S.E.X., second edition: The All-You-Need-To-Know Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties

Instructiveness and easy to read

I am using this as part of my homeschool curriculum for my HS senior son. I wanted a book that was inclusive of all expressions of sexuality and gender and this is it. I also wanted a book that addressed more than just the function of sex and STIs, but the emotional and mental aspects as well, and this book is it. The author shies away from nothing and helps give readers vocabulary and a healthy framework for things they might be experiencing, considering, or facing. I appreciate the details like the author's note urging cisgender readers not to skip the LGBT section, and the not-medical-book-sterile drawings and illustrations. This book is incredibly normalizing. It is honestly a treasure in our culture's generally prudish approach to sex education. I am so grateful that my son is getting an actual education on sexuality from this book. He has had a positive response to this book, even though talking about sex with your parent can be icky. I believe that is due to the no-nonsense approach by the author. As for who this book is best suited for, I wouldn't personally give it to a tween, only because it is so thorough it might scare them a bit. It's definitely great for the older teen crowd, though ideally before their first sexual experience (though that's not always realistic, they're sneaky). However, it's still VERY USEFUL for any person who is already sexually active. No maximum age limit.

Very detailed covering all the hard topics about how to be in relationships not just have sex. If your teen kids won't talk here's a great book

THIS BOOK IS GREAT. It is trans and queer inclusive which, as someone who’s been trying to help gather resources for that community on my college campus was a godsend. Especially with a website that we can possibly link our students too. Honestly the best and most encompassing sex-ed resource I have come across. I love that it says things like “if you have a uterus” and goes into social constructs and gives great tips for how to think about what you are comfortable with in your sex life and how to talk to partners about that. I want to turn so much of this around to give to students and use in our wellness center. Also I learned a lot and I’d consider myself pretty sex educated. It honestly is the sex bible. My partner and I have started calling to it and looking at it together when we need to talk through something in our sex lives. In a sea of books only geared towards cis gender and heterosexual people. This book is the shining gem that I and the queer community on my campus needs.

Excellent book for older teens and up. My 13 year old started asking me questions so I bought the book for him. Not sure he's ready to hear explanations of some of the less common sexual practices at this point. I put it on the shelf for a while.

This is the book I wish I'd had when I was a teenager - for what it teaches about sex, sure, but also for what it teaches about relationships. There's invaluable information in here that most children and young people don't learn from family, and definitely not from TV, and shamefully not from sex ed classes. I wish every young person had the choice to own and read this book. To those who say it's too long, or too dense, for young people: Let the youth in your life choose that for themselves, please! If they read only a fraction of this book, they'll be more informed than they were before, and probably curious to learn more. There are messages about consent, self-care, and being safe (in all senses), in every section. Take this from Chapter 4, covering self-pleasuring, sexual arousal, and so much more of the stuff I know my younger self was looking for in sex ed books: "Your sexuality is yours, it is totally about you, and it mostly comes from you, not from anything or anyone outside you. Feeling like it isn’t yours, isn’t mostly about you, and can only come from or be about someone else can do everything from really limiting your sexual life and your enjoyment of it to making you more vulnerable to predatory people or plain old jerks." I think it's this expression of utter kindness that makes this book stand out. I'm not the intended audience, yet I feel nurtured and cared for reading this book. It feels like, in addition to learning how to say "no!" or "yes!" to sex, in addition to learning the nitty-gritty about birth control and safer sex tools, readers of this book are meant to walk away with the feeling that they matter. There's so much in this book - so much knowledge, so many facts, so many tools young people can use to give themselves more control over their own bodies. Every chapter, whether it's talking about sexual abuse and assault, or body image, or how to explore one's own personal ethics, is rooted in giving power and agency back to young people. I salute that with everything I've got.

Wow. This book has been so useful to me as a consent educator on a college campus! I constantly refer students to this book for honest, shame-free, empowering, and accurate information surrounding questions of sex, sexual orientation, and negotiating boundaries. Corinna skillfully walks the readers through their questions as they apply to real lives, including sections to correct myths, discuss ideas that may be new, affirm identity and autonomy, and challenge readers to move towards healthier lives. Infused into every sentence is the empowering knowledge that the reader deserves to control their own body. At the core, this book is about agency. I can see the positive impact this book is making on the individuals I mentor. There is a need for more inclusive sex education for people of all ages. For people in their teens and twenties and the parents and professionals who work with them, this book is one of the resourses that is filling in that gap.

My friend got me this for my 22nd birthday. She knows I’m a Virgin and have never been kissed. She also knows that my mom never had a sex talk with me, and that I needed this information. Parents, look no further for a sex education book for your youth. This is one-stop shopping 🛍 and there’s even an introduction for y’all specifically. It has everything we need to know about sex and relationships, and obviously covers things I didn’t know about. This is the best birthday present I’ve ever gotten!!! I love it so much!!! I’ve had it for 24 hours and have already finished the 5th chapter!!! That’s pretty rare for me. S.E.X covers puberty, body image, masturbation and orgasms, LGBTQ issues, relationship situations that include consent, breaking up, abuse and living together, sexting, sex entertainment media, sex positions and various sexual activities, birth control, condoms, teen pregnancy, STD’s and everything else in between. I hope parents care enough about their children, whether 13 or 30, to get this book for them because they need it. This should be REQUIRED reading for middle, high school and college students. Press “add to cart” RIGHT NOW!!!!