Resources for Sexual Health Education and Empowerment Coaching

Sexual Health Education

  • Resources for Parents

  • Resources for Preschool and Primary Children

    • Websites

    • Books

      • Boys, Girls and Body Science. By Meg Hickling, published by Harbor Publishing.

      • What’s the Big Secret? Talking about sex with girls and boys. By Laurie and Marc Brown

      • Where Did I Come From? By Peter Mayle,

      • What’s Happening to Me? By Peter Mayle,

      • Sex is a Funny Word. By Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth

  • Resources for Tweens and Teens

    • Websites

    • Books

      • Puberty Boy. By Geoff Price

      • Puberty Girl. By Shushann Movsessian

      • Reaching for the Moon. By Lucy H. Pearce (menstruation and cycle awareness book)

      • It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up and Sexual Health. By Robie H. Harris

      • What Does Consent Really Mean? By Pete Wallis and Thalia Wallis

      • Good Pictures Bad Pictures. By Kristen Jenson

      • The Care and Keeping of You and other American Girl Series for girls aged 8 and up. By American Girl

      • Tell Me About Sex, Grandma! By Anastasia Higginbotham

      • Am I Weird or Is This Normal? By Marlin S. Potash and Laura Potash Fruitman

      • Everybody Masturbates (for girls). By Christian YoungMiller

      • Everybody Masturbates (for boys). By Christian YoungMiller

      • The Body Book for Boys. By Grace Norwich

      • The Looks Book: A Whole New Approach to Beauty, Body Image and Style. By the creators of www.gurl.com

      • My Body, Myself for Boys/My Body, Myself for Girls. By Lynda and Area Madaras

      • Stick Up For Yourself! Every Kid’s Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self Esteem. By L. Raphael and G. Kaufman

      • What’s Happening To Me? By Peter Mayle

      • S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get you Through High School and College. By Heather Corinna

      • The New Teenage Body Book. By Kathy McCoy and Dr. Charles Wibbelsman

      • Girl Positive. By Tatiana Fraser and Caia Hagel

  • Resources for Family Diversity

    • Books

      • Making Love Visible: In Celebration of Gay and Lesbian Families. By Jean Swallow

      • The Different Dragon. By Jennifer Bryan

      • While You Were Sleeping. By Stephanie Burks

  • Resources for Adults

Empowerment Coaching

  • Parents

    • Books

      • The Conscious Parent. By Shefali Tsabary

  • Individuals

    • Books

      • Rising Strong. By Brene Brown

      • Imagine a Healthy You. By Ulrike Berzau, Christel Cowdrey

  • Relationship and Sex & Intimacy

    • Websites

    • Books

      • Mating in Captivity and The State of Affairs. By Esther Perel

      • The Erotic Mind. By Jack Morin

      • Sex at Dawn. By Christoper Ryan and Cacilda Jetha

      • The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family By Dan Savage

      • The New Topping Book. By Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy

      • The New Bottoming Book. By Dossie Easton and Janet W. Hardy

      • Women: An Intimate Geography. By Natalie Angier

      • The Joy of Sex: The Ultimate Revised Edition. By Alex Comfort

      • The Joy of Gay Sex: Fully Revised and Expanded Third Edition. By Charles Silverstein and Felice Picaro