Women's magazines are full of articles designed to unleash or uncover a woman's hidden sexual potential, articles that promise to help you "Heat Up Your Love Life" or "Release Your Inner Sex Kitten." While for some couples they are sure to provide some fun new tips, and they are certainly always entertaining to read, what if they don't provide you with any real answers? What if, instead of helping you rev up your sexual mojo, they leave you feeling like there is no hope for you and your low libido? This is the problem Joan Sewell tackles head on in her new memoir, I'D RATHER EAT CHOCOLATE: Learning to Love My Low Libido (Broadway; On-Sale: January 23, 2007; Hardcover). She argues against the notion that low libido is a dysfunction and a problem to be solved, and instead looks at how two people can make their different drives fall in sync. Joan is almost never in the mood; her husband, Kip, is always in the mood. After a while their differences in this area had begun to take a toll on their relationship. In an attempt to save her marriage, Joan tries just about everything, from "quickies" for him to the idea of the "power thong" for her, from focusing purely on the physical to delving into the spiritual. The often hilarious, but rarely successful results only leave Joan and Kip more frustrated than ever before. After several failed attempts to reboot her sex drive, Joan soon finds herself fantasizing—although not about lingering kisses and passionate embraces, but rather about smothering John Grey with a pillow. She also starts having detailed Oprah dream sequences where men pour their hearts out about the shame they feel about their excessively high sex drives. While these thoughts help make Joan feel better, they still offer no solution to a problem that is pushing her and Kip further apart. I'd Rather Eat Chocolate is the witty and irreverent chronicles of Joan's quest and what happens when none of the expert advice—including "giving sex as a gift" or "thinking naughty thoughts" or "having bigger and better orgasms" and so on—works. After running out of options, Joan wonders why she, and millions of women like her, share the same problem. She questions if she has a dysfunctional libido or if it's really a matter of women being held more and more to a male standard of sexual desire. Joan Sewell is a smart, fearless, witty writer. Her memoir is as humorous as it is thought-provoking. How Joan and Kip work it out, and what they do when they "do it," will give every woman hope that she can be true to herself and have a happy marriage. So reach for a cupcake and snuggle up with I'd Rather Eat Chocolate. You are in for a treat. Read what reviewers are saying. BUY THE BOOK from Indiebound, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble. I'D RATHER EAT CHOCOLATE Learning to Love My Low Libido Joan Sewell Broadway Books paperback (previously in hardcover) August 2008 ISBN: 978-0767922685; 224 pages; $12.95