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Audiobooking as this has been on my shelf for ages. It is very interesting reading what past scifi has predicted. So many things in this books world have or are already happening in some way. Especially how stupidly absurd and silly it is like the American dystopia. But, everything is still on "videotape" and still returning tapes to blockbuster. Can't get it all right.

The characterization of chickens in this is so biased at times I am reminded of just avg smart people are. Imagine calling a factory farm "egalitarian" completely removing the hierarchy of who owns it. Sanctuaries often find differences in results. I wonder why that is ... Skipped ahead when we got to contact lenses. On a factory farm. For birds.

Mostly good but I am glad this is almost 12 years old rather than 2. Still mad at some of it- birds not being known to have complex moods and emotions which we have known longer than 10 years. Strangely he discusses dancing parrots after, just visit a parrot who plucks out all of their feathers or a captive zoo bird with stereotypic behavior. Also, more than one bird species has wing-man cooperative courtship.

Grinding through this when I can get my eyes on books, it's quite repetitive especially in describing the process of writing the book. But, I do like that they define many things for the reader that other academic authors neglect.

I love her already

Once again on the unlikely chance that a publisher checks this, I am SO BEHIND on ARCs and other book reviews. I apologize and am trying to get things done, have been struggling with the time required for denser stuff and listening to audiobooks when I can.

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Slow reading due to density

SK, you have been writing forever and yet you still write about women like a 14 year old boy sneaking a look at Internet pron. I gave this audiobook shot as I had heard it was a different style. It's good but, we just surpassed a section where your protagonist in a couple paragraphs describes 3 women's bodies in objectifying detail including Mom and daughter. I'd say grow up but plenty of young boys are more mature.

On the off chance any publishers that I owe reviews to happen to check my humble profile, I have had multiple fckd up life destroying events in recent weeks which have greatly interrupted my reading. I hope to get back to it soon and am not intending to ghost anyone who sent A/RCs!

Finished, but gonna review fully after vine book club

This went downhill in some ethical and scientific ways, but there is still a lot of cool info in here.

Already super interesting and well written. AND she already called out Audubon for doing some of the dumbest olfaction research ever AND forcing people he enslaved to do the work. LET'S FCKN GO!

I'm audiobooking this and listening to this lovely older scottish woman mc
(great reader/performer) narrate some of the most laughably evil-dead-esque body horror (in a fun way) is such a silly experience. I like it.

Well that was one of the most shallow, ignorant, and disappointing philosophical conversations about the ethics of killing and eating animals, especially in a technologically advanced future, that I've read. Whoever wrote that part should have written for the future, not the 1800s. It reads like the author put it in there solely to assuage their own guilt and avoid any decent arguments to the contrary.

Didn't realize I could find Francis Galton to be even more abhorrent. Not only responsible for all kinda of eugenics horrors and so on but even had a clicker in his pocket that he used each time he saw a woman so he could rate her attractiveness like og Facebook/Zuckerberg. Seems like he spent every moment of his life even his down time trying to be the worst possible man he could be. Anyway this book is good so far.

A bit more captive animal research than i prefer to read about, but I expected that. Very interesting overall.

Very good point on how mainstream trafficking narratives around sex alwork absolve those making them from creating safeguards for immigration. Overall a good book so far that managed to both call for specific supports while not at all defending the industry nor the people who treat it as one dimensional in any direction.

I definitely need this book now even though I've not sought out romantic it sexual relationships in years, but it's almost depressing to me how much I needed this book back when I was poly in organizing and kink circles. It's technically self help but reads more like a very wise radical friend giving you support and advice while holding you (if you're into that) and making space for you to feel everything.

I wish I had read books like this years ago. Ever since reading Bickers' "Working It" my understanding is so much better. There is one BDSM essay in here that I find EXTREMELY irresponsible and I've been around some pretty wild people. The others are really good. I like that they have a section for messiness that sometimes exist between SW and trafficking. No liberal girlbossification, just complex work.

Reading this slowly and carefully because it is very out there and very dense but good

Welp, this is clearly an AI narrated audiobook. The text itself is great and I feel bad that a good author and decent academic book (probably the most refreshing queer theory I've read in a while) is having their book filtered through bad pdf arcs and an AI voice. Not the worst I've heard but it's very uncanny valley to the point of distraction.

Learning about the six year old girl who organized a protest where their chants were "Donald Trump has no friends!" and "Donald Trump smells like eggs!" has made this entire book worth it lol

Very good and informative so far

Yo Markley, you ok? I'm 71% through your book and the most memorable thing is how fat you think everyone is and how much said fatness reduces their personhood. I feel like I'm in a sunken cost fallacy situation so I'm gonna finish it but this book is basically liberal, or maybe brocialist if I'm being generous, white gym bro writes a "revolution" based too literally on real events without the idpol he didn't like.