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How To Think More About Sex (2012)

by Alain de Botton(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1447202279 (ISBN13: 9781447202271)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

MacMillan

review 1: This book is just sad. If Alain de Botton can really make sense of so many things in life, he should have just devoted himself to researches instead of throwing around so many superficial ideas. Anyone that has ever received some sort of education in research would see that these premature assumptions, judgments and conclusions are nothing but name-dropping and theory-dropping without any kind of a coherent system that can map the author's own ideas. Do not even get me started on the "new kind of porn"... don't we already have chick-flicks to do that?
review 2: This is a short book I looked to for some levity. It offered little of this and not much of anything else. Still there are a few insights revealed in places one would not normally look. For example, h... moree points out that nothing is erotic that isn’t also, with the wrong person, revolting. And that erections and lubrication cannot be affected by willpower, and are therefore true and honest indices of interest—“In a world in which fake enthusiasms are rife and when it’s hard to tell if people really like us or whether their being kind to us merely out of a sense of duty, the wet vagina and the stiff penis function as unambiguous agents of sincerity.” He says we shall never entirely surmount the difficulties that sex throws our way. “Our best hope should be for a respectful accommodation with a monarchic and reckless power.” So I guess we can add this to the list of death and taxes. less

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