Shelsy

It was really slow. Very well researched and it contained a ton of important information, but I was expecting something more applicable. It lays out the information and expects the reader to come to their own conclusions. Which is fine, but I found reading it to be tedious and kind of hard to follow. 

I liked this book a lot. It was very different from the Jane Austen I've gotten used to, but I definitely enjoyed it. I agree with someone who said that Jane Eyre might be the greatest literary heroine of all time. I will reread this regularly, for sure.

This book was brilliant and should be required reading, particularly for white Americans. It is beautifully organized. Each chapter recounts horrors and tragedies, both ancient and modern, that strategically and systematically help the reader come to terms with the American caste system and how it affects every aspect of our lives. 

This book is for everybody. It's written to women, but the information is equally applicable to men. My husband found this book and started reading it, then bought me my own copy. It opened our eyes to what is actually “normal,” and gave us a shared vocabulary for talking about our sexuality. It was vastly encouraging and also challenging.
The author does an excellent job of using science and studies and research to form her conclusions, and then giving examples and metaphors to describe and explain the science so that the reader can easily understand and apply it. And as a sex educator, she herself is an expert in the field, and has life experiences of her students to draw from. She's also completely nonjudgmental and erases the fears we all have of being weird or broken.

In short, this is an excellent book and it has implications that far outreach “just” sex. There are principles in this book that I can translate into every area of my life. I'm buying a copy for my sister, and I highly recommend it to anyone, and it's especially great for couples to read together.

It is a compelling story, but such an unjust one that I found it difficult to read.