NEW YORK CITY, NY — Humorist and “accidental porn star” Jupiter’s Slut has released her first book, Masturbation Monday: A Shameless Experiment in Self-Love. It is now available for purchase at Amazon.com.
“The first question I always get is ‘Why do you call yourself a slut?’” said the author.
“I call myself a slut because I was so shocked and ashamed by how much I liked making out with boys in high school that I started thinking of myself as a slut before I even lost my virginity. I’m reclaiming the word. For me, it means Shameless, Luminous, Untamed, Truth. I’m not ashamed of my truth anymore, I love sex. But that doesn’t mean sex is easy for me,” she continued.
“In particular, masturbation made me feel bad up until starting this project,” Slut added.
She continued, explaining that her “masturbation demons” was the impetus for the book.
“I wanted to document and examine pleasure and shame, so I filmed myself masturbating once a week for a year. During the entire filming process I continued to think this was a project about sexuality, but in writing the book I discovered this was a spiritual experience. I had deeply rejected myself as a woman and a sexual being based on the teachings of my church. I wrote this book as an act of unconditional love, the kind of love that’s willing to look at the worst shame and accept it all,” she explained. And hot damn — we agree.
Slut explains she was ashamed of masturbation when she first started filming herself as research for her book. Her candid, sometimes hilarious and insightful true life story resonates with readers in this regard. Masturbation Monday: A Shameless Experiment in Self-Love is an exploration of layers and layers of self-love through dissecting her own troubled relationship to the most literal act of self-love: masturbation.
“Self-love is sold as some airy-fairy thing, but what about those parts of yourself you wish didn’t exist? How do you deal with those? That’s what I’ve tackled in the realm of my sex life with Masturbation Monday.” she explained.
“I hope Masturbation Monday gives women wildly explicit permission to accept and love themselves in new ways, in every area of their lives. Masturbating was the easy part. Becoming a woman who can speak publicly about sex was the hard part, but I want to live in a world where a woman is safe to speak.”
Find out more about Jupiter’s Slut at jupitersslut.com.
