Sex & the Married Girl: From Clicking to Climaxing-The Complete Truth about Modern Marriage [Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Mandi Norwood (Author, Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2003

The marriage revolution is at hand-it's going on right now, led by straight-shooting, brutally honest gloves-off contemporary Married Girls. With her fifteen years of experience at top women's magazines, Mandi Norwood speaks to this new generation of married women who crave independence and adventure just as much as they crave commitment.

Like a great girls' night out, this smart, sexy, candid guide reveals married girls most intimate confessions from over one hundred in-depth interviews. So what makes today's Married Girls's marriage different from her mother's marriage?

Sometimes hilarious, often tender, and always empowering, Mandi Norwood delivers from-the-heart, savvy, and practical advice about every aspect of modern marriage from power, controlling money, omigod-the-mother-in-law, to brazen behavior in bed.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Norwood's voice-vivacious, friendly, sometimes giggly, with a lovely British accent-is perfect for the frank "girl talk" of her self-help guide to marriage. Having extensively interviewed 100 married women in their 20s, 30s and 40s, Norwood (How to Be Number One in Your Own World) dishes the inside dirt on modern matrimony. True to the title, there's plenty of titillating sex talk: how often married women do it, their favorite sexual positions (with handy tips on making them even better), their thoughts on pornography and sex toys and even an explicit lesson for husbands on how to give oral sex correctly. On the more serious side is a look at factors that can affect one's sex life (career stress, depression, medication, repressed anger, etc.). But this highly entertaining and useful audiobook goes beyond sex to cover all relevant marital issues: deciding whether to keep one's maiden name, balancing career and family, handling marital money conflicts, wills and prenuptial agreements and dealing with a difficult mother-in-law. With plenty of direct quotes on each topic from the interviewees, along with Norwood's own opinionated commentary, the audiobook feels like a group of close girlfriends advising their soon-to-be-wed pal from their own experiences.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

'Mandi Norwood is fresh, funny and wickedly insightful. I can guarantee you won't have read anything like this before.' -- Rolling Stone magazine 'Mandi Norwood is sharp as a tack. She writes crisply and intelligently and represents a fresh, smart voice for young women today' -- Glamour magazine 'The kick ass Sex and The Married Girl should be first on every wedding gift list. Insightful, intelligent, shocking and empowering, this is a book that no hitched chick should be without. It shakes out the dirty linen of marriage and guns down every cliche about 'the little wife,' to show how modern marriage can work. Whether you want the best sex ever, or simply to secure your finances should the fairy tale falter, Sex and the Married Girl tells you precisely how. Norwood puts women on top, and just that makes you want to cheer.' -- Anna Maxted, author of Running in Heels 'The big read this summer... It's all about being young, happily married and still getting it on'. -- Evening Standard 'I admire Norwood's frankness.' -- Naomi Wolf, The Sunday Times 'A fascinating glimpse into other married women's lives' -- Junior magazine 'a sin-sational guide, packed with some great advice.' -- The Sun 'Chock-full of story and anecdote, it's as full of gory details as a night in with the gals.' -- Image magazine, Ireland --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: New Millennium Press; Unabridged edition (May 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590074033
• ISBN-13: 978-1590074039
• Product Dimensions: 5.7 x 5 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,479,745 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Maybe Marriage Isn't for Everyone, July 24, 2006

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R. Cannon "Fiercely Conservative" (Louisiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sex & the Married Girl: From Clicking to Climaxing---the Complete Truth About Modern Marriage (Hardcover)

Mandi Norwood is an angry woman. Through the lens of resolute feminism, Norwood presents a venomously skewed scenario of modern marriage and relationships. Blatantly anti-establishment, she balks at traditions such as taking one's husband's name, nurturing and caring for one's family, and taking on the responsibility of creating a healthy home environment. Her tone is perpetually pissed off--a shock to those of us who are happy in our relationships, engagements, or marriages. Perhaps Norwood should have titled her book "The Complete Guide to My Pessimistic Outlook on Modern Marriage."

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Why Bother?, April 27, 2006

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This review is from: Sex & the Married Girl: From Clicking to Climaxing---the Complete Truth About Modern Marriage (Hardcover)

First off, this book is not about sex, it's about marriage, so don't waste your money if you're looking for sex tips. In any case, Mandi Norwood utterly disapproves of sex advice for women (but more on that later).

The purpose of this book is to teach new-millennium wives how to act like 1950's husbands - only I truly doubt if 1950's husbands were quite as selfish, thoughtless and utterly inconsiderate as this book suggests wives should be.

Offered a job on the other side of the world? Don't discuss it with your husband, just go home and tell him you're taking it regardless of what he thinks. He can either come with you or get lost. Feel like taking a year off to travel the world (using your joint savings to do it?). Don't ask him how he feels about the impact on your finances or how it might affect your future plans. Just give him a list of places you're going. Invite him along, sure, but don't make out you give a damn either way. And let him know that your destinations of choice are non-negotiable. If he has places he wants to go `you can talk about that'. Feel like having an affair? Go for it. Society says this is OK for husbands (apparently - though that's news to me) so it's OK for wives too.

I think when most people get married they have at least some intention of making the other person happy. But to Mandi Norwood this is not only irrelevant but wrong. Redbook magazine had the temerity to publish tips for women on how to be terrific in bed. How dare they! Who cares whether your husband enjoys your sex life? The only important thing is that you do. (Quite a risky position to take when three weeks without sex is portrayed by one of Norwood's friends as grounds for divorce.)

Showing you care for your husband, or showing him any kind of loyalty, is portrayed as hopelessly outdated. If his brother's wife is leaving him, get on the phone and give her advice on how to get the best divorce settlement. And always remember, his mother is the enemy. (Actually all women over 45 are utterly contemptible sell-outs according to Mandi).

The start of the book is full of women expressing their reservations about marriage and why they were reluctant to do it. It's never explained, anywhere, why they did, or why anyone would. The unbearably self-satisfied Norwood (who throughout the book seems to think all women are just like her) says:

"My life plan was pretty much this: junior writer, features editor, global travel, buy own home, become an editor in chief, get married and have kids. I was prepared to take or leave the final two."

I bet her husband was thrilled to read that. But it would be REALLY interesting to know why someone as independently minded as Norwood ultimately decided to get hitched. It's never explained. Why, Ms Norwood, do independent women still get married in this day and age? What's the attraction? Particularly for you and your friends - after all, if you believe all you should care about is yourself, why make a commitment to another person? If it's total self-centred independence you want, why not stay single? That could have made an interesting chapter or two but somehow it just doesn't occur to Norwood to address it.

The book finishes with a discussion of the `death fantasy' where modern married women apparently daydream about what it would be like if their husbands were dead. Sure, they'd be upset, (kind of) but in a lot of ways, it's actually quite a nice thought, isn't it girls? That pretty much sums up the book.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars unhappy women that put a face on, May 7, 2008

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Danielle C. Gordon - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sex and the Married Girl (Hardcover)

i'm a women in the army and have 2 kids with my husbanded. he lets me do what i went in the point of letting me chase my dreams. and yes i keep my own last name. i like it. but i still keep in mined that my husbanded and kids have feeling to. so when i read this book it pissed me off. if this book is about married girl of today. why dos it sounded like a women that need to get a divorce and anger mangment class. i think if u want to be anger at the world and are ready to leave your husband then this book is for u.