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A review by charliethebookaddict
Sex from Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules by Sarah Mirk
3.0
A criticism I have is her explanation of her biological sex.
Unless she has had full genome sequencing (highly unlikely) she has no idea what chromosomes she has. Biological sex isn't as simple as she tried to make it, and intersex people can show no physical signs and only have intersex chromosomes and never know until they needed full genome sequencing. I feel like research like that is basic respect if you're going to mention a topic you clearly don't know about.
But apart from that I really enjoyed it, and I felt it gave a really good varied view of relationships, sexuality, communication in relationships, breaking up and moving on.
Unless she has had full genome sequencing (highly unlikely) she has no idea what chromosomes she has. Biological sex isn't as simple as she tried to make it, and intersex people can show no physical signs and only have intersex chromosomes and never know until they needed full genome sequencing. I feel like research like that is basic respect if you're going to mention a topic you clearly don't know about.
But apart from that I really enjoyed it, and I felt it gave a really good varied view of relationships, sexuality, communication in relationships, breaking up and moving on.