Positive Sexuality
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The staff in the SHARE: Education Team believe that in order address sexual violence systemically, we must look to the larger systems of behavior and culture that influence our lived experiences. Listed below are a number of resources that focus on, and intersect with, sexuality, relationships, intimacy, consent, and community at Stanford.
Campus Resources:
- SHARE
- Brianna Booth, Director of Positive Sexuality: boothbk@stanford.edu
- Queer Student Resources
- Weiland Health Initiative: serve queer folx, discuss consent and sex, give trainings on sex concepts, and some sex therapy as well
- Women's Community Center
- Vaden Health Center
- Kardinal Kink
- Office for Religious Life
- The Bridge Peer Counseling Center
- Emergency Contraception Options
Online Resources
- Scarleteen: sex ed, sex & relationship advice, and how-to’s for teens and emerging adults
- TeenTalk: information about sex, dating, contraception, and sexually transmitted infections in English and Spanish
- Kinsey Confidential: research-based sexuality information from The Kinsey Institute geared towards college-age students
- Go Ask Alice!: anonymous Q&A supported by a team of Columbia University health professionals
- Killer And A Sweet Thang: firsthand account of how millennials love and live in an ever-changing digital landscape
- Teen Vogue: Sex: pop cultural commentary on sex
- SIECUS: Sex Ed for Social Change: advancing sex ed through policy, advocacy, education, and strategic communication
- The Body is Not an Apology: international movement to cultivate Radical Self Love and Body Empowerment
- Bedsider: Birth Control Support Network
- More Than Two! Franklin Veaux’s polyamory site
Ted Talks
- Sex Needs a New Metaphor. Here’s one...
- Make Love Not Porn
- A Queer Vision of Love & Marriage
- What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure
- Why I’m Done Trying be “Man Enough"
YouTube
- uppercaseCHASE1: sex ed for trans people and allies
- Sexplanations: sex edutainment
Books
- What Love Is: And What It Could Be
- When Someone You Love Is Polyamorous: Understanding Poly People and Relationships
- Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community*
- A New View of a Woman's Body*
- Gender Ambiguity in the Workplace: Transgender and Gender-Diverse Discrimination*
- Our Bodies, Ourselves*
- The "What's Happening to My Body?" Book for Boys*
- Guide To Getting It On: Unzipped (9th edition)
- The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
- American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus*, or a 24-minute interview with the author on Hidden Brain
- Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
- Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity
- Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
- The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Sexual Passion and Fulfillment
*check out from the SHARE: Education team library in Kingscote Gardens, Suite 220! More books and media are listed here and focus on sexuality, healing, sexual violence prevention, intersectionality and anti-oppression frameworks. Email us at shareeducation@stanford.edu to start the check out process.