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abbeyjfox's review against another edition
5.0
the first book i'm reading for my final research project on young female sexuality in my gender and society class. wolf sets out to discuss her own sexual experiences as a way to resist the silences surrounding the issue. growing up in the 1970s Haight Ashbury world was much different than my Ohio late 90s coming of age, but this book is still so easy to relate too. and courageous.
what would happen if we all were honest about the actuality of our sexual experiences? bravo, naomi wolf!
what would happen if we all were honest about the actuality of our sexual experiences? bravo, naomi wolf!
ruthiella's review against another edition
3.0
I think the thing to keep in mind when reading Promiscuities is that it is essentially a memoir and not a polemic; it is a very personal exploration of 20th century female sexuality. As Wolf writes in the concluding chapter, "I am conscious that an inquiry such as this ends by raising more questions than it can answer; sexuality is so personal, and the creation of a sexual culture such a subtle, collective undertaking, that any simple prescriptions are too crude a response." There were times when I was nodding my head with understanding, but also occasions where could not relate to Wolf's experiences or her conclusions. However, I am definitley glad I read this thought provoking book.
haleyshealy's review
3.0
It was just okay for me. It read more like a biography of sexuality than anything which I wasn't anticipating.
celina_r's review
4.0
To get the labels out of the way: this is the story of a white middle-class West-Coast cis girl's sexual coming of age in the 1960's and 70's. It's a document of the period after the sexual revolution but before the Internet, which mainstreamed porn and then fragmented the sexual mainstream entirely, shifting the Overton Window for better and for worse on what it is OK and not OK to say about sex. Dated as it is through no fault of its own, this still speaks to me as a younger child of the same period and roughly the same demographics.
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