The Naked Truth about Sex: A Guide to Intelligent Sexual Choices for Teenagers & Twentysomethings [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

I think this book is pretty entertaining and has good information. As a 20-something, I'd say that it's a very good book for kids going off to college. Some parents would be relieved to give it to their kids because they wouldn't have to say this stuff themselves. But I can see how some parents might be hesitant to give this book to their high school kids because it contains information they'd never talk about. So if you're interested in learning the naked truth about sex, buy it yourself and don't wait for your parents. I wish I had this book when I was going though high school and into college.

Doctor Libby's THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT SEX is a direct and clearly written book dedicated to providing counsel and advice to teenagers and young adults. Through a clever didactic approach utilizing responses to actual questions posed by young people, Libby provides sensitive and sound advice. He writes from a base of extensive academic knowledge and considerable clinical experience and provides information directly concerned with sexual issues and sexual behavior. Libby provides useful information in a style that young people will appreciate for its honesty and helpfulness.

The Naked Truth about Sex is a "sexuality guide" by Roger Libby for teens/young adults and is an excellent beginning for the 21st Century which follows in the tradition of the great writings on sexuality and love in the 20th Century by Havelock Ellis-Studies in The Psychology of Sex, Anais Nin-A Journal of Love, Sigmund Freud-Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, Bronislaw Malinowski-The Sexual Life of Savages, Margaret Mead-Male and Female, Alfred Kinsey--Sexual Behavior of the Human Male v1 and Female v2, Albert Ellis's Sex without Guilt and The Art and Science of Love, Betty Friedan-The Feminine Mystique, Masters and Johnson-Human Sexual Response, CA Tripp--Homosexual Matrix, and Nancy Friday-Jealousy.

The central thesis of The Naked Truth about Sex is how teenagers and young adults can derive pleasure from sexual expression with the least amount of risk while remaining true to their principles, values, beliefs, and continue to maintain respect among family and friends. By considering two elements of sexuality-WHEN to be sexual and WHO to be sexual with we are faced with three of the four decisions regarding the sexual experience having a negative component to them. Consider the following 2 x 2 table. Think about this model when making love/sexual decisions. You can change the stems on each side of the table to assist in figuring out other sexual issues that may be causing confusion.

........Timing-WHEN to be sexual:+ or --

........WHO to..................+ +.....-- +
........Be sexual:..+ or --...+ --....-- --

The Naked Truth about Sex provides ideas and considerations for teens and young adults to evaluate to their own situations. The book promotes accurate information, following conventional values, beliefs, and principles, understanding feelings of self and others, and positive interpersonal relationships. Some "parents" may have a problem with the book because of its open permission giving of having sexual pleasure as a teen or young adult. As a college professor I asked students to talk with their friends regarding how many orgasms they have had in their lives and how many of them were not pleasurable. Well the running total when I finished teaching was 281,736 pleasurable and 18 not pleasurable. Whether induced by self or other orgasm has a very, very strong reinforcement component. Unfortunately, orgasm only needs to be paired with a sexual type event and people become attached to that method for achieving orgasm. Mark Twain, as only he could do, had some wonderful thoughts on "The Science of Onanism" which can be found at: (This is among the most hillarious thoughts ever on sex.)

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Under the best of circumstances The Naked Truth about Sex would be read by parents and teens and discussed between them verbally or maybe by some form of writing back and forth. I would doubt that The Naked Truth about Sex would ever be adopted as a high school textbook unless AS Neill's Summerhill School in England reopened.

Chapter 6: The Pre-Sex Discussion (PSD): A Gigantic Step Toward Consensual Safer Sex is my favorite chapter. It is the questions posed for the discussion and process that everyone should consider before they engage in sexual activity with anyone, including self. This chapter alone is worth the price of the book and the PSD applies to everyone-teens, young adults, adults, and the elderly. To conclude, The Naked Truth about Sex is the first sexual manifesto of the 21st Century and this work is the culmination of forward thinking ideas on relationships including a sexuality component while building cumulatively on the pioneers of the 20th Century.

Paul S. Weikert, Ph.D.