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A review by kadenmcguire
Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships by Juno Roche
2.0
The book didn’t give me what I expected, even after discovering that it was a series of interviews and not any sort of guide. I hoped that the interviews would still be about queer sex but instead they mostly talked about finding relationships and acted as a catalyst in Juno’s realisation that she could look within the queer community for partners... Hardly groundbreaking.
Also, I was consistently frustrated by Juno’s unrelenting need to bring everything back to her own hang-ups about her vagina (which would be fine, if the book was called “my vagina”), or about dating sites. As if finding people in bars is easier when you’re trans than using apps? It’s very obvious reading this that the issue is who you’re looking for and not where you’re looking but somehow even at the end, Juno is still blaming dating apps for not finding a partner and not recognising that the issue will persist when looking at the same pool of people in the real world.
The breaking point though is the total lack of editing. There are many obvious grammatical errors, many sentences that make zero sense and that I still don’t understand, and even an instance where a page starts in the middle of a sentence that was never started. Honestly reads like it wasn’t even given a once over by the author.
Also, I was consistently frustrated by Juno’s unrelenting need to bring everything back to her own hang-ups about her vagina (which would be fine, if the book was called “my vagina”), or about dating sites. As if finding people in bars is easier when you’re trans than using apps? It’s very obvious reading this that the issue is who you’re looking for and not where you’re looking but somehow even at the end, Juno is still blaming dating apps for not finding a partner and not recognising that the issue will persist when looking at the same pool of people in the real world.
The breaking point though is the total lack of editing. There are many obvious grammatical errors, many sentences that make zero sense and that I still don’t understand, and even an instance where a page starts in the middle of a sentence that was never started. Honestly reads like it wasn’t even given a once over by the author.