All This While F*cking: Sex, Self, and Social Stigma in the Modern Age

By Kelsey Straight

All This While F*cking is an autobiographical account of the years the author spent living in Brooklyn and dating, compulsively, off Tinder. In the process of meeting and sleeping with an impressive diversity of strangers (approximately 200 dates, 100 one-night stands, and 1000's of joints), she is ultimately forced to meet and go to bed with herself--first on the page, and then in practice. This uncensored, humorous, and self-satirical memoir reveals an unexpected brand of honesty, visceral and unyielding, that means everything to our collective evolution in the Western world.New York City forms a colorful, energetic, impulsive, and often polarizing backdrop for the narrator's life, an out-of-the-box "tomboy" who moves from her sheltered hometown to the gentrifying neighborhood of Crown Heights, living with roomies as the only "white girls" on the block. She finds community while working in the "literary mecca" of the Strand Bookstore, before realizing that the bohemian lifestyle long ago lost to capitalism. She starts working in content acquisitions for an entertainment company during the day, swiping for connections come bedtime, and battling parasomnia by night--all while commuting everywhere by bike and refusing, always, to ride the subway.A cautionary tale for a changing world, this story is about a system-buster on a mission, writing to a world willing to listen. Seeking to capture the period of socio-economic transition during the years of 2012 to 2016, she holds back nothing in revealing an array of environ(mental) health issues that crack the spine on the corresponding cultural implications for millennials and generation-Z. There are things that we don't talk about, but this book speaks openly and honestly re: those stigmas and secrets. That said, if you don't like books, just think of this as a super long text that you can download and read on your phone.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520671431
• ISBN13: 9781520671437
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"