Reading, study and learning

Authored by Henry Strick van Linschoten

Following the outline presented in the section on Issues, you may want to do some deeper study, or on certain matters may like more details. Apart from the references offered at the end of the sections, here are some general sources that go into more detail than this module.

A number of general academic level textbook-style sources

Justin Lehmiller. The Psychology of Human Sexuality. Lehmiller (2018).

Simon LeVay, Janice Baldwin and John Baldwin. Discovering Human Sexuality. 4th ed. LeVay, Baldwin and Baldwin (2018).

Meg-John Barker and Christina Richards (Eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender. Richards and Barker (2015).

Douglas Braun-Harvey and Michael Vigorito. Treating Out of Control Sexual Behavior: Rethinking Sex Addiction. Braun-Harvey and Vigorito (2016).

Books about recent developments in sex therapy

Peggy Kleinplatz (Ed.). New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives. Kleinplatz (2012).

Damon Constantinides, Shannon Sennott and Davis Chandler. Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients. Constantinides, Sennott and Chandler (2019).

Books specialising in sexuality and gender, focused on psychotherapy and counselling

Christina Richards and Meg-John Barker. Sexuality & Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide. Richards and Barker (2013).

Joe Kort. LGBTQ Clients in Therapy: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies. Kort (2018).

Books about non-monogamous relationships

Janet Hardy and Dossie Easton. The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love. 3d ed. Hardy and Easton (2017).

Rhea Orion. A Therapist’s Guide to Consensual Nonmonogamy. Orion (2018).

Elisabeth Sheff. When Someone You Love Is Polyamorous: Understanding Poly People and Relationships. Sheff (2016).

Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert. More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory. Veaux and Rickert (2014).

A generally useful book about sex in long-term relationships

Esther Perel. Mating in Captivity: Sex, Lies and Domestic Bliss. Perel (2007).

Books about queer and queer theory

Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele. Queer: A Graphic History. Barker and Scheele (2016).

Juno Roche. Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships. Roche (2018).

Books about gender, sexual diversity, trans, non-binary, genderqueer

Meg-John Barker and Alex Iantaffi. Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond and In-Between. Barker and Iantaffi (2019).

Anne Fausto-Sterling. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. Fausto-Sterling (2000).

CN Lester. Trans Like Me: A Journey for All of Us. Lester (2017).

Arlene Istar Lev. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and their Families. Lev (2004).

Christina Richards, Walter Pierre Bouman and Meg-John Barker (Eds.). Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders. Richards, Bouman and Barker (2017).

Gayle Salamon. The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Critical Phenomenology of Transphobia. Salamon (2018).

Julia Serano. Excluded: Making feminist and queer movements more inclusive. Serano (2013).

Lisa Wade and Myra Marx Ferree. Gender: Ideas, interactions, institutions. Wade and Ferree (2019).

Some sources about kink and BDSM

Muriel Dimen. Perversion Is Us? Eight Notes. In M. Dimen. Sexuality, Intimacy, Power. Dimen (2003).

Tristan Taormino. The Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge. Taormino (2012).

Janet Hardy and Dossie Easton. The New Bottoming Book. Hardy and Easton (2001).

Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy. The New Topping Book. Easton and Hardy (2003).

Books about sexuality and disability

Eli Clare. Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation. Clare (2009).

Alison Kafer. Feminist, Queer, Crip. Kafer (2013).

Robert McRuer and Anna Mollow. Sex and Disability. McRuer and Mollow (2012).

References

Barker, M.-J., & Iantaffi, A. (2019). Life isn’t binary: On being both, beyond and in-between. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Barker, M.-J., & Richards, C. (Eds.). (2015). The Palgrave handbook of the psychology of sexuality and gender. Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan.

Barker, M.-J., & Scheele, J. (2016). Queer: A graphic history. London: Icon Books.

Braun-Harvey, D., & Vigorito, M. A. (2016). Treating out of control sexual behavior: Rethinking sex addiction. New York: Springer.

Clare, E. (2009). Exile and pride: Disability, queerness and liberation (2nd ed.). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Constantinides, D. M., Sennott, S. L., & Chandler, D. (2019). Sex therapy with erotically marginalized clients: Nine principles of clinical support. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.

Dimen, M. (2003). Perversion is us? Eight notes. In M. Dimen, Sexuality, intimacy, power. Haworth, NJ: The Analytic Press.

Easton, D., & Hardy, J. (2003). The new topping book. Emeryville, CA: Greenery Press.

Fausto-Sterling, A. (2000). Sexing the body: Gender politics and the construction of sexuality. New York: Basic Books.

Hardy, J., & Easton, D. (2001). The new bottoming book. Emeryville, CA: Greenery Press.

Hardy, J., & Easton, D. (2017). The ethical slut: A practical guide to polyamory, open relationships, and other freedoms in sex and love (3rd ed.). New York: Ten Speed Press.

Kafer, A. (2013). Feminist, queer, crip. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Kleinplatz, P. J. (Ed.). (2012). New directions in sex therapy: Innovations and alternatives. New York: Routledge.

Kort, J. (2018). LGBTQ clients in therapy: Clinical issues and treatment strategies. New York: WW Norton.

Lehmiller, J. J. (2018). The psychology of human sexuality (2nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley.

Lester, C. N. (2017). Trans like me: A journey for all of us. London: Virago.

Lev, A. I. (2004). Transgender emergence: Therapeutic guidelines for working with gender-variant people and their families. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press.

LeVay, S., Baldwin, J., & Baldwin, J. (2018). Discovering human sexuality (4th ed.). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates.

McRuer, R., & Mollow, A. (2012). Sex and disability. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Orion, R. (2018). A therapist’s guide to consensual nonmonogamy. New York: Routledge.

Perel, E. (2007). Mating in captivity: Sex, lies and domestic bliss. New York: HarperCollins.

Richards, C., & Barker, M.-J. (2013). Sexuality & gender for mental health professionals: A practical guide. London: Sage.

Richards, C., Bouman, W. P., & Barker, M.-J. (Eds.). (2017). Genderqueer and non-binary genders. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Roche, J. (2018). Queer sex: A trans and non-binary guide to intimacy, pleasure and relationships. London: Jessica Kingsley.

Salamon, G. (2018). The life and death of Latisha King: A critical phenomenology of transphobia. New York: New York University Press.

Serano, J. (2013). Excluded: Making feminist and queer movements more inclusive. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press.

Sheff, E. (2016). When someone you love is polyamorous: Understanding poly people and relationships. Portland, OR: Thorntree Press.

Taormino, T. (2012). The ultimate guide to kink: BDSM, role play and the erotic edge. Berkeley, CA: Cleis Press.

Veaux, F., & Rickert, E. (2014). More than two: A practical guide to ethical polyamory. Portland, OR: Thorntree Press.

Wade, L., & Ferree, M. M. (2019). Gender: Ideas, interactions, institutions (2nd ed.). New York: WW Norton.