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Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red Connexions logo:

  1. Affairs: The Secret Lives of Women
    Resource Type: Book
  2. Alternate Sources
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1996
    A safe sex manual for SM Play. The authors, all experts in SM play, dispel the stereotypes and myths about sadomasochism with this introduction to a hitherto hidden world of human expression. Safe Edge is a pan-sexual book structured to answer the questions a novice might have as he or she begins to explore safer SM play, and those of experienced players as they try new ways to play. It provides an understanding of how SM play can be a positive, safe, and healthy expression of sexual fantasies.
  3. AlterNet
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Online news magazine and community featuring original journalism as well as material from many other independent media sources. AlterNet's aim is to inspire action and advocacy on the environment, human rights and civil liberties, social justice, media, health care issues, and other issues.
  4. Are We Having Sex Now or What?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    Questions you may never have thought to ask about sex.
  5. Bi Any Other Name
    Bisexual People Speak Out
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  6. Bi.org
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    International site for bi-sexuals.
  7. BiNet USA
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    BiNet USA collects and distributes information regarding Bisexuality; facilitates the development of Bisexual community and visibility; works for the equal rights and liberation of Bisexuals and all oppressed peoples; and to eradicate all forms of oppression inside and outside the Bisexual community.
  8. The Bisexual Identity
    Changing Perspectives on Sexuality: Contributions of Kinsey and Anthropologists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  9. Bisexual Resource Center
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Information, discussions, and resources for bi-sexuals.
  10. Bisexual.org
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Information about bi-sexuality and links to bi-sexual sites.
  11. The Black Rose
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Black Rose is "a non-profit organization which provides a forum for the many different expressions of power in love and play. This can include dominance and submission, bondage & discipline, fetishism, cross-dressing, and so on."
  12. Breaking the Bonds
    The Realities of Sexually Open Relationships
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
  13. Buddy's
    Meditations on Desire
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  14. Burning Desires
    Sex in America: A report from the field
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  15. The Catalyst
    Resource Type: Book
  16. Coming to Power
    Writings and Graphics on Lesbian S/M
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
  17. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1994
    Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
  18. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  19. Connexions Library: Sexuality Focus
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on sexuality.
  20. Different Loving
    An exploration of the world of sexual dominance and submission
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993   Published: 1996
    Explores and demystifies the worlds of BDSM, sexual power relationships, and fetishism.
  21. Drawing the Line
    Lesbian Sexual Politics on the Wall
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  22. Eros Denied
    Sex in Western Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1966
  23. The Ethical Slut 
    A guide to infinite sexual possibilities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A guide for anyone who dreams of having all the sex and love and friendship they want. Explores the skills and issues of a life beyond tradiational lifetime monogamy, from scheduling dates to handling jealousy, finding partners, resolving conflict, and raising children.
  24. The Female Body in Western Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    The female body has occupied a central place in the Western imagination, inspiriing both attraction and fear, seen as both beautiful and unclean, alluring and dangerous, a source of pleasure and evil. In this book, twenty-three scholars and critics explore these representations and their implications for contemporary art and culture.
  25. Feminism and Sadomasochism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1981
    Califia says that sadomasochism encourages fluidity and questions the naturalness of binary dichotomies in society.
  26. Film as a Subversive Art
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use film to change and demystify.
  27. The Freudian Left
    Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Paul Robinson tries to define a particular tradition in the history of psychoanalysis - the "radical" or "left-wing" tradition - through an analysis of its three most important representatives: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, and Herbert Marcuse.
  28. Gandhi's Truth
    On the origins of militant nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
  29. Group Marriage
    A Study of Contemporary Multilateral Marriage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  30. The Hite Report
    Resource Type: Book
  31. The Hite Report on Male Sexuality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
  32. In Defence of Sex and Science: Review of Kinsey
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    A review of the film ’Kinsey’.
  33. The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  34. Jay Wiseman's Erotic Bondage Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    A compendium of advice on how to tie up your sweetie, or get tied up yourself.
  35. Kinsey, Alfred
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    (1894-1956). Was an American biologist and sexologist.
  36. The Lesbian S/M Safety manual
    Resource Type: Book
  37. Libido
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    "The literary answer to the horizontal urge."
  38. Loving More
    New Models for Relationships
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Organization and resource for people who who wish to move beyond traditional monogamy.
  39. A Mind of its Own
    A Cultural Historyt of the Penis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  40. The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity
    Resource Type: Book
    An examination of the ways in which tolerance and hostility have manifested themselves throughout history, and in current attitudes toward sexual diversity.
  41. Obscenity exposed
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    The police definition of 'obscenity' gets right to the crux of the question.
  42. The Party of Eros
    Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
  43. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  44. The Politics of Being Queer
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1969
    Goodman writes: "On balance, I don't know whether my choice, or compulsion, of a bisexual life has made me especially unhappy or only averagely unhappy. It is obvious that every way of life has its hang-ups, having a father or no father, being married or single, being strongly sexed or rather sexless, and so forth; but it is hard to judge what other people's experience has been, to make a comparison. I have persistently felt that the world was not made for me, but I have had good moments.
  45. Polyamory
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
  46. Polyamory Society
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Promotes and supports the interest of individuals of multipartner relationships and families.
  47. Powers of Desire
    The Politics of Sexuality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Brings together a diverse group of well-known feminist and gay writers, historians, and activists.
  48. QSM - Books, Magazines and Comics
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Books, DVDs, magazines, and comics on SM, dominance & submission, erotic pain, and related fetishes.
  49. Radical Digressions 2
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1981   Published: 2000
  50. The Regulation of Desire
    Homo and Hetero Sexualities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987   Published: 1996
    A survey of the history of sexuality in Canada.
  51. Revelations
    Essays on Striptease and Sexuality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  52. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  53. Sensuous Magic
    A Guide for Adventurous Couples
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    A peek behind the mask of dominant/submissive sexuality: an adventurous adult world of pleasure often obscured by ignorance and fear. Califia demystifies the scene for the novice, explaining the terms and techniques behind many misunderstood sexual practices.
  54. Sex and Marriage in Utopian Communities in Nineteenth Century America
    Nineteenth-Century America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A look at original approaches to sex and marraige in the utopian communities of nineteenth-century America. Many of these communities abolished monogamy and individualism and sought ways of dealing with the sexual life of the group as a whole.
  55. Sex, Power and Pleasure
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  56. Sex-Pol 
    Essays 1929-1934
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1934   Published: 1972
    Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
  57. Sexual Anarchy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  58. Sexual Minorities Out South Sexual minorities in the Majority World
    New Internationalist October 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    Why and how sexual minirities are persecuted throughout the South. As well as religion, minorities are a threat to the nuclear family (the most manageable social unit) and a convenient scapegoat. Articles on Africa, India, Muslim countries and the spread of HIV.
  59. Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle
    Love and New Morality
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1919   Published: 1972
  60. The Sexual Revolution
    Toward a Self-Governing Character Structure
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1930   Published: 1967
  61. The Sexual Struggle of Youth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1931   Published: 1972
  62. Sexuality and Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968   Published: 1970
    A study of sexual issues in the emergence of the extra-parliamentary left in West Germany during the 1960s. Reiche develops a theoretical view of the evolution of sexuality in the West.
  63. The Sexuality of Men
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
  64. Sexually Speaking: Collected Sex Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  65. Sexwork.com
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Sex Work Cyber Resource & Support Center. Promoting Intimacy and Positive, Healthy, Consenting Adult Sexuality.
  66. Social and Sexual Revolution
    Essays on Marx and Reich
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979
  67. Socialism and the New Life
    The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  68. Socialized Penis, The
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  69. Society for Human Sexuality
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Social and educational organization whose purpose is to promote understanding and appreciation for the many forms of adult intimate relationships and consensual sexual expression.
  70. Thy Neighbor's Wife
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1980
  71. The Unfashionable Human Body
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A discussion of apparel, in the broadest sense of the word, and how it has reflected and shaped attitudes to the human body.
  72. The Unknown Dimension 
    European Marxism Since Lenin
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
  73. Utopian Essays and Practical Proposals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1951   Published: 1962
  74. Yes Means No? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    The anti-sex moralists say one thing but mean another.

Experts on Sexuality in the Sources Directory

  1. AMEA - World Museum of Erotic Art
  2. British Museum of Erotic Art
  3. Dale Curd, Counselor, Men's Issues Expert
  4. Federation of Canadian Naturists (FCN)
  5. Hearts Introduction Service
  6. Loving More
  7. Susan McCord, "Beavertalk.COM" Internet Talk Show Host, Producer, Writer
  8. Museum of Sex
  9. SIECCAN, The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
  10. University of Waterloo
  11. University of Winnipeg


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