Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

26 reviews

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Acephobia/Arophobia, Ableism, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Transphobia

rini's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Acephobia/Arophobia and Ableism

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Rape, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Dysphoria

readandfindout's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

Writing/style: 2.5 stars (I often felt distracted because it seemed like there were a good number of typos/errors that should have been edited out)
Themes: 5 stars
Knowledge/perspective: 4.5 stars

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Acephobia/Arophobia, Ableism, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Minor: Racial slurs

themessyannotator's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective

4.5

Although I’m an avid reader, I never read non-fiction but this book caught my interest and kept me engaged throughout. While reading, I had a lot of “exactly!” and “that makes so much sense” moments that me really glad to have read this book. It covers a variety of topics all connecting to asexuality and emphasizes the intersections of sexuality, race, gender, etc in a really informative and enlightening way. Also, the variety of different experiences and expressions of asexuality discussed in the book creates a great inclusive narrative. 

I recommend everyone read this book, regardless of whether you fall the ace spectrum or not. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

kbergsten's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Ableism, Acephobia/Arophobia, and Racism

Minor: Sexual violence

agavemonster's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

The book we all needed and never had about asexuality, the meaning and consequence of sexual desire and relationships, and society and sexuality!!

Half a star off because the author often uses in-group asexual terminology that is left undefined (e.g. "allo" as shorthand) - easy enough to figure out from the context, but why leave important terminology undefined? - and my preordered edition had quite a few typos and mistakes.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence