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“The single most important book about human sexuality since Alfred Kinsey unleashed Sexual Behavior in the Human Male on the American public in 1948.” — Dan Savage
Winner of the 2011 SSTAR Consumer Book Award (Society for Sex Therapy & Research).
“Funny, witty, and light . . . the book is a scandal in the best sense, one that will have you reading the best parts aloud and reassessing your ideas about humanity’s basic urges well after the book is done.” — Newsweek
This book attempts to strip the science from our dominant cultural paradigm and expose heterosexual monogamy as a religious tradition rather than evolutionary necessity.
I found the arguments interesting.
But the most compelling parts, for me, came when the political got personal. Why is the female form created so that orgasm can be remote, and the man evolved in the other direction? This book gives a very logical answer.
“As a sex and intimacy coach and someone who works tirelessly on
educating people about conscious relationship, whether in the context
of monogamy, open relationship, or free dancer, I breathed a sigh of
relief that I could now explain to my clients, succinctly and
compassionately what the challenges and opportunities are for each of
the love-styles. It was a fun and funny read, and to date I have not
succeeded in finding any helpful critiques of the science they drew
from or the logic they used to pull it all together.”