Feel confident in the ABC's of LGBTQ+.Language is a key path to awareness, acceptance and empowerment. It's central to understanding the world and the communities we live in, but it can often be tricky to keep up with correct and ever-evolving terminology. This easy-to-use dictionary introduces the most essential vocabulary surrounding LGBTQ+ identities. Whether you're questioning your own identity or simply interested in learning more, this helpful guide will help you navigate the world with knowledge, understanding and kindness.
Can you imagine how much free time you'd have if you didn't spend so much of it BODY SHAMING yourself?Body acceptance advocate, entrepreneur, and founder of Megababe beauty, Katie Sturino, knows all too well what it's like to shit talk yourself. She wasted the first thirty years of her life feeling ashamed of her body, its bigness, and its self-determined wrongness (like her ability to grow a thicker mustache than all the boys in her eighth-grade class). Now as a body acceptance advocate, she has dedicated her life to unlearning all that crap and passing along the message that changed...
Get progressive, positive, and constructive sex tips and ideas from one of today's most popular sex educators.When it comes to sex, there's practically no question that Zo Ligon hasn't heard and researched. Her Instagram and YouTube videos, as well as product reviews, are extremely popular for their up-front approach. Now, she brings her wealth of experience and open-minded attitude to a sex-positive guidebook that's honest, inclusive, and right on time. Lusciously illustrated, this book takes readers through every aspect of sexualityfrom body basics and physiology to maintaining healthy relationships. It highlights the usefulness of sex toys in aiding solo and...
People have been thinking about sex all wrong. Mainstream media, movies, and porn have taught us that sex = penis + vagina, and everything else is just secondary. Standard penetration is how men most reliably achieve orgasm. The problem is, women don't orgasm this way. We've separated our most reliable route to orgasm - clitoral stimulation - from how we feel we should orgasm - penetration. As a result, we've created a pleasure gap between women and men: 50 percent of 18- to 35-year-old women say they have trouble reaching orgasm with a partner 64 percent of women versus 91...
Our Bodies, OurselvesAccording to the authors, some of them among the original contributors, knowledge is power, but women will make little change in the medical and health-care industries unless they join forces with other women at home and around the world. Like its predecessor, this volume is wide in scope (but lacking in depth), and has a profoundly feminist perspective as it emphasizes sexual health, reproductive rights, community-based organization and the political, economic and social conditions that limit women's access to quality health care. Much of the new information details recent health research on women's needs and inequities in medical...
