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First off, the book is horribly out of date in its notion of humour.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.

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.