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# Sex Object: A Memoir Paperback – February 28, 2017

**Brand:** jessica valenti
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- **What is this?** Sex Object: A Memoir Paperback – February 28, 2017 by jessica valenti
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Wow
  

*by P***. on Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2016*

Wow!  This memoir is the sharing of Valenti's life as a woman who feels objectified and attacked on a daily basis.  She goes back into her childhood and tells stories of men flashing her, or groping her, or saying suggestive comments to her on the streets.  She walks you through her teen and college years where you can see how those moments imprinted on her psyche and created the woman she was in the world – hard-partying, promiscuous, and yearning for love.  And, then how she became a feminist writer and blogger, as well as how she became a mother.  Through the whole book she's blunt and at the end you feel like someone ran over and shook you hard.  But, then at the same time you realize you needed to be shaken.  She is telling the story of every woman in America, who even if they haven't lived exactly her life, know what it is to feel objectified and attacked and criticized, just for being women, and then objectified and attacked and criticized a second time when they defend themselves.  I'd call this a must-read because it will really make you sit and think.  Plus it's  quick, easy read.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Tragic.
  

*by I***R on Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2016*

A book about the misery that is all too common for cis women, whose bodies seem to betray them at every turn as society does its best to prime them to accept a masochistic position.I cannot understand how her husband continued to put her at risk after she and her daughter almost died. Were both of his hands amputated? Jessica mentions how he can compartmentalize and hide his feelings while she has PTSD. Given that his body has remained uninvaded/sacrosanct/solely for his own pleasure his entire life, of course he cannot understand what she--or her daughter--has been through. He comes across as a robotic selfish boor. This book does not explain why such a smart vibrant woman is drawn to such a person, but I suppose that this is another element of what makes her writing so powerful: In a world where one is a sex object, any straight male that sees a brain in the body is a viable mate no matter how cold and insensitive.Sad, sad book. Best to Jessica and Layla.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Half baked
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2016*

I should confess that I'm only halfway through, but I think my opinion on this book is pretty much baked and ready.I appreciate that Valenti had the courage to write about her experiences. It takes a clitoris to write about something so painful with prose so thoughtful and deft. And yet, while Valenti writes beautifully in the introduction about what she wants to pinpoint -- how it feels to live in a 'world that hates women' -- I don't think she quite pulls it off.'Sex Object' makes a more convincing case that, when she was younger, Valenti really hated herself.I've been there. And I know how painful it is to then realize you've allowed other people to share in, and contribute to, that self-hatred. The world doesn't guarantee a safety net, even when, and perhaps especially when, we're not feeling strong enough to weave one ourselves.FWIW, my personal experience as a woman has been that the stronger you become mentally, the less power these experiences have to define you. I've actually come to view men who perpetrate 'microagressions' against me as victims themselves -- of ignorance, of low self-esteem, of a culture that too often equates masculinity with making a woman feel like s***.In that vein, I think this book is a good starting point for an urgently needed discussion. But I also think the world kind of sucks for everyone, until you realize that it doesn't have to, really, and you allow yourself to view everyone, regardless of gender, with compassion.My 2 cents. Back to the book and my half-baked cookies.

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