I’ve waited ten years to read something even more enlightening and instructive. Liszt in 1998, but found the information they provided rather basic. I read The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. I’ve been waiting for this book for a decade! It's been treating me well, and I'm glad I was recommended it. I don't have much criticism about this book. Personally, I have a strong dislike for self-help checklists and tables in a book, but I found the various inserts in each chapter to be relevant and user friendly. The case studies never became repetitive, but rather added various textures to the narrative voice. I found pretty much every chapter crucial to opening up my understanding of the endless possibilities of relating to friends, lovers, casual playmates, soul mates and more.

However, Opening Up provides much more substantial material in putting the wheels on the ground and navigating non-monogamy in a pragmatic way. Where ES succeeds is in it's bravado: a tongue-in-cheek, lifestyle driven manifesto. The former was a great entry point in to the discussion of alternative non-monogamous relationships but it took reading Opening Up to realize how lacking ES really is. Which is sort of how I feel about The Ethical Slut in comparison to Opening Up. We lamented over having a mutual distaste for the Beats and I joked: 'At least that book will get you on the road'. My friend Jenny and I were on the train and she started to read The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac for about 2 minutes before she got frustrated and switched over to reading her NYS driver's instruction manual. May I start this review off with a somewhat snarky anecdote?

Opening up by tristan taormino