I really enjoyed Mara's short stories and love her humor. She really bares her foibles and I bought this believing that it would be more of the same and it was but I felt it went on about 100 pages too long. Not that it wasn't well written but she was so exhaustive in her research I guess it wore me out and I wanted to finish it prematurely. She is so bright and playful which had me wondering how someone who exposes so much of themselves could even have a problem hooking up with the Big O. I look forward to her future writings but would hesitate if they are 382 pages again.

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Kate Gould

Fabulous, inspiring read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 15, 2015

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I loved this book. It's a courageous, thoughtful, surprising, funny, and touching account of a young woman's attempts to figure out her body and its workings. This book should be required reading as an inspiring insight into the complexities and many meanings of pleasure.

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