Recommended Resources for Positive Sexual Health

This post has been a long time coming. I wanted a place to provide for my favourite links and resources. I will add to this from time to time, so check back often!

Book Recommendations

1. The Female Sexual Response: Dr. Rosemary Basson
   Dr. Basson has provided groundbreaking work providing a novel, non-linear model of the female sexual response. Her model incorporates important components of female sexual functioning including emotional intimacy, sexual stimuli, and relationship satisfaction.

2. She Comes First by Ian Kerner
   Ian Kerner is a licensed psychotherapist and nationally recognized sexuality counsellor. A MUST READ!!

3. Better Sex Through Mindfulness by Dr. Lori Brotto
   Dr. Brotto is a Canadian psychologist

Video Recommendations

1. Science, Sex and the Ladies: A visual essay about orgasm and our sex culture.
   This is an innovative, engaging, and heavily researched documentary about our cultural (mis)understanding of the female orgasm.

2. What young women believe about their own sexual pleasure
   Peggy Orenstein, is a New York Times bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and internationally recognized speaker on issues affecting girls and women.

3. The truth about unwanted arousal
   A TED Talk by sex educator Emily Nagoski.

4. Embrace
   Created by Taryn Brumfitt, the founder of the Body Image Movement, this documentary uncovers why poor body image has become a global epidemic and what women everywhere can do to have a brighter future.

Website Recommendations

1. The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
   Sonya Renee Taylor is the founder of an international movement committed to cultivating global Radical Self Love and Body Empowerment.

2. Scientific American’s The Clitoris, Uncovered: An Intimate History
   Did you know that it wasn’t until 2005 Australian urologist Helen O’Connell thrust the full anatomy of the clitoris into the public eye. “…it took humans more than 2,000 years to develop this understanding—despite the fact that about half of the population has a clitoris. Though female anatomy has not changed all that much, our understanding of it sure has. Throughout history, the clitoris has been lost, found and lost again, with male anatomists jostling one another over who deserves credit for its “discovery.” Yet the full clitoris is still inadequately portrayed in most anatomy textbooks.”