Reading List
Kids, Preteens, and younger teens:
Care and Keeping of You by Valorie Schaefer
Its Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris
Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg
Older Teens and Young Adults:
Girls and Sex by Peggy Orenstein
SEX second edition: The All You Need To know Sexuality Guide by Heather Corinna
The Pride Guide by Jo Langfod
Queer: Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens by Kathy Belge
Trans Teen Survival Guide by Fox Fisher
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
Menstruation:
A Period Guide Book and Journal by Saski Boujo
Period Repair Manual by Lara Briden
The Fifth Vital Sign by Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
In the FLO by Alisa Vitti
On Vaginas, Female Fertility, and more:
Come as You Are by Dr. Emily Nagoski
The Come as You Are Workbook: A Practical Guide to the Science of Sex by Dr. Emily Nagoski
Vagina Bible by Dr. Jen Gunter MD
Taking Charge of Your Fertility, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health by Toni Weschler.
Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters–And How to Get It by Laurie Mintz
Male-Specific:
(younger boys) “Guy Stuff: The Body Book for Boys” By Cara Natterson
(older boys and young adults) Boys & Sex by Peggy Orenstein
For adult sex ed and more:
My Sexual Values Workbook by Erica Smith
Carnal Knowledge: Sex Education You Didn’t Get in School by Zoe Lingon
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Wome by Jessica Valenti
Love’s Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities by Kevin A. Patterson
Enabling Romance: A Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships for People with Disabilities (and the People Who Care About Them) by Ken Kroll
Polyamory, Kink, and Alternative Sex:
The Ethical Slut (third edition) by Janet W Hardy and Dossie Easton
The Ultimate Guide to Kink by Tristan Taormino
Sex at Dawn by Cacilda Jetha and Christopher Ryan
More Than Two by Eve Rickert and Franklin Veaux
Parents:
Read Me: A Parental Primer for The Talk
Sexploitation: Helping Kids Develop Healthy Sexuality in a Porn-Driven World By Cindy Pierce.
Sex, Teens, and Everything in Between: The New and Necessary Conversations Today’s Teenagers Need to Have about Consent, Sexual Harassment, Healthy Relationships, Love, and More by Shafia Zaloom
Body Safety Education: A parents’ guide to protecting kids from sexual abuse by Jayneen Sanders
Talk Sex Today: What Kids Need to Know and How Adults Can Teach Them by Saleema Noon and Meg Hickling
Girls of Color, Sexuality, and Sex Education by Sharon Lamb , Tangela Roberts , Aleksandra Plocha
The Sex Education Answer Book: By the Age Responses to Tough Questions Kids Ask Parents about Sex by Cath Hakanson
On Sex Work:
Playing the Whore by Melissa Gira Grant
Rebelling Prostitutes by Juno Mac and Molly Smith
Thriving in Sex Work by Lola Davina
Biology and Science:
Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine
The Body by Bill Bryson
How to Grow a Human by Philip Ball
Psychology:
Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
The New Codependency by Melody Beattie
Why Won’t You Apologize by Harriet Lerner, Ph.D
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
