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Rethinking Sex
Rethinking Sex: A Provocation | Christine Emba
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Part searing examination, part call to arms�a bold case against modern sexual ethics, from young Washington Post columnist Christine Emba. For years now, modern-day sexual ethics has held that �anything goes� when it comes to sex�as (…more)
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Chelsea.Poole
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Emba covers the sexual revelation, media portrayal of sex, the sexual college experience, dating apps, etc to show how the way we think about sex may be harmful/inaccurate or at least leave some people feeling uncomfortable about their sexual preferences. Focused only on heterosexual relationships with sex, as disclosed at the beginning, the book makes the case that casual hookup culture is not for everyone and we should reconsider sexuality.

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MilesnMelodies
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This book is so important, I wish I could afford to own a copy.

It perfectly outlines the problems (and solutions) with dating and connecting the in the digital age including: thinking about sex, particularly casual, as something one is supposed to do; how the dating apps are designed to keep you on the rather than find someone to get off of them, how porn and dating apps makes us see other people commodities rather than human beings.

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MilesnMelodies
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TIL I have heteropessimism.

Really liking this book. Except for her very vapid take in Sex and the City.

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Nalbuque
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Bailedbailed

Tough one, bc the topic interests me and as far as I got, there were good points and arguments that made me think. But too often the read was either slow, boring, or repetitive. What rly stopped me from finishing it tho, it‘s how cis-hetero centric this narrative was. Emba does disclaim this fact, and I understand that she can‘t speak to the queer experience…but the content felt so specific and unrelatable that I found it hard to stay interested