Smart Sex

Smart Sex

2023 • 342 pages

This is pretty good, I've never listened to the podcast before - I only have heard of Emily by this book. - Rating is closer to a 4 than a 3. - probably like a 3.7 for me.

I really liked this, I've been thinking about working harder on un-learning and relearning about sex education. My sex education was basically nothing except church shame, TV/Society badness, slut shaming culture, and then also no lgbt+ learning at all (This doesn't really go over that a ton - it's most focuses on address persons as what parts they own. This probably sits with people differently but I thought it was ok. ) A great book, I think it covers a good amount and I would say pretty skippable if you weren't interested in a section.

The only thing that didn't sit well with me was that one chapter she shames a person for having a boundary for giving bj's ... but later goes into more depth about boundaries and un-ravelign trauma kinda deals. These chapters are great - i'm not sure why the bj one was so out of place, it really shouldn't have even been included or it should have been talked about much later in the book. Besides that - ok. Just seemed hypocritical which I couldn't get out of my head through the book.

Anyway, if you're on a journey like me - good read! I wish it addressed culture a little more, but solid read.

February 1, 2024Report this review