Is Sex Necessary?: Or Why You Feel the Way You Do, (Paperback)

from NellieMc

The best thing about this book is the Thurber drawings -- it was great to get reacquainted with them. Unfortunately, it hasn't aged very well. It was written as a satire of sex studies of the day, and you kind of need to know them to get the humor. But as with all things by White, it's very well ...

from alaskabookworm

A period-piece with a kind of humor that I just didn't get it.

from DinadansFriend

It is interesting that E.B. White's other book, that is more directly fiction, was "Charlotte's Web." Nonetheless, an exploration of North American sexual attitudes in the late 1920's was a product of collaboration between a grammarian and a humourist...but isn't that a lot like life. It remains ...

from hopeevey

While dated, this is a fun read :)

from Cheryl_in_CC_NV

Still hilarious. Dated in some ways, but remember, this was written in the 'Roaring Twenties' and so in other ways it's still relevant. It's both a spoof of the medical manuals of the time and a thoughtful, if sometimes satirical, exploration of the differences between men and women, pre- & post-...