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A review by auroratoledo
Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality by Ela Przybylo
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
It took me a while to understand what this essay was trying to do —I went into it thinking some ideas were going to be discussed, yet what I encountered had nothing to do with what I initially believed. The book, in my opinion, takes situations and experiences and analyses them from an asexual perspective, introducing a new conception of the erotic. It's a very mind-opening essay, it helped me learn new things and made me contemplate and consider perspectives I had never thought about before.
That being said, I don't think this is an essay for everyone —it's very heavy conceptual-wise, and it's sometimes difficult to see what point it's trying to prove. I would have enjoyed a much shorter and more precise introduction, I feel like it wasn't making me want to continue the text —quite the opposite, to be honest, since I almost gave up after reading the introduction and the first chapter (which, even though I found interesting, I had a hard time getting the concepts since it kept referring to other texts and those weren't as explained as I would've liked).
I'd like to go back to this book in the future —this is definitively not an essay for a first-time non-fiction reader or for someone who doesn't have some background ideas on the themes explained. Let's see if a future me, with more knowledge, appreciates this text much more!
That being said, I don't think this is an essay for everyone —it's very heavy conceptual-wise, and it's sometimes difficult to see what point it's trying to prove. I would have enjoyed a much shorter and more precise introduction, I feel like it wasn't making me want to continue the text —quite the opposite, to be honest, since I almost gave up after reading the introduction and the first chapter (which, even though I found interesting, I had a hard time getting the concepts since it kept referring to other texts and those weren't as explained as I would've liked).
I'd like to go back to this book in the future —this is definitively not an essay for a first-time non-fiction reader or for someone who doesn't have some background ideas on the themes explained. Let's see if a future me, with more knowledge, appreciates this text much more!