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I recently read Anna Porchetti's book "Amatevi finché morte non vi separi” (“Love one another until death do you part,” currently only available in Italian). It is her first book and she addresses the subject of married love with depth and a witty ironic streak.
In the chapter: “Catholics do it better -- that is, Catholic spouses have better sex” -- Porchetti, who considers her volume "a kind of manual for romance," tackles the topic of sex, openly criticizing not the process of women's emancipation as such, but what has passed as an achievement of absolute value: sexual liberation.
Sexual liberation
Porchetti reflects:
If sex is only "for recreation"
From a female perspective, which has seen women encouraged to repeatedly experiment with different partners to the point of considering such promiscuity normal, she says:
The need to be loved in our wholeness
Women: Rebel against the "rule of three"
The author sympathetically demolishes "the rule of three," which some of her single friends have explained to her:
The first rule: Don't throw yourself away
And faced with the absurdity of this unwritten "commandment," she addresses a warning to her reader. Each of us, she says, has:
Catholic spouses have the best sex
The final part of the chapter is devoted to the sexual act from the perspective of fecundity.
The book is primarily directed to women, but its introduction is closed by the author with a quick joke addressed to the unlikely male reader:
If, however, you are a man and have happened to be here among us, fear not: nothing that follows will seriously harm your health.
If you know some Italian and want to read the book, you can find it here.
