Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction

✍ Scribed by Garza, Erica

• Book ID: 109691834
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 449 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781501163371

✦ Synopsis

A fiercely courageous account of one woman's unflinching, raw, and ultimately hopeful journey through sex and porn addiction.
For almost two decades, Erica Garza was consumed by a singular, secret, shame-fueled pursuit that threw her life into chaos: orgasm. Back-braced, isolated, and teased in adolescence, and ambivalent about her Catholic upbringing, Garza found solace in masturbation and porn—first by way of the limited softcore on late-night cable, and, later, with the booming proliferation of online porn.

In this wrenching, vivid account, Garza explores her sexual fixations and relives the series of disastrous relationships and one-night stands that haunt her as she runs from one side of the world to the other in a futile attempt to break free of her habits―from East Los Angeles to Hawaii and Southeast Asia, through the brothels of Bangkok and the yoga studios of Bali to disappointing stabs at twelve-steps, therapy, and rehab back home.

Garza's...