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What You Really Really Want
What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl's Shame-Free Guide to Sex and Safety | Jaclyn Friedman
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In this empowering, accessible guide, Jaclyn Friedman?co-editor of Yes Means Yes?gives young women the tools to decipher the modern world's confusing, hypersexualized, sometimes dangerous landscape so they can define their own sexual identity. Friedman decries the hypocrisy and mixed messages of our culture (we're failures if we don't act sexy, but we're sluts if we actually pursue sex; we need to be protected from rapists lurking in bushes, but deserve ?whatever we get” if we have a drink at a party and wear a skirt), and encourages readers to separate fear from fact, decode the damaging messages all around them, and discover a healthy personal sexuality. Educational and interactive, What You Really Really Want includes revealing quizzes, creative exercises, and reality-based advice about sex and sexuality today. With Friedman's informed advice to guide them, readers will build new skills for safely expressing their sexuality with lovers and explore effective ways to talk about tricky issues with family and friends?and learn how to make the world a little safer for everyone else's sexuality along the way.
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Jaclyn Friedman is one of my fave authors and this book did not disappoint! It offers a simple, inclusive guide to achieving personal openness to sexuality. The exercises were diverse and helpful. The book remained intriguing throughout its entirety. I loved how respective and inclusive she was of races/ethnicities, sexual orientations, abilities, and religions. Friedman portrays that if one thing works for her it may not work for everyone else.