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Come as You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski
24 reviews
jcinf's review against another edition
4.5
But the narrator (I believe the author narrated) was really engaging. She had a great tone. Fun when it was time to be fun and serious when necessary, too.
SA (s*exual ass*ult) trigger warning. But those parts were super well written. I appreciated how she didn’t linger on those parts too long. It felt just enough to inform without being triggering.
My main complaint is that it felt redundant at times. Tho I can understand that she may have been redundant bc the whole point of the book is to shift narratives surrounding AFAB/women/femme people’s sex lives. And it’s hard to shift narratives rooted is misogyny with just a few sentences.
Main topics I loved:
• dropping the shame around sex
• normalizing a diversity labias
• understanding your style of desire — spontaneous or responsive
• changing your expectations of yourself during sex
Highly recommend to anyone like me, who gets in their head during sex sometimes.
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Sexual violence
Moderate: Sexual assault
Minor: Ableism
liv_txt's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Misogyny
Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual harassment
Minor: Fatphobia, Rape, Sexism, Suicide, Grief, and Stalking
emhicks72's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content
Moderate: Misogyny
Minor: Eating disorder
meecespieces's review against another edition
5.0
Minor: Misogyny and Sexual assault
unsuccessfulbookclub's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Misogyny and Sexual content
Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault
Minor: Pregnancy
rosalind's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Sexual assault and Grief
Minor: Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Stalking, and Acephobia/Arophobia
zombiezami's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Body shaming, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Medical content, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Homophobia, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Pregnancy
Minor: Ableism, Cancer, Drug use, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Alcohol, and War
cis-centrismblackcatkai's review against another edition
3.0
overall, a lot of good information. lots of basics, more in-depth discussions, every section has a tl;dr breakdown of what you just read that makes it easier to know basic points to refer to later. it was a bit repetitious with some information/sentences & the author would often mention how something is talked about more in other chapters. generally not a bad thing, but it happened a lot so it just felt like too much at times.
there are a couple stories interwoven throughout the book that correlate with the section/topic being discussed but they often feel disjointed as theyre so broken up that it's easy, when you get back to it, to be confused a moment before the context comes back to you. understandable why the author set it up this way, the execution was just slightly off for me, personally.
Nagoski brings up tons of good points, information, and i did absolutely get emotional in specific sections that super hit home for me, personally, so it can definitely be a book i go back to reference for myself in the future, but i do wish it was a bit more inclusive in it's language in general. i get it, but as a nonbinary afab person, it just got to me, mostly in the beginning sections.
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, and Medical content
Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault
bluecloud75's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Grief, and Religious bigotry
toffishay's review against another edition
4.25
Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, and Sexual assault