Resources: Sextalk Booknook

Here are some samples of what is in our book store. Click on a title to order, or click on the “all from this category” link to browse through more of our offerings.

Sex Education for Educators

cover Teaching About Sexuality and HIV: Principles and Methods for Effective Education by Evonne Hedgepeth and Joan Helmich

"At Last! A comprehensive resource book that successfully integrates the theory and practice of sexuality education. "Teaching About Sexuality" provides a much-needed text for the field and will become a daily companion for all of us who are committed to providing education that enables people to understand, make wise decisions about, and celebrate their sexuality."
-Peggy Brick
 

Sex Education for Youth

cover My Feelings, My Self: A Growing-Up Journal for Girls, Second Edition (What's Happening to My Body? Series) by Lynda Madaras with Area Madaras

them. Why don't my parents ever listen to me? Can I tell a boy that I like him? How do I say "no" to friends when they want me to do things I don't want to? Answers to these questions and more are what's in this fun- and fact-filled book as well as quizzes, exercises, stories and letters from kids expressing feelings about the changes going on in their lives during adolescence.
 

Parenting Sexually Healthy Kids

cover From Diapers to Dating: A Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Children--From Infancy to Middle School by Debra W. Haffner, M.P.H.

Whether she is discussing how to help kids with the onslaught of sexual messages they see in the media or providing sensible guidance on teaching the facts of life, Debra Haffner's approach to raising sexually healthy children is informative and comforting.
 

Sex

cover Toygasms! The Insider's Guide to Sex Toys and Techniques by Sadie Allison

Introducing TOYGASMS!, the one instruction manual for every sex toy today! Sex educator Sadie Allison guides you through today's vast sex toy jungle to help you find the shapes, sizes and sensations that satisfy you--along with lots of fun, safe ways to achieve the best orgasms of your life.
 

GLBT Issues

cover Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman

The story of Heather, a preschooler with two moms who discovers that some of her friends have very different sorts of families.
 

Body Image

cover Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Susan Bordo

Bordo explores women's obsessions with appearance, their struggles to control food and hunger, and the pressures brought on by a society that worships the ideal female figure.
 

Women's Sexual Health

cover Our Bodies Ourselves For The New Century by The Boston Women's Health Book Collective

By updating and continuing to tackle such topics as body image, sexuality, contraception, childbearing, breast cancer, and the politics of women's health, this edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves keeps giving women the power and the knowledge to take charge of their own health.
 

Men's Sexual Health

cover Wrestling with Love by Samuel Osherson, Ph.D.

In Wrestling with Love, psychologist Sam Osherson, author of the highly acclaimed Finding Our Fathers, reveals how men in our culture struggle to achieve intimacy in their relationships, even as strong messages about masculinity demand that they hide their desire for attachments.
 

Miscellaneous

cover Mobilizing Resentment : CONSERVATIVE RESURGENCE FROM THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY TO THE PROMISE KEEPERS by Jean Hardisty

In this provocative book, Jean Hardisty details the formation of right-wing movements in opposition to the struggle for expansion of rights for women, people of color, and lesbians and gays.
 

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