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Dr. Wolfe's auto-ethnography is an engaging and very real story. Living through the women's liberation movement in the '60s-'70s and the more recent #MeTooMovement, she describes the challenges and benefits of being a professional woman who is also a sexually vibrant being. This work is open, inspiring, and a joy to read. I would recommend this not only as an ethnography, but also as a case study in gender and sexuality.--Emily E. Prior, MA, executive director, Center for Positive Sexuality A delightful romp with sensitivity and insight with an anthropologist's answer to Anaïs Nin, Dorothy Parker, and other female challengers to the social conventions of their times.--William Jankowiak, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Leanna Wolfe tells the story--fearlessly, absorbingly and without apology--of a young woman's sexual awakening (her own) and maturation into an uninhibited carnal expert/educator. She travels the world to glean her fascinating perspective, emerging with a well-researched volume of great wisdom and candor.--Ray Richmond, journalist, author, and educator The author's fearlessness and honesty about her love life and her sexual journey throughout her life are truly revolutionary and very refreshing. I especially appreciated the author's ability to convey the 'flavor' and reality of each relationship. Her experience as an anthropologist allows her to provide us with an astute analysis of the sexual mores, relationship styles, and trends of the past half-century. A totally unique book and truly a page-turner!--Kathy Labriola, counselor, nurse, and author of Polyamorous Elders: Aging in Open Relationships This a surprising and astonishingly honest book by a professional sex researcher. Through the revealing lens of her own life story as a woman, Leanne Wolfe explores the meaning of various beliefs about sexual behavior in wildly different cultures and phases of life. This book exemplifies the classic anthropological method of participant observation, interspersed with the results of carefully constructed surveys on the differences between what informants say and what they do about sexuality, including Wolfe herself. There is much treasure and wisdom here.--Pat Shipman, Pennsylvania State University

A delightful romp with sensitivity and insight with an anthropologist's answer to Anaïs Nin, Dorothy Parker, and other female challengers to the social conventions of their times.--William Jankowiak, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Leanna Wolfe tells the story--fearlessly, absorbingly and without apology--of a young woman's sexual awakening (her own) and maturation into an uninhibited carnal expert/educator. She travels the world to glean her fascinating perspective, emerging with a well-researched volume of great wisdom and candor.--Ray Richmond, journalist, author, and educator The author's fearlessness and honesty about her love life and her sexual journey throughout her life are truly revolutionary and very refreshing. I especially appreciated the author's ability to convey the 'flavor' and reality of each relationship. Her experience as an anthropologist allows her to provide us with an astute analysis of the sexual mores, relationship styles, and trends of the past half-century. A totally unique book and truly a page-turner!--Kathy Labriola, counselor, nurse, and author of Polyamorous Elders: Aging in Open Relationships This a surprising and astonishingly honest book by a professional sex researcher. Through the revealing lens of her own life story as a woman, Leanne Wolfe explores the meaning of various beliefs about sexual behavior in wildly different cultures and phases of life. This book exemplifies the classic anthropological method of participant observation, interspersed with the results of carefully constructed surveys on the differences between what informants say and what they do about sexuality, including Wolfe herself. There is much treasure and wisdom here.--Pat Shipman, Pennsylvania State University

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Leanna Wolfe, PhD’s sex research was spirited by coming of age in the thick of the 1970s sexual revolution and feminist movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her curiosities and academic appetites led her engage in field research in Mexico, Africa, India and Papua New Guinea. From 1980 to 2018 she worked as a university professor teaching and researching topics ranging from orgasm, multiple partner sexualities and sexual assault. In 2016 she launched Wise Woman Sex and Relationship Consulting, providing counseling through her unique lens of Sexual Anthropology.

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