Laid and Confused

256 pages | hardcover |  One brave sex columnist takes a refreshingly honest, deeply researched, and frequently hilarious deep-dive into the cultural crisis of bad sex. Far more alarming than the millennial “sex recession"—the phenomenon of young people having less sex than previous generations—is that we’re in the middle of a bad sex epidemic that everyone is suffering from. Despite major advances in sex positivity and technology, we haven’t moved the needle on better: we’re still quietly enduring unsatisfying sex, whether that’s resigning ourselves to the same three positions we secretly hate, or lying when our Bumble date asks if we’re “close”. We’ve optimized everything except our own pleasure.After going viral for a column calling out bad sex on her college campus, Maria Yagoda launched a career as a sex columnist at Vice, earning a global following for her wit, vulnerability, and expertise. But still, most of the sex she was having landed somewhere