All Women Want

The truth about why straight women aren't satisfied in the bedroom – and what to do about it

Pleasure should be a simple thing, but straight women are at the statistical bottom of the pile when it comes to finding a happy ending. There's a name for this phenomenon: it's called the pleasure gap. And when tracked against other gains in women's freedom, like pay or education, it is still alarmingly wide.

All Women Want is about that gap, the methods women use to try to bridge it (spoiler: they don't always want to do it solo), and why physical pleasure might be a final frontier for gender equality.

Written with candour, wit, and insights from over 130 interviews and 'field reports', Alyx Gorman's probing investigation shows sex as it really is, not as we think it should be. Free from the moralising, marketing and misinformation women are fed, it's a groundbreaking book that will educate, illuminate and, above all, satisfy.

About the Author

Alyx Gorman is an editor and journalist. She has worked in digital and print lifestyle media for 15 years in Sydney, Melbourne, New York and London.

Alyx is currently the Lifestyle Editor of Guardian Australia and has been writing on the topics of sex, relationships and dating her entire career. She is also the co-author of a weekly pop culture newsletter, Saved for Later. Alyx is a frequent guest across the ABC's radio network, and has worked as a moderator and panelist for Sydney Writers' Festival, Vivid Ideas, the Powerhouse, design conference Semi-Permanent and more.

Alyx holds a bachelor of social sciences from the University of Sydney, where she majored in Political Economy. She won the university's John Kenneth Galbraith Prize for Economics in 2008.