Dork Whore by Iris Bahr
This book was delightful to read. It was interesting to find a lot of parallels to my own experiences, minus the vagina and international backpacking. I suppose I shouldn’t say experiences, but rather emotions. Mostly a bag of schizophrenic voices convincing me to do things that I knew weren’t a good idea and so on.
Here and there she rolls off onto a tangential story from her childhood, which the rest of the tale clearly illustrates the dents these events left in her character, and it’s done so seamlessly that you really absorb the impact, relating it starkly against the present day her (the her as related in the story). That’s the other thing, it’s all written from that time’s perspective, rather than as a person telling you something that happened to them in the past, which I found worked very well here.
Anyway. The book is an incredibly personal look at a young person’s sex life and I highly recommend it.