The Wild Oats Project

Robin Rinaldi has worked for newspapers and magazines for sixteen years. She has been the executive editor of 7x7, a San Francisco lifestyle magazine, and written an award-winning food column forPhiladelphia Weekly. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. She lives in Los Angeles.

A testament to how far feminism has taken us all...her search for sexual nirvana is hugely refreshing.The Sunday Times Monogamous and sexually cautious her entire adult life, Robin Rinaldi never planned on an open marriage - her priority as she approached midlife was to start a family. But when her husband insisted on a vasectomy, something snapped. If I'm not going to have children, she told herself, then I'm going to have lovers. During the week she would live alone, seduce men (and women), attend erotic workshops, and partake in wall-banging sex. On the weekends, she would go home and be a wife. What followed was a year of abandon, heartbreak, and unexpected revelation-is the topic of this riveting memoir, The Wild Oats Project. This brave, brutally honest memoir explores how our sexuality defines us, how it relates to maternal longing, and how we all must walk the line between loving others and staying true to ourselves.