Writer and sexologist Suzannah Weiss just published Subjectified: Becoming a Sexual Subject, her new book about sexual empowerment and owning your desire. To celebrate, she’ll be reading from one of the book’s most poignant passages with a vibrator between her legs, demonstrating live what it looks like to unapologetically pursue your own pleasure.

See how long she can remain focused on the words before the power of the vibrations overtakes her.

Subjectified is a book about subjects, objects, and verbs. It is also a book about clothing-optional resorts, masturbation circles, and sex parties.

Suzannah Weiss

Suzannah Weiss takes the reader through her adventures as a sex and relationship writer to explore how we can create a world with less objectification and more subjectification – placing women and other marginalized groups in the subject role of sentences and actions. Offering a deeply personal critique of sexual empowerment movements, Weiss presents a way forward that focuses on what women desire, not what men desire from them. Subjectified calls for women everywhere to inhabit their bodies and hearts – to look through their own eyes and speak as “I.”

The book is for everybody wanting to understand themselves as subjects. Wholeheartedly, the author invites you to follow her search for subjecthood and, should you desire, forge your own path out of objecthood.