A review by fictionofthefix
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape by Jessica Valenti, Jaclyn Friedman

4.0

4.5☆

Equipping [women] with the information and tools they need to protect themselves, and then trusting them to make their own decisions, will work a heck of a lot better than knowing less and living in fear. And it will give every woman a fighting chance at a world where she can go out and get a little crazy sometimes if she wants to. Where she can dance and drink and flirt and fool around because it feels good. A world where her pleasure is actually important. That’s the world I’m living in. Care to join me?


The essays that touched me the most were:

*''Sex Worth Fighting For'' by Anastasia Higginbotham
*''Killing Mysogyny: A Personal Story of Love, Violence and Strategies For Survival'' by Cristina Meztli Tzlintzún
*''What It Feels Like When It finally Comes: Surviving Incest In Real Life'' by Leah Lahshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
*''In Defense of Going Wild or: How I stopped worrying and learned to love pleasure (and how you can, too...)'' by Jaclyn Friedman
*''How Do You Fuck A Fat Woman?'' by Kate Harding

''I'm all the weapon I need, and I sleep well.''