SEX/LIFE: 44 Chapters About 4 Men: Now a series on Netflix – Easton B. B. (2021)

One woman’s secret journal completely changes her marriage in this hilarious and biting memoir, which inspires the Netflix Original Series. School psychologists are not supposed to write books about sex, as doing so could be considered unethical and grounds for dismissal. Fortunately, ethics has never been BB Easton’s strong suit. This laugh-out-loud funny and brutally honest account of female sexuality comes through the razor-sharp perspective of a domesticated bad girl. BB revisits the ex-boyfriends—a sadistic tattoo artist, a punk-rock parolee and a heavy-metal bass player—who eventually led her to true love with a straight-laced, drop-dead-gorgeous accountant. After settling down and starting a family with her perfectly vanilla “husbot”, Ken, BB begins longing for the reckless passion of her youth. She starts writing about these escapades in a secret journal, just for fun, but when Ken begins acting out the words on its pages, BB realizes she may have stumbled upon the holy grail of behaviour-modification techniques. The psychological dance that follows is hilarious as BB wields her journal like a blowtorch, trying to rekindle the fire in her cold, distant partner. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not, but in the end BB learns that the man she tried so hard to change was perfect for her all along.