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Réjouissez-vous by Emily Nagoski

38 reviews

garbitchdisposal's review against another edition

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hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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unsuccessfulbookclub's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.75

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kingrosereads's review against another edition

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informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

An incredible health book on sexuality. It was organized well with enough examples and worksheets to make the content understandable. It taught me so much about my own sexuality and I understand so much more about the body and sex. The only thing I wish this book included was sexual orientation, asexuality, and more on sex after trauma. I feel like I learned a lot, but there was just something missing from the book, like there was more to be discussed. I definitely recommend this book to everyone. Men, women, enbies, queer, hetero, singles, couples, everyone. I think it's incredibly important to talk about the societal expectations and the reality surrounding sex. The book focuses on how the physical response doesn't always align with the mental reception and how to understand our sexual brakes and accelerators.

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karyan1's review against another edition

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challenging informative reflective medium-paced

3.0

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zombiezami's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful informative reflective

4.0

Most of what's in this book is stuff I knew already. I think this would be more useful for people with more complicated relationships with sex and their bodies. The author's tone is compassionate and knowledgeable, and I'm sure the book has helped and will continue to help lots of people. I wish that the author was more specific about using terms like "cis" and "dfab" since that's the audience she's discussing.

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sakisreads's review against another edition

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emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.5

THIS WAS ASTONISHING! I felt like I was learning so much throughout the book that left me astounded and with my mouth wide open 😳 The patriarchy really messed us up (as if we didn’t know that already). I especially enjoyed the part that states ‘all the same parts in different ways’.
I wish I’d gotten this in paper form so that I could use the workbook alongside it, but that might be a goal for another day. It’s one to definitely come back to, I don’t think I could tell you all that went down because there was so much information to digest 🥲 I appreciated the ‘tldr’ sections as well 🥰 Big, big fan of this! 👏🏼

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blackcatkai's review against another edition

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funny informative reflective slow-paced

3.0

CW: cis-centered language/science, sexual content, medical content, mentions of sexual assault

overall, a lot of good information. lots of basics, more in-depth discussions, every section has a tl;dr breakdown of what you just read that makes it easier to know basic points to refer to later. it was a bit repetitious with some information/sentences & the author would often mention how something is talked about more in other chapters. generally not a bad thing, but it happened a lot so it just felt like too much at times.

there are a couple stories interwoven throughout the book that correlate with the section/topic being discussed but they often feel disjointed as theyre so broken up that it's easy, when you get back to it, to be confused a moment before the context comes back to you. understandable why the author set it up this way, the execution was just slightly off for me, personally.

Nagoski brings up tons of good points, information, and i did absolutely get emotional in specific sections that super hit home for me, personally, so it can definitely be a book i go back to reference for myself in the future, but i do wish it was a bit more inclusive in it's language in general. i get it, but as a nonbinary afab person, it just got to me, mostly in the beginning sections.

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jojesweden's review against another edition

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hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

4.0

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toffishay's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.25

This was such an awesome informative read. If you want to learn more about women's sexuality, then you will absolutely find something worthwhile here. I will also say that I learned some valuable tools and gained insight into other parts of my life as well. Awesome all around :)

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laurenleigh's review against another edition

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informative medium-paced

4.0

This book comes highly recommended, and I can see why. It definitely helps upend a lot of the stories society has told us about women and their sexuality. Most of it wasn’t exactly brand new information to me, but the packaging or framing of these concepts was interesting. The part about “stress loops” and how we can close them was definitely fascinating, and I’m not surprised this author expounded on this matter in her next book. I am curious to read that one. I’m glad I read this one, even if I didn’t love the reading experience. Despite the author’s enthusiasm and positivity, the subject matter often felt heavy, and I had to take it in small bites.

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