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Sounds Fake But Okay
- Narrator
- Kayla Kaszyca, Sarah Costello
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Publish Date
- 23 November 2023
- Run Time
- 4 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
An empowering guide to help aspec people become more confident in their identities and understand their relationships, written by the hosts of the #1 podcast on asexuality.
True Love. Third Wheels. Dick pics. 'Dying alone'. Who decided this was normal?
Sarah and Kayla invite you to put on your purple aspec glasses - and rethink everything you thought you knew about society, friendship, sex, romance and more.
Drawing on their personal stories, and those of aspec friends all over the world, prepare to explore your microlabels, investigate different models of partnership, delve into the intersection of gender norms and compulsory sexuality and reconsider the meaning of sex - when allosexual attraction is out of the equation.
Spanning the whole range of relationships we have in our lives - to family, friends, lovers, society, our gender, and ourselves, this book asks you to let your imagination roam, and think again what human connection really is.
Includes exclusive 'Sounds Fake But Okay' podcast episodes.
(P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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Details
- Author
- Sarah Costello and Kayla Kaszyca
- Narrator
- Kayla Kaszyca, Sarah Costello
- Duration
- 4 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 November 2023
- ISBN
- 9781399812061
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Genre
- Sex and sexuality: advice, topics and issues, Dating, relationships, living together and marriage: advice, topics and issues, LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics, Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance
Synopsis
'Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by human beings and eventually, they became hard and fast rules that society imposed on us all.'An empowering guide to help aspec people become more confident in their identities and understand their relationships, written by the hosts of the #1 podcast on asexuality.True Love. Third Wheels. Dick pics. 'Dying alone'. Who decided this was normal?Sarah and Kayla invite you to put on your purple aspec glasses - and rethink everything you thought you knew about society, friendship, sex, romance and more.Drawing on their personal stories, and those of aspec friends all over the world, prepare to explore your microlabels, investigate different models of partnership, delve into the intersection of gender norms and compulsory sexuality and reconsider the meaning of sex - when allosexual attraction is out of the equation.Spanning the whole range of relationships we have in our lives - to family, friends, lovers, society, our gender, and ourselves, this book asks you to let your imagination roam, and think again what human connection really is. Includes exclusive 'Sounds Fake But Okay' podcast episodes.(P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
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