A review by thegrammygoesto
Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It by Laurie Mintz

4.0

if we could acknowledge that trans people exist and that they do, in fact, have sex, this totally could have been a five star book. instead, as a nonbinary person with a vulva and a penchant for sex education, I spent the duration of the book distracted and disappointed by the bioessentialist and cisnormative language. it was uncomfortable to be constantly refered to a as woman when reading this when I am not one, and the use of this language limits the audience the book is able to reach: while I could definitely recommend this book to my cisgender friends, this is not an educational resource I can recommend to my trans friends because their bodies are ignored in the conversation and they would have to be resigned to be misgendered for all of the 250 pages that they read.
nonetheless, the language and tone makes this an approachable resource for those who are not accustomed to such frank discussions of bodily pleasure and it is a book I would want to keep in my library of books on sexuality.