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Perv: The Sexual Deviant In All Of Us (2013)

by Jesse Bering(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0374230897 (ISBN13: 9780374230890)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

review 1: Hmm this is really quite interesting. No, I did not know that. With bees, you say? Well that's really remarkable and - what? OH GOD THE TRANSPHOBIA. STOP IT STOP IT. Stop misgendering everyone. Stop insisting that it's all some kind of weird fetish. Well that came out of nowhere. I think the trouble is that his interest in weird sexual fetishes means he can't really acknowledge that there's anything gender related that isn't driven by the libido. "People in the trans community are offended by this interpretation" - well, yes. People do get offended when you completely dismiss their lived experiences and insist that you know what's really going on, particularly if you're throwing some tired stereotype that has been used to bully, oppress and pathologise the marginalised gr... moreoup in question. That's not a trans thing. It's a people thing. People are touchy like that. You can't help but wonder about the quality of the research when his understanding of trans people is so shockingly awful - seriously a ten minute read up on this stuff would have improved matters. I was enjoying the book up until that point but this really pissed me off and I'm not even trans.
review 2: Non-fiction authors walk a fine line between inserting little asides that are informative, adding something extra to the material, and ones that are distracting, taking the reader out of the subject matter. Jesse Bering more often than not fell on the wrong side of that line for me. I felt like Bering's repeated references to his own personal sex life were unnecessary, and frankly, a little narcissistic. But you know, I'm not a writer, so...three stars. less

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