“Robert Louis Stevenson will always be an erotic writer to me,” she writes in her clear-eyed memoir Getting Off: One Woman’s Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction. Few details are spared as Garza retreads her formative experiences, her sexual encounters, and her eventual path to recovery. “I think the biggest effect of having that upbringing was that shame became an integral part of my sexual identity,” Garza recalls. I don’t think it’s a new thing, women watching or becoming addicted to porn,” she notes. But this [women experiencing sex addiction] has been happening for a long time.

Source: The Irish Times March 30, 2018 05:00 UTC