My Broken Vagina, Fran Bushe
My Broken Vagina, Fran Bushe
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My Broken Vagina
One Woman's Quest to Fix Her Sex Life, and Yours

Author: Fran Bushe

Narrator: Fran Bushe

Unabridged: 7 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Coronet

Published: 05/13/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

A candid and hilarious conversation about what happens when sex doesn't feel like it's working.

This book is one woman's funny, moving, and sometimes awkward quest to fix her sex life, but it's the story of millions of women everywhere - half of all women have felt pain during sex.

During award-winning writer and performer Fran Bushe's journey towards building a better relationship with her genitals, doctors advised her to have a glass of wine to loosen up, and male friends suggested she simply hadn't 'tried' the right penis yet. Unsurprisingly, neither worked.

After a visit to Sex Camp and many attempts to fix her 'broken' vagina, Fran decided to share her own hilarious, excruciating, and sometimes upsetting experiences. With the help of her 16 year old self's diary, expert advice, candid and enlightening interviews with others about sex, and some self-care exercises, Fran sets about trying to make herself, and other people, feel like they're not being gaslit by their own vaginas.

(P) 2021 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

About Fran Bushe

Fran Bushe is an award-winning comedian, writer and performer. She has had sold-out runs and a UK tour of her multi-award winning show Ad Libido, and wrote The Diary of My Broken Vagina for Channel 4 Comedy in 2019. She has written sketches for Comedy Central and her play Alive Day is published in 20 Short Plays with Big Roles for Women. Fran has spent years 'boning up' on sex. She has spoken with leading researchers, pleasure coaches and interviewed a growing number of people about their sexual experiences. It has also meant flustering many helpful members of staff at The British Library, with endless requests for books on the clitoris. She's popped crystals in her vagina, attended a vulva massage workshop and visited a sex camp where she had her 'Yoni' (...vagina) worshipped. Her candid approach to discussing sex and pleasure has led to her speaking with BBC Woman's Hour, Cosmopolitan and Jameela Jamil's 'I Weigh'. In 2018 she won Performer of the Year at the Sexual Freedom Awards (the statuette of which is a large golden winged phallus, which lives on her parents' mantlepiece).


Reviews

Goodreads review by Girl with her Head in a Book on January 04, 2022

When I first started blogging, there is no way I would have dared read this book, let alone review it. To be fair, I also would not have dared read Fifty Shades of Grey (read it, it was boring). It took me to my final term at university to have confidence to point out sexual innuendo in books that I......more

Goodreads review by Chantal on March 13, 2021

As a long-time sufferer of vaginismus, I jumped at the chance to read Fran Bushe’s My Broken Vagina. While I don’t know if any of the more practical advice in the book will be of use to me in the near future, I found a great deal of comfort and solidarity in reading it—and laughter too. Like me, Bush......more

Goodreads review by Beth (bibliobeth) on May 26, 2022

If you’re sensitive to any kind of genital chat, look away now. Wait. Why are you looking in the first place? 😂 My Broken Vagina is the book I never thought I needed. It’s a frank, thought-provoking and interesting discussion about problems that the author has experienced and in general, how we need......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on May 14, 2021

sex education in the uk has long been a topic of contention and controversy. with lgbtqia+ pupils largely marginalised from the curriculum and a prevailing message of abstinence over pleasure and protection proving ineffective. and that’s without even talking about the lack of discussion around wome......more

Goodreads review by books4chess on May 21, 2021

Fran’s book is the first memoir I felt emotional reading. She delivers a light hearted recollection of pain, disappointment and female sexual dysfunction (FSD) laced in humour. But for every humorous retelling, there was a very real individual who lived those embarrassing, painful moments. I related......more


Quotes

Hilarious, poignant and important. I utterly love this book.

Insightful, bold, very funny and much-needed. This book could change lives

Hilarious, comforting, and warm. This book is important, and I'm sure will open up a lot of conversations that we should be having all the time.

Joyously funny, honest and kind. If you have a vagina and a sense of humour, it's for you. If you've ever found yourself falling short of the mainstream media version of handsfree, missionary, simultaneously orgasmic encounters, it's for you. And if you have a 16 year old in your life, it's probably the most realistic chat about the way it can be that they or their friends will get

Fran's book is so refreshing in a world where too many people with broken vaginas are still expected to just put up with it. It's frank, moving, funny, warm and inclusive, like the best mate you never knew your vagina needed. I'm sure it will make a huge difference to lots of women and others affected by painful sex - and hopefully their doctors too!