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auroratoledo's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
It took me a while to understand what this essay was trying to do —I went into it thinking some ideas were going to be discussed, yet what I encountered had nothing to do with what I initially believed. The book, in my opinion, takes situations and experiences and analyses them from an asexual perspective, introducing a new conception of the erotic. It's a very mind-opening essay, it helped me learn new things and made me contemplate and consider perspectives I had never thought about before.
That being said, I don't think this is an essay for everyone —it's very heavy conceptual-wise, and it's sometimes difficult to see what point it's trying to prove. I would have enjoyed a much shorter and more precise introduction, I feel like it wasn't making me want to continue the text —quite the opposite, to be honest, since I almost gave up after reading the introduction and the first chapter (which, even though I found interesting, I had a hard time getting the concepts since it kept referring to other texts and those weren't as explained as I would've liked).
I'd like to go back to this book in the future —this is definitively not an essay for a first-time non-fiction reader or for someone who doesn't have some background ideas on the themes explained. Let's see if a future me, with more knowledge, appreciates this text much more!
That being said, I don't think this is an essay for everyone —it's very heavy conceptual-wise, and it's sometimes difficult to see what point it's trying to prove. I would have enjoyed a much shorter and more precise introduction, I feel like it wasn't making me want to continue the text —quite the opposite, to be honest, since I almost gave up after reading the introduction and the first chapter (which, even though I found interesting, I had a hard time getting the concepts since it kept referring to other texts and those weren't as explained as I would've liked).
I'd like to go back to this book in the future —this is definitively not an essay for a first-time non-fiction reader or for someone who doesn't have some background ideas on the themes explained. Let's see if a future me, with more knowledge, appreciates this text much more!
rystonlentil43's review against another edition
challenging
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
There are a lot of great ideas in this book. Unfortunately, they emerge from an endless tangle of sentences, repetitive and imprecise. This book reads like it was difficult to get written. Still, I think highly of it for finding the points of truth between the poles that other arguments too often swing to.
februaryatj's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
One of the most referenced books for my dissertation on asexuality, very very useful.
mandi_lea's review
challenging
informative
slow-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism, Ableism, Sexism, Sexual content, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Misogyny
danrue's review
3.0
I got to page 100 and this book stopped making any sense. The beginning was great and I loved the fluidity of the explanations and how the book questioned what academia has offered called fact, but the stars are lowered, because a book does in fact have to be coherent all the way through
clairesomebody's review
This book was simply too academic and dense for me at the time I was reading it. Valuable perspectives and histories, but I just didn't have the brain- or willpower to finish it.
rryep's review
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* Main Topics: Asexuality, Asexuality Commentary and Study in Relation to Erotic - Sex - Sexuality - Sensuality, Politics - Feminism, Lesbianism, and Asexuality, Compulsory Sexuality, Coupling - Amatonormativity, Aging, Womanhood
* Notes: Introduction, Chapters 1 - 4
* Bibliography
* Index
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* Main Topics: Asexuality, Asexuality Commentary and Study in Relation to Erotic - Sex - Sexuality - Sensuality, Politics - Feminism, Lesbianism, and Asexuality, Compulsory Sexuality, Coupling - Amatonormativity, Aging, Womanhood
* Notes: Introduction, Chapters 1 - 4
* Bibliography
* Index
* Read on Free PDF