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mythos05's review
1.0
I honestly thought this would be better. I wouldn't recommend this book if you want to learn about asexuality. A lot of the things mentioned are dated, and the author's own opinions are very implicit in the information they chose to provide.
rnfortier's review
challenging
informative
slow-paced
3.0
Informative but so extremely dated as to make it a cringeworthy read
magnetarmadda's review
3.0
It was very informative, if slightly more technical than it maybe should have been. There are things I disagreed with—a huge focus on biology, constant comparisons to homosexuality, some dated language—but overall, it was a good stab at explaining asexuality to non-asexual people
serenedancer's review against another edition
3.0
Overall a good starter to understanding Asexuality, which the book itself admits. It's not the end all be all but a good basic. I particularly enjoyed chapter 10 but found chapters 11 and 12 kinda pointless and not as interesting. It was published in 2012 which shows in some ways, an unexpected one being that Jughead has been confirmed as asexual in the comics now. There are also many generalizations, which is in part due to the lack of research. Again, the book is aware of this, but it's still something to look out for.
hannah_bevis1's review
3.0
I've seen this book mentioned in a lot of ace spaces - it's one of the original texts that I feel like a lot of asexual research cites. That said, even though it's just a decade old, there's parts of it that are WILDLY out of date and cringeworthy now. There's some stuff that's also straight up not true. I wouldn't recommend anyone read this now, unless you're interested in learning about how asexuality research has changed and evolved, but I'm grateful this book was written.