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I really enjoyed this book. I would highly recommend to anyone who wants to, or is even just willing to, learn about asexuality. I think it fills an important gap, an accessible, easy to read, well researched book about asexuality.
It is just a really interesting topic. Even beyond its importance, a lot of this book discusses sex in a way that a lot of people have never thought about because they've never had to. Sex doesn't exist outside of attraction, or doesn't need to, or is kind of hazy. It offers a different perspective on sex and relationships and romanticism and consent which was all fascinating and so important to discuss.
And also there's such limited asexual representation and discussion that I can't not recommend this. It's just really well done and really worthwhile.
My very few negative thoughts basically boiled down to this book being a bit basic and repetitive. I'm not sure how much of that was affected by me having spent a good amount of time on AVEN as a teen so a good bit of this book was definitely a rehash for me. Maybe I just tired very quickly on account of that. But especially towards the end I felt like I was hearing the same anecdotes and same points reiterated over. I don't think that takes about from the subject matter, I did just find that I was much less inclined to pick this book up in the final third than I was at the beginning.
I would recommend this so much, though. It was fantastic. It has a lot of great information about asexuality and a lot of great discussion on sex and relationships that I think would benefit more people to hear. So go read it. I got so much out of this book.
It is just a really interesting topic. Even beyond its importance, a lot of this book discusses sex in a way that a lot of people have never thought about because they've never had to. Sex doesn't exist outside of attraction, or doesn't need to, or is kind of hazy. It offers a different perspective on sex and relationships and romanticism and consent which was all fascinating and so important to discuss.
And also there's such limited asexual representation and discussion that I can't not recommend this. It's just really well done and really worthwhile.
My very few negative thoughts basically boiled down to this book being a bit basic and repetitive. I'm not sure how much of that was affected by me having spent a good amount of time on AVEN as a teen so a good bit of this book was definitely a rehash for me. Maybe I just tired very quickly on account of that. But especially towards the end I felt like I was hearing the same anecdotes and same points reiterated over. I don't think that takes about from the subject matter, I did just find that I was much less inclined to pick this book up in the final third than I was at the beginning.
I would recommend this so much, though. It was fantastic. It has a lot of great information about asexuality and a lot of great discussion on sex and relationships that I think would benefit more people to hear. So go read it. I got so much out of this book.