Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity

By Kerry Cohen

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Loose Girl (2008) is Kerry Cohen's memoir of her teenage years and early adulthood in New Jersey and New York, when she sought attention and a sense of worth through sex with a long series of boys and men. Cohen describes how her parents' divorce, her mother's absence and her own longing to be wanted shaped her choices, and how each encounter left her feeling emptier. Written plainly and without moralizing, it traces her slow path toward understanding herself and finding real intimacy.

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