UNTRUE

Why Nearly Everything we Believe About Women and Lust and Adultery is Wrong – the Surprising New Science on the Female Libido and How it Can Set Us Free.

One extraordinary recent reversal of all we have been taught to believe about female sexuality: it turns out that women crave variety and novelty of sexual experience more than men do, and so struggle with monogamy more than their male partners or husbands. This jaw-dropping upending of what we thought we knew comes from experts in multiple fields including sex research, primatology, and anthropology. Diving deep, Untrue will generate startlingly unexpected insights about female libido, lust, and adultery. It will challenge our deepest assumptions about ourselves, monogamy, and the wives, female partners, and girlfriends we only think we know. In the way that Helen Gurley Brown’s Sex and the Single Girl dropped a bomb on our psyches and rearranged our thinking about women and sex, Untrue will aim to be this generation’s shake up text. Exploring female libido across cultures, species, and millennia, in literature and popular culture and real life, from the perspective of experts such as sex researchers and primatologists, as well as the point of view of real women, Untrue will do more than potentially shock readers with its candor. It will engage, educate, validate, and reassure the massive “silent majority” of women in committed relationships who struggle with staying true. Wednesday Martin is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Primates of Park Avenue, which has been optioned as a feature film by MGM, and Stepmonster. She has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, Nightline, Dr. Oz, CNN, NPR, NBC News, the BBC Newshour and Fox News. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, Psychology Today, The Times of London, The Daily Telegraph, Harper’s Bazaar and the Observer. Wednesday studied anthropology at the University of Michigan and earned her doctorate in comparative literature and cultural studies, with a focus on anthropology, from Yale. She taught cultural studies and literature at Yale and The New School for Social Research. Wednesday lives in New York City with her husband and their two sons.