Doing It!: Let’s Talk About Sex

If were completely honest with ourselves, health classes in the United States are a mess. There are no set requirements for curriculum at the federal or state level, which leads to wild variations in the health education kids receivewhile students in New York State may be watching graphic slideshows on STDs, students in Indiana may be watching videos with strong abstinence only messages. The lack of continuity in information being provided to American kids is alarming, and it can lead to serious issues in their adult lives.

Enter Hannah Witton, British YouTuber and sex educator. Her debut book, Doing It! Lets Talk About Sex, is a comprehensive guide to sex, relationships, and a number of other topics in between.

And it is precisely the sort of book adolescent Americans ought to be reading.

Engaging, sensitive, and thoughtful, Wittons book addresses not only the ins and outs of sex, its benefits, and its risks, but also focuses in on more specific topics of significant modern importance, like consent (and, along with it, rape and abusive relationships), explanations of different identities in the LGBTQ+ community and personal narratives from some of its members, and the concept of body image within our heavily digitized-publicized-criticized world. In the new American edition of the book, Witton incorporates statistics specific to the United States in order to provide her readers across the pond with a more personally relevant reading experience.

Doing It! allows for readers to learn about a wide variety of subjects in a non-judgmental, pro-fact manner, thus enabling them to make their own informed decisions when it comes to how they conduct themselves within their own lives and in their interactions with others. Rather than being at the mercy of their school districts, young American readers in particular will gain enough of an overview of the subjects that may not be covered in their health classes to approach their real-life encounters with more openmindedness and with greater empathy.

This book could not have made its way to the United States at a better time. While many are enjoying more freedom in the way they lead their lives than ever before, we are also in the middle of an era of great national uncertainty, fear, anger, and misunderstanding. Although Witton is not an American, the publication of Doing It! was timely for readers in both her country and ours. Her charm and natural tendency toward kindness is palpable throughout the work, and it is an attitude that deserves recognition to have that sort of voice be a source of guidance for adolescents in this day and age is invaluable.

Overall, I give Doing It! by Hannah Witton 4.5/5 stars.

Bought this for my teenage daughter because talking about it today is strangely awkward than it was 30 years ago. The kids just have so much information these days from social media and a lot of it is back-ass-wards. It is especially confusing when young girls are held to a standard of the overproduced pornography out there. Many guys think this stuff is for real. The objection I have is an entire chapter dedicated to LGBTQ and although we are not religious, this is unacceptable human behavior in our family and is being pushed to our society and accepted as an alternate form of pleasure to which we do not condone nor teach. As a person who deals in science neither sex was physically “set-up” for having sex with it’s own kind. Other than that, we have agreed that it makes for a good reference manual for those questions her best friends mess-up.

I bought this for my 14 year old daughter. We have open communication about sex and sexuality. I’ve read Girls and Sex and I’m just starting Boys and Sex. I’m a middle school teacher and have a sense of what’s going on in the young teenage circles, what they know, and the information they lack. I like a lot about this book, but feel it gives too much permission for promiscuity based on the young author’s opinion which is not what most parents would share with their 14 year olds. On that reason alone, I feel the book is better targeted towards 18+. At 14 years old, the girls need a bit more information about how to make choices and realize that being sexually active to keep someone else happy or interested is not the reason to become sexually active. I wish that part, which is quite small, was not in the book, and then I’d give the book a much higher review.

Absolutely AMAZING book riddled with extremely important answers to questions Id been asking myself my entire life. The book is divided into sections, and its stated right off the start that you dont have to read it in order. I would recommend this to any human being on planet earth with even the smallest questions about anything related to sex and relationships because Hannah Witton is SURELY to answer your questions.

This is a book for everyone, straight, gay, and anyone in between. Like her videos, Hannah does a great job at educating people and exposing us to new things while still being entertaining and enthusiastic.

I would even go as far as to recommend this book be put in schools and offices all over the world. Well done, Hannah

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