Tell Me What You Like, Katie Simon
Tell Me What You Like, Katie Simon
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Tell Me What You Like
An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault

Author: Katie Simon

Narrator: Rachel Perry

Unabridged: 7 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/29/2025


Synopsis

The figures are shocking: 40% of American women and nearly a quarter of American men have been sexually assaulted. While #MeToo stories and the survivors who shared them have helped combat sexual harassment in the workplace, improved police interventions, and resulted in high-profile convictions, the public has only just begun to reckon with the impact sexual assault has on survivors. The ongoing silence points to the still-taboo intersection of two subjects: sexual assault and sexuality.

Sex After Sexual Assault explores this crossroads through the lens of survivors' own stories. Millions of people across the United States experience sexual assault, and 94% of survivors experience symptoms of traumatic stress. These symptoms may affect our sex lives. This crucial book tackles the obstacles a survivor frequently faces while rebuilding a sex life after trauma. Each chapter includes a selection of survivors' stories. These stories illuminate how survivors have navigated their struggles into positive practices and outlooks and reimagined what sex and intimacy can look like.

For survivors it is a guidebook, a road map, true stories to lean on. These are survivors' stories, but the broader picture they paint is for anybody seeking more intentional, connected, and pleasurable sex with the awareness that rape culture impacts everyone.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Helen on July 14, 2025

This was a very triggering read—but also incredibly validating and necessary. It’s one of those books that forces you to sit with hard truths: about trauma, consent, shame, healing, and the way our society so often fails survivors. At times I had to pause the audiobook because I felt the familiar wei......more

Goodreads review by Kayleigh on July 28, 2025

To be published July 29, 2025. Please be mindful of trigger warnings when picking up this book- this book can feel like the entire litany of feelings after an assault and while the author is delicate and heartfelt, the honesty and experiences can be hard- be kind to yourself. The author addresses se......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on July 30, 2025

This book/ audio book is a book that includes the experiences of the author and how she and the people she interviewed moved through trauma through to processing their healing. This is seen as a process rather than an a to b final destination journey which was refreshing. I listened to this the audi......more

Goodreads review by Yana on July 28, 2025

4 stars Book Content/Trigger Warnings: - sexual abuse - sexual assault - sexual trauma I was very excited to read this being I’m a sexual assault, trauma, and abuse survivor myself. I liked that the survivors stories were very relatable, and I personally felt a connection to a lot of their experiences a......more

Goodreads review by Erin on July 28, 2025

Tell Me What You Like is the book I wish I had when I was younger. It is a compassionate companion that reminds the reader with a tone of affirmation through individual interviews and stories that there is no one-size-fits-all ‘correct’ answer to healing from sexual trauma. But there are many option......more