Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections by Emily Nagoski

9 reviews

grace_b_3's review

At the end of the day, the casual writing style just isn’t for me. I felt like I was trying to dig for something of substance and all this book had was fluff. If you’ve read Come as You Are, or any other books in that “your sexuality is normal” genre, you’ve read Come Together. It didn’t really have anything new to say, and it had more of the author’s personal antidotes than Come as You Are.      

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Sexual violence

imstephtacular's review

challenging emotional funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Sexual content

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Ableism, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infertility, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

babyfacedoldsoul's review

funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing

3.75

I have read all of Nagoski's work and enjoyed doing so. As I have read her other work I found the first part of this book fairly repetitive. I also didn't resonate with the emotional floor layout. I did like the second part of the book though and appreciated her attempts to make it more queer and trans inclusive. The story of Jamie and Rowan really stayed with me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Eating disorder

mandi_lea's review

hopeful informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

onlyahopelessromantic's review

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer and Sexual content

Moderate: Death

helpelbowhittable's review

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

Great book for people who want to improve their sex lives. It's written by someone who really knows what they are talking about an contains a mixture of science based facts and subjective methods/opinions (that are quite good). Very enlightening, this will change your sex life radically. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexual content

allisonplus's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

khymihr's review against another edition

funny informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

skudiklier's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

I absolutely loved this book. I found it super interesting and I feel like it's helpful for people to read and think about even if you're not in the midst of an active problem you're trying to solve. Nagoski takes a radically open approach to things like sex, desire, and gender, and really breaks down a lot of the socially ingrained things people think they "should" feel or do with regard to sex. This is a perspective I think everyone needs to hear, and I took a lot of notes. Each chapter also helpfully has a tl;dr at the end so you can reference key points later.

Thank you to Netgalley and Ballantine Books for the chance to read and review this ARC.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexism and Sexual violence

Minor: Ableism, Mental illness, Racism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

moderate CW for PTSD/trauma