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She wrote a bestseller on women’s sex lives. Then her own fell apart

By Catherine Pearson
New York Times·
10 mins to read

The sex educator Emily Nagoski’s new book on maintaining intimacy in long-term relationships began at home.

A decade ago, as sex educator Emily Nagoski was researching and writing her first book, Come as You Are — a soon-to-be bestseller exploring the science of women’s sexuality — she and her husband stopped having sex.

Nagoski began appearing everywhere, reassuring women that their sexuality was not a problem that needed to be solved or treated. She talked to author Glennon Doyle and

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