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Jane Thomas Synopsis Outline The Big C

THE BIG C: SEX & RELATIONSHIPS

SYNOPSIS

Proposed purpose of this book:

	To document sympathetically the currently accepted facts and attitudes surrounding female sexuality as presented in the published material.
	To establish that women respond differently to men in sexual scenarios.
	To present our society’s insecurities over acknowledging that women might not have as much to gain as men (in a direct sense) from a sexual relationship.
	To explore the psychological aspects of how women can become aroused enough to reach orgasm.
	To share some ideas that we have tried for improving a couple’s sex life by incorporating more eroticism for men and more sensuality for women.

Why the book is needed: When my own relationships revealed how different my sexual response was to my lovers, I read avidly in the hope of understanding why sex was not as spontaneously rewarding for me as men evidently found it to be. However, I never found a sex manual that explained why I did not experience the levels of arousal apparently promised by women described in erotic fiction. Shere Hite explained why most women do not orgasm from intercourse. She also explained how some women overcome the lack of clitoral stimulation to enable them to orgasm. However, she proposed no solutions for a couple’s sexual relationship when a woman does not learn how to orgasm during sex. In any case, Shere Hite’s findings have been largely ignored in more recent mainstream presentations of how adult women enjoy orgasmic sex. Hence the gap between fantasy and reality remains unexplained.

The target market: I assume that women are more likely to buy a book about relationships (even sexual relationships) than most men would. However, from comments made by other couples a woman will sometimes read a book with her partner if she thinks he might learn something from it. I hope that my book would fall into this category. In terms of a discussion of longer-term relationships I am targeting women in their thirties and forties. However, I also hope that younger women in their twenties and even teens might find it helpful to read about the conclusions of other more experienced women.

The competition: The books I have referenced are listed in my bibliography.

Why my book is superior to the competition

	Shere Hite assumes that women’s sexual satisfaction is defined by orgasm.
	Sheila Kitzinger presents women’s wider sexuality without explaining why some women are more accepting of sex without orgasm than others.
	Alex Comfort portrays sex from the perspective of men’s appreciation of eroticism and gives little account of women’s arousal and orgasm.
	John Gray talks about relationships but is non-specific about the details of sexual activity and especially of what might arouse a woman to orgasm.

My book builds on these different themes and brings them up-to-date for the modern woman.

	No books talk about female arousal and orgasm openly and straightforwardly.
	Sometimes the answer in life is 'that is the way it is, understand it and get used to it'. My book is talking about real experiences so that everyday women can gain some support and reassurance from a lay (real) woman's experience.

Jane Thomas Synopsis Outline The Big C

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