Her love life was in chaos. The solution? Giving up sex
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When writer Melissa Febos was 35, she decided to temporarily give up sex.
"I was coming off a devastating relationship where I had become so obsessive. I had gone completely off the rails," she says. She was so focused on her partner that she neglected her health, work and friendships.
After a few brief entanglements, Febos opted to take a break from dating and sex. She'd been in consecutive relationships since she was 15 and hoped a period of celibacy would help her develop a more "honest and authentic relationship to sex with other people," she says.
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Febos chronicles her year of abstinence in a new book published in June, The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex.
That period helped her realize that "I had given a tremendous amount of en
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