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A curated collection of books related to Sex Positive, ranked by recommendation signals.

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Sex at Dawn
Sex at Dawn

The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

13 recommendations
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No coverMating in Captivity
Mating in Captivity

Unlocking Erotic Intelligence

6 recommendations
Description

A New York City therapist examines the paradoxical relationship between domesticity and sexual desire and explains what it takes to bring lust home.One of the world?s most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of ...

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Our Bodies, Ourselves
Our Bodies, Ourselves

A Book by and for Women

2 recommendations
Description

Our Bodies, Ourselves is the resource that women of all ages turn to for information about their bodies, sexuality, and reproductive health. Completely revised and updated, these pages provide women with the information and tools they need to make key health decisions?accurate, evidencebased information, input from leading experts, and personal st...

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No coverThe Vagina Bible
The Vagina Bible

The Vulva and the Vagina

1 recommendation
Description

OB/GYN, writer for The New York Times, USA Today, and Self, and host of the show Jensplaining, Dr. Jen Gunter now delivers the definitive book on vaginal health, answering the questions you've always had but were afraid to askor couldn't find the right answers to. She has been called Twitter's resident gynecologist, the Internet's OB/GYN, and one...

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No coverNaked at Our Age
Naked at Our Age

Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex

1 recommendation
Description

An inviting and informative guide to sex for seniors, with a clear message that "as far as sex in the senior years goes . . . the best is yet to come" (Dr. Dean Edell) Joan Price is talking out loud about a subject that is often ignored or ridiculed in our society: laterlife sexuality. In Naked at Our Age, she offers a candid, straighttalking exp...

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The Ethical Slut, Third Edition
The Ethical Slut, Third Edition

A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love

Description

The classic guide to love, sex, and intimacy beyond the limits of conventional monogamy has been fully updated to reflect today's modern attitudes and the latest information on nontraditional relationships. For 20 years The Ethical Slut has dispelled myths and showed curious readers how to maintain a successful polyamorous lifestyle through open co...

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Untrue
Untrue

Why Nearly Everything We Believe About Women, Lust, and Infidelity Is Wrong and How the New Science Can Set Us Free

Description

Wednesday Martin explores what people have been getting wrong about unfaithful women and the evolutionary impulses behind their desires. Blending personal stories from Martin's own history with accessible social science, cultural theory, and interviews with sex researchers, psychologists, primatologists, anthropologists, and real women from all wal...

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No cover101 Nights of Great Sex
101 Nights of Great Sex

Secret Sealed Seductions For FunLoving Couples

Description

Welcome to a whole new level of Great Sex! This totally transformed 2020 edition of the New York Times bestseller is the only book on hot sex you'll ever need. Just ask millions of dedicated readers, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Britney Spears, Sharon Stone and Ryan Seacrest: America's favorite famed erotic playbook is a musthave for couples. Now it...

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No coverPosition of the Day
Position of the Day

Sex Every Day in Every Way (Adult, Humor Books, Books for Couples, Bachelorette Gifts)

Description

A position a day keeps the love doctor awayFrom the perpetrators of Nerve.com's wildly popular Position of the Day: After all these years of thinking 69 was our lucky number, here comes 366 handpicked erotic scenarios from Nerve.com's treasure trove into one gloriously chunky, deeply inspiring, and hilarious compendium. Yes, that's 366 one for e...

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No coverFucking Trans Women
Description

FTW is a zine by trans women, about the sex lives of trans women. It is an educational and instructional tool as much as it is a creative exploration of how we have sex....

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No coverS.E.X., second edition
S.E.X., second edition

The AllYouNeedToKnow Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties

Description

A revised/updated edition of the goto sex ed guide for teens and young Adult,s, from the founder of scarleteen.com...

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Sex is a Funny Word
Sex is a Funny Word

A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU

Description

A comic book for kids that includes children and families of all makeups, orientations, and gender identies, Sex Is a Funny Word is an essential resource about bodies, gender, and sexuality for children ages 8 to 10 as well as their parents and caregivers. Much more than the "facts of life" or ?the birds and the bees," Sex Is a Funny Word opens up ...

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No coverAce
Ace

What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Description

An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what we can all learn about desire and identity by using an ace lens to see the worldWhat exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through the world not experiencing it What does asexuality reveal about consent, about comprom...

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No coverCurvy Girl Sex
Curvy Girl Sex

101 BodyPositive Positions to Empower Your Sex Life

Description

Your guide to embracing your sexy self and having brilliant, bountiful, bodacious sex!...

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No coverFor Goodness Sex
For Goodness Sex

Changing the Way We Talk to Teens About Sexuality, Values, and Health

Description

A progressive, effective, and responsible approach to sex education for parents and teens that challenges traditional teaching models and instead embraces 21st century realities by promoting healthy sexuality, values, and body image in young peopleSex education today generally falls into one of two categories: abstinenceonly or abstinencebased ed...

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Girl Sex 101
Girl Sex 101

A Queer Pleasure Guide For Women and Their Lovers

Description

New author Allison Moon indulges the feminine wild by giving the classic werewolf myth a lesbian twist. Lexie Clarion's first night at college, she falls in with a pack of radical feminist werewolf hunters. The next morning, she falls for a mysterious woman who may be among the hunted. As Lexie's new lover and the Pack battle for Lexie's allegiance...

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It's Not the Stork!
It's Not the Stork!

A Book About Girls, Boys, Babies, Bodies, Families and Friends (The Family Library)

Description

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...

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It's So Amazing!
It's So Amazing!

A Book about Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families (The Family Library)

Description

"An outstanding book. . . . Meets the needs of those inbetween 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 sexual...

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Guide To Getting It On
Description

From the author: I originally wrote this book for people who wanted to have better sex. But then it started winning awards and being used in college sexed courses. So I tried to make the book all things to all people, and it started to grow, and grow, and grow. But with this new edition, I've taken the Guide To Getting It On back to its roots. It ...

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No coverMore Than Two
More Than Two

A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

Description

Can you love more than one person Have multiple romantic partners, without jealousy or cheating Absolutely! Polyamorous people have been paving the way, through trial and painful error. Now the new book More Than Two can help you find your own way. With completely new material and a fresh approach, Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert wrote More Than T...

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No coverOh Joy Sex Toy Vol. 1
Description

Erika and Matthew think the world of sex is fantastic.Their comics are about everything that relates to sex, from toys to education to pleasure to unglamorous mishaps. Mixing comedy, real experiences, and research, they create the friendliest sex positive comics around. In this volume, they look at a wide variety of topics, including sex toys, preg...

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No coverPleasure Activism
Pleasure Activism

The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy)

Description

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life Editor adrienne maree brown finds the answer in something she calls ?pleasure activism,? a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that chan...

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No coverWhat Makes a Baby
Description

What Makes a Baby is a children?s picture book about where babies come from that is written andGeared to readers from preschool to about 8 years old, it teaches curious kids about conception, gestation, and birth in a way that works regardless of whether or not the kid in question was adopted, conceived using reproductive technologies at home or i...

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No coverWomen's Anatomy of Arousal
Women's Anatomy of Arousal

Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure

Description

WINNER, 2010 BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD! THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF SEX EDUCATORS, COUNSELORS & THERAPISTS (AASECT). Find out why Dr. Christiane Northrup has called Women's Anatomy of Arousal "the most comprehensive, userfriendly, practical and uplifting book on women's sexuality I've ever read. It's the gold standard!" Women have a largely unknown n...

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No coverBecoming Cliterate
Becoming Cliterate

Why Orgasm Equality MattersAnd How to Get It

Description

We?ve been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex = penis vagina, and everything else is just secondary. Standard penetration is how men most reliably achieve orgasm. The problem is, women don?t orgasm this way. We?ve separated our most reliable route to orgasm?clitoral stimulation?from how we fee...

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It's Perfectly Normal
It's Perfectly Normal

Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library)

Description

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 wellbeing of tweens and teens. ...

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No coverThe Body Is Not an Apology
The Body Is Not an Apology

The Power of Radical SelfLove

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A global movement guided by love.Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies.The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical selflove as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by ...

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The Gender Wheel School Edition
The Gender Wheel School Edition

a story about bodies and gender for every body

Description

Like many things in nature it's round and holds everyone at the same time.This is the Gender Wheel.Like our world it's round and holds everyone at the same time too..."In 2010 Maya introduced the Gender Wheel and the Gender Team in the Gender Now Coloring Book. It was a jammed packed coloring extravaganza exploring bodies, nature and history in rel...

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No coverThe Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability
The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability

For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain and Illness (Paperback) Common

Description

The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability is the first complete sex guide for people who live with disabilities, pain, illness, or chronic conditions. Useful for absolutely everyone, regardless of age, gender, or sexual orientation, the book addresses a wide range of disabilities ? from chronic fatigue, back pain, and asthma to spinal cord injury, h...

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No coverSex for One
Sex for One

The Joy of Selfloving

Description

For more than 20 years, Betty Dodson has been dedicated to taking the shame out of masturbation, showing it to be a healthy form of sexual expression. With warmth and intelligence, and informative line drawings, Dodson explains how anyone can learn to fully enjoy the pleasures of selflove, pointing out that masturbation is still the safest sex....

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No coverThe Whole Lesbian Sex Book
The Whole Lesbian Sex Book

A Passionate Guide for All of Us

Description

The Whole Lesbian Sex Book was the firstever sex guide to offer information and encouragement for all women who desire women lesbian, bisexual, butch, femme, androgynous, and transgender. First published in 1999, it's been lauded for its thoroughness, enthusiastic tone, and creative, nonjudgmental approach to lesbian sex in all its rich variety...

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No coverUltimate Guide to Kink
Ultimate Guide to Kink

BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge

Description

The Ultimate Guide to Kink is the first major guide to BDSM in a generationa bold and sexy collection of essays that run the gamut from expert howto tutorials to provocative essays that delve into complex questions about desire, power, and pleasure. The book brings together diverse voices from the kink community in an unprecedented way: each cha...

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No coverCome As You Are
Come As You Are

The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

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Ecstasy Is Necessary
Ecstasy Is Necessary

a practical guide to sex, relationships, and oh so much more

Description

From Barbara Carrellas, sex expert and author of the bestselling book Urban Tantra, comes Ecstasy is Necessary. This is not your average tipsandtechniques sex book; rather it is an exploratory journey of the sexual self and the infinite possibilities of ecstatic expression. In Ecstasy is Necessary, Carrellas teaches readers how to discover, nurt...

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No coverQueer Sex
Queer Sex

A Trans and NonBinary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships

Description

In this frank, funny and poignant book, transgender activist Juno Roche discusses sex, desire and dating with leading figures from the trans and nonbinary community. Calling out prejudices and inspiring readers to explore their own concepts of intimacy and sexuality, the firsthand accounts celebrate the wonder and potential of trans bodies and pu...

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No coverThe Ethical Slut
The Ethical Slut

A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love

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No coverUrban Tantra
Urban Tantra

Sacred Sex for the TwentyFirst Century

Description

If you think sexual and spiritual bliss can'­t be found in today'­s fastpaced world, you haven'­t experienced Urban Tantra. With a juicy mix of erotic howto and pleasurecentered spiritual wisdom, acclaimed sex educator Barbara Carrellas radically updates the ancient practice of Tantra for modern sexual explorers desiring to push past their edge ...

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