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4.25


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5.0

This book is a 5/5 essential read for any sex positive parents who are guiding their kiddos (both female and male but especially their SONS) into adulthood. You don't have to be pro choice or pro life to get on board with how all boys and men need to be taught that their bodily fluids are THEIR responsibility to manage. Which seems like a pretty basic tenant in the world of sex ed but here we are, needing a work like this. 

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5.0

An important and essential read. 

“When asked what men can do to prevent unwanted pregnancies, if a man answers, ‘Well the woman just needs to…’ that’s a clear indication that he has no interest in preventing unwanted pregnancies. He wants to focus on woman but he needs to focus on men. 
If a man can easily prevent unwanted pregnancies by controlling his own actions, but he’s only interested in preventing unwanted pregnancies if woman are controlling the actions, it seems like he’s much more interested in controlling woman than he is in reducing unwanted pregnancies.” 

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5.0


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4.75


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5.0


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2.5

I didn’t need to read a book to know any of this…I agree with a lot of what the author says but it comes across as very misandrist and aggressive in tone. 

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3.5

It's a fun thought experiment, if pretty repetitive. I don't know if there was enough material for a book over 100 pages. It's certainly an excellent reframing. I also found some of the rhetoric on vasectomies to be misinformation - there was a Washington Post article after Roe debunking vasectomy myths, and the first one was quoting urologists stating men should treat a vasectomy as a permanent procedure. This isn't to say I disagree with the author's point around them, but I think she's a little too flippant with the suggestion that you could get one and then reverse it when actually ready to have children.  It is pretty much misinformation the way it's presented. I also was bothered she used STI criminalization as an analogy here. STI criminalization, especially HIV criminalization, is a BAD thing. It existing in some states is a problem, not a parallel example to compare unwanted pregnancy to. That is not a feminist, sex-positive or pro-bodily autonomy argument. 

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5.0

it doesn’t matter what you identify as (gender, sexuality, political views, etc.), this book needs to be read! such an easy read with such an IMPORTANT MESSAGE! it gives historical context, generational context, and such vital research to a topic that isn’t openly discussed enough. fantastically and impactfully written.

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