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A sex educator on the one question she is asked the most: 'Am I normal?'

Emily Nagoski is a sex educator and author of a bestseller on enhancing your sex life. The book did so well that it got in the way of her own.
Sex educator Emily Nagoski, author of the new book <em>Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections</em>, discusses what it means to be sex positive.

There's a tired storyline when it comes to relationships that goes something like this: Sex is great in the beginning, but then life happens and it moves way down the to-do list or may not even be there at all.

Emily Nagoski is a sex educator who knows the biology and sociology of intimacy. In fact, she had such a big hit with her book Come as You Are that her work got in the way of her own relationship. And she discovered the fastest way to destroy your sex life is to worry about it.

Armed with research and good humor, Nagoski has.

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