The Sex Myth
The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality

[content warning: talks about r*pe, sexual assault, lgbtiqap+-phobia] This was a very interesting book. At first I struggled to relate to some of the pressures that the people Rachel had interviewed were talking about; I had never been that interested in sex I thought, nor felt much pressure to dress......more

This book was really a glorified magazine article. Hills milked the topic way beyond what it was worth. In the end, the book's message - although positive, ie. don't let someone else's sex 'myth' define you - was really more commonsense than anything else. It strikes me as somehow naive to assume th......more

A valuable piece of work, but one that left me a bit frustrated. The author has clearly decided to aim for as broad an audience as possible, which meant that sections of this felt a bit shallow to me. I wanted a stronger research base, and more engagement with existing literature, but I guess I am a......more

In the 1940s and 1950s, Kinsey study data research was released and it provoked a great deal of controversy whilst it also opened up society’s collective eyes to the spectrum of human sexuality. Over the following decades, we have seen a blossoming of sexual revolutions and continuing discussions of......more