Action ─ A Book About Sex

With whip-smart prose, reminiscent of Roxane Gay and Meghan Daum, ACTION interweaves Spiegel's own sexual autobiography with loving advice on one-night stands, relationships, and everything in between.

ACTION is a book about boning that people won't feel embarrassed about owning. There areabsolutely zero provocatively shaped fruit on the cover, for one. In ACTION, Amy Rose Spiegel exhorts you to trust yourself and be respectful of others--and to have the best possible time doing the things you search for on the Internet, except in reality. The book covers consent, safety, group sex, gender, and the best breakfast to make for a one-night stand. And ACTION totally doesn't think it's weird that you want to try that thing together. In fact, ACTION is very into it.

Spiegel also includes dissections on making threesomes less intimidating-feeling, hitting on people without worrying that you're coming off as a skeezer, celibacy as a display of autonomy, and, of course, how to clean your room in 10 minutes if a devastatingly lovely side-piece is about to stop by.

Sex is the best, and with ACTION in hand, you will be empowered to go forth with integrity and kindness to shred however you want.

Amy Rose Spiegel is a freelance writ(h)er and a story editor at Rookie. Her work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, NME, BuzzFeed, Dazed & Confused, and many other publications. She came up in New Jersey and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.