3.25/5. Read this back in 2018 and did not review it back then. I don't remember enough about it to give it proper feedback.

Practical Sexuallity by Noah Holder
Great funny read.. made me spit out my coffee a few times..
Will definitely recommend :)

I wouldn't call it erotica but a book that makes you laugh out loud about something so often discussed in hushed tones.

Hilarious read!

This was an interesting read, the contents were not what I envisioned it to be. Found it to be true to reality in most instances but the gender bashing was a little too frequent to be appreciated.

Despite the title, this book is not a manual on sexuality. Rather it is a humorous albeit raunchy ode to sexuality and the battle between sexes. The authors employ pithy idioms, jokes, and limericks complete with clean drawings! to achieve their ends. Hardly the sort of book read in one sitting though one loathes stopping once started. This is a book that one reaches for when knocked sideways by the opposite gender and in desperate need of a pick me up. One gets the impression that the authors had a ball putting this book together and likely continue to do so at the reader’s expense considering the spirit of camaraderie in which it is written. Abounding in cynical wisdom it might burst the all-pervading romantic sentiment of some readers. Sardonic in the vein of a 21st century Chaucer, it is definitely a keeper.

People will either love or hate this book... I doubt there is a middle ground. Think of all the off-color, offensive and... okay, sometimes true things that men and women say about each other and you'll find it between the covers of this book. It's raunchy and hateful and not surprisingly, I've heard much of the content before. I know the author spent a lot of time researching (yes, there are actually references) and compiling this collection and for that I'm giving it 3 stars. If an alien read this book, it would seriously wonder how humans ever managed to procreate and coexist.

I received a copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I'm afraid that this is a simply awful book. I was going to blame the publishers but I see that it is an EPUB edition only. It is flagged up as a witty account of how to survive the battle of the sexes but that's being very generous at a lot of levels. It is subtitled The Battle of the Sexes: How to Survive and Win and I think that's really a gross misrepresentation.

First off, the book is horribly out of date in its notion of humour. It's like reading the joke pages from an old edition of Men Only or that slightly raunchy page from the Readers Digest. Its misogynistic although it probably doesn't think it is. Guys, well guys, hey, leave their stuff about, could be cleaner, will shag anything anytime and are a bit vague on which bits of a woman elicit the best response. Women are conniving, devious manipulators determined to get what they want driven by a desire for material things and seeking total obedience from men in return for very occasional sex. Can you see the difference?

Second, the book jumps all over the place with lists, quotations, limericks and amateurish drawings. If it was your Pinterest page dragged from bad webpages you'd be apologetic rather than self publishing. A lot of it looks as if the authors couldn't even be bothered to retype it.

And, third, a lot of this jokey stuff is familiar if not rather tired. There's a whole vein of recent comedy and comment about how the sexes relate to each other but this book is stuck in a time when men went out to work and earned the real money, women were fair game for sexual comment in offices where they had trivial jobs and people thought jokes about Irish people, and thick people generally, were really funny. There's also rather a lot of stuff about poo for a book on sex. I think the world has moved on.

I wasn't looking for profundities. I just fancied a light, easy, funny summer read. Maybe this wasn't the book to choose.

Oh, the horror!! I've never been so pissed with anyone's point of view regarding women before this. I really wish I can un-read this book more than anything else. The preposterous way used to point out "What women say, but what they actually mean" thing was simply atrocious. I really can't believe that we still have people around talking about women in such a way.
Highly disappointing :(

This book is described as being a guide to winning the battle of the sexes, but didn't offer that. Instead the reader is forced to endure unfunny jokes and cliché information that has been written about other places. The book is also unorganized and all over the place.

Vulgar, ill-conceived and linear commentary. Not in any way funny or based on any fragment of truth. Foul, (Americanised) language that added nothing to the prose. Poor quality illustrations and typeface.

Very amateur.

Great book, found myself reading outloud to my partner. A must read to understand how the other sex thinks.

I rarely give a one star rating but this one was very much deserved. On the details section of this book on Netgalley is a disclaimer I should have taken seriously. I only wish I had paid more attention to it before asking for this book. It would have spared me from having to read the book and having to write this review. I’d like to believe that I am a person who is respectful of other people’s opinion even if they conflict with mine. That belief was thoroughly tested when I could barely read this book without wanting to throw something. In this case, this book which was unfortunately not a hard copy.


 I had toyed with the idea of not writing a review but I thought that people deserved to know what they were getting into with this book. I, like any other reader had some expectations of what this book was about. I expected it to be funny, informative even controversial but all in all a good book.

It was advertised as a guide to the battle of the sexes and how to win. Which sounds interesting right? If only they had stuck to what was advertised. This book was the product of jumbled up thoughts, written in a haphazard manner which did not make sense as a book. If these ideas were published as articles in a newspaper or a magazine I would definitely understand, but as a book? No. I honestly can’t tell what this book was about so I’ll tell you what was in it. Cliché advice, misguided information which can be heard in everyday conversation (which is not even proven to be right), quotes from other people and my least favorite the jokes at the end. Some of them might have actually been funny but this is not a joke book, so why then did they have to be included? It looked like the author ran out of random things to write about so he decided to add some jokes to increase the amount of pages.

Somewhere in the middle of all this, the author remembers what kind of book he was supposed to write and tries to come up with some advice. Case in point, the 5C’s in chapter 24. This is exactly the kind of content which should have been in the whole book.

Within the book the author writes, “my intent in these last two paragraphs is to slam our gentle readers with ugly emotionally charged, stiletto-like material aimed at creating upset and anger." I’d like to say, it was not just in those two paragraphs. It was the whole book!

The author succeeded in writing a shockingly offensive and annoying book. I also assume that the editing of this book was also intended to serve this purpose, which is to shock. Why else would an editor allow pages of capitalized words and at times written in red to be published? So who would I recommend this to? No one I would ever have to see again. Then again, I’m sure somebody has and is likely to enjoy this. I will however not be part of that fan club.

Did not like this. Rip off of all jokes which nowadays floating around the internet.

Think of every cliche, suggestion or jokes you have heard while thinking of Men are from Mars and women are from Venus. Add few more crude jokes....I don't have enough strength to finish this.

In so many nonfiction books I want flashy and artsy to make things pop...in this one, I wish they'd toned it down a bit just so that it stopped looking like a flyer printed out to be mass distributed. I found that super distracting throughout the entire book and in the end I was starting to lose sight of the good and funny parts of the book.

Dnf. (did not finish)
Is this book written by a raging misogynist?
This is pure sexist drivel. I'd go so far as to argue that the author also inwardly hates men, too, as he seems to frame all men into nothing more than a cave man, sex-on-the-brain bore. Men deserve better. And certainly do the women. This tripe is full of lads laughing down the pub "banter" that furthers the divide between true communication and paves the way for rape apologists.
What I thought might be an insightful and witty book about miscommunication in relationships is instead crass and boring jokes that went out of fashion with Jim Davidson.
Secondly, there are more sexual orientations and gender presentations than the author has surmised in this trash, and I'd love to know if he thinks in a same sex relationship there must be the equivalent of a 'guy' and a 'girl'.
Do not buy, do not read, unless you wish to switch out your brain cells for peanuts.

I guess I'm not the target audience. Crude humor with ever negative stereotype. I thought this would help with communication with some humor thrown in. But it was just a very negative cynical book trying to be funny.