"Astonishingly frank and often funny disclosures about the author's sex life, with a serious underlying message about the actual difference between the libidos of men and women."    —Kirkus Reviews "Even if you wouldn't [Rather Eat Chocolate] you'll enjoy Sewell's engaging memoir."    —People Magazine "While it isn't an easy journey (a fight over porn and a time of separate beds are just some of the hurdles), the love and openness of their marriage allows Joan and Kip to reach a conclusion by which they are both satisfied...Honest and accessible, this is not just a guide for libido-impaired individuals, but for anyone who wants to take a closer look at one subject that continues to gap the genders."    —Publishers Weekly "First-time author Sewell is not sex phobic, but her libido is pretty much a no-go. Caught in a tug-o-war with her sweet and ardent partner (later husband) she here investigates the source of their mismatch.....This sounds like a pretty grim story, but Sewell is a gleefully funny writer....Her account of the negotiations and the give-and-take arrangements certainly depart from the usual and would be helpful to couples in similar situations. Moreover, as an armchair road trip and good story, it succeeds admirably."    —The Library Journal "In these, the sex-frequency wars, an authentically fresh new voice has arrived. Her name, Joan Sewell; her groundbreaking new sex book, I'd Rather Eat Chocolate: Learning to Love My Low Libido."    —Sandra Tsing Loh, The Atlantic Monthly "Joan Sewell doesn't have a TV show, famous clients or a radio pulpit. Instead, the Seattle writer has something more valuable: a willingness to write honestly about the in-the-sheets reality of her marriage... The best part of this intelligent book is how Sewell subtly frames her sexual issues within modern culture, from Sex and the City to Girls Gone Wild to pornography and lap dances."    —Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY "In many ways it's a positive development that more women are feeling free to say without shame, Look, this just isn't working for me. And perhaps it's progress that the market, in the form of the book contract awarded to Joan Sewell for I'd Rather Eat Chocolate: Learning to Love My Low Libido, is affirming such truth-telling..."    —Elle Magazine "A Seattle writer pens a brutally frank, but often hilarious memoir recounting her attempt to boost her libido into the stratosphere of ever-ready passions occupied by her husband; an enlightening look at the gender gap between the sheets."    —Northwest Bookshelf: Seattle Post-Intelligencer "A saucy, compelling memoir that lets the reader be a fly on the bedroom wall of a proudly low-sex, high-compromise marriage. Ms. Sewell's book is a pull-no-punches commentary on the femme fatal culture as seen through the eyes of a femme forget-it. It reads like an episode of 'No Sex and the City.'"    —Debra Macleod, author of The French Maid "I'd Rather Eat Chocolate is THE book for any woman with an appetite for humor and smart, provocative revelations about how real couples deal with sex."    —Regina Barreca, author of Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Coeducation in the Ivy League and editor of The Penguin Book of Women's Humor BUY THE BOOK from Indiebound, Amazon, or Barnes & Noble.