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Author Hephzibah Anderson appeared on The Colbert Report recently to promote her new book, Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex.
This kind of stunt nonfiction has definitely proven to be a popular hit. A.J. Jacobs’ The Year of Living Biblically explored life as an obsessive devotee to the Old and New Testament. Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project chronicled a year in a woman’s life in the pursuit to increase everyday happiness. Anderson has worked at publications including Observer and the Daily Mail.
The Huffington Post has more about her appearance: “Anderson made her decision after seeing an ex-boyfriend shopping for an engagement ring and realizing no man had told her he’d loved her for ten years. She found that abstaining allowed her to discover what she actually wanted from sex and awakened her to how much pressure was being put on women to have sex without emotion.”