Women's Sex and Love Addiction-Themed Memoirs (with first sentences)
Anastasia (Staci) Sprout
Naked in Public: A Memoir of Recovery for Sex and Love Addiction – Staci Sprout
***** (4.9 stars, 50 reviews, 2015)
You’d never guess from looking at the tidy, two-story Victorian home on Grand Avenue that it once sheltered a pedophile.
Insatiable: A Memoir of Love Addiction – Shary Hauer
***** (4.8 stars, 57 reviews, 2015)
Up until 1983, my life had been pretty predictable.
Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir – Lisa F. Smith
**** (4.7 stars, 38 reviews, 2011)
Shit.
Love Addict: Sex, Romance, and Other Dangerous Drugs – Ethlie Ann Vare
**** (4.7 stars, 38 reviews, 2011)
I was pushing forty—probably from the wrong side—and hadn’t had a drink or a drug in years.
Coming Off Love – Bridgit Newman
****.5 (4.6 stars, 6 reviews, 2014)
It was the wedding that did it.
Love Junkie: A Memoir – Rachel Resnick
****.5 (4.5 stars, 39 reviews, 2010)
On Observation Drive, the narrow street where I have lived for eight years, I back the cherry red metallic pickup truck down the steep driveway toward my home, navigate past a startled raccoon, which drops a discarded can of refried beans it’s pried from the garbage.
Getting Off: One Woman’s Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction – Erica Garza
****.5 (4.5 stars, 17 reviews, 2018)
I grew up in the early eighties in Montebello, California, Southeast LA, where teenage pregnancy was on the rise and every Mexican restaurant claimed to have the best tacos north of the border.
Babylon Confidential: A Memoir of Love, Sex, and Addiction – Claudia Christian
**** (4.3 stars 288 reviews, 2012)
It was 1973.
Love Sick: One Woman’s Journey Through Sex Addiction – Sue William Silverman
**** (4.2 stars, 43 reviews, 2008)
Every Thursday at noon I have sex with Rick in room #213 at the Rainbow Motel.
Fast Girl: A Life Spent Running From Madness – Suzy Favor Hamilton
**** (3.9 stars, 405 reviews, 2015)
We always played on the nature trails near the Wisconsin River, which flowed right below the house where I grew up in Stevens Point.
Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity – Kerry Cohen
**** (3.9 stars, 174 reviews, 2008)
I am eleven the day I begin to understand what it means to be a girl, walking into the next town as I often do, on my way to brows at the pet store or the hobby store, to do something endless, hot summer days that seem to stretch on and on.