Fired Up About Consent by Sarah Ratchford

According to the World Health Organization, one in three women will be sexually or physically assaulted in her lifetime. These rates are very similar for non-binary people and other feminized people, too. This is rape culture, and young adults are living through it here and now. Fired Up about Consent is a practical, survivor-informed primer for young people who want to learn how to build joyful, mutually satisfying sex lives and relationships.

Every Body: An Honest And Open Look At Sex From Every Angle by Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg

Framed by dozens of artists’ illustrations, deeply personal interviews, and expert essays that address stigmas and clichés, this book is an informative, welcoming, and inclusive user’s guide to your body, no matter its shape, size, or preferences.

Also available as an eBook.

Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women And Desire In The Age Of Consent by Katherine Angel

In this elegant, searching book--spanning science and popular culture; pornography and literature; debates on #MeToo, consent and feminism--Katherine Angel challenges our assumptions about women's desire. Why, she asks, should they be expected to know their desires? And how do we take sexual violence seriously, when not knowing what we want is key to both eroticism and personhood? In today's crucial moment of renewed attention to violence and power, Angel urges that we remake our thinking about sex, pleasure, and autonomy without any illusions about perfect self-knowledge.

Getting It: A Guide To Hot, Healthy Hookups And Shame-Free Sex by Allison Moon

A comprehensive and fun-to-read guidebook for people of all sexual identities and experience levels, Getting It covers all the bases of hook-up culture from first moves and sex etiquette to navigating nonmonogamy and sexual health.

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, And The Meaning Of Sex by Angela Chen

Ace delves into the lives of those who identify using the little-known sexual orientation of asexuality and shows what all of us can learn--about desire, identity, culture, and relationships--when we use an asexual lens to see the world.

Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men's Sexuality In Public And Private by Beth Montemurro

Addressing everything from pornography to marriage, this book shares straight men's most intimate experiences of failure, triumph, heartbreak, and love.

The Right To Sex: Feminism In The Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

We do not know the future of sex―but perhaps we could imagine it. Amia Srinivasan helps us do just that. She traces the meaning of sex in our world, animated by the hope of a different world. She reaches back into an older feminist tradition that was unafraid to think of sex as a political phenomenon. She discusses a range of fraught relationships―between discrimination and preference, pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, students and teachers, pleasure and power, capitalism and liberation.

The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide To Polyamory, Open Relationships And Other Freedoms In Sex And Love by Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy

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, widely known as the "Poly Bible," has dispelled myths and showed curious readers how to maintain a successful polyamorous lifestyle through open communication, emotional honesty, and safer sex practices.

Boys & Sex: Young Men On Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, And Navigating The New Masculinity by Peggy Orenstein

By surfacing young men's experience in all its complexity, Orenstein is able to unravel the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important realities of young male sexuality in today's world. The result is a provocative and paradigm-shifting work that offers a much-needed vision of how boys can truly move forward as better men.

Also available as an eBook and eAudiobook.

Pleasure Activism: The Politics Of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown

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? Author and 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 changing the world is just another form of work.

Also available as a book club set.

Unf*ck Your Intimacy: Using Science For Better Relationships, Sex, & Dating by Faith G. Harper

With science and humour, Dr. Faith demystifies topics such as kink, consent, shame, and trauma recovery. Read this book to learn vital life skills like listening to your body and your gut, setting boundaries, and communicating your needs. If you're looking to heal from past wounds, make better choices, or improve an existing relationship, this book is for you. Better sex and relationships are totally possible! You've got this.

Respect: Everything A Guy Needs To Know About Sex, Love, And Consent by Inti Chavez Perez

Inti Chavez Perez draws on his vast experience as a sex educator to lay out how to build positive, respectful relationships with friends and partners, and how consent factors in at every stage from introducing yourself to having healthy sexual relationships with others, all with the same frankness that guys have talking about sex with their friends. From gender identity and sexual orientation to body image and sexual health and more, Respect tells you everything you should know, and everything you would want to know--a book for guys to learn from and then go back to.

Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

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.

Also avaialble as an eBook and eAudiobook.

Sexuality: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele

Sex is everywhere. It's in the stories we love - and the stories we fear. It defines who we are and our place in society...at least we're told it ought to. Sex and sexuality can seem like a house of horrors, full of monsters and potential pitfalls. We often live with fear, shame and frustration when it comes to our own sexuality, and with judgement when it comes to others'. With compassion, humour, erudition and a touch of the erotic, the authors shine a light through the darkness and unmask the monsters.