This graphic novel was educational and well-drawn, definitely worth the money and the hype, and I hope will be successful!

Brilliant way to educate about sex, as the cartoon format and the friendly narrator make it all much more understandable and approachable. I wish I'd had such a fresh, frank guide for the questions I had when I was younger. The straightforward tone is much appreciated, and it helps hold down embarrassment. I'm glad the creators covered such a range of topics so directly.

A very informative book for young teens and I would love for it to be in all schools. By the time I had sex ed I was nearly 16 and it was basically a huge joke. I was a massive reader and if I had this book back then I would have been more informed when I needed it.

I work in a high school library and requested this book with the interest in ordering it for our students. It has a lot of great information and the illustrations were plentiful and clear. I also enjoyed the diversity in the information and people illustrated in the book.

A tidbit that has nothing to do with the quality and such of this book:
Since reading the printed version I've discussed it with various other staff in the school. We all agree that the information in the book is needed in our collection, but are concerned about how our parental community will react to us purchasing and having it. I, myself, believe that this book can be a stepping stone in changing the way the USA views and discusses sex education in schools. It would be great to see more of books like this in the future. (I would have loved to have this when I was younger. I could have learned about safe and consensual sex earlier on.)

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I was already slightly familiar with Erika Moen's Oh Joy Sex Toy webcomics, and found this collection to be a humorous and informative dive into a number of aspects of sex, sexuality, and gender preferences (along with consent, of course).

I don’t know what I was expecting, but I don’t think it was necessarily this. This graphic novel is exactly what the title says. The basics of sex – illustrated. It covers a wide range of topics like anatomy, pleasure, LGBTQ, being safe and more. I’d definitely caution this to be for mature readers. While it’s absolutely important information that people should be aware of, the illustrations can be more graphic than some are comfortable with. ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ (4.5/5 stars)

Funny way to learn about sex!! Inclusive, serious (when it needs to be) and realistic. It was about time to have such a positive book in the market!

Growing up, up until now really, I always had been curious about such things, living in a Catholic-majority country with such conservative beliefs and the atmosphere in schools even in some universities, made it weird to look up such, but that didn’t hinder me. I know for a fact that I am not doing harm to myself and others. I may have been creating a safer world for me and some others. Haha.

I am no expert, when I found Drawn to Sex on NetGalley, I had to know. What really covers? the What, Why, When, and Hows of all.

And THOSE questions where answered here.

Saying I love it is an understatement, Drawn to Sex is curated with the sincerest detail and precaution there is! It was humorous, funny, and dead serious with the warnings. Over safety, comfortability, consent, and all of that. What I love more about it is that it doesn’t cast out any minority. Personally, I may be a today’s old over some facts that I have uncovered here.

The art itself is really calming and humorous. And if you look closer into it, you will see that there are reps of different body types, disabilities (physically speaking), sexual identities. Which is very encouraging not only towards safe sex but embracing one’s sexuality. What wows me more is the breadth of the topics, it was divided into the novel, from the what is sex to the how.

It created a positive space that shows in every page of the novel, embracing sex and sexuality even!

Totally recommended for everyone. If you’re looking for a Kickstarter guide, why not pick this one up.

Trigger Warning: It is about sex and anything that relates to it, there are graphic nudity and sex in the novel that may be uncomfortable to some.

For the first half of Drawn to Sex I thought repeatedly, “This is the book I needed when I was a teenager. This is exactly the book.” But. I’m not sure I would have read it when I was younger because of some of the content that comes after that first half. Unfortunately, it’s not a book that I can give to just anyone. That being said, after finishing I went to find Moen and Nolan’s comic strip and sent it to my step-son.

Ok, the good stuff.

There’s a lot of positive things about Drawn to Sex:

1. It’s a comic! About a very physical thing! This is a brilliant way to teach people about sex because they can see what’s it all about instead of hearing awkward, possibly confusing and complicated details. A picture says a thousand words and all that.
2. It’s diverse. The authors include a variety of people in their strips, including the LGBTQ2S community and people who are differently abled.
3. They give sources for further research. A lot! In the section on birth control and barriers, they give a little information on many different methods, then recommend good websites to find more information. They do this sort of thing throughout the book. Because a comic can only cover so much.
4. Everyone can learn something from this book.

Note: I’m pretty sure Moen and Nolan didn’t write Real Sex with my demographic in mind, so any discomfort I have in sharing it with certain people is not really an issue. It is great! It is informative and inclusive and should be read by multiple people! Especially people who haven’t had a great sex education. Like me!

Erika Moen is not only a wonderful artist, she and her husband are great, sex positive people. They test various sex toys and she publishes their reviews as a coming on her website <a href="https://www.ohjoysextoy.com/">Oh Joy Sex Toy</a>. This book covers all sorts of topics including gender fluidity, condoms, and sex toys.
IT took me a little to get through it but otherwise an entirely enjoyable book.

Four stars
This book came out November 2
ARC provided by NetGalley; Opinion is my own

This book strikes a perfect balance of fun and lighthearted while providing excellent information to help readers make informed decisions about their sexual health.

I love Erika and Matthew's Oh Joy Sex Toy series so I was really excited to see they had started a new sex education series. I didn't think I was necessarily the target audience for this, being married and in my late twenties, but I definitely learned a thing or two from this!

The highlights for me as always are the hilariously random sound effects ("splort" being a highlight) and cartoons (the confused duck killed me). But I am just so grateful that this is something that is available for people to read and educate themselves with, no matter their age or sexual experience.

Erika and Matthew's main message is sex positivity and they always have amazing representation in their cartoons (different ages, sexualities, disabilities, body types and sexual identities).

I'm excited to see what else they come up with in the future (another volume of OJST soon please!).

Definitely a go-to guide for judgemental-free sex education. A whole lot of info to take in too. I wish it had more panels for clarity but other than that I’ve no complaints.

This was awesome. I wish this had been availabld to me in my teens and twenties but I'm so glad that today's youngsters get access to a book that is so sex positive, wise and without shame.

The drawings are brilliant showimg a variety of body types. Consent, safety and communication are emphasised. The more difficult topics are not shied away from and then just whenyou think you couldn't ask for more, a variety of pairings and sexual acts are presented as normal because as ling as there's consent, sex is fun and pleasure is good for you. This is light years away from the narrow minded 'only after marriage' or 'only if you love him' christian attitude foisted on me as a child. Can't recommend this highly enough.

Wow! This comic seems to cover everything. But then, it <i>is</i> a primer.

And was that a Labyrinth reference on page 32?!?

This really is a good reference if you’ve got any questions about sex in general, consent, safe sex, and everything else. And in this day, when people are trying to stop schools from giving sex ed, it’s probably really needed.

That being said, it’s pretty graphic - that should be obvious. So even though it’s a great reference, and covers a lot of material, it’s not something you want to leave lying around for your grandmother or your friends’ kids to see.

<i>Thanks to NetGalley and Oni Press for a copy in return for an honest review.</i>

This is a very interesting, comprehensive, and nicely illustrated guide to all things you've ever wanted to know about sex but were afraid/ashamed to ask. I've been following Erika Moen for a while now, and even though I love her work, in this book things got a bit out of hand. We all know how important consent is, and that there are various genders and sexual orientations, but all of that was overdone and overemphasized here so that the end result achieved an opposite effect - a mass confusion. She tried to put more in this book than could fit the pages. I did enjoy it after all, but I wouldn't read it again.

This is such a great introduction to sexual education, consent and all things that young people are always too scared to ask about, or have to pretend they know all about already!
I must admit there were a few tips in there I was pleasantly surprised by.
I only wish that I had, had something like this that I could have taken home, absorbed in my own time and read when I was a teenager.
The more we communicate about sex and consent the better and this graphic novel is such a great way to do it. It's silly, funny, has pictures and is not afraid to ask difficult questions.
My only bug-bear was the way the "narrator" periodically addressed the readers as "perverts" - I thought this was such an inappropriate way to address younger people or event adults reading this. But apart from that I thought it was great.

When I was younger, I struggled a lot with recognizing what was healthy or unhealthy in a sexual relationship. Sex has been a part of my life for a long time as someone who is attracted to multiple genders and does not fall anywhere on the asexual spectrum, but unhealthy relationships and exposure to unhealthy scenarios as a teen messed up my views on what it should look like, and honestly, Erika Moen's Oh Joy, Sex Toy webcomics were a tremendous help. In fact, I have to say that I think I first learned sex positivity from Erika's words. Because of my eternal gratitude to her and her partner Matthew for their guidance, when I saw that they were coming out with Drawn to Sex, I naturally felt like I had to review it.

I can't say that I learned anything new from this book, because 1) I followed their webcomic for years, and 2) I've been around the block long enough at this point to have learned these things firsthand. That said, this is such a fantastically comprehensive guide and I would absolutely encourage anyone and everyone to read it, regardless of your sexuality and gender identity—Erika and Matthew cover it all.

On top of how in-depth everything is, the representation in the comics? Flawless. Erika so strongly normalizes different races, sexualities, identities, body types, disabilities, and anything else you can think of. It's something I first noticed about the webcomic back in the day, and I was so happy to see that she still focuses so strongly on including as many people as possible. There's also a lot of attention paid to phrasing—instead of using binary terms, she'll use phrases like "people with *insert sexual term here*"—and she even takes time more than once to point out that asexuality comes in many different layers, and each and every one of those layers is perfectly valid.

I would recommend Drawn to Sex to anyone and everyone, and am so proud of Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan for the work they're doing. ♥

Thank you so much to Oni Press for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

This book is a compilation of educational comics featuring various subjects surrounding sex. It's essentially a silly sex-positive comic. There's humor. There's heart. There's sex. There's information.

There is a great amount of information in this book. There's a chapter on asking yourself if you're ready for sex. There's many chapters on contraception and STI prevention. I wasn't aware of the different types of IUDs. There are also chapters on different sexual activities including some tips and tricks.

This is the way sex education should be taught. It's casual, but informative. There are resources provided in case you want more information on a subject. This book is absolutely queer friendly. I love the amount of diversity shown in the illustrations. This would be a great read for any young adult, whether they're sexually active or not. I give this a 5/5.