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Browse books by subject and author. Open a profile where available, or view the book’s basic information. 25 books.
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A sex educator uses the latest neuroscience to explain that women's sexuality is normal, healthy, and deeply context-dependent, empowering them to live with confidence and joy by debunking harmful myths about desire, arousal, and orgasm.
A clinical psychologist and sex researcher shows how mindfulness—paying attention nonjudgmentally in the present moment—can cultivate sexual desire, arousal, and satisfaction and reduce genital pain in women.
A psychologist and sex educator argues that the widespread female orgasm gap is a cultural problem rooted in the myth that women should climax from intercourse, and provides the knowledge, attitudes, and skills women (and their partners) need to achieve orgasm equality through clitoral literacy.
A comprehensive, inclusive, and non-judgmental guide to sexuality for teens and young adults, empowering them with the knowledge and confidence to create healthy, authentic, and satisfying sexual lives.
A comprehensive, humorous, and non-judgmental sex manual that treats sexual pleasure as a lifelong learning adventure grounded in communication, respect, and understanding rather than mechanical technique alone.
A urologist argues that lasting sexual satisfaction depends not on mechanical fixes like Viagra but on treating sex as a learnable skill and building emotional intimacy through better communication.
Through in-depth interviews with more than seventy young women, Peggy Orenstein exposes the gap between girls' public empowerment and their private sexual experiences, arguing that a culture of self-objectification, silence, and misinformation deprives girls of pleasure, agency, and safety.
Through hundreds of candid interviews with young men, journalist Peggy Orenstein exposes how a rigid, outdated conception of masculinity shapes boys' understanding of sex, intimacy, and consent—and argues that engaging boys in honest conversations can produce healthier, more empathetic men.
Journalist Daniel Bergner surveys a wave of new sexology research to argue that female desire is far more powerful, animal, and ill-suited to monogamy than culture and evolutionary psychology have long insisted.
A somatic, sex-positive guide that helps survivors of childhood sexual abuse reclaim their bodies, desire, and sexual empowerment by working through the body rather than around it.
A couples therapist argues that love and desire spring from opposing needs—security versus adventure—and that reconciling the erotic with the domestic requires cultivating distance, mystery, and imagination rather than seeking ever more intimacy.
A veteran couples therapist reframes infidelity not as a simple story of villains and victims but as a complex window into desire, identity, marriage, and modern love that, when understood rather than merely condemned, can transform relationships.
Based on the science of attachment, this book reframes romantic love as a primary survival need for emotional connection and provides couples with seven structured conversations to break free from negative cycles and build a secure, lasting bond.
Drawing on attachment science, neuroscience, and couple therapy research, this book argues that romantic love is a comprehensible, adaptive survival bond that can be deliberately made, repaired, and sustained.
Adult attachment science reveals that people relate to romantic partners in one of three predictable styles—secure, anxious, or avoidant—and understanding your own and your partner's style is the key to finding and keeping fulfilling love.
A collection of psychoanalytic essays exploring the complex interplay of sexuality, attachment, and unconscious dynamics within couple relationships, offering psychotherapists a framework to understand and treat sexual problems.
A marriage therapist shows couples divided by mismatched sexual desire how to bridge the gap through action-oriented change, empathy, and reframing what desire and real giving actually mean.
A sex therapist's practical, empowerment-focused guide helping real women understand their bodies, minds, and relationships to build a confident, communicative, and deeply satisfying sex life at every life stage.
Jared Diamond explains why human sexuality—concealed ovulation, recreational sex, female menopause, private sex, exclusively female lactation, and male roles—is bizarre by animal standards, and how these traits evolved through natural selection acting on the conflicting reproductive interests of women and men.
A practical companion workbook that guides couples through seven Emotionally Focused Therapy conversations to recognize destructive patterns, uncover attachment fears, and build a secure, lasting emotional bond.
A renowned relationship researcher uses decades of scientific data and mathematical modeling to define, measure, and explain how trust is built and betrayal occurs in romantic relationships, identifying the core skill of emotional attunement as the key to a loyal and lasting partnership.
Terrence Real
A relationship expert argues that intimate love fails because we are trapped in an individualistic, trauma-driven 'you and me' mindset, and teaches how to shift into a relational 'us' consciousness to build lasting connection.
Kathleen Mates-Youngman
A structured 30-day program of guided couple conversations, used with a clinician, that rebuilds emotional, spiritual, and physical connection in distressed relationships.
David D. Burns
A cognitive therapist reveals that troubled relationships stem not from a lack of skills but from our own provocative behaviors and hidden motivations, offering a five-step communication method to transform conflict into intimacy by focusing on changing ourselves.
Taylor Snow
A short guide arguing that intimacy—not sex—is the essential, cultivable bond that keeps a marriage alive, and that couples must intentionally build emotional, physical, and other forms of closeness through communication.