Bibliography of Positive Sexuality Resources
Sex-Positive Philosophy
Emily Jenkins, Tongue First: Adventures in Physical Culture, New York: Henry Holt, 1998.
Carol Queen, Exhibitionism For The Shy, San Francisco: Down There Press, 1995.
Leonore Tiefer, Sex is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays, Boulder: Westview Press, 1995.
Sallie Tisdale, Talk Dirty to Me: An Intimate Philosophy of Sex, New York: Anchor Books, 1994.
Sexological Research
T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Inner Circle, New York: Viking Books, 2004.
Vern Bullough, Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research, New York: Basic Books, 1995.
John H. Gagnon, An Interpretation of Desire: Essays in the Study of Sexuality, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Sex the Measure of All Things: a Life of Alfred C. Kinsey, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.
Shere Hite, The Hite Report, Dell, 1987.
Shere Hite, The Hite Report on Male Sexuality, New York: Ballantine Books, 1987.
James H. Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey: a Public/Private Life, New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.
Alfred C. Kinsey, ed., Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, New York: W. B. Saunders, 1948.
Alfred C. Kinsey, ed., Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Rev. Ed., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
Edward O. Laumann, et.al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Edward O. Laumann, et.al., The Sexual Organization of the City, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.
William Masters and Virginia Johnson, Human Sexual Response, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 1966.
Richard G. Parker and John H. Gagnon, Conceiving Sexuality: Approaches To Sex Research in a Post-Modern World, London: Routledge, 1995.
Sex Facts
Robin Baker, Sperm Wars: The Science of Sex, New York: Basic Books, 1996.
Daniel Buss, The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating, New York: Basic Books, 2003.
Rebecca Chalker, The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000.
Helen Fisher, Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage and Why We Stray, New York: Ballantine Books, 1994.
Adrian Forsyth, A Natural History of Sex: The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior, New York: Firefly Books, 2001.
Gina Kolata, et.al., Sex in America, New York: Warner Books, 1995.
Edward O. Laumann, et.al., Sex, Love and Health in America: Private Choices And Public Policies, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Judith MacKay, The Penguin Atlas of Human Sexual Behavior, New York: Penguin USA, 2000.
Maggie Paley, The Book of the Penis, New York: Grove Press, 1999.
June Reinisch, et.al., The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Frans de Waal and Frans Lanting, Bonobo: the Forgotten Ape, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
Leslee Welch, Sex Facts: A Handbook For The Carnally Curious, Citadel Press, 1995.
Marlene Zuk, Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex From Animals, University of California Press, 2003.
History of Sexuality
Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of Love, New York: Random House, 1994.
David Allyn, Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution, An Unfettered History, Boston: Little, Brown, 2000.
Nicholas Bornoff, Pink Samurai: Love, Marriage and Sex in Contemporary Japan, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Rufus C. Camphausen, The Yoni: Sacred Symbol of Female Creative Power, Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1996.
Keith Dowman, Sky Dancer: The Secret Life and Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel, Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1996.
Barbara Foster, Michael Foster, Letha Hadady, Three in Love: Menages a Trois From Ancient to Modern Times, San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1997.
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
Katherine Anne Harper, ed., The Roots of Tantra, Albany: SUNY Press, 2002.
Martha Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Ronald Hyam, Empire and Sexuality: the British Experience, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990.
Jeffrey Kripal, Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Thomas Laqueur, The Making of Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Ian Littlewood, Sultry Climates: Travel and Sex, Cambridge, Da Capo Press, 2002.
Rachel Maines, The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria", the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
Angus McLaren, Twentieth-Century Sexuality: A History, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1999.
Raymond Lee Muncy, Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities: 19th Century America, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1973.
Burgo Partridge, A History of Orgies: Lost Treasures, London: Prion books, 2002.
Miranda Shaw, Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Lawrence Stone, Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800, New York: HarperCollins, 1986.
Reay Tannahill, Sex In History, New York: Scarborough House, 1982.
Hugh B. Urban, The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
David Gordon White, Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Sex and Culture
David Bell and Gill Valentine, Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities, London: Routledge, 1995.
Susie Bright, Susie Bright's Sexual Reality: A Virtual Sex World Reader, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1992.
Eurydice, Satyricon USA: A Journey Across the New Sexual Frontier, New York: Scribner, 1999.
Robert Francoeur, Sexuality in America: Understanding Our Sexual Values and Behavior, New York: Continuum, 1999.
Judith Levine, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, St. Paul: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Brian McNair, Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire, London: Routledge, 2002.
Irvin C. Schick, The Erotic Margin: Sexuality and Spatiality in Alterist Discourse, London: Verso, 1999.
Mariana Valverde, Sex, Power and Pleasure, Toronto: The Women's Press, 1985.
Emily White, Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut, New York: Scribner, 2002.
Naomi Wolf, Promiscuities: the Secret Struggle for Womanhood, New York: Random House, 1999.
Psychology of Sex
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008.
Jack Morin, The Erotic Mind, New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
Gabrielle Roth, Maps to Ecstasy: A Healing Journey for the Untamed Spirit, San Rafael: New World Library, 1998.
David Steinberg, Erotic By Nature: A Celebration of Life, of Love, and of Our Wonderful Bodies, Berkeley: Down There Press, 1988.
David Steinberg, ed., The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Perigee Books, 1992.
Robert Sternberg and Michael Barnes, Psychology of Love, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.
Robert J. Stoller, M.D., Observing the Erotic Imagination, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Sexual Memoir
David Guy, The Autobiography of My Body: a Novel, New York: Dutton, 1991.
Kerwin Kay, et.al., Male Lust: Pleasure, Power, and Transformation, New York: Harrington Park Press, 2000.
Harry Maurer, Sex: Real People Talk About What They Really Do, New York: Penguin, 1995.
Catherine Millet, The Sexual Life of Catherine M., New York: Grove Press, 2002.
Daniel Odier, Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love, Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 1996.
Carol Queen, Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1997.
Richard Rhodes, Making Love: An Erotic Odyssey, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
Annie Sprinkle, Post-Porn Modernist, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1998.
Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Ph.D., ed., Women of the Light: The New Sacred Prostitute, Larkspur, CA: Secret Garden, 1997.
Sex and Relationships
Deborah M. Anapol, Ph.D., Polyamory: The New Love Without Limits, San Rafael, CA: IntiNet Resource Center, 1997.
Michael Castleman, Great Sex: A Man's Guide to the Secret Principles of Total-Body Sex, Rodale Press, 2004.
Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt, The Ethical Slut, San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1998.
Barbara Foster, Michael Foster, Letha Hadady, Three in Love: Menages a Trois From Ancient to Modern Times, iUniverse, 2000.
Terry Gould, The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers, Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books, 1999.
Arno Karlen, Threesomes: Studies in Sex, Power and Intimacy, New York: William Morrow, 1988.
Marty Klein, Ph.D., Beyond Orgasm: Dare to be Honest About the Sex You Really Want, Celestial Arts, 2002.
Patricia Love et.al., Hot Monogamy: Essential Steps to More Passionate, Intimate Lovemaking, New York: Plume, 1999.
William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, The Pleasure Bond: A New Look At Sexuality and Commitment, Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.
Barry McCarthy and Emily McCarthy, Rekindling Desire, New York: Brunner Routledge, 2003.
Marnia Robinson, Peace Between the Sheets: Healing with Sexual Relationships, Berkeley, CA: Frog, Ltd., 2002.
David Schnarch, Constructing the Sexual Crucible: An Integration of Sexual And Marital Therapy, New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.
David Schnarch, Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships, New York: Norton, 2009.
David Schnarch and James Maddock, Resurrecting Sex: Resolving Sexual Problems and Rejuvenating Your Relationship, New York: HarperCollins, 2002.
Michelle Weiner-Davis, The Sex-Starved Marriage, New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003.
John Welwood, Journey of the Heart: the Path of Conscious Love, New York: Perennial, 1996.
John Welwood, Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship, New York: HarperCollins, 1996.
BDSM
Race Bannon, Learning the Ropes: A Basic Guide to S/M Lovemaking, San Francisco: Daedalus Publishing, 1993.
Joseph Bean, Leathersex: A Guide for the Curious Outsider and the Serious Player, San Francisco: Daedalus Publishing, 1994.
Pat Califia, ed., The Lesbian S/M Safety Manual, Lace Publications, 1988.
Patrick Califia-Rice, Sensuous Magic: A Guide to S/M for Adventurous Couples, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2002.
Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt, When Someone You Love is Kinky, San Francisco: Greenery Press, 2000.
William Henkin and Sybil Holiday, Consensual Sadomasochism: How to Talk About It and How to Do It Safely, San Francisco: Daedalus Publishing, 1996.
Trevor Jacques, On the Safe Edge: A Manual for SM Play, Toronto: WholeSM Publishing, 1993.
Charles Moser, Health Care Without Shame, San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1999.
Jay Wiseman, SM 101: A Realistic Introduction, San Francisco: Greenery Press, 1996.
Gay and Lesbian Sexuality
Bruce Anderson, Tantra for Gay Men, New York: Consortium, 2002.
John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981.
Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle, New York: Bantam, 1983.
Merilee Clunis and Dorsey Green, Lesbian Couples: A Guide to Creating Healthy Relationships, Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 2004.
Marny Hall, Lesbian Love Companion: How to Survive Everything from Heartthrob to Heartbreak, San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998.
Linda Handel, Now That You're Out of the Closet: What About the Rest of the House?, Source Books, 2000.
Jonathan Katz, The Invention of Heterosexuality, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Judith McDaniel, The Lesbian Couples Guide, New York: Perennial Currents, 1995.
Paul Monette, Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, San Francisco: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2004.
Jack Morin, Ph.D., Anal Pleasure and Health: A Guide For Men and Women, 4th Edition, Berkeley: Down There Press, 2010.
John Reid (Andrew Tobias), Best Little Boy in the World, New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.
William Schindler, Gay Tantra, New York: Xlibris Corporation.
Michelangelo Signorile, Outing Yourself: How to Come Out as Lesbian or Gay to Your Family, Friends and Coworkers, New York: Fireside, 1996.
Daniel Wolfe, Men Like Us; The GMHC Complete Guide to Gay Men's Sexual, Physical and Emotional Well-Being, New York: Ballantine Books, 2000.
Bisexuality
Eva Cantarella and Cormac Ocuilleanain, Bisexuality in the Ancient World, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.
Marjorie Garber, Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life, London: Routledge, 2000.
Clare Hemmings, Bisexual Spaces: A Geography of Sexuality and Gender, London: Routledge, 2002.
Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu, Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out, Los Angeles: Alyson Publications, 1991.
Fritz Klein, The Bisexual Option, Binghamton, NY: Haworth Press, 1993.
Robyn Ochs, Bisexual Resource Guide, Boston: Bisexual Resources Center, 1999.
Merl Storr, Bisexuality: A Critical Reader, London: Routledge, 1999.
Martin Weinberg, et.al., Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality, Cambridge: Oxford University Press.
Transgender Issues
Amy Bloom, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites With Attitude, New York: Random House, 2002.
W. Bockting and Eli Coleman, eds., Gender Dysphoria: Interdisciplinary Approaches in Clinical Management, New York: Haworth Press, 1992.
Mildred Brown and Chloe Rounsley, True Selves: Understanding Transsexualism, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996.
Patrick Califia, Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2003.
Paul Clements, Jan Morris, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1998.
Sharon F. Dougherty, Guidebook to Transsexual Transition, Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association.
Bernice Hansman, Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology and the Idea of Gender, Raleigh: Duke University Press, 1995.
Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, Inc., The Standards of Care for Gender Identity Disorders, Version 6, 2001.
Deidre McCloskey, Crossing: A Memoir, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004.
Jan Morris, Conundrum, New York: NYRB Classics, 2006.
Intersexuality
Amy Bloom, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites With Attitude, New York: Random House, 2002.
John Colapinto, As Nature Made Him: The Boy who was Raised as a Girl, New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
Alice Dreger, Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998.
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex: A Novel, New York: Picador, 2007.
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Gilbert Herdt, Third Sex, Third Gender, Zone Books, 1994.
Will Rosco, The Zuni Man-Woman, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992.
Sharon Preves, Intersex and Identity: The Contested Self, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003.
Sexual Touch
Margot Anand, Multi-Orgasmic Response Ecstasy Training For Women and Multi-Orgasmic Response Ecstasy Training For Men. (videos)
Joani Blank, ed., First Person Sexual: Women and Men Write About Self-Pleasuring, San Francisco: Down There Press, 1996.
Walter Bockting and Eli Coleman, eds., Masturbation as a Means of Achieving Sexual Health, New York: Haworth, 2003.
Alan P. Brauer, M.D. and Donna J. Brauer, The ESO Ecstasy Program, New York: Warner Books, 1990.
Betty Dodson, Sex For One: The Joy of Selfloving, New York: Crown, 1996.
Julie Henderson, The Lover Within: Opening to Energy in Sexual Practice, Barrytown, New York: Station Hill, 1999.
Joseph Kramer, Fire On The Mountain: An Intimate Guide to Male Genital Massage (video).
Joseph Kramer and Annie Sprinkle, Fire In The Valley: An Intimate Guide to Female Genital Massage (video).
Jack Morin, Ph.D., Anal Pleasure and Health: A Guide For Men and Women, 4th Edition, Berkeley: Down There Press, 2010.
Charles and Caroline Muir, Secrets of Female Sexual Ecstasy (video).
Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Male Erotic Massage: A Guide to Sex and Spirit, Tucson, AZ: Secret Garden Publishing, 1999.
Cathy Winks, The Good Vibrations Guide: the G Spot, Berkeley: Down There Press, 1998.
Women's Sexual Health
Jennifer Berman, et.al., For Women Only: a Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Sexual Dysfunctions and Reclaiming Your Sex Life, New York: Henry Holt, 2001.
Rebecca Chalker, The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips, New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003.
Betty Dodson, Sex for One: The Joy of Self-Loving, New York: Crown, 1996.
Sallie Foley et.al., Sex Matters for Women: A Complete Guide to Taking Care of Your Sexual Self, New York: Guilford Press, 2002.
Howard Glazer and Gae Rodke, The Vulvodynia Survival Guide: How to Overcome Painful Vaginal Symptoms and Enjoy an Active Lifestyle, Oakland: New Harbinger, 2002.
Andrew Goldstein and Marianne Brandon, Reclaiming Desire: 4 Keys to Finding Your Lost Libido, Rodale Books, 2009.
Julia Heiman and Joseph LoPiccolo, Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual Growth Program for Women, New York: Fireside, 1987.
Ritza Katz and Ross Tabisel, Private Pain: Understanding Vaginismus and Dyspareunia, Katz-Tabi Publication, 2005.
Robert M. Moldwin, The Interstitial Cystitis Survival Guide: Your Guide to the Latest Treatment Options and Coping Strategies, Oakland: New Harbinger, 2000.
Gina Ogden, Women Who Love Sex: An Inquiry into the Expanding Spirit of Women's Erotic Experience, Trumpeter, 2007.
Catherine Simone, To Wake in Tears: Understanding Interstitial Cystitis, I.C. Hope Ltd., 1998.
Elizabeth Stewart and Paula Spenser, The V Book: the Doctor's Guide to Complete Vulvovaginal Health, New York: Bantam, 2002.
Cathy Winks, The Good Vibrations Guide: The G-Spot, San Francisco: Down There Press, 1998.
Men's Sexual Health
Lee Belshin, The Complete Prostate Book, Prima Lifestyles, 1996.
David Bostwick, et.al., Prostate Cancer: What Every Man Needs to Know, New York: Villard Books, 1996.
Michael Castleman, Great Sex: A Man's Guide to the Secret Principles of Total Body Sex, Rodale Press, 2004.
Stephen Jones, Overcoming Impotence, New York: Prometheus Books, 2003.
Barry and Emily McCarthy, Male Sexual Awareness: Increasing Sexual Satisfaction, New York: Carroll and Graf, 1998.
Michael Metz and Barry McCarthy, Coping With Premature Ejaculation: How to Overcome PE, Please Your Partner and Have Great Sex, Oakland: New Harbinger, 2004.
Richard Milstine and Julian Slowinski, The Sexual Male: Problems and Solutions, New York: Norton, 2000.
Gerald Weeks and Nancy Gambescia, Erectile Dysfunction: Integrating Couple Therapy, Sex Therapy, and Medical Treatment, New York: Norton, 2000.
Bernie Zilbergeld, The New Male Sexuality: The Truth about Men, Sex, and Pleasure, New York, Bantam, 1999.
Sexuality and Spirituality
Rufus C. Camphausen, The Encyclopedia of Sacred Sexuality, Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 1999.
Georg Feuerstein, Sacred Sexuality: Living the Vision of the Erotic Spirit, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.
David Guy, The Red Thread of Passion: Spirituality and the Paradox of Sex, Boston, Shambhala, 1999.
Loraine Hutchins, Erotic Rites: A Cultural Analysis of Contemporary U.S. Sacred Sexuality Traditions and Trends, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Union Institute Graduate College, 2000.
Thomas Moore, The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love, New York: HarperCollins, 1998.
John Stevens, The Cosmic Embrace: An Illustrated Guide to Sacred Sex, Boston: Shambhala, 1999.
Sex Work
Alexa Albert, Brothel: Mustang Ranch and its Women, New York: Random House, 2001.
Juliana Beasley, Lapdancer, Powerhouse Books, 2003.
Lily Burana, Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America, New York: Miramax, 2001.
Wendy Chapkis, et.al., Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor, London: Routledge, 1997.
Frederique Delacoste and Priscilla Alexander, eds., Sex Work: Writings By Women In The Industry, San Francisco: Cleis Press, 1998.
Margaret Drager and A. Harrison, Revelations: Essays on Striptease and Sexuality, London, Ontario: Nightwood Editions, 1988.
Elisabeth Eaves, Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power, Seal Press, 2004.
Amy Flowers, The Fantasy Factory: An Insider's View of the Phone Sex Industry, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.
Katherine Frank, G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire, Raleigh: Duke University Press, 2002.
Kamala Kempaloo and Jo Doezema, eds., Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition, London: Routledge, 1998.
Erika Langley, The Lusty Lady, Scalo Verlag, 1997.
Katherine Liepe-Levinson, Strip Show: Performances of Gender and Desire, London: Routledge, 2002.
Heidi Mattson, Ivy League Stripper, New York: Arcade, 1995.
Jill Nagle, Whores and Other Feminists, London: Routledge, 1997.
Chris Ryan and C. Michael Hall, Sex Tourism: Marginal People and Liminalities, London: Routledge, 2001.
Jeremy Seabrook, Travels in the Skin Trade: Tourism and the Sex Industry, Pluto Press, 1996.
Ronald Weitzer, ed., Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex Industry, London: Routledge, 2009.
Pornography
Carol Bridge, Cut Throat Business: I am Having the Last Word, Bloomington, IN: 1st Books Library, 2003.
Jerry Butler, Raw Talent: The Adult Film Industry as Seen by its Most Popular Male Star, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990.
Pamela Gibson and Roma Gibson, eds., Dirty Looks: Women, Pornography, Power, London: British Film Institute, 1993.
Ian Gittler, Pornstar, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.
Lynn Hunt, ed., The Invention of Pornography, New York: Zone Books, 1993.
Jenna Jameson, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale, New York: Regan Books, 2004.
Berkeley Kaite, Pornography and Difference, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.
Traci Lords, Traci Lords: Underneath it All, New York: HarperEntertainment, 2003.
Kenneth Maxwell, A Sexual Odyssey: From Forbidden Fruit to Cybersex, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1996.
Laurence O'Toole, Pornocopia: Porn, Sex, Technology and Desire, London: Serpent's Tail, 1998.
Robert J. Stoller and I. S. Levine, Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Robert J. Stoller, Porn: Myths for the Twentieth Century, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
Erotica
Marianna Beck and Jack Hafferkamp, eds., The Ecstatic Moment, New York: Delta, 1997.
Susie Bright, ed., Herotica 10: A Collection of Women's Erotic Fiction, Berkeley: Down There Press, 2002.
Michael Perkins, The Secret Record: Modern Erotic Literature, New York: William Morrow, 1976.
A. D. Peterkin, The Bald-Headed Hermit and the Artichoke: An Erotic Thesaurus, Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999.
David Steinberg, Erotic By Nature: A Celebration of Life, of Love, and of Our Wonderful Bodies, Berkeley: Down There Press, 1988.
David Steinberg, ed., The Erotic Impulse: Honoring the Sensual Self, New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Perigee Books, 1992.
Robert J. Stoller, M.D., Observing the Erotic Imagination, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Tantric and Taoist Sexual Practices
Margot Anand, The Art of Sexual Ecstasy, New York: J.P. Tarcher, 1989.
Margot Anand, The Art of Sexual Magic, New York: Putnam, 1995.
Margot Anand, The Art of Everyday Ecstasy, New York: Broadway Books, 1998.
Bruce Anderson, Tantra for Gay Men, New York: Consortium, 2002.
Mantak Chia and Douglas Arava, The Multi-Orgasmic Man, San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1996.
Mantak Chia and Michael Winn, Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy, Santa Fe: Aurora Press, 1984.
Alex Comfort, trans., The Illustrated Koka Shastra: Medieval Indian Writings on Love Based on the Kama Sutra, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Nik Douglas, Spiritual Sex: Secrets of Tantra From the Ice Age to The New Millenium, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger, Sexual Secrets: The Alchemy of Ecstasy, Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books, 1997.
Jwala, with Robb Smith, Sacred Sex: Ecstatic Techniques for Empowering Relationships, San Rafael, CA: Mandala, 1993.
Connie and Robert Kirby, The Art of Sensual Yoga, New York: Penguin Books, 1997.
Jeffrey Kripal, Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings Of Ramakrishna, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Charles and Caroline Muir, Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving, San Francisco: Mercury, 1989.
David and Ellen Ramsdale, Sexual Energy Ecstasy, New York: Bantam Books, 1995.
Khetsun Sangpo, Tantric Practice in Nying-Ma, Ithaca: Snow Lion Publications, 1982.
Lee Sannella, M.D., The Kundalini Experience, Lower Lake, CA: Integral Publishing, 1987.
Sunyata Saraswati and Bodhi Avinasha, Jewel in the Lotus: The Tantric Path to Higher Consciousness: A Complete and Systematic Course In Tantric Kriya Yoga, Ipsalu Publications, 2002.
William Schindler, Gay Tantra, New York: Xlibris Corporation.
Miranda Shaw, Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Yeshe Tsogyal, Dakini Teachings, Boston: Shambhala, 1990.
Hugh B. Urban, The Economics of Ecstasy: Tantra, Secrecy and Power in Colonial Bengal, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Hugh B. Urban, Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics and Power in the Study of Religion, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
David Gordon White, Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Contexts, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Douglas Wile, Art of the Bedchamber: The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women's Solo Meditation Texts, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.