13 must-read psychology books like It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships by Tamara Pincus

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Similar categories in Dossie Easton's The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• polyamory
• relationships
• self help
• lgbt
• psychology
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• queer

"Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"When you respect your limits, other will learn to respect them too."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"A ring around the finger does not cause a nerve block to the genitals."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

"Fighting is the ultimate act of intimacy. (...) Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability."

-Dossie Easton, The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities

Similar categories in Mark Wolynn's It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• nonfiction
• psychology
• self help

Similar categories in Christopher Ryan's Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• relationships
• nonfiction
• psychology
• sexuality

"But with trust we can strive to accept even what we cannot understand."

-Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

"Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled - though as we'll see, some of the weeds growing…"

-Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

"Societies in which women have lots of autonomy and authority tend to be decidedly male-friendly, relaxed, tolerant, and plenty sexy. Got that, fellas? If you're unhappy at the amount of sexual opport…"

-Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

"The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us from infectious diseases tha…"

-Christopher Ryan, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

Similar categories in Emily Nagoski's Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• relationships
• psychology
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• self help

"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

Similar categories in Daniel H. Pink's A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Acts of Desperation book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

"You always think your pain is the most painful. You always think it's uniquely awful."

-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

"I didn't want her near me, because she was the only one able to see me for what I was, but I couldn't lose her for the very same reason."

-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

"You can't complain about feeling bad, about being depressed, if you aren't trying to sleep, trying to eat, trying to care about yourself."

-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

"I made mistakes like this all the time, seeking affirmation from the very worst people, so that what I must have been after deep down was confirmation of the fears instead of their dismissals"

-Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation

Similar categories in Kate Lister's A Curious History of Sex book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• nonfiction
• sexuality

"Vulvas aren’t dainty. They can eat a penis and push out a baby."

-Kate Lister, A Curious History of Sex

Similar categories in Abdi Nazemian's Only This Beautiful Moment book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• lgbt
• queer

Similar categories in Kacen Callender's Felix Ever After book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• lgbt
• queer

"It's easier to accept hurt and pain, sometimes, than love and acceptance."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

"It's easier, sometimes, to love when you know it's a love you can't have."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

"For trans and nonbinary youth: You're beautiful. You're important. You're valid. You're perfect."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

"Yeah. I don’t know, I always feel like I can’t figure out how to just stop watching and actually join."

-Kacen Callender, Felix Ever After

Similar categories in Travis Alabanza's None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• nonfiction
• lgbt
• queer

Similar categories in Molly Roden Winter's More: A Memoir of Open Marriage book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• polyamory
• relationships
• nonfiction
• sexuality

"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

Similar categories in Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• nonfiction

Similar categories in Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• nonfiction
• lgbt
• queer

"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

Similar categories in Jessica Fern's Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• polyamory
• relationships
• self help
• lgbt
• psychology
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• queer

"A child with a secure attachment style will likely grow up into an adult who feels worthy of love and seeks to create meaningful, healthy relationships with people who are physically and emotionally …"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Commitment can be expressed in many ways. Traditionally it is solidified through marriage, owning property, having kids or wearing certain types of jewelry, but legal, domestic, or ornamental underta…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"When someone with a dismissive style starts to work on healing their insecure attachment, they must begin by no longer dismissing and distancing from themselves. This requires that they no longer den…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

"Approximately 15 to 20 percent of the population has a nervous system wired to be more sensitive. These people are more attuned to the subtleties of their environment and process that information muc…"

-Jessica Fern, Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Similar categories in Theo Parish's Homebody book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• lgbt
• queer

"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

Similar categories in Melanie Joy's Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• nonfiction
• psychology

"We are the collateral damage of carnism; we pay for it with our health, our environment, and our taxes - $7.64 billion a year, to be exact."

-Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

"Violent ideologies follow their own logic, the logic that sustains the system - a convoluted logic that unravels when it, itself, is labeled."

-Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

"Why, exactly, is empathy "integral to our sense of self," and how might blocking our empathy toward certain species impact our capacity for empathy in general?"

-Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

"To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering."

-Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows

Similar categories in Deborah Falaye's Blood Scion (Blood Scion, #1) book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

"Treat something like a monster and it will certainly learn to become a monster. (pg. 325)"

-Deborah Falaye, Blood Scion (Blood Scion, #1)

"You people- you treat us like we are not human. You replace our smiles with blood, our hearts with bullets. You destroy our innocence and our beings. And when you no longer have any use for us, you f…"

-Deborah Falaye, Blood Scion (Blood Scion, #1)

"I know what it feels like to be robbed of something so precious to you. To feel helpless, broken, like you are not in control of your own body. These people- they thrive on taking power. Over our min…"

-Deborah Falaye, Blood Scion (Blood Scion, #1)

Similar categories in Angela Chen's Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• lgbt
• psychology
• sexuality
• nonfiction
• queer

"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."

-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

Similar categories in Ed Winters's This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• nonfiction

"Why do dairy farmers deserve public support but oat farmers who produce oat milk don't?"

-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

"We have destroyed millions of years of evolution in the blink of an eye, quite literally bulldozing our way around this finite planet."

-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

"It is ironic that we believe that empathy and complex emotions only really exist in humans but we then fail to empathize with the animals who suffer at our hands."

-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

"Furthermore, it seems back to front to worry about the extinction of animals who have been selectively bred and don't exist naturally to begin with when our current system of animal agriculture is th…"

-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

Similar categories in Natasha Trethewey's Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• nonfiction

"Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it."

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"For my father, the myth of Cassandra had been just another way he sought to guide me toward what he thought I needed to know. In some versions, Cassandra's fate is that she is merely misunderstood--n…"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

"My whole life people have wondered "what" I am, what race or nationality. ... It's happened again and again: someone looking at me furtively, or calling me "exotic" and asking me "What's your heritag…"

-Natasha Trethewey, Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Similar categories in Rhea Ewing's Fine: A Comic About Gender book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• nonfiction
• lgbt
• queer

"Gender affects everybody, so whether you're trans or not, gender is fucking you up. -Jac, 2013"

-Rhea Ewing, Fine: A Comic About Gender

Similar categories in Julia Shaw's Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• lgbt
• psychology
• sexuality
• nonfiction
• queer

"Rather than being 'this not that' I am this *and* that... I've felt like a blossoming flower. As I become more fully me and as I'm more comfortable with each petal of my identity, I open myself up an…"

-Julia Shaw, Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality

Similar categories in Annie Kotowicz's What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• nonfiction
• psychology
• self help

"There are billions of us -- humans everywhere, with access to our own minds and no one else's, tossing one another songs and sentences to bridge the gap."

-Annie Kotowicz, What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

"I’ve noticed a communication pattern among autistics, myself included—we often try to express solidarity through similarity. “I’ve been through something like that"

-Annie Kotowicz, What I Mean When I Say I'm Autistic: Unpuzzling a Life on the Autism Spectrum

Similar categories in Jessica Fern's Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• polyamory
• relationships
• self help
• lgbt
• psychology
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• queer

Similar categories in Rachel Krantz's Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• polyamory
• relationships
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• queer

Similar categories in New York Public Library's The Stonewall Reader book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• social justice
• nonfiction
• lgbt
• queer

"Defend the fairies!"

-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader

"This place was the “ART"

-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader

"I just want you all to know,"

-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader

"You can’t call us fags anymore, we’re gay."

-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader

Similar categories in Erin Ekins's Queerly Autistic: The Ultimate Guide For LGBTQIA+ Teens on the Spectrum book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• queer
• lgbt
• psychology
• nonfiction
• self help

Similar categories in Alex Alberto's Entwined: Essays on Polyamory and Creating Home book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• polyamory
• relationships
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• queer

Similar categories in Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• polyamory
• relationships
• self help
• lgbt
• psychology
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• social justice
• reference
• queer

Similar categories in Victoria Barron's Amazing Ace, Awesome Aro: An Illustrated Exploration book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• queer
• lgbt
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• self help

Similar categories in Kathy Labriola's Love in Abundance: A Counselor's Advice on Open Relationships book and Tamara Pincus's It's Called "Polyamory": Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships

• polyamory
• relationships
• psychology
• nonfiction
• sexuality
• self help