Dan Desmarques's Reviews > A Curious History of Sex

The books begin with the promise of an accurate description of sex in the context of history and, hopefully, cultural differences around the world. It offers none of that. Instead, it is nothing more than a personal obsession with words and social expectations around words. It should be called "Words I Don't Like" instead. I find this obsession with low quality books to be an insult to authors who truly want to educate the masses. These masses rarely read anything, and if they do, they waste their time on books that are nothing more than self-obsession with the dark side of the author's unresolved mental issues. Sure, you can start that way, but do not call it a "history" of anything. There is no significant historical account to be learned here. It's a misleading and inappropriate title for a book that is nothing more than a monologue about what the author thinks. I don't care what the author thinks. Only in narcissistic nations do people think that opinions are more valuable than facts. Many authors don't want to know the truth, and the masses have no way of observing it, and books like this cast a shadow over more interesting books dealing with the same subject. Whenever the author deals with political issues or history, she does so from a very personal perspective and distorts the facts. Few people will investigate her claims and confirm that she is wrong about most of the things she says, and distorts them to fit and reinforce her own opinion. This is unpleasant. It's manipulation of the issue. The author knows too little about history. When I tried to learn more about the author and found out that she is also a lecturer, I was really disgusted. For someone who is a lecturer, she could have written something worth reading, but most lecturers are just full of themselves and can't see their own limitations. A lecturer should know that personal opinions don't make science and words don't change facts. The whole education system is a fraud if such people are allowed to teach their nonsense. I give it a negative review, not only because I learned nothing of what I expected, but because I think the author is deliberately or selfishly doing a disservice to humanity.