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Summary: A truly wonderful book! Everyone should read it -- now!
Review: What this country needs so desperately is honest information about sex. And this is the place to find it. Good information, good advice, good humor all together make this book an experience more than just a book. Forget all those self-styled experts. Dr. Reuben knows everything about sex and so will you when you finish this great book.
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Summary: This book is full of misinformation and judgmental comments
Review: While I admit to not having read the entire book, the sections I did read were full of heavy-handedness, misinformation & overall judgmental information. Dr. Reuben says that people into BDSM, for example are out to recruit children and that 'in its extremes, can lead to rape, torture and murder.' These are absolute lies. He fails to see why anyone would be into BDSM as a way to express their sexuality. He also fails to describe the love and respect shown between both people in a BDSM relationship. He also claims that most BDSM scenes always go much farther than they should. I think it's obvious Dr. Reuben has nothing but disgust for anyone into any form of SM. He also is down on people with pierced body parts and is also down on same sex marriages. He also claims that menopausel women become "masculinized." I definitely recommend against buying a book about sexuality that resorts to half-truths, judgmental and heavy-handed information in order to make its points.
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Summary: No stars. Still reads like he wrote it 30 years ago
Review: While Reuben has toned down his patently anti-gay bias, his "I'm just telling it like it is" attitude is still just thinly veiled and self-congratulatory ignorance. You have to wonder if he's ever met any gay people in his life. He certainly hasn't met any happy ones. That may be his experience, but he's doing a disservice to us all--gay and straight--by generalizing his experience to all gay people. If you're gay, look up this book by Peter Shalit, M.D. instead: "Living Well: The Gay Man's Essential Health Guide". It's everything that Reuben's book should have been.
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Summary: I just finished reading the All New Edition's
Review: Wow! What a book! I thought I knew a lot about sex but this book opened up a whole new world to me. His sense of humor is stupendous. When he described famous "Honest Maid" l etter, I couldn't stop laughing. And the description of how to grow a new foreskin w as hilarious. Even the description of a S & M party had some touches of humor. On the serious side, I liked the chapter about birth control and how the oral contraceptives can really protect women from fatal diseases like cancer of the ovary. And the truth about those so-called "date-rape" drugs. I didn't know that some women take at least one of them deliberately before they go out on a date! The chapter on STD's was really useful especially as it explains why you real ly can't depend on a condom for protection as much as you thought you could. I didn't know there were 18 STDs to be aware these days. And I'm glad I kno w which ones can cause cancer there are 2 of those, according to the book. An d the explanation of how you can give yourself AIDS if you put the condom on backward was really something! But the thing I liked best was the upbeat tone and the sense of humor. When he describes the "feel-good" chemical that is released in your body every tim e you have an orgasm, it actually made me feel good. And his optimistic approach to the menopause and sex in the later years was really encouraging. It's a fun book to read and full of very useful information. I give it 5 star s! Solo 101
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