Every Body: An Honest and Open Look at SEX from Every Angle consists of a collection of interviews, stories, essays, and artwork. Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg took to the streets and set up a sign that read: LET US INTERVIEW YOU ABOUT SEX (ANOUNOUSMEEY) FOR A BOOK. And hundreds of people were willing to talk to Julia and Shaina and Every Body is the result.
Every Body presents a wide array of topics, including first times, open relationships, body acceptance, accidental pregnancies, sex toys, pleasure, fear and trauma, sexual discovery, elder sex, and more.
I was drawn into the deeply personal interviews where people told their most intimate sexual secrets. Also experts contributed essays that address stigmas and clichés of various sexual behavior. I found this book informative, educational, surprising, and moving. This is an inclusive user’s guide to your body, no matter its shape, size, age, or preferences. GRADE: A
I’ll stick with my dog-earred copy of Nancy Friday’s MY SECRET GARDEN (quite eye-opening for my 16-year-old self in 1973), thank you.
Deb, I remember Nancy Friday’s MY SECRET GARDEN. I think she wrote a couple sequels, too.
If there is a voyeur in me, I’m afraid this title would bring it out. I’m afraid I may be more of a prude that I would like to admit. Even my copy of MY SECRET GARDEN is not dog-earred. **sigh**
Jerry, I remember reading (and looking at) THE JOY OF SEX back in the day. You and Deb have MY SECRET GARDEN but I was a fan of PENTHOUSE LETTERS during my formative years.
Well here’s the first real shock of the day: my library has this.
Michael, Julie Rothman and Shaina Feinberg could have titled this book THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SEX. Just about everything you ever wanted to know is here. Kudos to your Library!
I better start with My Secret Garden, which I have never heard of until now. OUR BODIES, OURSELVES was the one I first read. Or was it a Girl Scount pamphlet.
Patti, OUR BODIES, OURSELVES was a hot book back in the Sixties. The Cub Scout Manual didn’t have a chapter on Sex.
Pass.
Jeff, EVERY BODY: AN HONEST AND OPEN LOOK AT SEX FROM EVERY ANGLE garnered some very positive reviews which led me to request it from my Library. Like Michael’s Library, they had it.
MY library has it too. There must be interest, as there are 8 holds for the 2 ebook copies. They have the ‘real’ book too.
Jeff, I’m not surprised that there’s an audience for a book about contemporary sexual behavior. There’s a lot going on out there during the Pandemic!
Sounds like a waste of time, and she can’t even spell “anonymously”.
Rick, I think that sign was a joke.
The Kama Sutra is all anyone needs!
Bob, you might have a point there.
There’s nothing new under the Sun, but some variations on some positions are more comfortable…when that’s desired.
MY SECRET GARDEN, THE JOY OF SEX, the best erotica of the year anthology series from Susie Bright and Maxim Jakubowski, among many others who followed, hell, even STORY OF O or Nin or Miller and of course OUR BODIES, OUR SELVES (particularly the first edition) were all healthier than EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO BE SNIGGERED AT ABOUT WONDERING ABOUT SEX by that misanthropic doctor…no wonder Woody Allen was drawn to the book, even if he mostly wanted to make his own rude jokes.
Todd, as much as Woody Allen is reviled, I enjoyed watching many of his movies over the years. I laughed out loud at the segment of EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX when Woody played a sperm cell.
Whichever collaborator is portrayed above, she seems cheerfully intent on whatever’s going on.
Todd, I think the “cheerfully intent” was to convey that sex can be fun.