100 Best Human Sexuality Books of All Time

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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality book cover1

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jethá

5.0
“Sex at Dawn challenges conventional wisdom about sex in a big way. By examining the prehistoric origins of human sexual behavior the authors are able to expose the fallacies and weaknesses of standard theories proposed by most experts. This is a provocative, entertaining, and pioneering book. I learned a lot from it and recommend it highly.” — Andrew Weil, M.D.

“Sex at Dawn irrefutably shows that
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic book cover2

Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

Esther Perel

4.6
Esther Perel takes on tough questions, grappling with the obstacles and anxieties that arise when our quest for secure love conflicts with our pursuit of passion. She invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.

In her 20 years of clinical experience, Perel has treated hundreds of couples whose home lives are empty of p
She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman book cover3

She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

Ian Kerner

4.5
Ian Kerner offers a radical new philosophy for pleasuring women in She Comes First—an essential guidebook to oral sex from the author of Be Honest—You’re Not That Into Him Either. The New York Times praises Kerner’s “cool sense of humor and an obsessive desire to inform,” as he “encourages men through an act that many find mystifying.” An indispensable aid to a healthier, more fulfilling sex life
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities book cover4

The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

Janet W. Hardy

4.5
The Ethical Slut is credited with raising awareness of the possibility of consensual non-monogamy as a lifestyle, and providing practical guidance on how such long-term relationships work and are put into practice.

The Ethical Slut discusses how to live an active life with multiple concurrent sexual relationships in a fair and honest way. Discussion topics include how to deal with the practical dif
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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

Emily Nagoski

4.5
An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research and brain science—that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy.

Researchers have spent the last decade trying to develop a “pink pill” for women to function like Viagra does for men. So where is it? Well, for reasons this book makes crystal clear, that pill will ne
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex book cover7

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

Mary Roach

4.3
In Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn't Viagra help women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm-two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing
Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want from Sex--and How to Get It book cover8

Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want from Sex--and How to Get It

Marty Klein

4.3
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature book cover9

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Matt Ridley

4.3
Referring to Lewis Carroll's Red Queen from Through the Looking-Glass, a character who has to keep running to stay in the same place, Matt Ridley demonstrates why sex is humanity's best strategy for outwitting its constantly mutating internal predators. The Red Queen answers dozens of other riddles of human nature and culture -- including why men propose marriage, the method behind our maddening n
Middlesex book cover10

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides

4.3
"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Helen Stephanides. My most recent driver's license...records my first name simply as Cal."

So begins the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides and thr
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The Joy of Sex

Alex Comfort

4.3
An international bestseller since it was first published in 1972, this updated edition brings this imaginative, uninhibited guide to lovemaking and sex to a whole new generation. It has been revised in such a way to retain Dr Comfort's original, revelatory advice while making it appropriate for the 21st century.
Communion: The Female Search for Love book cover12

Communion: The Female Search for Love

bell hooks

4.2
Three Women book cover13

Three Women

Lisa Taddeo

4.2
Journalist Taddeo reports on the risks women take to fulfill their sexual desires. The result of eight years and thousands of hours of interviews, the book describes how each of her three subjects is undone by an intimate relationship that eventually damaged her.

Maggie, a troubled 23-year-old in Fargo, N.Dak., recalls how her high school English teacher seduced her at 17 after learning she'd slep
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Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

Tristan Taormino

4.2
Relationship expert and bestselling author Tristan Taormino offers a bold new strategy for creating loving, lasting relationships. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships -- from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Ta
The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment book cover15

The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment

Jack Morin

4.2
Challenging accepted theories about what makes for terrific sex, The Erotic Mind is a breakthrough exploration of the least understood dimensions of human sexuality—the psychology of desire, arousal, and fulfillment. Nationally known sex therapist Dr. Jack Morin offers a bold new perspective that celebrates the joys of Eros without denying its risks.

Based on an in-depth analysis of over 1,000 prov
The New Topping Book book cover16

The New Topping Book

Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton

4.2
Tens of thousands learned the emotional and ethical skills of BDSM topping from the first `Topping Book.` Now, in addition to the sage advice and good humor that made the first edition a classic, the authors tackle some of the issues that have come up for tops in the last six years: on-line domination, the challenges and rewards of `lifestyle` relationships, ensuring our own and our partners` safe
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Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)

E L James

4.2
When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants h
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A Curious History of Sex

Kate Lister

4.2
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time, as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia. Rather, this is a drop in the ocean, a paddle in the shallow end of sex history, but I hope you will get pleasantly wet nonetheless.

The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dic
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Rules for Retrogrades: Forty Tactics to Defeat the Radical Left

Timothy J. Gordon

4.2
What is a retrograde?

A retrograde calculates, night and day, how to return the world to:
the Old Order of moral and sexual decency,
classical masculinity,
national sovereignty and national borders,
faith and hope and charity,
goodness and beauty and truth,
Christian civic liberty,
and most importantly, the social kingship of Christ.

In the words of Shakespeare, a retrograde is one of God’s spies.

Th
We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love book cover20

We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love

Robert A. Johnson

4.2
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Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us

Jesse Bering

4.2
“As a sex writer, Jesse Bering is fearless—and peerless.” —Dan Savage

“You are a sexual deviant. A pervert, through and through.” We may not want to admit it, but as the award-winning columnist and psychologist Jesse Bering reveals in Perv, there is a spectrum of perversion along which we all sit. Whether it’s voyeurism, exhibitionism, or your run-of-the-mill foot fetish, we all possess a suite of
One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 2: The Sordid Union between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epste book cover22

One Nation Under Blackmail, Vol. 2: The Sordid Union between Intelligence and Organized Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epste

Whitney Alyse Webb, Grace Noble, and SpokenTome.media

4.2
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape book cover23

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

Peggy Orenstein

4.2
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Time Top 10 Book of the Year • A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year

The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage—high school through college—and reveals how they are negotiating it.

A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girl
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Tipping the Velvet

Sarah Waters

4.2
Nan King, an oyster girl, is captivated by the music hall phenomenon Kitty Butler, a male impersonator extraordinaire treading the boards in Canterbury. Through a friend at the box office, Nan manages to visit all her shows and finally meet her heroine. Soon after, she becomes Kitty's dresser and the two head for the bright lights of Leicester Square where they begin a glittering career as music-h
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Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns: The Romance and Sexual Sorcery of Sadomasochism

Philip Miller, Molly Devon

4.2
Screw the Roses, Send Me the Thorns will tell you all about sadomasochism. We made it light-hearted and fun to read because SM is fun to do. That's why we do it. But fun is only SM's overture; for those who grasp its message, SM is sexual magic. The right blend of trust, fantasy, and sensuality creates an intensely erotic and deeply intimate stew. We take away our lovers' freedom and lead them to
The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture book cover26

The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

Vincent Woodard

4.2
Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their c
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It's Not the Stork!: A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends

Robie H. Harris, Michael Emberley

4.1
From the expert team behind IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL and IT'S SO AMAZING! comes a book for younger children about their bodies — a resource that parents, teachers, librarians, health care providers, and clergy can use with ease and confidence.

Young children are curious about almost everything, especially their bodies. And young children are not afraid to ask questions. What makes me a girl? What make
Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life book cover28

Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life

Justin J. Lehmiller

4.1
An award-winning human sexuality expert and author of the blog Sex and Psychology offers an unprecedented look at sexual fantasy based on the most comprehensive study ever conducted.
What do Americans really want when it comes to sex? And is it possible for us to get what we want? Justin J. Lehmiller, one of the country's leading experts on human sexuality and author of the popular blog Sex and Psy
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Tools for Teaching Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education: Lessons, Activities, and Teaching Strategies Utilizing the National Sexuality Education Standards (Grades 6-12)

Dominick Splendorio and Lori Reichel

4.1
Practicing health educators, students, and other professionals who work with teens and young adults will discover arich selection of activities and lessons. This authoritative guide is based on the most current version of the National Health Education Standards' new National Sexuality Education Standards, and Sex Information and Education Council of the United States guidelines. It provides educat
Essence of Shibari: Kinbaku and Japanese Rope Bondage book cover30

Essence of Shibari: Kinbaku and Japanese Rope Bondage

Shin Nawakari

4.1
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals book cover31

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals

Saidiya Hartman

4.1
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century.

In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, serial partners, cohabitation outside of wedlock, queer relations, and
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SM 101: A Realistic Introduction

Jay Wiseman

4.1
Call it what you like - bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism. More and more people are experimenting with this exciting , consensual form of erotic play. SM 101 is your basic guidebook to safe rewarding SM. This book includes: finding partners, negotiating the scene you want, bondage techniques, spanking and whipping, erotic torture, role playing, related practices, phys
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Guide to Getting It On!

Paul Joannides

4.1
This guide replaces taboos with techniques and provides safe, practical advice for improving your sexual relationships. It all comes down to communication and this is one book that has no problem with telling it how it is.
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A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire

Ogi Ogas, Sai Gaddam

4.1
Two maverick neuroscientists use the world's largest psychology experiment-the Internet-to study the private activities of millions of men and women around the world, unveiling a revolutionary and shocking new vision of human desire that overturns conventional thinking.

For his groundbreaking sexual research, Alfred Kinsey and his team interviewed 18,000 people, relying on them to honestly report
Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture book cover35

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture

Roxane Gay, Brandon Taylor, et al

4.1
Cultural critic and bestselling author Roxane Gay has edited a collection of essays that explore what it means to live in a world where women are frequently belittled and harassed due to their gender, and offers a call to arms insisting that "not that bad" must no longer be good enough.
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It's So Amazing!: A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families

Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley

4.1
"An outstanding book. . . . Meets the needs of those in-between or curious kids who are not ready, developmentally or emotionally, for It’s Perfectly Normal." —Booklist (starred review)

How does a baby begin? What makes a baby male or female? How is a baby born? Children have plenty of questions about reproduction and babies—and about sex and sexuality, too. It’s So Amazing! provides the answers—wi
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A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis

David M. Friedman

4.1
Whether enemy or ally, demon or god, the penis is much more than a body part. Here, in an enlightening and entertaining cultural study, is a book that puts into context the central role of the penis within Western civilization. Deified by ancient pagan cultures and demonized by the early Roman church, the penis was later secularized by pioneering anatomists such as Leonardo da Vinci. After being m
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Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Assessment

Virginia Brabender and Joni L. Mihura

4.1
Handbook of Gender and Sexuality in Psychological Assessment brings together two interrelated realms: psychological assessment with gender and sexuality. This handbook aids in expanding the psychological assessors' knowledge and skill when considering how gender and sexuality shapes the client's and the assessor's experiences. Throughout the six sections, gender and sexuality are discussed in thei
Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness book cover39

Lost in Trans Nation: A Child Psychiatrist's Guide Out of the Madness

Miriam Grossman

4.1
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Human Sexuality (Paper)

Roger R. Hock Ph.D.

4.1
ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that youselect the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson
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It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health

Robie H. Harris

4.1
The definitive book about puberty and sexual health for today’s kids and teens, now fully updated for its twentieth anniversary.

For two decades, this universally acclaimed book on sexuality has been the most trusted and accessible resource for kids, parents, teachers, librarians, and anyone else who cares about the well-being of tweens and teens. Now, in honor of its anniversary, It’s Perfectly N
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Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape

Jaclyn Friedman, Jessica Valenti

4.1
In this groundbreaking new look at rape edited by writer and activist Jaclyn Friedman and Full Frontal Feminism and He’s A Stud, She’s A Slut author Jessica Valenti, the way we view rape in our culture is finally dismantled and replaced with a genuine understanding and respect for female sexual pleasure. Feminist, political, and activist writers alike will present their ideas for a paradigm shift
The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Gender Bias Are Reinventing Misogyny book cover43

The New Age of Sexism: How AI and Gender Bias Are Reinventing Misogyny

Laura Bates

4.1

"[An] eye-popping exposé." ―Publishers Weekly, starred reviewMisogyny is being hardwired into our future. Can we stop it?We like to believe we're moving closer to equality, riding the wave of technological progress into a brighter, fairer future. But beneath the glossy surface of innovation lies a chilling truth: new technologies are not just failing to solve age-old inequalities―they're deepening

A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns book cover44

A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns

Archie Bongiovanni, Tristan Jimerson

4.1
Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. Tristan, a cisgender dude, is looking for an easy way to introduce gender neutral pronouns to his increasingly diverse workplace. The longtime best friends team up in this short and fun comic guide that explains what pronouns are, why they matter, and how to use them. They also include what to do if
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Sex in History

Reay Tannahill

4.1
SEX IN HISTORY chronicles the pleasures- and perils- of the flesh from the time of mankind's distant ancestors to the modern day; from a sexual act which was bried, crude and purposeful, to the myriad varieties of contemporary sexual mores. Reay Tannahill's scholarly, yet accessible study ranges from the earliest form of contraception (one Egyptian concoction included crocodile dung) to some latte
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Discovering Human Sexuality, Fourth Edition

Simon LeVay, Janice Baldwin, et al.

4.1
An evidence-based, accessible introduction to the study of sexuality and the diverse ways in which it brings joys and challenges to our lives. Now in its fourth edition, Discovering Human Sexuality has established itself as a popular and widely praised text that respects diversity both in the sexual world and among the students who read it. The backgrounds of the authors--in biology, sociology, te
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Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities

Kevin A. Patterson

4.1
The issues that make monogamous dating daunting for people of color—shaming and exclusion by white partners, being fetishized, having realities of everyday racism ignored—occur in polyamorous relationships too, and trying “not to see race” only makes it worse. To make polyamorous communities inclusive, we must all acknowledge our part in perpetuating racism and listen to people of color. Love's No
Desire: The Workbook: A Guided Journey into the Longings That Shape Our Lives book cover48

Desire: The Workbook: A Guided Journey into the Longings That Shape Our Lives

Jay Stringer

4.1

Desire—and the problems we encounter with it—shapes every part of our lives.It shows up in the restlessness of a life that feels empty. In the distance between you and your partner. In the sex that feels pressured or unfulfilling. Left unexamined, desire turns into frustration, disconnection, and exhaustion.This workbook is where you begin to transform your relationship to desire and, in the proce

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Slutever: Dispatches from a Sexually Autonomous Woman in a Post-Shame World

Karley Sciortino

4.1
"Slut" is a great word. It just sounds perfect-so sharp and clear and beautiful. It's one of those satisfying four letter words, like cunt and fuck. Slut also happens to be an anagram for lust, which is one of those divine coincidences that makes you wonder if God actually exists.

We're lucky that slut is such a great word, because it's safe to say that almost every woman will be called a slut at l
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New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives

Peggy J. Kleinplatz

4.1
Winner of the 2013 AASECT Professional Book Award!

New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives focuses on cutting-edge, therapy paradigms as alternatives to conventional clinical strategies. With each passing year, the treatment of sexual problems seems to emphasize more medical and pharmacological interventions. There is correspondingly less interest in the experiences of the indiv
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The Coitus Chronicles: How I Went From Unintentionally Celibate to Bringing Sexy Back

Olive B. Persimmon

4.1
Meet Olive. Olive is your average New York City gal who hasn’t had sex in 5 years, 1 month, 3 days . . . and counting. Despite some decent dates over the years and even a boyfriend or two, when she finds herself in the middle of a bona fide sex rut, she knows it's time to take action. Challenged by a friend to "say yes" to experiences that she might normally shy away from, Olive embarks on a serie
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality

Hanne Blank

4.1
Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly transformed Western culture. The idea of “the heterosexual” was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or acts. Yet, within half a century, “heterosexual”
Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century book cover53

Urban Tantra, Second Edition: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century

Barbara Carrellas

4.1
If you think sexual and spiritual bliss can't be found in today's fast-paced world, you haven't experienced Urban Tantra. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Urban Tantra, acclaimed sex educator Barbara Carrellas radically updates the ancient practice of Tantra for modern sexual explorers desiring to discover new frontiers. With a juicy mix of erotic how-to and heart-centered spiritual wisdom, thi
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The New Male Sexuality

Bernie Zilbergeld

4.1
The New Male Sexuality addresses the most urgent questions of men today--and of the women who love them. Bernie Zilbergeld reports findings from his twenty years as a psychologist specializing in human sexuality, as well as those other experts in the field, and shares his own and his clients' experiences. the result is the most comprehensive guide ever to enhancing desire and arousal, focusing on
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Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation

Simon LeVay

4.1
What causes a child to grow up gay or straight? In this book, neuroscientist Simon LeVay summarizes a wealth of scientific evidence that points to one inescapable conclusion: Sexual orientation results primarily from an interaction between genes, sex hormones, and the cells of the developing body and brain. LeVay helped create this field in 1991 with a much-publicized study in Science, where he re
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Beauty, Order, and Mystery: A Christian Vision of Human Sexuality

Gerald L. Hiestand and Todd Wilson

4.1
Humans are sexual creatures.

Our sexuality can be a beautiful and mysterious expression of what it means to be human. But it can also become distorted and sinful.

Perhaps no issue is as urgent for the church today, or confronts it with as many questions, as human sexuality: What does it mean to fulfill God’s will through our sexuality? To what extent should our sexuality define who we are? How can w
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Story of O (Story of O #1)

Pauline Reage

4.1
The Story of O relates the progressive willful debasement of a young and beautiful Parisian fashion photographer, O, who wants nothing more than to be a slave to her lover, René. The test is severe—sexual in method, psychological in substance… The artistic interest here has precisely to do with the use not only of erotic materials but also erotic methods, the deliberate stimulation of the reader a
The New Bottoming Book book cover58

The New Bottoming Book

Janet W. Hardy, Dossie Easton

4.1
Almost a decade ago, the first Bottoming Book taught tens of thousands of people that bottoming - being a submissive, masochist, slave, 'boy' or 'girl, ' or other BDSM recipient -- is as much an art as topping. Since then, the growing popularity of BDSM, and the blossoming of the Internet as a source of information and connection, have created a whole new universe of possibilities for players. Now
The Beauty Myth book cover59

The Beauty Myth

Naomi Wolf

4.1
The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restric
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Trans Like Me: Conversations for All of Us

C.N. Lester

4.1
A personal and culture-driven exploration of the most pressing questions facing the transgender community today, from a leading activist, musician, and academic
In Trans Like Me, CN Lester takes readers on a measured, thoughtful, intelligent yet approachable tour through the most important and high-profile narratives around the trans community, turning them inside out and examining where we really
Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity: By the Author, Actor, and Director Justin Baldoni book cover61

Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity: By the Author, Actor, and Director Justin Baldoni

Justin Baldoni

4.1
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Human Sexuality: From Cells to Society

Martha S. Rosenthal

4.1
Using humor and a contemporary voice, HUMAN SEXUALITY FROM CELLS TO SOCIETY, 1E engages readers to acquire a greater knowledge of their bodies, their values, and their relationships with others. This concise, comprehensive, and up-to-date book emphasizes critical thinking--in both human sexuality research as well as readers' own sexual lives--and is geared to help readers understand the diverse fo
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters) book cover63

Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)

Jared M. Diamond

4.1
Why are humans one of the few species to have sex in private? Why are human females the only mammals to go through menopause? Why is the human penis so unnecessarily large? There is no more knowledgeable authority than the award-winning author of The Third Chimpanzee to answer these intriguing questions. Here is a delightfully entertaining and enlightening look at the unique sex lives of humans.
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Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution

Leonard Shlain

4.1
Why did big-brained Homo sapiens suddenly emerge some 150,000 years ago? The key, according to Leonard Shlain, is female sexuality. Drawing on an awesome breadth of research, he shows how, long ago, the narrowness of the newly bipedal human female's pelvis and the increasing size of infants' heads precipitated a crisis for the species.

Natural selection allowed for the adaptation of the human fema
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F*cked: Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That's Screwed

Krystyna Hutchinson and Corinne Fisher

4.1
Are You a Dirty, Nasty Slut? Or a Sexually Repressed Nightmare?

Regardless of your background or bedroom resume, someone or something has probably made you feel that way at some point. This was what Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson discovered when they created the wildly popular Guys We Fucked: The Anti Slut-Shaming Podcast. What started as an outlet to interview—

You guessed it!—guys they'd f
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The Evolved Masculine: Be the Man the World Needs & the One She Craves

Destin Gerek

4.1
Playing Well with Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and Bdsm Communities book cover67

Playing Well with Others: Your Field Guide to Discovering, Exploring and Navigating the Kink, Leather and Bdsm Communities

Lee Harrington, Mollena Williams

4.1
Whether you're a trembling novice or a jaded expert, there's always something new to be discovered in the endlessly changing, complex and titillating world of kink. While there are plenty of other books out there that explain how to give a spanking or tie a half-hitch, Playing Well With Others is the first book that explains kink *culture* -- the munches, parties, leather bars, conferences, worksh
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Doing It!: Let's Talk About Sex

H. Witton

4.1
Figuring out how to build and maintain healthy relationships - with your family, friends, romantically and with yourself - is a crucial part of being a teen. It's not easy though, particularly in a digital age where information and advice are so forthcoming it can be hard to know who or what to believe or trust. Porn is everywhere, sexting is the norm and messages about body image are highly mixed
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The Psychology of Women and Gender: Half the Human Experience +

Nicole M. Else-Quest and Janet Shibley Hyde

4.0
With clear, comprehensive, and cutting-edge coverage, The Psychology of Women and Gender: Half the Human Experience + delivers an authoritative analysis of classical and up-to-the-minute research from a feminist, psychological viewpoint. Authors Nicole M. Else-Quest and Janet Shibley Hyde examine the cultural and biological similarities and differences between genders, noting how they are often a
The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory: Everything You Need to Know About Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love book cover70

The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory: Everything You Need to Know About Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love

Dedeker Winston

4.0
Here is an intelligent and comprehensive guide to alternative to monogamy offering relationship advice that might change your ideas about sex, love, and relationships.

This practical guidebook will help women break free of the mold of traditional monogamy, without the constraints of jealousy, possessiveness, insecurity, and competition. The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory incorporates interviews an
Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together book cover71

Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together

Dean Spade

4.0
Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey Through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future book cover72

Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey Through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future

Esmé Louise James

4.0
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The Girls' Guide to Sex Education: Over 100ahonestaanswers to Urgent Questions about Puberty, Relationships, and Growing Up

Michelle Hope M.A. and Amy Lang MA

4.0
"If you want your girl to know and understand what healthy sexuality really and truly is, it's up to you. The information in The Girls' Guide to Sex Education will make all the difference for you both."--AMY LANG, MA, Parenting & Sexuality Educator, founder of Birds & Bees & Kids(R)

When it comes to sex education, parents of adolescent girls often know just as little about where to start as girls t
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The Female Eunuch

Germaine Greer

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The clarion call to change that galvanized a generation.When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was first published it created a shock wave of recognition in women, one that could be felt around the world. It went on to become an international bestseller, translated into more than twelve languages, and a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Positing that sexual liberation is the key to
Open Deeply: A Guide to Building Conscious, Compassionate Open Relationships book cover75

Open Deeply: A Guide to Building Conscious, Compassionate Open Relationships

Kate Loree

4.0
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How to Have Feminist Sex: A Fairly Graphic Guide

Flo Perry

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'Funny, kind, generous and smart - I could have done with the wisdom of Flo Perry far sooner' Dolly Alderton

We talk about feminism in the workplace and we talk about dating after #MeToo, but women's own patriarchal conditioning can be the hardest enemy to defeat. When it comes to our sex lives, few of us are free of niggling fears and body image insecurities. Rather than enjoying and exploring our
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Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

Siddharth Kara

4.0
Since the publication of Sex Trafficking in 2007, Siddharth Kara has continued to travel across countries and continents, documenting the local factors and economic forces that support sexual slavery worldwide. His riveting encounters with victims and traffickers informed his screenplay for Trafficked (2016), now a major motion picture. The film features familiar figures from Sex Trafficking and t
Mind The Gap: The truth about desire and how to futureproof your sex life book cover78

Mind The Gap: The truth about desire and how to futureproof your sex life

Dr Karen Gurney

4.0
44 Chapters About 4 Men book cover79

44 Chapters About 4 Men

BB Easton

4.0
NETFLIX NEWS! The 44 CHAPTERS ABOUT 4 MEN series is being adapted into a steamy Netflix dramedy series called SEX/LIFE, coming soon!

Now a Top 100 Amazon Bestseller and winner of the After Dark Book Lovers Shortie Award for Best Debut of 2016.

School psychologists aren’t supposed to write books about sex. Doing so would be considered “unethical” and “a fireable offense.” Lucky for you, ethics was n
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The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power

Stephen Baskerville

4.0
Stephen Baskerville's new work is essential to understanding the impact of the ideology of sex not only on the family and other social institutions, but also on government, the criminal justice system, and the global political environment. He goes behind slogans of left and right to examine the trends that media and scholars frequently ignore.
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From Madness to Mindfulness: Reinventing Sex for Women

Jennifer Gunsaullus PhD

4.0
“I learned about the mechanics of female sexual pleasure in my sex ed class.”
“I am able to have a difficult conversation with my partner about our relationship.”
“I can boldly and openly carry a tampon to the restroom in public.”
“I am totally comfortable being naked in front of a new partner.”

If you disagree with any of these statements (or all of them), you are not alone. You are one of many, many
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Human Sexuality Today

Bruce M. King and Pamela Regan

4.0
"Examines how human sexuality impacts students' lives today" ""Human Sexuality Today Plus NEW MyPsychLab with eText - Access Card Package, 8/e""," "is an appealing, readable, and humanistic guide to human sexuality, with a sound balance between facts and understanding. Through the authors' conversational writing style, readers will gain insight into human sexuality, helping them feel comfortable a
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Sextinction: The Decline of Sex and the Future of Intimacy

Debra Soh

4.0

Dr. Debra Soh, neuroscientist, noted sex researcher, and author of the “exceptional” (The Times, London) The End of Gender, reports on the hidden crisis of a sudden decline of sexual activity.There’s a strange paradox in today’s developed world: society has never been more sexualized, but people across all age groups and demographics are having less sex than ever before. And nobody seems to know w

What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know About Sex, Third Edition book cover84

What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know About Sex, Third Edition

CST-S Buehler, Stephanie, PsyD

4.0
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics

Eleanor Herman

4.0
In royal courts bristling with testosterone—swashbuckling generals, polished courtiers, and virile cardinals—how did repressed regal ladies find happiness?

Anne Boleyn flirted with courtiers; Catherine Howard slept with one. Henry VIII had both of them beheaded.

Catherine the Great had her idiot husband murdered and ruled the Russian empire with a long list of sexy young favorites.

Marie Antoinette f
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Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive

Kristen J. Sollee

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Witch, Slut, Feminist: these contested identities are informing millennial women as they counter a tortuous history of misogyny with empowerment. This innovative primer highlights sexual liberation as it traces the lineage of “witch feminism.” Juxtaposing scholarly research on the demonization of women and female sexuality that has continued since the witch hunts of the early modern era with pop o
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Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions

Lisa Wade and Myra Marx Ferree

4.0
The new gold standard for sociology of gender courses
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Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture

Carol Queen

4.0
Hop on the express train to sexual enlightenment with sex educator and self-avowed whore Dr. Carol Queen. Whether writing about the joys of being spanked into erotic bliss, performing in a red-light district peep show, partaking of the pleasures of the new safe sex clubs, or lobbying for the pro-pornography platform, Queen is an enthusiastic advocate for sexual pleasure.
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Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex

Amy T. Schalet

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For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting young couples to sleep together and providing
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What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense

Sherif Girgis

4.0
Until yesterday, no society had seen marriage as anything other than a conjugal partnership: a male-female union. What Is Marriage? identifies and defends the reasons for this historic consensus and shows why redefining civil marriage is unnecessary, unreasonable, and contrary to the common good.

Originally published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, this book’s core argument quickly
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Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls--Sexual Identity, the Cyberbubble, Obsessions, Environmental Toxins

Leonard Sax

4.0
A parenting expert reveals the four biggest threats to girls' psychological growth and explains how parents can help their daughters develop a healthy sense of self.

In Girls on the Edge, psychologist and physician Leonard Sax argues that many girls today have a brittle sense of self-they may look confident and strong on the outside, but they're fragile within. Sax offers the tools we need to help
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The Inner Circle

T.C. Boyle

4.0
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The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness

Miriam Kaufman, Cory Silverberg, Fran Odette

4.0
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability is a long-overdue self-help sex guide for the millions of people living with disabilities and chronic pain and illness. For sufferers of ailments from chronic fatigue syndrome and spinal cord injury to multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, and others, the book provides encouragement, support, and expert information on sex positions, orgasm, and sex toys. It als
Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality book cover94

Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

Julia Shaw

4.0
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America's War on Sex: The Attack on Law, Lust and Liberty

Marty Klein Ph.D.

4.0
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The Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage

Midori

4.0
From ornately decorative to excruciatingly stringent, Japanese rope bondage is an art which has developed over centuries of martial and erotic practice. Now, accomplished Japanese-born pro-domme and bondage practitioner Midori shows step by step how to achieve beautiful and exciting Japanese bondage on a variety of genders and body types.Each chapter starts with a spectacular, tasteful full-color
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Vagina: A New Biography

Naomi Wolf

4.0
An astonishing work of cutting-edge science and cultural history that radically reframes how we understand the vagina—and consequently, how we understand women—from one of our most respected cultural critics and thinkers, Naomi Wolf, author of the modern classic The Beauty Myth.

When an unexpected medical crisis sends Naomi Wolf on a deeply personal journey to tease out the intersections between se
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Sexual Awareness: Your Guide to Healthy Couple Sexuality

Barry McCarthy

4.0
In the newest edition of this classic text, veteran authors Barry and Emily McCarthy explain how desire, pleasure, and satisfaction can enrich your relationship. As the premier book on the subject, Sexual Awareness focuses on factors that promote and subvert healthy couple sexuality. Reading this book and partaking in the psychosocial skill exercises it contains will help couples learn how to valu
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My Body

Emily Ratajkowski

4.0
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Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

Anais Nin

4.0
Taken from the original, uncensored journals of Anaïs Nin, Henry and June spans a single year in Nin's life when she discovers love and torment in one insatiable couple. From late 1931 to the end of 1932, Nin falls in love with Henry Miller's writing and his wife June's striking beauty. When June leaves Paris for New York, Henry and Anaïs begin a fiery affair that liberates her sexually and morall