THE SEX CONTRACT
Intimate relationships often include expectations that have never been spoken as agreements. The Sex Contract invites readers to examine how desire, reciprocity and assumptions can shape the terms people believe they are living under.
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A useful conversation distinguishes freely given consent from a sense of obligation. Read the title as a prompt to clarify expectations and boundaries, not as a justification for treating a partner’s body or attention as something owed.
A question to explore before reading
What have you interpreted as a promise that the other person never actually made?
Keep this question alongside your own experience as you compare the perspectives in the library.
Explore the subject first.
These original journal essays offer a way into related questions.
Sexual Regulation: Agency, Agreements and the Space to Choose
Sexual Psychology: The Meaning You Bring into IntimacyA perspective for your reading
A useful conversation distinguishes freely given consent from a sense of obligation. Read the title as a prompt to clarify expectations and boundaries, not as a justification for treating a partner’s body or attention as something owed.
A question to carry into the book
Continue this line of inquiry with The Marriage Truth. Which agreement in your relationship exists only in your own mind?
Build your next reading connection
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