Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Sex And Science by Mary Roach

7 reviews

meesheltx's review against another edition

challenging funny informative slow-paced

3.0

I could've done without the entire chapter on pig sex. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

kira20's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Sexual content, Medical content, Infertility, and Pregnancy

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Miscarriage, Blood, Gore, and Injury/Injury detail

overduck's review against another edition

funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

4.5

This book was incredibly informative and still had me laughing out loud at the author's wit and clever use of footnotes. My only complaint was that I was there had been summaries occasionally to wrap up a chapter; I quickly found myself forgetting the things I had read or losing the main point in the details. It was still phenomenal, though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Medical content, and Infertility

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Animal death, Animal cruelty, and Cursing

jaynovara's review against another edition

funny informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Medical trauma, and Sexual content

Moderate: Body horror, Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, and Infertility

tiffanyg's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring medium-paced

3.0

Dated but still interesting.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Animal death, Biphobia, Blood, Body shaming, Infertility, Infidelity, Animal cruelty, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

kaitlinjohnson's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

2.25

I honestly did not like the majority of this book and I'm not sure why I finished it. I have a very high tolerance for "gross" but portions of this were legitimately unbearable. I skipped the second half of multiple chapters (WARNING CH 4 IS TRULY AWFUL). I'm generally an easy audience for nonfiction science but this felt overly sensationalized and intentionally disturbing. 

Content warnings for bestiality, animal abuse (graphic descriptions), human abuse, genital mutilation, and all kinds of other stuff you probably weren't expecting to find in this book. And none of these things appear to be written about with any sense of disgust or with any empathy for the victims (and in fact feel like the butt end of jokes at times) . Do not recommend

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Sexual violence, and Medical content

horizonous's review

I should have known before picking it up, that this wasn't for me. After only a couple of chapters I have no desire to continue and I think that's okay.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content and Sexual content

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Medical trauma, and Sexism

Minor: Infidelity