Abigail

A comfortable place to start figuring out sex and sexuality on your own terms.

Reviewed: 08-13-24

Like most people who grew up in the US education system and are likely to seek out this book, my sexual education and feelings about it and my sexual identity were cobbled together from what I learned from the media that surrounded me, a completely unhelpful “sex-ed” so-called “class” in high school that just told me not to have any, whatever my friends and peers would say or claim, nowhere to comfortably ask questions or have discussions, and later what I’d learn through the internet and social media. Then, I was thrown into the adult world and expected to know exactly what I wanted and what I was doing. I am still very much “faking it til I make it” when it comes to sex.

I recently decided that I would take my education into my own hands, and this book was one of my starting points. I’m glad it was. The author not only touches on a lot of aspects of sex and our understanding of sex that I hadn’t even thought to consider might affect me. She reads very calmly and without any kind of judgement, which is very comforting when approaching a subject we’re told how we should feel about from a very young age and made to feel uncomfortable about almost from the start. The author also invites us, as the audience, into the conversation and encourages us to ask questions about our own experiences and feelings; all of which is important if you’re coming to a book like this looking for answers for your self. The author doesn’t tell us what to think or take away from what she shares, but rather provides us with the tools to better decide that for ourselves individually.

I don’t have all the answers I’m looking for, but with this book as a resource, I now have better questions and a better idea of what I need and what I want to look into for myself moving forward.

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