Positive Sexuality Resources
Self Help Article and Resource List by David Yarian Ph.D.
Recommended readings on many facets of sexuality and human sexual behavior, with an emphasis on sexuality as a positive force in life.
About Positive Sexuality Resources
This reading list brings together a wide range of books – scholarly work, self help books, novels, and memoirs – on a variety of topics relating to human sexuality. Although medical and scientific information is included, the main emphasis is on the broadly human experience of sexuality – physical, emotional, cognitive, spiritual, aesthetic – in all its richness, variety and complexity.
All of these works are, in the broadest sense of the word, sex–positive. Written from many different perspectives, they celebrate the diversity of human sexuality. They see sexuality as a gift to be cherished, embraced and expressed, a resource for healing and pleasure and connection. This reading list is positive in another way, as well: it focuses on sexual health rather than on pathology, on optimal experience rather than just ameliorating symptoms.
This list grew out of my own curiosity about sex, which dates back at least to elementary school days. In the conservative community where I spent my childhood, one did not talk openly about sexuality. Furtive conversations occurred in the boy’s locker room or late at night on a Boy Scout campout, laced with ignorance, misogyny and homophobia. In church I heard many sermons on the dangers of sexual behavior outside of marriage (which only further piqued my interest), but I don’t remember much being said about the beauty and wonder of sexuality.
Even in my small town there were resources for sexuality “information” available to the determined young person. I did locate Song of Solomon in the Bible, so on a slow Sunday morning I could study early Semitic erotica while pretending to follow along with the lesson. I still remember the shock and thrill of discovering Peyton Place on the shelves of the city library, and the feverish late-night reading that ensued. And of course, the encyclopedia, dictionary and thesaurus were consulted on all bodily functions!
Accurate information about sexuality is imperative for healthy maturation and development. Open discussion helps to remove taboos and the sense of shame they foster. I hope this list furthers your learning about human sexuality.
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Sex-Positive Philosophy
Emily Jenkins, Tongue First: Adventures in Physical Culture, New York: Henry Holt, 1998.
Carol Queen, Exhibitionism For The Shy, San Francisco: Down There Press, 1995.
Leonore Tiefer, Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays, Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.
Sallie Tisdale, Talk Dirty to Me: An Intimate Philosophy of Sex, New York: Anchor Books, 1994.
Sexological Research
T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Inner Circle, New York: Viking Books, 2004.
Vern Bullough, Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research, New York: Basic Books, 1995.
John H. Gagnon, An Interpretation of Desire: Essays in the Study of Sexuality, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Sex the Measure of All Things: a Life of Alfred C. Kinsey, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Shere Hite, The Hite Report, Dell, 1987.
Shere Hite, The Hite Report on Male Sexuality, New York: Ballantine Books, 1987.
James H. Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey: a Public/Private Life, New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
Alfred C. Kinsey, ed., Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, New York: W. B. Saunders, 1948.
Alfred C. Kinsey, ed., Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Rev. Ed., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Edward O. Laumann, et.al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Edward O. Laumann, et.al., The Sexual Organization of the City, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
William Masters and Virginia Johnson, Human Sexual Response, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 1966.
Richard G. Parker and John H. Gagnon, Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches To Sex Research in a Post-Modern World, London: Routledge, 1995.
Facts
Robin Baker, Sperm Wars: The Science of Sex, New York: Basic Books, 1996.
Daniel Buss, The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, New York: Basic Books, 2003.
Rebecca Chalker, The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000.
Helen Fisher, Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage and Why We Stray, New York: Ballantine Books, 1994.
Adrian Forsyth, A Natural History of Sex: The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior, New York: Firefly Books, 2001.
Gina Kolata, et.al., Sex in America, New York: Warner Books, 1995.
Edward O. Laumann, et.al., Sex, Love and Health in America: Private Choices And Public Policies, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Judith MacKay, The Penguin Atlas of Human Sexual Behavior, New York: Penguin USA, 2000.
Maggie Paley, The Book of the Penis, New York: Grove Press, 1999.
June Reinisch, et.al., The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1991.
Frans de Waal and Frans Lanting, Bonobo: the Forgotten Ape, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Leslee Welch, Sex Facts: A Handbook For The Carnally Curious, Citadel Press, 1995.
Marlene Zuk, Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can’t Learn About Sex From Animals, University of California Press, 2003.
History
Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Love, New York: Random House, 1994.
David Allyn, Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution, An Unfettered History, Boston: Little, Brown, 2000.
Nicholas Bornoff, Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage and Sex in Contemporary Japan, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Rufus C. Camphausen, The Yoni: Sacred Symbol of Female Creative Power, Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1996.
Keith Dowman, Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel, Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1996.
Barbara Foster, Michael Foster, Letha Hadady, Three in Love: Menages a Trois From Ancient to Modern Times, San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1997.
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
Katherine Anne Harper, ed., The Roots of Tantra, Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.
Martha Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Ronald Hyam, Empire and Sexuality: the British Experience, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990.
Jeffrey Kripal, Kali’s Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Thomas Laqueur, The Making of Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Ian Littlewood, Sultry Climates: Travel and Sex, Cambridge, Da Capo Press, 2002.
Rachel Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: “Hysteria”, the Vibrator, and Women’s Sexual Satisfaction, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Angus McLaren, Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1999.
Raymond Lee Muncy, Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities: 19th Century America, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.
Burgo Partridge, A History of Orgies: Lost Treasures, London: Prion books, 2002.
Miranda Shaw, Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Lawrence Stone, Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800, New York: HarperCollins, 1986.
Reay Tannahill, Sex In History, New York: Scarborough House, 1982.
Hugh B. Urban, The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
David Gordon White, Kiss of the Yogini: “Tantric Sex” in its South Asian Contexts, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Culture
David Bell and Gill Valentine, Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities, London: Routledge, 1995.
Susie Bright, Susie Bright’s Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex World Reader, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1992.
Eurydice, Satyricon USA: A Journey Across the New Sexual Frontier, New York: Scribner, 1999.
Robert Francoeur, Sexuality in America: Understanding Our Sexual Values and Behavior, New York: Continuum, 1999.
Judith Levine, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, St. Paul: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Brian McNair, Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire, London: Routledge, 2002.
Irvin C. Schick, The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alterist Discourse, London: Verso, 1999.
Mariana Valverde, Sex, Power and Pleasure, Toronto: The Women’s Press, 1985.
Emily White, Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut, New York: Scribner, 2002.
Naomi Wolf, Promiscuities: the Secret Struggle for Womanhood, New York: Random House, 1999.
Psychology
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008.
Jack Morin, The Erotic Mind, New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
Gabrielle Roth, Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit, San Rafael: New World Library, 1998.
David Steinberg, Erotic By Nature: A Celebration of Life, of Love, and of Our Wonderful Bodies, Berkeley: Down There Press, 1988.
David Steinberg, ed., The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Perigee Books, 1992.
Robert Sternberg and Michael Barnes, Psychology of Love, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
Robert J. Stoller, M.D., Observing the Erotic Imagination, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Memoir
David Guy, The Autobiography of My Body: a Novel, New York: Dutton, 1991.
Kerwin Kay, et.al., Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation, New York: Harrington Park Press, 2000.
Harry Maurer, Sex: Real People Talk About What They Really Do, New York: Penguin, 1995.
Catherine Millet, The Sexual Life of Catherine M., New York: Grove Press, 2002.
Daniel Odier, Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love, Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 1996.
Carol Queen, Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997.
Richard Rhodes, Making Love: An Erotic Odyssey, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Annie Sprinkle, Post-Porn Modernist, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1998.
Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Ph.D., ed., Women of the Light: The New Sacred Prostitute, Larkspur, CA: Secret Garden, 1997.
Relationships
Deborah M. Anapol, Ph.D., Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits, San Rafael, CA: IntiNet Resource Center, 1997.
Michael Castleman, Great Sex: A Man’s Guide to the Secret Principles of Total-Body Sex, Rodale Press, 2004.
Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt, The Ethical Slut, San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1998.
Barbara Foster, Michael Foster, Letha Hadady, Three in Love: Menages a Trois From Ancient to Modern Times, iUniverse, 2000.
Terry Gould, The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers, Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 1999.
Arno Karlen, Threesomes: Studies in Sex, Power and Intimacy, New York: William Morrow, 1988.
Marty Klein, Ph.D., Beyond Orgasm: Dare to be Honest About the Sex You Really Want, Celestial Arts, 2002.
Patricia Love et.al., Hot Monogamy: Essential Steps to More Passionate, Intimate Lovemaking, New York: Plume, 1999.
William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, The Pleasure Bond: A New Look At Sexuality and Commitment, Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.
Barry McCarthy and Emily McCarthy, Rekindling Desire, New York: Brunner Routledge, 2003.
Marnia Robinson, Peace Between the Sheets: Healing with Sexual Relationships, Berkeley, CA: Frog, Ltd., 2002.
David Schnarch, Constructing the Sexual Crucible: An Integration of Sexual And Marital Therapy, New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.
David Schnarch, Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships, New York: Norton, 2009.
David Schnarch and James Maddock, Resurrecting Sex: Resolving Sexual Problems and Rejuvenating Your Relationship, New York: HarperCollins, 2002.
Michelle Weiner-Davis, The Sex-Starved Marriage, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.
John Welwood, Journey of the Heart: the Path of Conscious Love, New York: Perennial, 1996.
John Welwood, Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship, New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
BDSM
Race Bannon, Learning the Ropes: A Basic Guide to S/M Lovemaking, San Francisco: Daedalus Publishing, 1993.
Joseph Bean, Leathersex: A Guide for the Curious Outsider and the Serious Player, San Francisco: Daedalus Publishing, 1994.
Pat Califia, ed., The Lesbian S/M Safety Manual, Lace Publications, 1988.
Patrick Califia-Rice, Sensuous Magic: A Guide to S/M for Adventurous Couples, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2002.
Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt, When Someone You Love is Kinky, San Francisco: Greenery Press, 2000.
William Henkin and Sybil Holiday, Consensual Sadomasochism: How to Talk About It and How to Do It Safely, San Francisco: Daedalus Publishing, 1996.
Trevor Jacques, On the Safe Edge: A Manual for SM Play, Toronto: WholeSM Publishing, 1993.
Charles Moser, Health Care Without Shame, San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1999.
Jay Wiseman, SM 101: A Realistic Introduction, San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1996.
Gay and Lesbian Sexuality
Bruce Anderson, Tantra for Gay Men, New York: Consortium, 2002.
John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle, New York: Bantam, 1983.
Merilee Clunis and Dorsey Green, Lesbian Couples: A Guide to Creating Healthy Relationships, Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 2004.
Marny Hall, Lesbian Love Companion: How to Survive Everything from Heartthrob to Heartbreak, San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998.
Linda Handel, Now That You’re Out of the Closet: What About the Rest of the House?, Source Books, 2000.
Jonathan Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Judith McDaniel, The Lesbian Couples Guide, New York: Perennial Currents, 1995.
Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, San Francisco: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004.
Jack Morin, Ph.D., Anal Pleasure and Health: A Guide For Men and Women, 4th Edition, Berkeley: Down There Press, 2010.
John Reid (Andrew Tobias), Best Little Boy in the World, New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.
William Schindler, Gay Tantra, New York: Xlibris Corporation.
Michelangelo Signorile, Outing Yourself: How to Come Out as Lesbian or Gay to Your Family, Friends and Coworkers, New York: Fireside, 1996.
Daniel Wolfe, Men Like Us; The GMHC Complete Guide to Gay Men’s Sexual, Physical and Emotional Well-Being, New York: Ballantine Books, 2000.
Bisexuality
Eva Cantarella and Cormac Ocuilleanain, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
Marjorie Garber, Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, London: Routledge, 2000.
Clare Hemmings, Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Sexuality and Gender, London: Routledge, 2002.
Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, Los Angeles: Alyson Publications, 1991.
Fritz Klein, The Bisexual Option, Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1993.
Robyn Ochs, Bisexual Resource Guide, Boston: Bisexual Resources Center, 1999.
Merl Storr, Bisexuality: A Critical Reader, London: Routledge, 1999.
Martin Weinberg, et.al., Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality, Cambridge: Oxford University Press.
Transgender Issues
Amy Bloom, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites With Attitude, New York: Random House, 2002.
W. Bockting and Eli Coleman, eds., Gender Dysphoria: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Clinical Management, New York: Haworth Press, 1992.
Mildred Brown and Chloe Rounsley, True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.
Patrick Califia, Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2003.
Paul Clements, Jan Morris, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998.
Sharon F. Dougherty, Guidebook to Transsexual Transition, Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association.
Bernice Hansman, Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology and the Idea of Gender, Raleigh: Duke University Press, 1995.
Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Inc., The Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders, Version 6, 2001.
Deidre McCloskey, Crossing: A Memoir, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Jan Morris, Conundrum, New York: NYRB Classics, 2006.
Intersexuality
Amy Bloom, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites With Attitude, New York: Random House, 2002.
John Colapinto, As Nature Made Him: The Boy who was Raised as a Girl, New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
Alice Dreger, Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex: A Novel, New York: Picador, 2007.
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Gilbert Herdt, Third Sex, Third Gender, Zone Books, 1994.
Will Rosco, The Zuni Man-Woman, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Sharon Preves, Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Touch
Margot Anand, Multi-Orgasmic Response Ecstasy Training For Women and Multi-Orgasmic Response Ecstasy Training For Men. (videos)
Joani Blank, ed., First Person Sexual: Women and Men Write About Self-Pleasuring, San Francisco: Down There Press, 1996.
Walter Bockting and Eli Coleman, eds., Masturbation as a Means of Achieving Sexual Health, New York: Haworth, 2003.
Alan P. Brauer, M.D. and Donna J. Brauer, The ESO Ecstasy Program, New York: Warner Books, 1990.
Betty Dodson, Sex For One: The Joy of Selfloving, New York: Crown, 1996.
Julie Henderson, The Lover Within: Opening to Energy in Sexual Practice, Barrytown, New York: Station Hill, 1999.
Joseph Kramer, Fire On The Mountain: An Intimate Guide to Male Genital Massage (video).
Joseph Kramer and Annie Sprinkle, Fire In The Valley: An Intimate Guide to Female Genital Massage (video).
Jack Morin, Ph.D., Anal Pleasure and Health: A Guide For Men and Women, 4th Edition, Berkeley: Down There Press, 2010.
Charles and Caroline Muir, Secrets of Female Sexual Ecstasy (video).
Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Male Erotic Massage: A Guide to Sex and Spirit, Tucson, AZ: Secret Garden Publishing, 1999.
Cathy Winks, The Good Vibrations Guide: the G Spot, Berkeley: Down There Press, 1998.
Women's Sexual Health
Jennifer Berman, et.al., For Women Only: a Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Sexual Dysfunctions and Reclaiming Your Sex Life, New York: Henry Holt, 2001.
Rebecca Chalker, The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003.
Betty Dodson, Sex for One: The Joy of Self-Loving, New York: Crown, 1996.
Sallie Foley et.al., Sex Matters for Women: A Complete Guide to Taking Care of Your Sexual Self, New York: Guilford Press, 2002.
Howard Glazer and Gae Rodke, The Vulvodynia Survival Guide: How to Overcome Painful Vaginal Symptoms and Enjoy an Active Lifestyle, Oakland: New Harbinger, 2002.
Andrew Goldstein and Marianne Brandon, Reclaiming Desire: 4 Keys to Finding Your Lost Libido, Rodale Books, 2009.
Julia Heiman and Joseph LoPiccolo, Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual Growth Program for Women, New York: Fireside, 1987.
Ritza Katz and Ross Tabisel, Private Pain: Understanding Vaginismus and Dyspareunia, Katz-Tabi Publication, 2005.
Robert M. Moldwin, The Interstitial Cystitis Survival Guide: Your Guide to the Latest Treatment Options and Coping Strategies, Oakland: New Harbinger, 2000.
Gina Ogden, Women Who Love Sex: An Inquiry into the Expanding Spirit of Women’s Erotic Experience, Trumpeter, 2007.
Catherine Simone, To Wake in Tears: Understanding Interstitial Cystitis, I.C. Hope Ltd., 1998.
Elizabeth Stewart and Paula Spenser, The V Book: the Doctor’s Guide to Complete Vulvovaginal Health, New York: Bantam, 2002.
Cathy Winks, The Good Vibrations Guide: The G-Spot, San Francisco: Down There Press, 1998.
Men's Sexual Health
Lee Belshin, The Complete Prostate Book, Prima Lifestyles, 1996.
David Bostwick, et.al., Prostate Cancer: What Every Man Needs to Know, New York: Villard Books, 1996.
Michael Castleman, Great Sex: A Man’s Guide to the Secret Principles of Total Body Sex, Rodale Press, 2004.
Stephen Jones, Overcoming Impotence, New York: Prometheus Books, 2003.
Barry and Emily McCarthy, Male Sexual Awareness: Increasing Sexual Satisfaction, New York: Carroll and Graf, 1998.
Michael Metz and Barry McCarthy, Coping With Premature Ejaculation: How to Overcome PE, Please Your Partner and Have Great Sex, Oakland: New Harbinger, 2004.
Richard Milstine and Julian Slowinski, The Sexual Male: Problems and Solutions, New York: Norton, 2000.
Gerald Weeks and Nancy Gambescia, Erectile Dysfunction: Integrating Couple Therapy, Sex Therapy, and Medical Treatment, New York: Norton, 2000.
Bernie Zilbergeld, The New Male Sexuality: The Truth about Men, Sex, and Pleasure, New York, Bantam, 1999.
Sexuality and Spirituality
Rufus C. Camphausen, The Encyclopedia of Sacred Sexuality, Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 1999.
Georg Feuerstein, Sacred Sexuality: Living the Vision of the Erotic Spirit, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
David Guy, The Red Thread of Passion: Spirituality and the Paradox of Sex, Boston, Shambhala, 1999.
Loraine Hutchins, Erotic Rites: A Cultural Analysis of Contemporary U.S. Sacred Sexuality Traditions and Trends, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Union Institute Graduate College, 2000.
Thomas Moore, The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love, New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
John Stevens, The Cosmic Embrace: An Illustrated Guide to Sacred Sex, Boston: Shambhala, 1999.
Sex Work
Alexa Albert, Brothel: Mustang Ranch and its Women, New York: Random House, 2001.
Juliana Beasley, Lapdancer, Powerhouse Books, 2003.
Lily Burana, Strip City: A Stripper’s Farewell Journey Across America, New York: Miramax, 2001.
Wendy Chapkis, et.al., Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor, London: Routledge, 1997.
Frederique Delacoste and Priscilla Alexander, eds., Sex Work: Writings By Women In The Industry, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1998.
Margaret Drager and A. Harrison, Revelations: Essays on Striptease and Sexuality, London, Ontario: Nightwood Editions, 1988.
Elisabeth Eaves, Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power, Seal Press, 2004.
Amy Flowers, The Fantasy Factory: An Insider’s View of the Phone Sex Industry, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Katherine Frank, G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire, Raleigh: Duke University Press, 2002.
Kamala Kempaloo and Jo Doezema, eds., Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition, London: Routledge, 1998.
Erika Langley, The Lusty Lady, Scalo Verlag, 1997.
Katherine Liepe-Levinson, Strip Show: Performances of Gender and Desire, London: Routledge, 2002.
Heidi Mattson, Ivy League Stripper, New York: Arcade, 1995.
Jill Nagle, Whores and Other Feminists, London: Routledge, 1997.
Chris Ryan and C. Michael Hall, Sex Tourism: Marginal People and Liminalities, London: Routledge, 2001.
Jeremy Seabrook, Travels in the Skin Trade: Tourism and the Sex Industry, Pluto Press, 1996.
Ronald Weitzer, ed., Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex Industry, London: Routledge, 2009.
Pornography
Carol Bridge, Cut Throat Business: I am Having the Last Word, Bloomington, IN: 1st Books Library, 2003.
Jerry Butler, Raw Talent: The Adult Film Industry as Seen by its Most Popular Male Star, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990.
Pamela Gibson and Roma Gibson, eds., Dirty Looks: Women, Pornography, Power, London: British Film Institute, 1993.
Ian Gittler, Pornstar, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
Lynn Hunt, ed., The Invention of Pornography, New York: Zone Books, 1993.
Jenna Jameson, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, New York: Regan Books, 2004.
Berkeley Kaite, Pornography and Difference, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Traci Lords, Traci Lords: Underneath it All, New York: HarperEntertainment, 2003.
Kenneth Maxwell, A Sexual Odyssey: From Forbidden Fruit to Cybersex, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1996.
Laurence O’Toole, Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire, London: Serpent’s Tail, 1998.
Robert J. Stoller and I. S. Levine, Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Robert J. Stoller, Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
Erotica
Marianna Beck and Jack Hafferkamp, eds., The Ecstatic Moment, New York: Delta, 1997.
Susie Bright, ed., Herotica 10: A Collection of Women’s Erotic Fiction, Berkeley: Down There Press, 2002.
Michael Perkins, The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature, New York: William Morrow, 1976.
A. D. Peterkin, The Bald-Headed Hermit and the Artichoke: An Erotic Thesaurus, Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999.
David Steinberg, Erotic By Nature: A Celebration of Life, of Love, and of Our Wonderful Bodies, Berkeley: Down There Press, 1988.
David Steinberg, ed., The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Perigee Books, 1992.
Robert J. Stoller, M.D., Observing the Erotic Imagination, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Tantric and Taoist Sexual Practices
Margot Anand, The Art of Sexual Ecstasy, New York: J.P. Tarcher, 1989.
Margot Anand, The Art of Sexual Magic, New York: Putnam, 1995.
Margot Anand, The Art of Everyday Ecstasy, New York: Broadway Books, 1998.
Bruce Anderson, Tantra for Gay Men, New York: Consortium, 2002.
Mantak Chia and Douglas Arava, The Multi-Orgasmic Man, San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.
Mantak Chia and Michael Winn, Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy, Santa Fe: Aurora Press, 1984.
Alex Comfort, trans., The Illustrated Koka Shastra: Medieval Indian Writings on Love Based on the Kama Sutra, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Nik Douglas, Spiritual Sex: Secrets of Tantra From the Ice Age to The New Millenium, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger, Sexual Secrets: The Alchemy of Ecstasy, Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books, 1997.
Jwala, with Robb Smith, Sacred Sex: Ecstatic Techniques for Empowering Relationships, San Rafael, CA: Mandala, 1993.
Connie and Robert Kirby, The Art of Sensual Yoga, New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
Jeffrey Kripal, Kali’s Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings Of Ramakrishna, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Charles and Caroline Muir, Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving, San Francisco: Mercury, 1989.
David and Ellen Ramsdale, Sexual Energy Ecstasy, New York: Bantam Books, 1995.
Khetsun Sangpo, Tantric Practice in Nying-Ma, Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1982.
Lee Sannella, M.D., The Kundalini Experience, Lower Lake, CA: Integral Publishing, 1987.
Sunyata Saraswati and Bodhi Avinasha, Jewel in the Lotus: The Tantric Path to Higher Consciousness: A Complete and Systematic Course In Tantric Kriya Yoga, Ipsalu Publications, 2002.
William Schindler, Gay Tantra, New York: Xlibris Corporation.
Miranda Shaw, Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Yeshe Tsogyal, Dakini Teachings, Boston: Shambhala, 1990.
Hugh B. Urban, The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
David Gordon White, Kiss of the Yogini: “Tantric Sex” in its South Asian Contexts, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Douglas Wile, Art of the Bedchamber: The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women’s Solo Meditation Texts, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.
