Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
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- ISBN13: 9781401309923
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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“Cohen’s brutal honesty about her relentless quest for companionship is refreshingly relatable.”
–Entertainment Weekly
“Cohen recounts her upsetting litany of hookups through clear, poignant, spare-no-details prose.”
–Marie Claire
Kerry Cohen’s journey from that hopeless place to her current confident and fulfilled being is both a cautionary tale and a revelation.
Loose Girl is Kerry Cohen’s captivating memoir about her descent into promiscuity and how she gradually establish her way toward real intimacy. The tale of addiction – not just to sex, but to male attention–Loose Girl is also the tale of a young girl who came to judge that boys and men could give her life meaning.
Never less than riveting, Loose Girl re-makes what it feels like to be in that desperate moment when a girl tries to control a boy by handing over her body, when the touch of that boy seems to offer proof of something but ultimately delivers small more than emptiness.
The unforgettable tale of one young woman who desperately wanted to matter, Loose Girl will speak to countless others with its compassion, understanding, and like.
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I am not being offhand or obnoxious when I pose to potential readers the following question: “WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF SOMEONE CALLED YOUR MOTHER A SLUT?” A guy would probably punch the distasteful person in the jaw. A woman would probably knee the abhorrent individual in the groin “and” punch the person in the jaw. Ok… what would you do if your very own Mother not only called herself a slut… but shouted it out to the world, by writing a book that proved her aver a million nauseating times over. That’s what this entire repulsive book does. It even has an acknowledgment, before the actual appalling tale starts from the leader/Mother to her two children… “Who I hope will forgive me someday for writing a book for all their friends to read about their Mother’s sex life.”
Calling it sex does it too much justice. I am a man who has shared “locker-room” talk with the guys… I’ve shared tales with additional service men in peace and in war… and yet… I have never heard any man ever clarify a female… so consistently… in such a manner… that so degrades… a woman… to such a “pride-less” piece of worthlessness… as the leader does to herself.
There is absolutely nothing sexy or alluring in this entire book. In addition to being a slut (as she readily admits on page 148: “I don’t need anyone else to tell me what a slut I really am.”) she abuses cocaine, marijuana, and alcohol. By the twentieth page, the matter-of-fact personal dishonesty, factually place a pallor on my very being. The only reason I finished the book is so I could give an honest review.
I am a Father, and a Grandfather, and judge me, I have not led a sheltered life. To any parents out there who may be considering reading this book: Did you watch the movie “Thirteen”? If you did, did you get kind of clammy and shaky thinking; “Man I sure hope my young teenage daughter isn’t carrying on like this?” Well the behavior (the only decent word I could use here.) in this book, from before the leader was thirteen, and non-stop from there on out… is ONE-THOUSAND-TIMES-WORSE! Parents… I guarantee you… if you read this book… it will not be enjoyable.
The leader’s actions are so repulsive that when she gets crabs… you find yourself rooting for the crab! Then of course there are the genital warts and scabies. A rational person would have to scratch their head and marvel why… anyone would write this and use their real name… especially with children???
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
How far down must we go until we have exhausted the fad for supposedly confessional life tale? This “girl” has no actual writing ability, her descriptions are not only dull but pointless and juvenile! If this is a “memoir of promiscuity” I would rather read the back of a cereal box for elucidation on the theme.
The state of publishing today decrees that any “product” with a supposedly salacious title and a sexy female on the take in will translate to sales. I am appalled that this dreck made it to publication and astounded by the assorted enablers that allow this type of “writing” to continue.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Not about sex but a girl’s journey into understanding the double standard game that is out there between girls and guys. It’s heartfelt writing and I really felt compassion for the charachter.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I bought this book when intrigued by it’s title and first few pages. That’s where the magic finished. When you start it off, you feel like the main character is going to draw wisdom form her experiences and come to some mighty conclusion that would clarify why she does the things she does. Sadly, that never comes. But every few paragraphs she tells you exactly what the main point of her tale is: she had sex with anyone and everyone because she wanted a name to like her. Every new male character who comes in acts out the same part. He comes in, she tackles him, they screw, she gets attached, he brushes her aside, and she whines for a excellent three pages about how much her childhood sucked. When I finished the book, I sat miserably mulling over why I bothered to buy this book and waste three hours of my time reading it. The main character is one-dimensional and pathetic throughout the novel and represents an embarrassing thought of the way a woman should be.
My advice, get a friend vastly less intelligent than yourself and have them buy it. You can borrow it, see what trash it is and feel very proud of yourself for saving $20 of your hard earned cash. And you can buy some actual literature with the money you’ve saved, that will a have a plot, a well developed character, and message.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Kerry Cohen has written a memoir that will articulate a salient issue that envelopes being a young woman in this culture. In this coming of age tale we witness Cohen define her identity through her sexual and intimate experiences with boys/men. It is a well crafted, stark and gorgeous, and hard not to tell to or learn from. Her skill as a memoir writer seems to be rooted in honesty, clarity, and an abililty to prompt these qualities through this work. Brilliant and a summer must-Read.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5