Julia Evanko is a wife and new mom who serves as Program Officer of the Love and Fidelity Network. She graduated from Princeton University with a B.A. in English and a certificate in Theater.
What Emba most successfully conveys throughout the entirety of her brief book is an awareness that we are never “our own.” This is certainly right, but she does not go far enough in revealing just how radical this interdependence is, and why it warrants placing sex back within the context of marriage and family-building. While Rethinking Sex speaks to an audience fed up with sexual disappointment, it omits family and marriage as forms of belonging and responsibility that stem from our sexuality.
