Comic Review: Drawn To Sex - The Basics

"A humorous and highly
educational sexual comic."
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I found myself unwittingly with Drawn to Sex: The Basics, by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan. The cover, I admit, didn't seem entirely attractive beyond the simple and clean aesthetic, it's a tender design, which is discordant with the theme and content of the book. However, I got a good surprise this time.
Drawn to Sex is a humorous and highly educational sexual comic. One might think that the subject is boring, perhaps with a healthy dose of morbid, but the authors handle it in an entertaining way. Few are the pages that felt heavy, more than anything the first section on contraceptive methods.
Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan shamelessly include their own experiences, making the explanations seem more like a conversation between them, and each topic is loaded with good humor, entertaining explanations and more than explicit drawings. Seriously, Drawn to Sex is far from being a children's book even if it seems so.
What I liked most about this book was how inclusive, diverse and socially conscious it turned out to be. I met characters of all colors, ethnicities, bodies and imaginable orientations. How often does a book include characters with prosthetics? This was my first time, and I loved it.

"This was my first time, and I loved it."
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In turn, Erika and Matthew are completely open to the tastes, perceptions and ideas of readers, although clearly highlighting what is acceptable and not in terms of sex. One doesn't feel that the authors want to convince them of anything or that they want to impose a point of view with their work. Drawn to Sex offers, above all, a respectful and ethical education.
By the subtitle that leads, it seems to me that this is the first of an educational saga that I will read gladly to have the occasion. It's very rare to find comics like Drawn to Sex: The Basics. It makes you laugh while it educates you, it entertains you and without realizing it you are discovering alternatives for when you want to spend some... fun time, let's say. Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan did a wonderful job.