K80’s Reviews > How to Think More About Sex > Status Update

I feel like De Botton has just reinvented astrology but for aesthetic preference. A lot of the casual assertions about why we prefer certain people (beyond evo bio assessment for healthiness) feel incredibly careless. 'we interpret the features of others as representative of their inner self' yeah i can see that. 'we're attracted to people (and art!) whose aesthetic form represents what we lacked as children' uh??

I’m tired of evolutionary biology, man.

Somewhat interesting, but [in traditional pop-philosophy style] poorly conveyed and underdeveloped. The section on eroticism/loneliness is good! But I don’t think De Botton understands fetish to any non-trivial degree.

Overall fun, and a good small book to keep in my purse and read on the bus, but not a strong/novel thesis by any stretch of the imagination.