Don't Use My Sweater Like a Towel [Paperback]

Jennifer Kelton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 28, 2006

The real deal on men, women and sex. Jennifer Kelton has taken a generation self-help books and turned them on their heads with a reality-based book on dating and mating for the 21st century. Jam-packed with revealing surveys, scientific research, and humorous X-rated episodes. Don t Use My Sweater Like a Towel is NOT your parent s dating book. Kelton delivers impassioned insights, poses pertinent questions and presents startling facts that will spur fiery water cooler conversations. Not only will this book will give the sexes a better understanding of how they interface with each other but it will also bring them closer together. Read what happens when Kelton spends a year investigating the dating scene and following the advice of America s top self-help books.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Part memoir, part amateur experiment, Don't Use My Sweater Like A Towel is an absolutely uncensored, at times sexually graphic memoir of author Jennifer Kelton's dating and sex life, and her surprisingly structured experiments to discern precisely how much value and accuracy lies in the myriad of dating self-help books and advice available today. Kelton was unable to bear children for medical reasons, and therefore was not under pressure from a biological clock, yet she was searching for the right man to share her life with - most of Don't Use My Sweater Like A Towel recounts the men that she dated, all of whom eventually proved unsuitable for a long-term relationship with her, but many of whom remained good friends after the sex ended. Of especial interest are the chapters in which Kelton reflects on dating advice books, and gathered information from her male friends as to whether women really shouldn't call a man back (the most common answer: if the woman never calls, the man may take it as a sign that she isn't interested), or how many dates there should be before sex (most agreed that it depended on what the people in the relationship felt was right), and similar questions. She also explored the questionable usefulness of bottled human phermones, and offers enlightening ponderings on the latest scientific findings about mating behaviors in the animal kingdom. Perhaps the most valuable advice in Don't Use My Sweater Like A Towel is the importance of having confidence in oneself and respect for others; the author's open story of her dating life certainly proves to be an invaluable and enriching experience. --Midwest Book Review

A woman dates 12 men over the course of a year in the name of science...Written in a chatty, brisk style, the book is most engaging when Kelton attempts to follow the dating rules offered by various self-help books...The chapter in which she orders pheromones from the Internet and enlists her friends as test subjects is especially amusing...A fun, intriguing premise. --Kirkus Discoveries

About the Author

Jennifer Kelton the author of Don't Use my Sweater Like a Towel spends an entire year as a social scientist unraveling the mysteries of human nature and our ever innate genetic hardwiring. Kelton pens a raw tell-all book which not only documents her own personal optimism on the search for love but a universal one. Through Keltons eyes you will experience the cold hard facts, the good, the bad and the sometimes messy as she discovered on her sweater after a date.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Green Knight Press; 1st edition (December 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0979072301
• ISBN-13: 978-0979072307
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,771,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Use My Sweater Like A Towel, November 10, 2006

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M.L. Magdalena "M.L. Magdalena" (LA Woman) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Use My Sweater Like A Towel (Paperback)

The book is well written in an honest, witty and entertaining manner. Really speaks to the "L.A. Man" syndrome, too many beautiful and smart women that get caught occasionally dating down! Can't wait for Kelton's sequel with the possibility of the smart, modern, sexy, attractive woman meets the same in a man...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars an exposed "pants down" look at sex & dating in the single world, November 10, 2006

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Francine Friend - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Use My Sweater Like A Towel (Paperback)

entertaining quick read about a raw eye opening insight into dating

5.0 out of 5 stars Brutally Honest, February 19, 2008

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M. E. Tappan (Lakewood, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Don't Use My Sweater Like a Towel (Paperback)

Don't Use my Sweater as a Towel is a ribald romp through the dating scene (ala L.A.), uncommitted relationships (and wanting to stay that way), pheromones (the kind that turn you on... and off), and the myriad of self-help relationship books that your local bookstore stocks for the unrequited.

In a long past (and when unmarried) time, the book's world too was mine. And in retrospect it is clear to me now that I, like many of the book's male subjects, was a jerk. This was not wholly a unilateral state of being. But my jerkiness was perhaps more grand, less kind, and certainly more regrettable than my partner's.

Kelton's book confirms my worst fears of the time. And that big fear was this: While I tried to appear cool and intelligent - as pathetic a "come on" as any - the drunk, the urban cowboy, the guy with sandals that looks like Jesus, the guy with the pimped-out car, and the guy who will eventually wipe his spermatozoa on his lover's sweater (hence the book's title), would get the attractive woman to his hotel room and have screaming sex while I would be left to sip my gin (hold the Vermouth please) alone in the lobby.

In this memoir, there are no stories of angry lovers ripping the still beating and bloody heart from their partner's chest, no revenge car sabotage, and no spirals into depression because of lost love and lost worlds. There is though a brutally honest account of a woman's search for a partner. A search for someone to love. And the desire to have love returned.