Action, Amy Rose Spiegel
Action, Amy Rose Spiegel
List: $24.99 | Sale: $17.50
Club: $12.49

Action
A Book about Sex

Author: Amy Rose Spiegel

Narrator: Amy Rose Spiegel

Unabridged: 5 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/17/2016


Synopsis

With whip-smart prose, reminiscent of Roxane Gay and Meghan Daum, Action interweaves Spiegel's own sexual autobiography with loving advice on one-night stands, relationships, and everything in between.

With whip-smart prose, reminiscent of Roxane Gay and Meghan Daum, Action interweaves Spiegel's own sexual autobiography with loving advice on one-night stands, relationships, and everything in between. Action is a book about sex that people won't feel embarrassed about owning. There are absolutely zero provocatively shaped fruit on the cover, for one. In Action, Amy Rose Spiegel exhorts you to trust yourself and be respectful of others--and to have the best possible time doing the things you search for on the Internet, except in reality. The book covers consent, safety, group sex, gender, and the best breakfast to make for a one-night stand. Spiegel also includes dissections of threesomes, how to pick people up without being a skeezer, celibacy as a display of autonomy, and, of course, how to clean your room in 10 minutes if a devastatingly lovely side-piece is about to stop by. All told, Action totally doesn't think it's weird that you want to try that thing together. In fact, Action is very into it.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bibliovoracious on February 11, 2019

3.5 I don't think this is a book about sex so much as a book about the freedom of having sex. How it might feel to have lots of it, with lots of people, to lose gender delimitations, ditch shame, to be sexual actively, profligately, unapologetically. Get lots of action; love, fuck, romp, give, appre......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on February 04, 2020

My sister-in-law is an ex-sex-ed instructor (say five times fast), who did grad school for the same, so I raid her bookshelves whenever I get the chance and/or find books to add. This is the latter. Between her shelves and our talks, I have Opinions on sex-help books. My pick so far is Betty Dodson,......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on August 13, 2016

I totally enjoyed this but I found the writing to be a real struggle. She uses a lot of millennial vernacular which is great but she also has a prose style that's very tough to read. You can open to any page and find a sentence that's just way over written. Someone more knowledgeable about grammar c......more

Goodreads review by Robyn on September 18, 2016

Good, open-hearted and mostly accurate advice (including the exhortation to avoid sleeping with DJs), but oh, honey: 1. You are so very young, and possibly should not be offering advice on "long-term relationships ", and 2. Two weeks of no sex isn't quite celibacy. Anyway, bang on, as it were.......more

Goodreads review by Eric on January 30, 2017

How to Think About Sex (Without Overthinking It) Action: A Book About Sex is the cool guy/gal you hooked up with in high school or college who was way too attractive and confident for you but helped you find your way from theory to concept (in a sexual sense). After years of euphemisms and pseudo-ps......more


Quotes

"A candid guide to 21st-century sexual politics...[where] Spiegel's gift is being able to write with total inclusivity - for queer, trans, straight, asexual and celibate bodies and desires - without scrimping on specificity."—The Guardian

ACTION is a sex advice book for a new, progressive generation, one whose views on sex are informed by a basic ethos of fluid sexuality, body positivity, and feminist responses to rape culture...ensuring that all that sex is not only safe and consensual, but good."—Slate

"ACTION takes a humorous, kind, and informative bent on humanity's most popular and most confusing activity....[and] is wildly thorough, covering everything."—Milk

"A perfect compendium...Equal parts banging field guide...and revealing post-romantic memoir."—The Rumpus

"Action is a perfect mix of informational guide and personal accounts."—Bitch

"This book should be taught in sex ed classes around the nation and is a treasure."—The Frisky

"Fast-paced and fun and should be required reading in high schools."—Fusion

"Thoughtful, informative and sensitive, writing in a way that invites any reader, regardless of gender identity or sexuality, to take part."—The Huffington Post

"This outrageously funny book interweaves Spiegel's own sexual history with tender advice on one-night stands, relationships, group sex and absolutely everything in between."—ELLE UK

"I've never actually laughed out loud so frequently in any reading experience, nor received such a thorough education in sexing healthily. Even the most literal, practical, graphic advice in this book is imbued with love, and with Amy Rose Spiegel's singular voice."—Tavi Gevinson, Editor-in-Chief, Rookie