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A review by mollybryann
Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections by Emily Nagoski
informative
lighthearted
slow-paced
2.0
Along with Fourteen Days, the book I hold irrational resentment for for my reading rut. Similar to a lot of the reviews here, I found the tone really off putting- what I can only describe as millennialism. It reads like a buzz feed article, repetitive, cringey, and like it’s being inclusive just to show its inclusiveness, not for actual informational or seamless purposes. Like she doesn’t just integrate a queer relationship into her examples without going, “Look, it’s queer!!”. Also there were two instances where she integrated emojis into her book. Not my taste.
I liked it in the sense of a compass towards other types of reading I should maybe do. I found the first couple of chapters about the spaces in our brain and how to move between them really thoughtful and I realized because of ocd, about 90% of my life I am probably in FEAR and PANIC so probably that extends to my erotic spaces. I’ve recently learned that rumination and obsession is a type of dissociation and probably why my memory is bad and I would be interested to know how that affects my erotic self as well.
I liked it in the sense of a compass towards other types of reading I should maybe do. I found the first couple of chapters about the spaces in our brain and how to move between them really thoughtful and I realized because of ocd, about 90% of my life I am probably in FEAR and PANIC so probably that extends to my erotic spaces. I’ve recently learned that rumination and obsession is a type of dissociation and probably why my memory is bad and I would be interested to know how that affects my erotic self as well.