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A midlife sexual reckoning
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A midlife sexual reckoning

Miranda July's new novel, All Fours, suggests a 'sexless marriage' can be the first step on a path to awakening

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May 30, 2024
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Celibacy is having a moment. As I wrote in my piece on the “sexless marriage” for The New York Times Magazine, Americans are having less sex on the whole, and many women who are not married, from the boysober to the 4B-ers, are using rejection of compulsory sex and sexuality as a political tool. Even Julia Fox sees celibacy as a way to 'take back contro…

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