Over five years Caroline Tompkins made pictures of her sexual desires and her fears. The book explores the relationship sex has with pleasure and with danger, and holds two truths at all times: desiring men while fearing them.

What makes this a body of work that can be felt in the body is the way she uses the power dynamics of binary gender constructs to capture a kind of primal vulnerability, one that transcends gender: the inherent risk of walking around as a soft creature in a hard world. Soft against hard, the dichotomy can be found in nearly every frame, two opposing forces simultaneously coexisting and threatening each other. — Gideon Jacobs