Erica Garza
Autor/a de Getting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction
Obres de Erica Garza
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Gènere
- female
Membres
Ressenyes
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 1
- Membres
- 58
- Popularitat
- #284,346
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 2
- ISBN
- 5
Myself, I'm reserved when divulging my sex life, but Garza is not, which is for the better in this book. Just like seeing Steve McQueen's excellent film "Shame", one quickly reads through this book and knows that its contents are not sexually arousing but symptoms of what occurs in Garza's life. Bar the start of this book, it is chronologically written. As such, her growing up, the introduction of Internet that projects her extremely quickly into hypersexuality, her first relationships, her short sentences that describes self-damaging behaviours, it all bears the hallmarks of simplistically describing situations that have happened, á la Lisa Carver in her diaries.
Her descriptions of being a sex addict leaves me with the sense of what I felt when watching "Shame" for the first time. Still, this is not a hopeless nor a shocker of a book. It's a description of a life—which has yet to reach midlife—and the haunts that come with sex addiction. This is a very easy read, even though the stories affected me; at times, I was a little jolted, but mostly I kept hoping for Garza to feel a lot better in the end; naturally this is something that can be felt for every human being.… (més)