The Dirt on Sex: A Dateable Book (The Dirt Series)

Rating:
Summary: a little too much
Review: I'll be frank: this book is graphic. Parts of it are R-rated. I'm not joking. It goes into more detail than an issue of Seventeen or YM or CosmoGirl! Or even Teen People. It is one peg above "Deal With It!" from Gurl.com. It is a very frank, very honest book. What separates it from the rest is that it comes from the Christian perspective. It talks about God, and what God thinks of premarital sex. The author is not preachy, instead he says that the decision is yours. Its up to you, he says, to make the decision not to have sex and to remain pure. He does warn about some of the possible consequences. But this book also talks about masturbation, oral sex (details here), homosexuality, STD's, condoms (including misuse of condoms), the rhythm method and popular tactics used to avoid going "all the way." While abstinence is preached, I found that this book went just a little too far. I have a gut feeling that my parents (who were fairly liberal when it came to raising me and my brother, i.e., listen to whatever music you want, no curfew) would not have let me and my brother read this book when we were sixteen. Why? Because there is a little too much here. I recommend the books Dateable and The Dateable Rules instead-they are both written by the same author (with Hayley Morgan DiMarco) they are a little less detailed and get the same point across as this book does.