This is a non fiction book looking at love, relationships and all those in betweens during the Medieval Times. While the title is a little eye catching - this book is not all about sex, but it looks at how relationships were treated and judged during the 1300s particularly from courtship to marriages including arranged marriages, marriageable age, sexual relationships from love matches to adultery as well as the processes and traditions around childbirth, infants and infant death. I also enjoyed the chapters that looked at sons versus daughters, and if people in the medieval period truly valued and loved their daughters or just always wanted sons.

As someone who loved reading historical fiction, not all in this book was new to me but I found it a helpful companion to teach me some things about the type of time periods I like to read about in books, and opened my eyes not just to how the nobility and upper class live (which these books normally follow) but also those of the poorer class and how at times they had greater freedom to marry and love than those who were wealthy.

There are sections in this book around abduction, rape, domestic abuse and child abuse and how these types of instances were treated in the medieval period (spoiler, they almost always got away with it, shock) and some of the real life examples were truly horrific to read about so just a warning about those.

I think the book ended kind of abruptly for me, there was no real conclusion or anything at the end to wrap things up and I felt a bit jolted from my reading when it immediately went from the book itself to the appendix. I don't think this book is amazing, and wouldn't class it as a must read but as a lover of historical fiction, I did find it interesting enough.