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    How to Think More About Sex
    How to Think More About Sex
    How to Think More About Sex
    Audiobook3 hours

    How to Think More About Sex

    Written by Alain de Botton

    Narrated by David Thorpe

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    THE SCHOOL OF LIFE IS DEDICATED TO EXPLORING LIFE'S BIG QUESTIONS IN HIGHLY-PORTABLE PAPERBACKS, FEATURING FRENCH FLAPS AND DECKLE EDGES, THAT THE NEW YORK TIMES CALLS "DAMNABLY CUTE." WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT WE WILL DIRECT YOU TOWARDS A VARIETY OF USEFUL IDEAS THAT ARE GUARANTEED TO STIMULATE, PROVOKE, AND CONSOLE.

    We don't think too much about sex; we're merely thinking about it in the wrong way.
    So asserts Alain de Botton in this rigorous and supremely honest book designed to help us navigate the intimate and exciting---yet often confusing and difficult---experience that is sex. Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the reality. This book argues that twenty-first-century sex is ultimately fated to be a balancing act between love and desire, and adventure and commitment. Covering topics that include lust, fetishism, adultery, and pornography, Alain de Botton frankly articulates the dilemmas of modern sexuality, offering insights and consolation to help us think more deeply and wisely about the sex we are, or aren't, having.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateDec 24, 2012
    ISBN9781427231864
    How to Think More About Sex
    Author

    Alain de Botton

    Alain de Botton is the author of a number of books that try to throw light on the big challenges of our lives. His books have been sold in thirty-five countries and many have been international bestsellers, including How Proust Can Change Your Life, Essays in Love and The Art of Travel. He is the founder of two social enterprises, the first promoting architecture, Living Architecture, which gets top architects to build holiday homes for rental by everyone. The second enterprise is The School of Life.

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    • 3/5
      having recently discovered Alain, I am already a big fan of his logical, "rawly humorous" clear and balanced way of presenting ideas and letting the audience reach their own conclusions(politicians ought to try that;)). that said, this was not my favorite work. I would not have started with S&M. I would have gotten to those topics after warming us up for several chapters. also, Freud has been debunked in many intellectual and psychological circles. that diluted his work as well. I'm enjoying opening up to some ideas, not others.
    • 4/5
      33)How to Think More About Sex – Alain de Botton (9/10) A book about the old in & out I read because I enjoyed a collection of his essays so much. His argument is that sex manuals shouldn’t be talking about the psychical act, but more the sociological pressures that cause us to have sexual disfunctions. The chapters on pornography & adultery are paerticularly good. He is an incredibly funny, whilst still thought provoking writer. And a pessimist – his message is – just lower your sights, that’s how to make life less shitty. The end quotation is that without sex “We would be so much less well acquainted with agony, and therefore so much crueler and less ready to laugh at ourselves”, which seems entirely appropriate.
    • 3/5
      Interesting premise, but, not surprisingly, the philosopher writer has some issues. And it's also not a particularly seductive read.
    • 3/5
      The more the merrier. This book needed therefore - not really.
    • 3/5
      Strikes me as a nice companion to read alongside Alan Bennett's "Smut." Both write about a sticky subject in a cheerful and thought-provoking way.
    • 4/5
      A short, well written account of various alternative and rational views on sex, love and marriage. I would recommend this book to anyone considering any of those activities.
    • 4/5
      Synopsis: An easy read into sex. Pornography, masturbation, impotence, relationships, adultery all all topics covered within. My Opinion: A light and easy read. Read it a day. An interesting insight that is made is that we are constantly touched as babies yet once we start pre-school, etc, there is a lack of physical and intimate touch with other human beings.
    • 3/5
      Not very surprising, but still mildly interesting. I am Alain de Botton*s fan, but this is not one of his best writings.