Not uplifting

I thought this book was going to be helpful and uplifting about how to escape raunch culture without being harmful towards yourself or others that might have participated in it knowingly or unknowingly. It's true it wasn't judgemental, and I appreciated that. I also appreciated the distinction she made between raunch and sex positivity. I already know about raunch culture. We're surrounded by it. This book explained so much raunch culture in advertising and porn and repetitive about what she states as the ideal body that I ended up getting extremely depressed. I kept expecting each chapter to be different, but it was more of the same. I feel it kind of misses the mark in some ways, but it wasn't bad, and she certainly meant well. One thing that confused me is that she was negative about porn with double penetration in the vagina because it involves 2 penises touching (which seemed biphobic to me), but then she complained people are homophobic (so they aren't allowed to enjoy bi sex?). The last chapter starts out talking about The Women's March, which is an event that totally missed the mark on what women need for a safer, healthier world, and ignores the voices and concerns of women and especially mothers while calling them slurs, so I didn't finish the book. Maybe I will try again another time. I do appreciate how she talked about Trump since so many people minimize and ignore the awful things he says and does about women (including his own daughters).

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