Overview

• Febos chronicles her decision to pass a year without sex in her memoir “The Dry Season.”
• Exhausted by performative intimacy, she paused sexual activity to reclaim authentic desire.
• Inspired by medieval Beguines, she embraced celibacy as a liberating choice and forged nonsexual bonds that clarified her impulses.
• She describes this period as her most fertile chapter, noting heightened creative vitality and personal growth.
• Febos emphasizes enthusiastic consent, urging individuals to have sex only when they truly want to.