Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Melissa Febos tried to tell this story before. The author of four (soon to be five) published memoirs, Febos had written an essay ...

After jumping from one relationship to the next, Melissa Febos found herself in bed with a woman she scarcely knew. “Though I stubbornly tried to prove otherwise, for me, sex without chemistry or love ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Talking about sex is still taboo. Talking about not having sex? Maybe even more so. Melissa Febos didn't go into her year of ...

Most girls hold a specific kind of memory: the memory of a moment they realized their body, as Melissa Febos writes in her memoir-in-essays Girlhood, had made a "violent turn." For me, it happened one ...

The writer Melissa Febos draws from the raw materials of her life — including her work as a dominatrix, struggles with addiction, and relationship with her mother. In her fourth book, Body Work: The ...

When Melissa Febos decided to be celibate for a year – after what she describes as a “ravaging vortex of a relationship” and “five other brief entanglements” – she felt “pretty self-conscious and kind ...

"I do not think that the vocation of writer is superior to any other," writes Melissa Febos in her newest essay collection, "but I do believe it is the most useful life for me, the one in which I can ...

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