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The Intimacy Experiment
by Rosie Danan
Is this my new favorite romance novel? Is it because I have been hot for rabbi since at least middle school? Who’s to say.
We met Naomi in the last book, when she was a badass porn star turned sex educator and ice queen extraordinaire. She was a perfect foil to Claire, the sweet but uptight protagonist, the whore to Claire’s Madonna. In this book she’s 30 and tired and ready to be taken seriously — for some reason, despite having a master’s degree and running her own business, people still can’t get over seeing her tits. (The reason is patriarchy.)
Enter Rabbi Ethan. He’s soft in all the ways she’s not, earnest and kind and desperate to grow his tiny congregation. He suggests they team up to offer a course on “modern intimacy” at the schul, but all that forced proximity ultimately makes them realize that they’re head over heels for each other. Of course, the rabbi and the porn star aren’t exactly everyone’s favorite couple, but they win their HEA anyway.
Fam, I am OBSESSED with this book. Watching Naomi slowly shed her prickly armor and open herself to vulnerability? Watching Ethan embody a positive masculinity, nurturing and strong? Watching the two of them, so committed to honest communication in their day jobs, fumble the ball in their personal lives? Watching them face their demons and do hard things and come back together to care for each other and patch each other up? This is the stuff I want injected straight into my veins.
We met Naomi in the last book, when she was a badass porn star turned sex educator and ice queen extraordinaire. She was a perfect foil to Claire, the sweet but uptight protagonist, the whore to Claire’s Madonna. In this book she’s 30 and tired and ready to be taken seriously — for some reason, despite having a master’s degree and running her own business, people still can’t get over seeing her tits. (The reason is patriarchy.)
Enter Rabbi Ethan. He’s soft in all the ways she’s not, earnest and kind and desperate to grow his tiny congregation. He suggests they team up to offer a course on “modern intimacy” at the schul, but all that forced proximity ultimately makes them realize that they’re head over heels for each other. Of course, the rabbi and the porn star aren’t exactly everyone’s favorite couple, but they win their HEA anyway.
Fam, I am OBSESSED with this book. Watching Naomi slowly shed her prickly armor and open herself to vulnerability? Watching Ethan embody a positive masculinity, nurturing and strong? Watching the two of them, so committed to honest communication in their day jobs, fumble the ball in their personal lives? Watching them face their demons and do hard things and come back together to care for each other and patch each other up? This is the stuff I want injected straight into my veins.