Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms
By: Matthias Roberts
4.11
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
We all carry sexual shame. Whether we grew up in the repressive purity culture of American Evangeli…
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1. Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters—And How to Get It
By: Laurie Mintz
5.00
Format: 176 pages, ebook
We've been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex… read more
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- self help
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- sexuality
2. God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
By: Matthew Vines
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
As a young Christian man, Matthew Vines harbored the same basic hopes of most young people: to some… read more
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3. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
By: Emily Nagoski
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research an… read more
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- relationships
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- sexuality
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"What turns us on (or off) is learned from culture, in much the same way children learn vocabulary and accents from culture."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"You can't make someone be patient any more than you can make someone have an orgasm. You create a great context, and then allow it to happen."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"Please tell everyone you know: If you have responsive desire, you are already normal. No one needs to 'crave' sex out of the blue to be a fully healthy person."-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
"One more thing about women's external genitals. The name for the whole package of female genitalia is "vulva." "Vagina" refers to the internal reproductive canal that leads up to the uterus. People o…"-Emily Nagoski, Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
4. Sex, God, and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy
By: None
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Paperback
Sex, God, and the Conservative Churchguides psychotherapy and sexology clinicians on how to treat c… read more
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5. Gender Euphoria
By: Laura Kate Dale
4.11
Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition
GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s … read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
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"My leg hair reminds me of wildflower meadows. My head hair is long pond grass. My armpit hair is a hawthorn bush. My pubic hair is wet moss and lichen on a rock."-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria
"If you don’t mind keeping a secret, I can tell you that the reality is that people ask fewer questions about what’s going on in your pants if they’re distracted by what you’ve got drawn on your arms."-Laura Kate Dale, Gender Euphoria
6. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
By: Richard C. Schwartz
4.15
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more
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- mental health
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
7. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
By: Sarah McCammon
4.21
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more
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- religion
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8. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
4.25
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourse… read more
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- queer
- lgbt
- nonfiction
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- self help
"In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck."-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
"revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow."-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
"Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens"-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
"Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not …"-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
9. Wisdom of Your Body
By: Hillary L. McBride
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Many of us have a complicated relationship with our body.Maybe you've been made to feel ashamed of … read more
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- self help
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- psychology
- mental health
"She cupped her hands around the remnant flame of spirit inside me, protecting the flickering light until it grew stronger, and then placed my own hands around the flame and made me the protector of t…"-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body
"Transcendence is beautiful, but I'm not convinced it's the full picture. One of my psychology professors used to remind us that if there are only two options and one of them is bad, then we aren't se…"-Hillary L. McBride, Wisdom of Your Body
10. When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
By: Laura E. Anderson
4.38
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Anderson strikes a smart, balanced tone. . . . An exemplary guide to an understudied issue."--Publ… read more
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- psychology
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- religion
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- self help
"Rebuilding a worldview and identity likely needs to include space for uncertainty."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"I have lived far too much of my life with the end goal of eternal life in heaven, and so I missed a lot of life on earth."-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"A marker of healing from religious trauma is not simply the process of deconstructing one’s worldview and identity and rebuilding a new one; it is also the willingness to remain open to shifting and …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
"Religious trauma resides in our bodies and nervous systems in the same way that trauma from war, developmental trauma, or sexualized trauma live inside us. Though the triggers and environment of the …"-Laura E. Anderson, When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
11. Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
4.21
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- sexuality
- theology
"If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings."-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"In my pastoral work I've started to suspect that the more someone was exposed to religious messages about controlling their desires, avoiding sexual thoughts, and not lusting in their hearts, the les…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"To God, everyone is different but no one is special. You're not special for being straight. Or gay. Or male. Or cis. Or trans. Or asexual. Or married. Or sexually prodigious. Or a virgin. We all have…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
"Holiness is the union we experience with one another and with God. Holiness is when more than one become one, when what is fractured is made whole. Singing in harmony. Breastfeeding a baby. Collectiv…"-Nadia Bolz-Weber, Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
12. Something That May Shock and Discredit You
By: Daniel Mallory Ortberg
3.84
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column comes a witty and clever collection of essays and… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
"I never know how to refer to previous incarnations of myself in a way that honestly acknowledges the present without sacrificing the past."-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
"But there was a curse on Laius. The curse was Daddy Issues. Only a daddy can have Daddy Issues. The Daddy Issues of Laius include: insisting on taking your children hiking even after they start cryin…"-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
"I fear—how could I not?—that I will merely replace one error with another, that I will take avowal of desire in itself as an unalloyed, uncomplicated good in all places and in all situations, that no…"-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
"I mean, if I were thirty years younger—if I were twenty five years younger—if I were eighteen years younger—God, if I were just ten years younger—if I were a year and a day younger—if I were a month …"-Daniel Mallory Ortberg, Something That May Shock and Discredit You
13. Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal & Sovereignty in Native America (Queer Ideas/Queer Action)
By: Gregory D. Smithers
4.12
Format: 332 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping history of Indigenous traditions of gender, sexuality, and resistance that reveals how, … read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
14. The World of Lore: Dreadful Places (The World of Lore, #3)
By: Aaron Mahnke
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Captivating stories of the places where human evil has left a nefarious mark, featuring stories fro… read more
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15. Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
By: Linda Kay Klein
4.17
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangeli… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- sexuality
"The purity message nestles neatly into the larger “us"-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
"Surviving gives you a very unique set of skills. It costs a lot. But it also makes you powerful."-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
"This illustration is picture-perfect purity culture. In short, women's sexuality must be just right, so that men can spiritually thrive."-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
"[T]he church had embedded the notion that sex was shameful so deeply into her brain that she couldn't shake it now that she was married and it was suddenly supposed to be okay."-Linda Kay Klein, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
16. #ChurchToo: How Purity Culture Upholds Abuse and How to Find Healing
By: Emily Joy Allison
4.35
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
When Emily Joy Allison outed her abuser on Twitter, she launched #ChurchToo, a movement to expose t… read more
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- theology
17. You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
By: Jamie Lee Finch
4.06
Format: 82 pages, ebook
Rooted in her experiences growing up in an Evangelical Christian family, Jamie Lee Finch’s “You Are… read more
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- mental health
- religion
- nonfiction
- self help
18. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire
By: Alice Wong
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more
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- nonfiction
- mental health
19. Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion
By: Marlene Winell
4.31
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
This guide helps readers who have rejected rigid religious upbringings find new independence and se… read more
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- theology
- psychology
- mental health
- religion
- nonfiction
- self help
20. Out of Focus: My Story of Sexuality, Shame, and Toxic Evangelicalism
By: Amber Cantorna-Wylde
4.41
Format: 225 pages, Paperback
When a mass shooter killed five people in an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, grieving people g… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
- lgbt
- queer
21. Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms
By: Matthias Roberts
4.11
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
We all carry sexual shame. Whether we grew up in the repressive purity culture of American Evangeli… read more
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