Chastened
The Unexpected Story of My Year without Sex
Seeking love in an age obsessed with sex, a journalist chronicles her year without
On the eve of her thirtieth birthday, Hephzibah Anderson glimpsed her college boyfriend going into a jewelry store with a smiling blonde-and in that moment realized it had been years since a man told her he loved her. This discovery led her to question a decade of emotionally frustrating relationships with commitment phobes. As she examined her past, she recognized that most of these relationships went off course at the precise moment sex was involved. Anderson decided it was time to spend a full year without sex to rediscover its meaning and purpose in her life. In this confessional account, Anderson shares the results…
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June 24, 2010
Hephzibah Anderson graduated from Cambridge University with an English degree and has worked as a journalist and broadcaster ever since, contributing to publications including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and The New York Observer. She was the fiction editor at the Daily Mail and has written columns for The Observer (London) and the London Evening Standard. Her recent work has appeared in Bloomberg Muse and BBC Radio.
