Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Solitude d'un autre genre by Nagata Kabi

124 reviews

madanxiety's review against another edition

4.0

I live for these kind of narratives. Raw honesty about really taboo things that really shouldn't be so taboo. Sex is so normalized in our society, but for deeply anxious, poor communicators like us, it's actually terrifying 😂. That's why seeing an escort is so appealing, because like Nagata describes in the book, it's like you can skip past the part where you're embarrassed or trying to please others and instead just be yourself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

rebeccawesome's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Incest

j_1's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

clarabooksit's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Self harm

elizabethmlilly's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

When I was 25, I went to Barnes and Noble and nervously flipped through pages of this book, looking over my shoulder. I thought if someone saw me reading this book, with the naked lady on the cover, they’d think I was a lesbian. Turns out I am!

Now at age 32, I bought this book at another Barnes and Noble and happily handed it to the cashier without a second thought. How wonderful.

This book is so raw about the worst and lowest point of the author’s life. I can’t believe how blunt she is about her own past actions that range from embarrassing to troubling. It’s concise, a small book that is so loud, each panel shouts and screams at the reader. (In a good way!) 

Deeply insightful about intimacy and vulnerability, and how sex is much more those things than it is the physical act of humans touching each other’s bodies. Honestly much less “lesbian” than I thought in a way. I think by the end of the book, the author can’t even admit to herself yet that she IS a lesbian. It’s not clear. 

I like that it’s not tied up with a neat “Queer American YA” type ribbon—I love myself, cue the pride flags. It captures the messy, choked-up middle of that journey and leaves us on a cliffhanger, hoping the best for the author in the future. I’m still thinking of her, hoping she’s like me now, happily handing lesbian books to bookstore cashiers. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

bookwormdystopian2's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

bsxlsan's review against another edition

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Self harm

Minor: Dysphoria

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, and Sexual content

zoxide's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Self harm, and Sexual content

Content warning elaboration - Neither are actually spoilers fyi (eating disorder, self harm):

Nagata Kabi recounts a dark period in her life where, amongst other things, she had been cutting herself and been in a cycle of starving herself and then binge-eating. The self-harm in particular is illustrated in a few panels in a way that might feel graphic, and her eating disorder is discussed in detail

(sexual content):

The main scene the story surrounds is an encounter Nagata Kabi has with a woman from a lesbian escort agency, and her emotions surrounding the experience and her life leading up to and after it. The cartoonish art style makes it so that nothing is particularly explicit, but sexual scenes still play out and are discussed throughout the story

pandanexpress's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts