Books Top Picks

Whether you’re just beginning to explore open relationships or you’ve been living a polyamorous life for years, Tristan Taormino’s Opening Up will offer you something valuable in your quest for loving, lasting connections. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over a hundred women and men, Opening Up explores the real-life benefits and challenges of all styles of open relationships, from partnered non-monogamy to solo polyamory. With her refreshingly down-to-earth style and sharp wit, Taormino offers tips on dealing with jealousy, negotiating boundaries, finding community, parenting, and time management. Opening Up is an invaluable resource that’ll change the way you think about intimacy.

• Binding Style: Paperback
• Type: Sex Info/How-To
• Number of Pages: 343
• Copyright: 2008

Kinky Online Personal Ads from Seattle's The Stranger
by Ellen Forney
Ellen Forney's newest book Lust is collection of cartoons celebrating the sometimes stunningly crude, sometimes surprisingly sweet, online world of personal ads. Forney has for several years been illustrating the Seattle weekly The Stranger's "Lustlab" classified ads by interpreting the most interesting, outrageous, or idiosyncratic ad each week. Plus, the collection includes frank, revealing interviews with some of the advertisers conducted by Forney, plus an introduction by Dan Savage.

• Type: Comic Book/Other Sex Books/Sex + Art
• Number of Pages: 168 pages
• Copyright: 2008

Sexy, strong women leave no fantasy unturned as they seek out total satisfaction in Something Blue, the first installment of Jenna Jameson’s erotic anthology series. Glean inspiration from sexy, creative, and taboo stories from today’s top writers; then use the sex tips, tricks, and notes that editor (and adult sex superstar) Jenna Jameson sprinkles in to take your tales from the page right to your sheets. You’ll laugh, you’ll learn, AND you’ll get off, with these stylized, mostly heterosexual, and super-accessible stories.

• Binding Style: Paperback
• Type: Erotic Fiction
• Number of Pages: 190 pages
• Copyright: 2008

A Soothing Touch for Two
by Darrin Zeer
Massage is not just for sore muscles, massage is great foreplay for lovers! Lover's Massage book will teach you and your partner soothing exercises that are as easy to give as they are pleasurable to receive. By the author of Office Yoga, so you will learn techniques like the "Passion Pretzel" and the "Stretching Sandwich" that are derived from a variety of ancient bodywork techniques like Thai, Lomi Lomi, and Shiastsu. Great for Valentine's day, this book is pretty package and packed full of pleasure. Also available in our Valentine's Day Erotic Massage Kit.

• Binding Style: Mini Hardback
• Type: Sex Information/How-to
• Number of Pages: 95
• Copyright: 2007

by Staci Haines
Overcome sexual trauma with gentle, transformative, and empowering techniques from the fantastic Healing Sex book. Transcend the limits of talk therapy with a sophisticated mind-body-spirit approach that allow women survivors of sexual assault (of all orientations, single, or coupled) to reclaim their own desires by reconnecting with their physical selves. This edition is an updated version of the formerly titled Survivor’s Guide to Sex by sex educator/somatic healer Staci Haines.

• Binding Style: Paperback
• Type: Sex Info/How-to
• Number of Pages: 267
• Copyright: 2007

Break out your Ducky and get ready to get wet and wild with Cosmo's Aqua Kama Sutra. You can take this 100% waterproof book with you into your favorite body of water, and it will take your body through your favorite sex positions of the Kama Sutra, that every Cosmo girl (or boy!) should know, but with a wet twist. Make a splash with positions like "Tub Tango" and "Deep Water Dare".

• Binding Style: Waterproof paperback
• Type: Sex Information/How-To
• Number of Pages: 63
• Copyright: 2006

by Paul Joannides
This is touted as "America's Coolest and Most Informative Book About Sex" and we couldn't agree more. Now in its fifth edition, this funny and honest book focuses on heterosexual sex and relationships and its comprehensive range focuses on everything from romance to anal sex to quickies on the road. Informative and sometimes even goofy, this blows all other sex guides out of the water.

by Rachel Venning and Claire Cavanah
The ultimate guide to choosing and using sex toys, written by the co-founders of Toys in Babeland (now Babeland). Learn the ins and outs of sexual anatomy, vibrators, strap-ons, lube, men's toys, butt play and more. Written in a fun, relaxed style and full of beautiful photographs, Sex Toys 101 is the first full-color guide to gear for satisfying sex. Take a peek inside.

by Tristan Taormino
Termed "informative, sexy, and inspirational" by sex educator extraordinaire Betty Dodson, the second edition of this classic book is a great introduction to the world of anal sex. The text inspires as well as guides readers by interspersing hot butt-loving scenes with tips on everything from anal health to toy selection.

• Binding Style: Paperback
• Type: Sex Information/How-To
• Number of pages: 240
• Copyright: 2006

by Felice Newman
Urban and diverse in topic, this new guide is a cool drink of water in a drought of good sex info for dykes. With a much appreciated section on communication and a great hanky guide, this book will give some tips, toys and tidings you'll wonder how you lived without. Completely revised and expanded, this comprehensive lesbian sex guide includes a new chapter on sex and partnership, a new chapter on orgasm, all new illustrations, and with tons of new resources and other info. Softcover; 378 pages, 2004.

by Candida Royalle
If there's anyone who knows how to tell a naked man what to do, it's Candida Royalle. Known for her line of female-centered porn (Bridal Shower, Eyes of Desire 2), Royalle offers a blueprint for women who want to direct their own sex lives in this book chock full of tricks of the trade. Her goal is to encourage sexual confidence, creativity and playfulness in women; reflected in chapters on setting the stage, playing with props, playing the part, and giving the performance of your life. 2005, 224 pages.

edited by Alison Tyler
Tired of skimming erotica collections for tales of hot anal play? If so, then Luscious may be the book for you. Anal sex expert Tristan Taormino introduces this collection of 24 tales of anal eroticism, which includes knock-your-pants-off stories by Marilyn Jaye Lewis, Greg Wharton, Joy St. James, Dante Davidson, Thomas S. Roche, Saskia Walker, Sage Vivant, and many others. Paperback. 2006, 254 pages.