Grace's Reviews > Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

4.5 rounded up

I thought this was really brilliant! I thought it was super readable and really approachable, as well as warmly written, and the way the author uses real world examples to illustrate her different points worked really well. There was a lot here I either didn't know, or that was reframed in such a way that there was a bit of a lightbulb moment. Even a couple of moments that had me tearing up. Really recommend this one.

However, this is definitely meant for cis women, which the author makes clear up front, and it didn't feel like there was a ton of intersectionality--queer inclusive but mostly meant for straight women, and it feels very white-centric, with nothing really addressing the ways in which cultural messaging and conditioning differs for Black woman, and other women of color. I still think there could be useful stuff in here regardless, but it might not resonate quite as strongly.