Come As You Are: Revised and Updated

I really appreciate how much information this book offers you, even when plenty of it I couldn't apply to myself. It was interesting to learn about it all, and it was more than just a book about how to be happy and comfortable with sex. This touched on so many different aspects like body image, self esteem, trust, patience, and outside influences as well as inside influences. It is very obvious by the end of the book that being comfortable with sex or your sexuality runs deep in many areas of your life.

The garden metaphor was a really helpful visual, as were some of the others. Because it's so packed with different life avenues, I definitely feel like I'll have to reread this book multiple times to have everything really sink in and not just forget about it in a week. It gave me lots of things to try out in and out of bed, as well as even more reading material to go through by other people. The only thing that sometimes made it hard for me to get through was the way it was presented, the "voice" of the narration. It felt like it was trying a little too hard to be relatable or for non-science-y people to understand.

3.5 stars. I think this book is worth reading, particularly if you did not have access to comprehensive sex education when you were younger or if you have questions about how your body works. As someone who did have access to sex ed, I still learned some things from it (the first time I read it, which was several years ago).

summary: your body is normal and your sexual experience is normal (if painless) <3