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brigitte's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
Really really informative. Will be thinking about so much of it for so long. Beautifully intermixed intellectual thinking and the individual storytelling that made the concepts real. Deeply empathetic.
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hopeful
informative
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medium-paced
5.0
This book put into words so many things I have felt but didn't have the appropriate language for.
I identify as Demisexual and have often tried to explain to friends that my brain's default is Asexual and it's often a surprise even to me when attraction happens.
Getting to read about the experiences of so many other people with similar experiences of attraction felt affirming. It's wonderful to feel seen, less strange, less wrong, less broken.
This is absolutely worth a read for anyone, no matter where your own sexuality lies, but especially if you have someone in your life who is or may be Ace.
I identify as Demisexual and have often tried to explain to friends that my brain's default is Asexual and it's often a surprise even to me when attraction happens.
Getting to read about the experiences of so many other people with similar experiences of attraction felt affirming. It's wonderful to feel seen, less strange, less wrong, less broken.
This is absolutely worth a read for anyone, no matter where your own sexuality lies, but especially if you have someone in your life who is or may be Ace.
crystalstarrlight's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
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medium-paced
5.0
Bullet Review:
- I desperately want to live in a world that will recognize siblings and give them medical benefits of their sibling.
- I have never felt so seen before.
- I thought for years that my feelings about sex were because of the way I was raised - the religious fundamentalism, the purity culture.
- I would fret and worry about getting married and having to have sex and hoping that maybe I could get out of it somehow the first night.
- One man I met, I thought maybe we would be intimate, not because I wanted it, but because I was tired of the stigma.
- I am literally the 40-year-old-virgin and I have less of a desire to change that than ever.