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A review by chughes120
Finding Normal: Sex, Love, and Taboo in Our Hyperconnected World by Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
4.0
Insight into the lives of people who identify with the sexual taboos of nonmonogamy, polyamory, asexuality, incest, and zoophilia.
This book is a lot. The first half is fascinating and feels deeply important from a representation perspective. The second half was equally fascinating, but more in the same way that looking at roadkill is fascinating: revolting, but you can't look away. I imagine other will disagree, but I thought the author handled these topics masterfully by admitting to her own prejudices and judgments and inserting her own journey researching these topics along with the journeys of those she interviewed. She didn't shy away from calling people on their bullshit (particularly in the incest chapter), and detailed her own feelings to parallel what she imagined the reader would be feeling as well.
Ultimately I thought this was extremely well done and would recommend it to anyone wanting to broaden their horizons...
This book is a lot. The first half is fascinating and feels deeply important from a representation perspective. The second half was equally fascinating, but more in the same way that looking at roadkill is fascinating: revolting, but you can't look away. I imagine other will disagree, but I thought the author handled these topics masterfully by admitting to her own prejudices and judgments and inserting her own journey researching these topics along with the journeys of those she interviewed. She didn't shy away from calling people on their bullshit (particularly in the incest chapter), and detailed her own feelings to parallel what she imagined the reader would be feeling as well.
Ultimately I thought this was extremely well done and would recommend it to anyone wanting to broaden their horizons...