Sex : What Every Young Woman Needs to Know [Spiral-bound]

William F. Fitzgerald (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 21, 1999

SEX: What Every Young Woman Needs to Know An Aid to Dialogue Between Parent and Child
SYNOPSIS (by the author)
112 pps. Paperback, Menequil Press, San Jose, California

Based, in part, on thousands of questions posed to the author via the internet on www.sexdoc.com, Dr. William F. Fitzgerald, a psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Clara, California, has written this book to help prevent rape, unwanted pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases.

Because the book contains specific descriptions of a wide variety of sexual behavior that some adults would be embarrassed to discuss even with their spouse, the author suggests that a parent read the book first, to decide when to offer it to the daughter. The author also endorses this because many parents are unaware of their own sexual ignorance.

After a chapter on basic anatomy, the "slanguage" of sex is presented straightforwardly with an emphasis on knowing what words might imply an erroneous promise of sex. "Avoiding unwanted pregnancy" emphasizes an understanding of how fertilization occurs, then ties that to effective and ineffective methods of birth control.

The chapters on masturbation, petting, oral sex, anal sex, and intercourse will be uncomfortable for many readers, but they contain information that is directly responsive to questions frequently posed by young women.

"Avoiding sexually transmitted diseases" is followed by three chapters that will probably be the impetus for much discussion between parent and child. "Boundaries and communication" strives to empower young women. "To Be or Not To Be (a virgin)," the longest chapter in the book, presents numerous testimonials from women, some of which support pre-marital intercourse, and some of which do not. The final chapter, "The Unfairness Of It All" presents some reasons why sex is such a big deal and why it is such a powerful force in society.

The book is punctuated with what the author calls "factoids" (e.g. Human females are the only primates with permanently swollen mammary glands), off-color jokes, many of which are germane to the topic of the chapter in which they appear, and anecdotes.

The book contains a prefacing statement to both the parent and the young woman. The author concludes the book by repeating the last line in his preface to the young woman: "Thank you for letting me be part of this important component in your life."

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This is the first in the "Sexdoc" series. Other titles expected soon are:

"SEX: What Every Young Man Needs to Know"

"SEX: What Every Woman Needs to Know"

"SEX: What Every Man Needs to Know"

"Sexuality of Seniors"

"Sex Therapy - The Sexdoc Method"

From the Author

Sexual ignorance is rampant at all ages, and because females bear the physical brunt of pregnancy, their knowledge, while no more important than that of males, is better taught first.

Many parents would like their children to know many sexual details, certainly information beyond what is taught in any school curriculum, but are too embarrassed themselves to broach those subjects. This book is designed to aid dialogue between parent and child. The book is designed specifically to look like a school one subject notebook, with a wire binding, three-hole punched, and with a plain pink cover.

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Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 112 pages
• Publisher: Menequil Press (October 21, 1999)
• ISBN-10: 1929441517
• ISBN-13: 978-1929441518
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,344,772 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A better way to prevent teen pregnancy, February 22, 2000

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S.T. "naldog" (Arizona) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sex : What Every Young Woman Needs to Know (Spiral-bound)

This is a very complete and explicit discussion of sexuality. It is designed to define, describe and clarify sexuality and stimulate discussion between parents and teens. It provides vital, factual information to young people who are inundated with sexuality, but are often uncertain of what it all really means as they explore their personal sexuality in a world full of sex. The chapter titled "The Slanguage of Sex" should be standard reading material for pre-teens so that they may be less vulnerable to sexual exploitation. I think Dr. Fitzgerald has taken a bold step to frankly discuss sexuality, in all its facets. Dr. Fitzgerald encourages women to make intellegent choices about their bodies and attempts to prevent women from becoming victims of ignorance. Now young (and not so young) women have a factual resource when making personal choices for their emerging sexuality.