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Arianne Cohen knows 1500 people's weird sexual secrets. That they told her.  (Image courtesy the author)

Sex Diary Analyst Arianne Cohen Tells Us the Difference Between American, Italian and British Lovers

In The Observer’s all-day mission to provide solace to the Valentine-less, we give you this: The bitter and the undersexed can now binge on the voyeuristic delights (or is it the anthropological horrors?) of New York magazine’s weekly online Sex Diaries. The concept has been expanded beyond the five boroughs in a book, The Sex Diaries Project,  published by John Wiley & Sons. With the contextualizing essays by former New York sex diaries editor Arianne Cohen, we might even figure out how we got to this sad state in the first place–or why it’s not so bad after all. Read More