I tired posting this review to amazon.com but the internet machine got in the way of me posting it there. So I'm writing it here, because this is a great fucking book. I mean that in every great sense of the words.
Sex advice books can be problematic for many reasons and this book avoids most if not all of the common problems, and so it's a winner.First off, sex advice is generationally problematic. Old people and young people have different views of sex. Most times, these views conflict.
Mother/Daughter Sex Advice solves this problem neatly by making all the advice an intergenerational conversation. How cool is that?!
Many sex advice books are limited in their scope of what sex means. Both Aretha and Susie are far beyond limits when it comes to sex. No matter your gender or sexuality, if it turns you on—or if you thought it might turn you on—it's probably in this book. I read with joy as all sorts of wonderful topics were playfully and intelligently discussed: erectile dysfunction, body image, even the taste of semen–and so much more–are all discussed with flair, gentle good humor and kindness by the two authors. The book never gets bogged down in serious discussions of sex, using long words. At several points in the read, I found myself laughing out loud. Now that's how to talk about sex!
And because the book is written as a conversation, the reader never feels targeted or spoken at. Instead, we are participants in a sweet, funny conversation between mom and daughter. In short it's everything your mom never told you about sex, and everything your daughter will never tell you about sex.
Maybe you've read my book, Hello Cruel World—it's about how to make yourself a life more worth living. Well, great sex is a great way to make life more worth living, and if you liked my book, you're gonna love this one. It's a sex advice book for the rest of us, whether we're a mom, a daughter, or both–whether we're a father, a son, or any combination of the above. Highly recommended.
Currently, the book is available for Kindle, and you can get your copy right here. Have fun with it. I did!
Hi Kate
I’m swimming through Amazon tonight trying to find a book. To explain gender. To my 2-yr-old.
My BFF and I are both transgendered – she more radically so than I (my daughter will have questions about my friend’s body some day), whereas I’m generally not readable as the in-between person I am.
The books about what makes a boy a boy, and a girl a girl, are problematic. They say, unequivocally, that every baby is either a boy or a girl. That all girls have a vagina, all boys have a penis.
This seems simple enough for a 2-yr-old. Entrancing, really. A lovely simple world. But I feel uncomfortable reading these to her… and sad that there’s no alternative way to tell the story. I hesitate to make up my own words, not wanting her to get confused as she establishes initial footing…
So I thought of you. Your next book, Kate. There are many intersex and quietly transgendered toddlers out there looking for a different way to hear the story. There are non-binary parents needing a way to tell it.
Will you write it for us?
Emily
please?
The book seems intriguing for me. Besides the fact that it touches the sensitive topic about sex, I’m wondering what’s in it that it is distinctive when compared to the other advice books. I may grab a copy of it and find out the secret myself.