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  • Sex Plus: Learning, Loving, and Enjoying Your Body by Laci Green
  • Kate Quealy-Gainer
Green, Laci Sex Plus: Learning, Loving, and Enjoying Your Body. Harper/HarperCollins,
2018 [512p] illus.
Trade ed. ISBN 978-0-06-256097-1 $18.99
E-book ed. ISBN 978-0-06-256100-8 $9.99
Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 9 up

If readers have a question about sex, or most things tangentially related to it, they can probably find the answer in the 500+ pages of sex educator Laci Green's extremely comprehensive guide to sex. The book starts off with the basics of male and female reproductive systems and then moves into a range of topics, from masturbation (with illustrations of and tips on cleaning sex toys) to birth control to erogenous zones to "how to relationship." Got a question about BDSM? Wondering how gender is constructed globally? What about sexting and dating apps? Coercion culture? This book has it all. Green offers a conversational tone that avoids shaming and instead focuses on the realities and pleasure of sex. She's not here to lecture anyone, but she's certainly got an instructor's loot of charts, graphs, and illustrations to disperse info, which, according to her intro, has been checked by two doctors and a leading researcher on sex (though their names aren't provided). Green concedes this is mostly female centered, offering the work as a corrective to the fact that too often female sexuality is either overlooked or shrouded in secrecy, but the information presented is likely useful for anyone getting it on with one or more persons. The book opens with a table of contents, and the bound book will have an index to help readers find specific topics, since many will use this more as a browsing or reference book than readthrough; either way, this is a valuable guide for readers wondering about the, ahem, ins and outs of sex. A bibliography by chapter and list of online resources are provided. KQG

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