Sam Morrison
Crawford
5/6/13
The Naked Truth
Lakita Garth
                                                 

        Lakita Garth nailed the nail on the head in her book, “The Naked Truth”.  The book was published in 2007 and was directed towards the young adult audience, in hopes of of grasping there not always attentive minds and disburse the truth of sex and its true meaning. Her writing style is very unique, she can suck in young readers by relating herself and opening up her personal life. If you have the unsecured feeling of guilt towards your sex life and hate being reminded of the poor decisions you’ve made regarding sex, she doesn’t attack you in any shape or form.

        So let’s hop into the specifics and my own personal reaction of the novel!
She opens up the first 3 chapters of the book with insightful descriptions of her childhood. Her dad passed way to cancer early in her life, leaving her mother to raise five children (brothers:Kevin,David,Leon, and Mark-and her) on her own in Money magazine’s “most dangerous places to live” and “worst places to raise children” in America. She writes of how her mother saved their lives by being as strict and displenend of a parent immaginable. Her mom believed that children needed to be taught and not raised, because she raised chickens, goats, and cattle on her Southern farm; and all that is is providing food and shelter, but not showing them how to live and live to the fullest potential. Lakita and her brothers knew to be home when the street lights came on, or their Mother would drive around looking for them and that’s the last thing they wanted! Lakita pays most of if not all of her today’s success of being owner and CEO of her own company, former model, Miss Black California,and now author, to her moms parenting. She writes, “it was her ability to keep an eye on the present and an eye on the future” that really made her mom distinctly different from other parents.

        Her main focus or theme of the book, is abstinence. Which is saving yourself and virginity for marriage. Lakita’s use of stautistics and personal experiences really open up the eyes of readers, especially me. I learned many things that I didn’t know about sex and why adults preach to wait until you are married. I never really realized how many teen pregnancies there really were in the U.S. or the amount of different strains of STDs that exist.

       While this book can come off as scary to others, I found it a great and friendly explanation of sex. I would highly reccomend this novel to any teenager and young adult wanting to know if waiting is truly worth it when all of their peers are doing the exact opposite....it. I give this novel a 5/5 star rating and would even go as far as making my children read it when I have them, after marriage rest assured! However, I’m sure most adults would find this a good read regardless of not being the directed audience.