Sex, A Love Story Published By Jerome Gold

I received a copy of Sex, A Love Story published by Jerome Gold in exchange for this review.

For adults only

I sat down to read Sex, A Love Story because the story line intrigued me not that I condone SEX between’s Teens but we have all been there and I wanted to see how they handled it.

Because I am a mom of a Pre-Teen boy who will one day have a Girlfriend and face these feelings. Once I began the story I couldn’t put it down because I wanted to know what was going to happen.

I loved how well the Author handled all the situation the kids faced and how they handled themself. This is a book I would recommend to other adults.

About the book:

Sex, A Love Story Delivers Intimate Tale of Fledgling Romance

Seattle, WA, April 19, 2021 — Sex is a powerful tool that can simultaneously establish one’s sense of self and anchor that sense of self to another individual. And in the hands of teenagers, the unintended result of the coupling is that sex can take on a life of its own.

In Sex, A Love Story, author Jerome Gold shares an erotic exploration of the complex role of sex in the lives of two high school seniors fumbling to reconcile the inner turmoil that accompanies adolescence with the onset of adult expectations. If, for these kids, sex is at first a way of exploring the grownup world, later it becomes a way to defy it.

Set in Fullerton (Orange County), California, Sex, A Love Story takes place at the end of the Eisenhower era and the beginning of the Kennedy administration.

The coming-of-age novel follows Bob and Jen, children of parents who entered the middle class after WWII. Life, for these kids, has not reached the level of affluence the professional class knows, and they are left to feel insecure about their futures. Will they find work? Go to college? Or enter the military?

At first a powerful antidote to their frustration and normal teen angst, sex between Jen and Bob takes on a life of its own and becomes a complex entity in the book’s narrative. Jen sees herself as a sexual being — even more so than Bob sees her — an undercurrent that’s a nod to the culture in the 1960s.

“I regard this book as a ‘pre-feminist’ novel, in that many of the issues that feminists were only beginning to be concerned with during the period of this story are addressed by Jen and Bob, though often obliquely and in ignorance of the wider currents beginning to sweep America,” Gold explains.

While sex with Jen and his growing love for her are immeasurably important to Bob, so is his desire to write and travel, “to learn how the world works.” Jen and that imagined life become rivals, nudging Bob toward an ultimatum: choose his dream or his love for Jen, who grows into a much more complex character as their journey unfolds, and certainly a more tragic one.

Meet the Author:

Jerome Gold is the author of 16 books, including Children in Prison: Six Profiles Before, During and After Incarceration; In the Spider’s Web; and Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility.

Mr. Gold received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Washington. He did fieldwork in Montana and American Samoa. He chose not to pursue a career in academia, but instead worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for children in Washington State.

Sex, A Love Story Publisher: Black Heron Press Release

Date: April 23, 2021 Available from Amazon.com

Thank you,

Glenda, Charlie and David Cates