How to Understand Your Sexuality
A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are
Meg-John Barker author Alex Iantaffi author Jules Scheele illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published:18th Nov '21
Should be back in stock very soon
This essential guide provides insights into understanding diverse sexualities and encourages personal reflection, making How to Understand Your Sexuality a valuable resource for readers.
In How to Understand Your Sexuality, readers are offered a comprehensive exploration of sexuality through a social, cultural, and historical lens. The authors, both renowned therapists, provide a thoughtful examination of diverse sexualities and relationship structures, encouraging readers to reflect on their personal experiences. Throughout the book, reflection points and activities foster a deeper understanding of one's identity and desires, making it an interactive and engaging guide.
The narrative acknowledges the complexity of sexuality, addressing various identities such as gay, straight, queer, pansexual, demisexual, and asexual. The authors aim to demystify these concepts, presenting them in an accessible manner that invites readers to embrace their unique journeys. By incorporating voices from across the spectrum of sexualities and relationship dynamics, the book creates a rich tapestry of experiences, allowing readers to feel seen and understood.
Ultimately, How to Understand Your Sexuality serves as both a guide and a companion for anyone seeking to celebrate and accept their sexuality. By blending scholarly insights with personal reflections, the authors inspire readers to explore the vast landscape of their desires, attractions, and identities. This book is not just about understanding sexuality; it’s about embracing it with kindness and acceptance.
From the outset this book feels gentle, kind and embracing. The clarity of structure and straightforward guidance helps to lead me through what is an incredibly nourishing text. Perhaps this sounds trite, but as I was reading, I knew that the authors cared deeply about my journey through the book.
And that's rare indeed.
In How To Understand Your Sexuality, Barker & Iantaffi bring you a goldmine of wisdom, helping us break down and understand the struggles of sex in our everyday lives. From understanding the difference between identity and practice, to what it means personally, politically socially and erotically, why it matters, and considerations for how to do it differently, this guide offers people interested in sex a useful handbook for exploring their own sexuality and understanding that of their partners, peers and the world around them. An erotic almanac of our times, HTUYS is destined to be a go-to text for those seeking a portal into pleasure wisdom of the mind, body and heart. -- Cyndi Darnell: Sex & Relationships Therapist & Somatic Sexologist
This is such an interesting and engaging book. Meg-John and Alex do a fantastic job at helping you to understand and articulate your sexuality, both as it is now but also what it might be. I implore fellow straight blokes to read this! Use these tools to examine your sexualities and intentionally allow them to become. Also use this guide to nourish your loved ones that they might become their (a)sexual selves too. -- Justin Hancock, sex and relationships educator bishuk.com & Culture Sex Relationships podcast
Informative and readable. At a time when sexuality has become something to be regulated, this book invites wonder and curiosity. * Manu Bazzano, Therapy Tod
ISBN: 9781787756182
Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 34mm
Weight: 410g
352 pages