Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

by Tristan Taormino

Overview

Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships — from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Taormino offers solutions for making an open relationship work, including tips on dealing with jealousy, negotiating boundaries, finding community, parenting and time management. Opening Up will change the way you think about intimacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781573442954
Publisher:	Cleis Press
Publication date:	05/01/2008
Pages:	346
Sales rank:	15,222
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Tristan Taormino is an award-winning author, columnist, editor, and educator who has been featured in publications including the New York Times and Entertainment Weekly.

Jo Anna Perrin is an accomplished actor who has appeared in film and television, as well as on stage in New York, Los Angeles, and regionally. The narrator of numerous audiobooks, Jo Anna has garnered critical praise from AudioFile magazine, Booklist, Library Journal, and Publishers Weekly.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"This is the book you want to read if you're looking for a voice that is balanced, sensitive and sensible when tackling the thorny question of sexual boundaries in love relationships. Opening Up is sure to open up your mind." —-Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity

Editorial Reviews

"This is the book you want to read if you're looking for a voice that is balanced, sensitive and sensible when tackling the thorny question of sexual boundaries in love relationships. Opening Up is sure to open up your mind." —Esther Perel, author of Mating in Captivity

From the Publisher