Says Chapter 5 of my new favourite novel. LAID is a book about "young people's experiences with sex in an easy-access culture". It is brilliant.
The book opens with some goals, expectations, and questions. In short, read this book!
Every experience imaginable is illustrated in this book. Its stories are positive, negative, and neutral in nature. The audience is straight, gay, bi, trans, black, white, orange, female, male, s/he... it's a glorious world of diversity in sex.
I'd like to think of this book as Chicken Soup for the Sexually Charged Person's Soul.
Shannon T. Boodram (2009) does an excellent job of selecting realistic stories, poems, and tales about first, last, and in between sexual experiences. This book is a HUGE asset to anyone with sexual questions who wants a "for example..."
In between the chapters, Boodram (2009) beautifully articulates the introductions and conclusions to each section in the book. She also addresses a series of questions which she and the author of the story answer. BEAUTIFUL!
I am not finished the book yet. I want to bask in its glory some more. I checked it out of the library, but this should be a permanent book on my shelf. AND YOURS! Whether you are a teen, a parent of a teen, a sexuality enthusiast (like me), or a person with a sexual organ (guessing that's 99.9% of readers, give or take a few), put this gorgeous piece of work on your shelf... beside the rest of your chicken soup books. (I love Chicken Soup for the Soul).
More on this sexual merriment to come! I am not finished with this book yet.
http://laidthebook.com/
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