Gay, straight, queer, pansexual, demisexual, ace...? Sexuality is complex and diverse, but it doesn't have to be confusing.
This down-to-earth guide is the ultimate companion for understanding, accepting and celebrating your sexuality. Written by two internationally renowned authors and therapists, the book explains how sexuality works in terms of our identities, attractions, desires and practices, and explores how it intersects with our personal experiences and the world around us.
With activities and reflection points throughout, it offers space to tune into yourself and think deeply about your own sexuality. You'll hear from people across the sexuality spectrum and in different relationship set-ups, and be inspired by the ideas of scholars, activists and practitioners. Sexuality is a vast and wonderful landscape - let this book guide you on your journey!
An essential guide to sexuality from the authors of
How to Understand Your Gender. The book explores the topic through a social, cultural and historical lens, with reflection points and activities throughout. Covering a diverse range of sexualities and relationship structures, the authors invite the reader to reflect on their own experience and explore their identity.
Recenzijas
From the outset this book feels gentle, kind and embracing. The clarity of structure and straightforward guidance helps to lead me through what is an incredibly nourishing text. Perhaps this sounds trite, but as I was reading, I knew that the authors cared deeply about my journey through the book. And that's rare indeed. -- Juno Roche, writer In How To Understand Your Sexuality, Barker & Iantaffi bring you a goldmine of wisdom, helping us break down and understand the struggles of sex in our everyday lives. From understanding the difference between identity and practice, to what it means personally, politically socially and erotically, why it matters, and considerations for how to do it differently, this guide offers people interested in sex a useful handbook for exploring their own sexuality and understanding that of their partners, peers and the world around them. An erotic almanac of our times, HTUYS is destined to be a go-to text for those seeking a portal into pleasure wisdom of the mind, body and heart. -- Cyndi Darnell: Sex & Relationships Therapist & Somatic Sexologist This is such an interesting and engaging book. Meg-John and Alex do a fantastic job at helping you to understand and articulate your sexuality, both as it is now but also what it might be. I implore fellow straight blokes to read this! Use these tools to examine your sexualities and intentionally allow them to become. Also use this guide to nourish your loved ones that they might become their (a)sexual selves too. -- Justin Hancock, sex and relationships educator bishuk.com & Culture Sex Relationships podcast Informative and readable. At a time when sexuality has become something to be regulated, this book invites wonder and curiosity. * Manu Bazzano, Therapy Today *
Papildus informācija
The ultimate guide to exploring and understanding your sexuality
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction |
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Chapter 1 What is Sexuality? |
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1.3 Sexuality is biopsychosocial |
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1.4 Multiple dimensions: Attractions, desires, practices, and identities |
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Chapter 2 How the World Views Sexuality |
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2.1 Sexuality across time and space |
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2.2 Sexual attraction: From binaries to multiple dimensions |
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2.3 Sexual desires: From vanilla to all of the flavors |
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2.4 Sexual practices: From PIV to the erotic |
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Chapter 3 Your Sexuality Background |
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3.1 Born this way? On nature, nurture, and beyond |
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3.3 Growing up sexual: The shaping of our sexuality over time |
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3.4 Power, abuse, and trauma |
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Chapter 4 Your Current Experience of Sexuality |
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4.1 Sexuality in your wider world, communities, relationships, and self |
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4.2 Sexuality in your current intersections |
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4.3 The impact of trauma on your sexuality |
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4.4 Locating yourself in the landscape of sexuality |
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Chapter 5 Living Your Sexuality |
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5.4 Identifying our sexualities |
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Chapter 6 Sexuality and Relationships |
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6.1 Sharing your sexuality with those around you |
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6.2 Relationship contexts for sex |
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6.3 Consensual sex and relationships |
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Chapter 7 Taking Your Sexuality Out into the World |
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7.1 Finding role models and supporters |
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7.2 Finding a community (if you want to) |
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7.3 From sexuality to the rest of our lives |
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Meg-John Barker is the author of a number of popular books on sex, gender, and relationships, including graphic guides to Queer, Gender, and Sexuality, How To Understand Your Gender, Life Isn't Binary, Enjoy Sex (How, When, and IF You Want To), Rewriting the Rules, and Hell Yeah Self Care. They have also written a number of books for scholars and counsellors on these topics, drawing on their own years of academic work and therapeutic practice.
Alex Iantaffi is an internationally recognized independent scholar, speaker and writer on issues of gender, disability, sexuality and mental health. They are also a licensed marriage and family therapist, sex therapist, somatic experiencing practitioner and supervisor.
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