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<p>In <i>Better Than Sex </i>,16 exceptional writers take a magnifying glass to sex and romance in the digital age.</p> <p>Their perspectives range from the personal and political to the scientific and subversive. What emerges is a fascinating exploration of the changing landscape of love, where Tinder trolls and high-school sweethearts jostle with sex shop senseis and radical autonomy.</p> <p><b>Lena Dunham</b> finds herself at a crossroads between her progressive politics and her ambivalence towards marriage. <b>Zan Rowe</b>, <b>Maggie MK Hess</b> and <b>Van Badham</b> go fishing in the online dating pool. <b>Celeste Liddle</b> examines the tug-of-war between individuality, relationship and community for Aboriginal women. And <b>Roxane Gay</b> wades into grief, guilt and love in an arresting piece of short fiction.</p> <p>Witty, challenging and thoughtprovoking, <i>Better Than Sex</i> presents an eye-opening perspective on the love lives of modern women.</p>

Ramasis is a football player and Aden is a towel boy. They become lovers after a night in the locker room.

"Ellis Davis's self-imposed isolation is blown apart when a new neighbour moves in next door. Having spent the last five years working from home, shutting herself away from the world she once knew, the last thing Ellis wants, or needs, is the woman next door challenging her beliefs and bringing out feelings within herself she has never experienced before. Melissa Cole moves into her new home as a recently divorced woman, raising her young son as a single parent with the help of her parents. Melissa is instantly intrigued by her mysterious neighbour next door"--Back of the book.