A review by tumblehawk
How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton

2.0

An enjoyable, brief read. The pornography chapter starts off extremely promising and then descends into a rather incredibly problematic discourse on government regulation in which de Botton claims that while he has libertarian sensibilities, perhaps (so many "perhaps"es to cover his own arse, it's horrible) we need to be kept from certain things "for our own good." This (in my eyes) vile estimation of what must be done about the problems in pornography/the internet was wholly responsible for the book being downgraded from 4 to 3 stars, for me.