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Chapter 10: Wellness and Sex

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General

• Barbach, L., For Each Other: Sharing Sexual Intimacy (Signet, 2001).
• Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century (Touchstone Books, 1998). Brown, G., The New Celibacy (McGraw-Hill, 1989).
• Chang, J., The Tao of Love and Sex: The Ancient Chinese Way to Ecstasy (Viking, 1993).
• Deida, D., Finding God Through Sex (Plexus, 2002).
• Downing, G., The Massage Book (Random House, 1998).
• Feuerstein, G., Sacred Sexuality: The Erotic Spirit in the World's Great Religions (Inner Traditions, 2004).
• Fromm, E., The Art of Loving (Perennial, 2000).
• Hite, S., The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality (Seven Stories, 2003).
• ___, The Hite Report on Male Sexuality (Ballantine, 1987).
• Huxley, A., Island (Perennial, 2002).
• Inkles, G., The New Sensual Massage (Arcata Arts, 1992).
• Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (IASHS), SAR Guide for a Better Sex Life (Multimedia Resource Center, 1525 Franklin St., San Francisco, CA 94109).
• Reinisch, J., and R. Beasley, The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex: What You Must Know to Be Sexually Literate (St. Martin's Press, 1991).
• Stubbs, K. R., Erotic Massage (J. P. Tarcher, 1999).
• Zilbergeld, B., The New Male Sexuality (Bantam, 1999).

Older People

• Gross, Z. H., Seasons of the Heart: Men and Women Talk About Love, Sex, and Romance After 60 (New World Library, 2000). Wei, J., and S. Levkoff, Aging Well: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health (John Wiley, 2000).

The Disabled

• Sexuality and Information Council of the United States, www.siecus.org/pubs/biblio/bibs0009.html. This website offers an annotated bibliography of publications relating to sexuality and the disabled.

Sex Education for Parents, Children, and Adolescents

• Chilman, C., Adolescent Sexuality in a Changing American Society: Social and Psychological Perspectives (University Press of the Pacific, 2001).
• DeBecker, G., Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane) (Dell, 2001).
• Haffner, D., and A. Tartaglione, Beyond the Big Talk: Every Parent's Guide to Raising Sexually Healthy Teens From Middle School to High School and Beyond (Newmarket, 2002).
• Harris, R., It's So Amazing! A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families (Candlewick, 1999).
• Richardson, J., and M. Schuster, Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex, but Were Afraid They'd Ask: The Secrets to Surviving Your Child's Sexual Development from Birth to the Teens (Crown, 2003).
• Lesbian/Gay Sexuality
• Berzon, B., and R. Leighton, Positively Gay (Celestial Arts, 2001).
• Clark, D., Loving Someone Gay (Celestial Arts, 1997).
• Newman, F., The Whole Lesbian Sex Book (Cleis, 1999).
• Silverstein, C., and F. Picano, The Joy of Gay Sex, 3rd edition (Harper Resource, 2003).
• Spirituality and Sexuality
• Feuerstein, G., Tantra: The Art of Ecstasy (Shambhala, 1998).
• Lozowick, L., The Alchemy of Love and Sex (Hohm Press, 1996).
• Moore, J., Sexuality, Spirituality: A Study of Masculine/Feminine Relationships (HarperCollins UK, 1991).
• Wright, E., and D. Inesse, God Is Gay: An Evolutionary Spiritual Work (Tayu, 1982).

Notes

1. McCarthy, B., and E. McCarthy, Sexual Awareness: Couple Sexuality for the Twenty-First Century (Carroll and Graf, 2002); and Davis, M., The Sex-Starved Marriage: Boosting Your Marriage Libido: A Couple's Guide (Simon and Schuster, 2004).

2. Laquerr, T., Solitary Sex: A History of Masturbation (Zone, 2003).

3. Friday, N., My Secret Garden: Women's Sexual Fantasies, revised edition (Pocket Books, 1998) and Men in Love (Dell, 1998).

4. For information on available programs, contact Sexual Attitude Restructuring (SAR), Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality www.iashs.edu; Albert Ellis Institute, www.rebt.org.

5. Hite, S., The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality (Seven Stories, 2003), and The Hite Report on Male Sexuality (Ballantine, 1987); Masters, W., and V. Johnson, Human Sexuality (Addison-Wesley, 1997); and Reinisch, J., and R. Beasley, The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex: What You Must Know to Be Sexually Literate (St. Martin's Press, 1991).

6. Planned Parenthood; www.plannedparenthood.org.

7. For a thorough treatment of this topic, see DeBecker, G., Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane) (Dell, 2001).

8. Singer, J., Androgyny: The Opposites Within. (Nicholas-Hays, 2000), 5.