At the beginning of 2019, writer and journalist Kitty Ruskin was young, free, and single and eager to shake things up in her sex life.
Having previously shunned the idea of one-night stands and kissing complete strangers, Ruskin decided to embrace her sexuality and embark upon a year of no-strings, casual sex.
“I just wanted to explore my sexuality and myself as a sexual person without any feeling of shame or fear and it just seemed really exhilarating when I came to that conclusion,” she tells The Irish Times Women’s Podcast.
Partly inspired by Sex and the City’s Samantha and by her desire to shed her sexual reservations, Ruskin began meeting a variety of men on dating apps, one swipe at a time.
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In her new book ‘Ten Men,’ Ruskin shares the details of her year of sexual liberation and the darker and less discussed side of modern dating.
She tells Róisín Ingle about the men she met, the men she would rather forget, and the lasting impact of her experiment.
You can listen back to their conversation in the player above or wherever you get your podcasts.
