Naked Truth about Sex

Review of Naked Truth by Lakita Garth brings insights from her travels as an abstinence speaker to her book, The Naked Truth about Sex, Love, and Relationships. Written for an audience of teenagers, Garth engages the reader through stories from her childhood, friends of hers and her experience testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Readers are challenged to look at the naked truth about sex and not the lies they have heard such as safe sex, “It won’t happen to me” and “Marriage is just a piece of paper”. Good decision making is encouraged and abstinence is a theme through out the book. Garth emphasizes the dangers of sexual transmitted diseases and takes a look at each of “America’s Most Unwanted”.

The book is fantastic, if it was written for non-Christian kids. Garth only used 15 pages out of her 168 pages referencing God or scriptural reasons to not have pre-martial sex. It was well written and amusing, and I would definitely pass it on to students at a local public school … if it didn’t mention God at all. For Christian kids, I found it lacking in reasons not to have sex from a Godly perspective. It simply wasn't strong enough for an audience of Christian teenagers and there are better books available today.