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“Reading Amy Rose Spiegel is tantamount to listening to a new language—surprising to the ear, a shock to the senses, and utterly invigorating. She charters the brave new world of identity politics with trusting vigor—and that rarest of qualities, humor.”
— New Yorker
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“Spiegel charms with frank, empowering advice on embracing one’s sexuality without apology…This should be required reading for anyone even considering having sex for the first time.”
— Publishers Weekly
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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
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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
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ACTION takes a humorous, kind, and informative bent on humanity's most popular and most confusing activity....[and] is wildly thorough, covering everything.
— Milk
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A perfect compendium...Equal parts banging field guide...and revealing post-romantic memoir.
— The Rumpus
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Action is a perfect mix of informational guide and personal accounts.
— Bitch
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This book should be taught in sex ed classes around the nation and is a treasure.
— The Frisky
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Fast-paced and fun and should be required reading in high schools.
— Fusion
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Thoughtful, informative and sensitive, writing in a way that invites any reader, regardless of gender identity or sexuality, to take part.
— The Huffington Post
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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
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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
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Reading Amy Rose Spiegel is tantamount to listening to a new language-surprising to the ear, a shock to the senses, and utterly invigorating. She charters the brave new world of identity politics with trusting vigor-and that rarest of qualities, humor.
— Hilton Als, staff writer for The New Yorker
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ACTION is a marvelous modern manual on sex, relationships, consent and communication in an era that deeply craves a disappearing intimacy between them all. Ms. Spiegel's writing is both who we are and everything we wish we were brave enough to become: a living, breathing, life-long experiment that lights up everyone and everything that can be touched.
— Amber Tamblyn, actress and author of Dark Sparkler
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Spiegel charms with frank, empowering advice on embracing one's sexuality without apology...This should be required reading for anyone even considering having sex for the first time.
— Publishers Weekly