Under the Bed: What's Really Going On?

As society has developed, so have their attitudes toward sex. Linda asserts that more people than ever are having sex, just for fun.

Under the Bed: What's Really Going On? ISBN: 978-1911320104

Under the Bed: What's Really Going On?

By Linda Porter

RRP: £8.99


Book Guild Publishing Ltd (10 Nov. 2016) | [email protected]

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As society has developed, so have their attitudes toward sex. Linda asserts that more people than ever are having sex, just for fun. Through the use of real-life stories, Linda explores the failures and successes of sexual exploration, as well as the safety and emotional issues raised in each part of the book.

She looks into falling in love and having sex in a relationship. The stories used in these chapters demonstrate that sex is very often not about intercourse.

The later chapters in Linda's book look at the darker side of sex and relationships. From having sex for money to sexual abuse, Linda uses true stories to give insights into why people behave this way. She uses these stories as a tool for healing. Linda also focuses on removing taboos related to sex and relationships. She suggests that therapists and counsellors need to release their own prejudices so that they are able to listen to modern behaviour without fear or discomfort. She hopes that her latest book will help towards this happening.


Absolute rubbish

I assume that the author has good intentions in writing this book; I also assume that Linda has accrued experience as a therapist/counsellor and that she has no doubt helped people on their healing journeys.

This book is immature, ill-conceived and clumsy. She holds on to certain words or phrases, reiterating them in a vain attempt to provide some sort of cohesion and illustrate her understanding of key themes in the therapeutic context. I even wonder if English isn't her native language. It reads like a GCSE essay that would probably be awarded a 'D' grade at best.

If this book is an attempt to share the wisdom gained from years of working with people who have come to her for counselling then I'm afraid the book does Linda no favours at all. And this is the moot point: the book MAY be helpful for some who can read the (many) stories that Linda recounts as anecdotes from her practice. It MAY be helpful in this regard, simply because the stories may resonate and create a sense of "I am not alone in my experience - others have also been through what I have been through."

There is absolutely no therapeutic benefit from this book if readers are considering this as a way of helping them through their problems. Most of the 'professional' comments are facile, naïve, condescending, patronising, ill-informed - and on occasion incredibly misleading. Generalisations abound and the lack of depth in exploring "the psychology of sex" (as attested by Helen Cozens MBACP on the back of the book) is palpable. I laughed out loud one minute, cringed the next and often was 'drop-jaw' amazed at the simplicity and naivety of the words I was reading.

For a fuller review, see here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32848985-under-the-bed?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=4xnoR3mmWU&rank=12


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