The Lie Factory
From Fairy Tales to Fake Orgasms - How Childhood Myths Destroy Adult Intimacy

You've been faking it. Not just in bed—in life.Before you could walk, the adults you trusted most lied to you. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. Disney movies where love was instant and women had impossibly perfect faces. Church, where your body became evidence of sin.Then they taught you to lie with your appearance. Paint your face before anyone sees you. Surgically alter what nature got wrong.And they lied about money—calling it "investment" when really it's other people working for you.By the time you wanted someone—really wanted them—you'd been trained to lie about it. To yourself. To them. To everyone.The Lie Factory traces a line no one else has dared to draw: from childhood myths directly into the adult bedroom and bathroom mirror, where millions perform intimacy they don't feel, hide desires they can't speak, and cover faces they've been taught to hate.Written by a man who grew up Baptist in Flint, Michigan—one of eight children taught to shut up and believe—this is what happens when you refuse. When you leave at seventeen vowing to stop lying. When you raise your daughter without the myths. When you tattoo "To thine own self be true" on your arm and actually live it.Why do most women fake orgasms? Why is makeup a daily lie? Why do affairs happen to good people? And why might sex after sixty-five be the most honest sex of your life?The lie factory has been running for generations.This book is your invitation to burn it down.