Sheila Gregoire's Reviews > Sex: What Your Parents Didn't Tell You

Sex was never designed to leave us feeling empty. And yet in this part-memoir, part-cultural romp, Michael Rittenhouse diagnoses our problem very precisely: we've made sex into something base, a means to an end, rather than something glorious and whole as it was intended.

Leading us down the cultural roots of the Liberators, who claimed that they were "liberating" us to enjoy sex, but actually leaving us feeling empty and alone, and the Prudes, who took the spiritual out of sex and left it purely functional, Michael makes a plea to find the beauty in sex again. And that beauty is only found in a truly monogamous, committed relationship.

Sex is so much more than we've been told. And for anyone struggling to understand why something which is supposed to be so stupendous seems so blah, Michael gives some great insight, and awesome advice.