"Since her youth, Catherine Millet, a prominent art critic, has led an extraordinarily active and free sexual life - from al-fresco encounters in Italy to gang bangs in the Bois de Boulogne to a high-class orgy at a chic Parisian swingers' club. She has taken pleasure in the indistinct darkness of a peep-show booth and under the probing light of a movie camera.

And in The Sexual Life of Catherine M. she recounts it all, from tender interludes with a lover to situations where her partners were so numerous and simultaneous they became indistinguishable parts of a collective organism. The book is also an honest look at the consequences of sex stripped of sentiment - including the joys and sorrows of her open marriage - and a completely fearless unmasking of the fallacies we cling to, and the often shocking, sometimes disturbing, truths of female sexuality.".

"In a time when female sexual liberation is a reality, when love and sex have gone their separate ways, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. is a valuable document of the furthest reaches of sexual exploration. As France's Le Nouvel Observateur wrote, "Sex is this woman's continent, which she explores tirelessly. No one has ever described it like this.""--BOOK JACKET.