Resources
Desire + Pleasure
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion & Fulfillment - Jack Morin
Come As You Are - Emily Nagoski
Enduring Desire: Your Guide to Lifelong Intimacy - Metz & McCarthy
Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship - Stephen Snyder
Rekindling Desire: A Step by Step Program to Help Low-Sex & No-Sex Marriages - Barry & Emily McCarthy
The Guide to Getting it On - Paul Joannides
How to Think More About Sex - Alain DeBotton
Taking Sexy Back - Alexandra Solomon
Non-monogamy
Building Open Relationships: Your Hands on Guide to Swinging, Polyamory, and Beyond- Liz Powell
Designer Relationships: A Guide to Happy Monogamy, Positive Polyamory, and Optimistic Open Relationships - Mark A. Michaels & Patricia Johnson
Love is Not Color Blind: Race & Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities - Kevin A. Patterson
More than Two: A Practice Guide to Ethical Polyamory - Eve Rickert
Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships - Tristan Taormino
Poly Secure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Non-Monogamy - Jessica Fern
The Ethical Slut: A Practice Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, & Other Adventures - Janet Hardy & Dessie Easton
Gender + Exploration
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns - Archie Bongiovanni
Being You: A First Conversation Around Gender - Jessica Ralli & Megan Madison
Beyond Magenta - Susan Kuklin
Chicago Gender Society
Gracefully Grayson - Ami Polonsky
GenderSpectrum.Org
I am Jazz - Jazz Jennings
Julian is a Mermaid - Jessica Love
Trans + - Kathryn Gonzales, MBA & Karen Rayne, PHD
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community - Laura Erickson-Schroth
Where’s My Book? A Guide for Transgender & Gender Non-Conforming Youth, Their Parents, and Everyone Else - Linda Gromko
The List
Love + Sex
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment & How it Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love - Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
Hold Me Tight - Sue Johnson
I Want This to Work: An Inclusive Guide to Navigating the Most Difficult Relationship Issues We Face in Modern Age - Elizabeth Earnshaw
Love Sense - Sue Johnson
Loving Bravely - Alexandra Solomon
Loving with the Brain in Mind - Mona Fishbane
What Makes Love Last - John Gottman
Passionate Marriage: Keeping love & intimacy alive in emotionally committed relationships - David Schnarch
The Seven Principles of Making Marriage Work - John Gottman & Nan Silver
The Dance of Anger - Harriet Learner
CPR for your Sex Life - Michael L. Brown & Stephen
Separation + Divorce
Kink + BDSM
Cuff, Tied & Satisfied - A Kinky Guide to the Best Sex Ever - Jaiya
Playing Well with Others - Less Harrington & Mollena Lee Williams Haas
Sexual Outsiders - Richard Sprott & David Ortman
The New Topping Book - Janet Hardy & Dossie Easton
The New Bottoming Book - Janet Hardy & Dossie Easton
Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play & the Erotic Edge - Tristian Taormino
Wild Side Sex: The Book of Kink: Educational, Sensual & Entertianing Essays - Midori
Orgasm + Self-Pleasuring
A Woman’s Touch: Sexuality & Resource Lab
Becoming Cliterate - Dr. Laurie Mintz
Becoming Orgasmic: A Sexual & Personal Growth Programme for Women - Julia Heiman, Joseph LoPiccolo & Leslie LoPiccolo
She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Women - Ian Kerner
He Comes Next: The Thinking Women’s Guide to Pleasuring a Man - Ian Kerner
OMGYES
The Elusive Orgasm: A Woman’s Guide to Why She Can’t & How She Can Orgasm - Vivienne Cass
Sexual Health + Functioning
Coping with Premature Ejaculation - Metz & McCarthy
Coping with Erectile Dysfunction - Metz & McCarthy
For Women Only: A Revolutionary Guide to Overcoming Sexual Dysfunction & Reclaiming Your Sex Life - Berman & Berman
The New Male Sexuality - Bernie Zilbergeld
The Vagina Bible - Jen Gunter
The Ultimate Guide to Sex & Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness - Miriam Kaufman, M.D, Cory Silverberg, Fran Odette
Sexuality Education for Adults
A Celebration of Vulva Diversity - Hilde Atlanta
Pillow Talk with Afrosexology
Respect: Everything a Guy Needs to Know About Sex, Love & Consent - Inti Chavez Perez
Sex with the Lights On: 200 Illuminating Sex Questions Answered - Ducky Doolittle
Sex Matters for Women - Foley, Kope & Sugrue
Sex Smart - Aline Zoldbrod
The Minority Sex Report
The Sex & Pleasure Book: Good Vibrations Guide to Great Sex For Everyone - Carol Queen & Shar Redour
Chicago Sexual Health Clinics
Center on Halsted
Chicago Women’s Health Center
Howard Brown Health Walk-In Clinic - STI Screening
Lakeview Specialty Clinic
Northwestern Medicine Center for Sexual Medicine & Menopause
Planned Parenthood
The Core Center Chicago
UIC Wellness Center
University of Chicago Medicine’s Program in Integrative Sexual Medicine (PRISM)
Zacharias Sexual Abuse Center
Chicago Sexuality Retailers
Videos
Come As You Are - Emily Nagoski
Sex Needs a New Metaphor - Al Vernacchio
The Secret to Desire in a Long-Term Relationship - Esther Perel
Sexuality: Pleasure, Privilege & the Power of Reproductive Justice - Michelle Hope
Change your Story, Change your Life - Lori Gotlieb
The Power of Vulnerability - Brene Brown
Relational Self-Awareness: The Key to Navigating Modern Love - Alexandra Solomon
The Urgency of Intersectionality - Kimberle Crenshaw
How to Have a Healthier, Positive Relationship to Sex - Tiffany Kagure Mugo & Siphumeze Khundayi