Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

16 reviews

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexism, and Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Medical trauma, Body shaming, and Medical content

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.0

Slightly outside the target audience for this book, but good info nonetheless. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Misogyny, and Sexism

jcinf's review against another edition

inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.5

For nonfiction, I really enjoyed this. I’m not a nonfiction girly, so it did take me a little while to get through. 

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. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexism, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Sexual assault

Minor: Ableism

liv_txt's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny

Moderate: Sexual harassment and Sexual assault

Minor: Stalking, Fatphobia, Grief, Rape, Suicide, and Sexism

emhicks72's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Sexual assault

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Eating disorder

meecespieces's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Misogyny and Sexual assault

unsuccessfulbookclub's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Misogyny

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault

Minor: Pregnancy

rosalind's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault and Grief

Minor: Fatphobia, Stalking, Misogyny, Sexism, Emotional abuse, and Acephobia/Arophobia

zombiezami's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective

4.0

Most of what's in this book is stuff I knew already. I think this would be more useful for people with more complicated relationships with sex and their bodies. The author's tone is compassionate and knowledgeable, and I'm sure the book has helped and will continue to help lots of people. I wish that the author was more specific about using terms like "cis" and "dfab" since that's the audience she's discussing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Misogyny, Sexism, and Body shaming

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual violence, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Rape, and Pregnancy

Minor: Drug use, Eating disorder, Death of parent, War, Terminal illness, Cancer, Alcohol, and Ableism

cis-centrism

blackcatkai's review against another edition

funny informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

CW: cis-centered language/science, sexual content, medical content, mentions of sexual assault

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.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Medical content, Sexism, and Sexual content

Moderate: Rape and Sexual assault