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Summary: Not for the open-minded.
Review: A better title would be "Everything you always wanted to know about David Reuben's hangups". The things he knows about, he gets right. Unfortunately, he gets everything else wrong. Guessing is fine on Jeopardy, but a professional should try to do better.An example: "How did the Mayor's daughter contract Syphilis?" A: "Her country-club boyfriend slept with a black prostitute." Sheesh. Try "The Joy of Sex". It's ten times better.
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Summary: Shame!
Review: A bigoted, sensationalistic, inaccurate book, and shame on his publishers for thinking so little of the public as to make it available.It is wrong about same-sex love, wrong about S/M, wrong about menopause, and that's as far as I got before throwing the book down in disgust.
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Summary: Horrible and Uninformed...
Review: A complete and utter insult to the gay and lesbian community. Zero stars
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Summary: Everything you always wanted to know about sex
Review: Actually, I read this book when it first came out many years ago, and since I am currently looking for a book to read that is really funny, I thought of this one. Back then, I read this book to my sister-in-law late one night while we shared a glass of wine and we couldn't stop laughing! We couldn't believe how funny it was! And I can't believe the reviews of the people who take it so seriously. But of course, it was also educational because it answered questions I hadn't even thought of yet. Still....I want to share another evening of laughter with another special friend, so I am going to buy it again.
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Summary: Bigitory is alive and well in USA
Review: Amazon should give us the opportunity to award NO STARS ... What a silly, ill-informed monster of a book... I've got a copy of the original 1969 edition and it is immersed in hatered, misinformation and observations that are laughible at the extreme... It is almost acceptable to hold such views and ill-concieved thoughts 30 years ago... but in 1999??? And not only is the chapter on "Male Homosexuality" so stragne.. the rest of the booklet is also so unbalanced, confused and missing any accurate basis for informing readers for a heathly sex knowledge.
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Summary: Read, read and read. Then recommend.
Review: As a proud HETEROSEXUAL parent I am amazed to read that ALL the hateful reviews come from homosexuals and BDSM folk. My parents gave me the original edition 30 years --modern American sexuality is based on this book-- and I just read the Anniversary edition. You can only hate what you don't want to hear. You'll love this book if you're heterosexual. I'm shocked and amazed to read the lack of freedom of speech and the excess of censorship these protesters exhibit. It's a great up to date classic! If you can't stand the heat don't buy the book!
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Summary: Interesting info... but somewhat prejudiced
Review: Dr. Reuben's book is an update of his classic bestseller, and the reviews mentioning the previous edition make me happy to have grown up in a later generation that speaks about sex more openly. The author's views have progressed somewhat since the earlier edition, but if you would like an unbiased view of sexuality, this is not the book to buy. For one, there is an anti-gay tone to all of the information on gay sex and culture. I am a 30+ hetero woman and I cringed at some of what was written here. I don't think authors should cater to a politically correct audience, but I was surprised that this came from a medical doctor with a specialty in psychiatry! At another point in the book, he talks about the IUD method of birth control almost as if it is responsible for sexually transmitted diseases. As far as I know, many women successfully use this as their birth control method...seems strange?! All in all, a fun read if you are interested in popular culture. But --especially for young readers-- there are much better books on the subject.
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Summary: No-nonsense approach to sex
Review: Having read this, I too found it to be somewhat biased towards gays and transsexuals, but one must admit that it is a no-nonsense approach to sex. It covers many different sexual topics, and makes for some interesting reading. For those looking for something a little more suggestive, I'd advise you look elsewhere.
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Summary: A dangerous book
Review: I call this book dangerous because of the insanely inaccurate and blatently biased descriptions of male homosexuality that its author provides, all under the umbrella of legitimacy due to his status as an "MD", not to mention similarly skewed subjects in the rest of the book.
Adolescent boys who read this, questioning their own possible homosexuality, will only be more confused. It's well known that fear of homosexuality is a common cause of suicide in boys of this age, and books like "Dr." Reubens can only contribute to this sad statistic. I know of a large number of gay men who read this book in the 70's, believing the hype that surrounded it, and who suffered deep bouts of depression and confusion over the lies the "doctor" advances.
Of the ones I recall, one was that male homosexuals all wanted to be "women". This idea is as ludicrous as any that I've ever heard. It's true that a FEW enjoy dressing up in women's clothes, and that a smaller number suffer from a condition of gender confusion, which has little to do with homosexuality.
He goes on to provide "interviews" with "those people" that he tries to pass off as being representative of the gay lifestyle in general, but which are equally as erroneous: e.g. gay men prefer to meet in public restrooms, or that a large number engage in sadomasochistic practices, with a description of a "typical" scene that reads like something from a Jack Chick religious tract.
The OPINIONS of "Dr." Reuben are largely unsupported by the mainstream medical community, and his sorry excuse for a book is little more than an exploitative screed that was originally written to cash in on the "sexual revolution" that came out of the 60's. Some of his supporters, with a clearly homophobic agenda, have suggested that its critics are either advocates of censorship or that they allege to know homosexuals themselves who privately admit that what the author writes is accurate, but they speak out of ignorance at best, and out of a desire to deliberately mischaracterize the subject at worst. I'm not advocating a denial of his right to author such trash: I'm just trying to warn people against taking it the least bit seriously. Do not rely on this book as your primary source of information about human sexuality.
"Dr." Reuben's inaccuracies do not end with male homosexuality, however. Some of what he attempts to promote as valid medical information is ludicrous in the extreme, other is outright bizarre. I have to question his qualifications as an MD (which is why I use the quotation marks) in light of this thoroughly discredited book.
One final word of advice to parents who are considering buying this for their children: DON'T! You're doing them NO favors at all, regardless of their sexual orientation. The overwhelmingly inaccurate nature of what he writes can only serve to confuse them more.
I hope "Dr." Reuben is proud of himself....
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Summary: Dangerously Misleading
Review: I first read this book in the early 1970s and it influenced me in that it delayed my gender transition and eventual sex change surgery by 20 years. When I recently found an updated version in the local library I checked the section on Transsexuality to see if it had been corrected or updated. What I found was laughably misinformed, out of date, and badly biased. If the rest of the book is as poorly and badly written as this section, then it will cause a great deal of misery for a lot of people, which it could have otherwise have helped.
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