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 Dilemmas of Desire : Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality by Deborah L. Tolman

"Girls are the objects of boys' sexual desires and have no desires of their own." In this provocative study, Tolman, a researcher at Wellesley College, turns this notion upside down.
 

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 The Harvey Milk Story by Kari Krakow

"On a rainy day in January, on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall, Harvey Milk was sworn into office, the first openly gay elected city official in the United States of America. Harvey Milk had made history." This children's book tells the story.
 

Body Image

cover Bitches, Bimbos, and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes by the Guerrilla Girls

The Guerrilla Girls, notorious for their outrageous take on women's issues, now tackle the maze of stereotypes that follow women from cradle to grave.
 

Women's Sexual Health

cover Could it Be Perimenopause? by Steven R. Goldstein

This compassionate and comprehensive book covers everything you need to know about perimenopause - the changes that occur in the decade before menopause.
 

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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