WThe Art of Sexual Ecstasy: The Path of Sacred Sexuality for Western Lovers is a 1989 book about Tantra by the author Margot Anand, in which the author presents the foundation of her method known as "SkyDancing Tantra". A popular book addressed to a Western audience, it uses concrete sexual exercises to demonstrate the often esoteric principles of Tantra.
WThe Bisexual Option is a book by the sex researcher Fritz Klein. It is considered one of the seminal works on bisexuality in the discipline of queer studies.
WBlack and White and Blue: Adult Cinema from the Victorian Age to the VCR is a 2007 book about the history of erotic films by Dave Thompson. It was published by ECW Press.
WBringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington is a 2018 book by Patricia Miller, a journalist for Religion Dispatches. The book describes the late-19th century political sex scandal between Kentucky politician William Breckinridge and Madeline Pollard, a student. It details the affair and subsequent legal battle over Breckinridge's breach of contract, and discusses the resulting change in public opinion towards women and sex.
WThe Celestial Bed is a 1987 novel by Irving Wallace, revolving around scientific issues of sex. It is based on some of the sex therapy techniques developed after Masters and Johnson, who created the term "sex surrogates". It was first published in 1987 by Delacorte Press. The title refers to the "celestial bed" marketed by the 18th century sexologist James Graham.
WThe Church and the Homosexual is a 1976 book by theologian John J. McNeill. The book is notable in the field of moral theology in that it was among the first books to argue that the Bible does not condemn homosexuality.
WA Defence of Masochism is a 1998 non-fiction book by Anita Phillips covering the topic of BDSM, which offers philosophical and sociological arguments for the virtues of masochism.
WDreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics is a 1982 book by Starhawk about magic, spirituality, politics, ethics, and sex. Along with Margot Adler's Drawing Down the Moon (1979), the book politicized practices of Paganism and witchcraft by emphasising their radical and feminist aspects, and as a result drew many radical feminists into their orbit.
WThe Encyclopedia of Motherhood is a comprehensive, specialized encyclopedia of all issues relevant to motherhood, to be published by SAGE Publications in three volumes in April 2010. Its General Editor is Andrea O'Reilly.
WThe Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices is a reference book by Brenda Love, first published in 1992, and republished many times.
WHarry Hamilton Laughlin was an American educator, eugenicist, and sociologist. He served as the Superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office from its inception in 1910 to its closing in 1939, and was among the most active individuals in influencing American eugenics policy, especially compulsory sterilization legislation.
WEverything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* is a book by U.S. physician David Reuben. It was one of the first sex manuals that entered mainstream culture in the 1960s, and had a profound effect on sex education and in liberalizing attitudes towards sex. It was the most popular non-fiction book of its era and became part of the Sexual Revolution of modern America.
WDie Funktion des Orgasmus is a monograph about the ability to achieve orgasm published in 1927 by Sigmund Freud's follower Wilhelm Reich, later published in English as Genitality in the Theory and Therapy of Neurosis. In it, Reich proposed, based on his therapeutic experience and empirical studies, that orgastic potency should be used as a decisive criterion for mental health.
WGlossarium Eroticum is a Latin-language dictionary of sexual words and phrases, and of many pertaining to the human body or considered to be obscene, by Pierre-Emmanuel Pierrugues, published in 1826. It lists definitions and excerpts Old Latin and Classical Latin writers such as Plautus, Juvenal, Petronius, and Seneca in examples, and includes some Medieval Latin as well.
WThe Good Vibrations Guide to Sex is a sex manual co-written by Cathy Winks and Anne Semans and published by Cleis Press. The authors run the Good Vibrations sex shop chain. The book is billed as "the most complete sex manual ever written".
WA Hand in the Bush: The Fine Art of Vaginal Fisting is a 1998 book by Deborah Addington about the sexual practice of inserting a fist into a vagina. It reached number four on Amazon's "Hot 100" sales chart in February 2000.
WHarmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex is a 2002 book by Judith Levine. The foreword was written by former United States Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, who resigned after suggesting that masturbation be destigmatized as a means of preventing young people from engaging in riskier forms of sexual activity.
WThe Illustrated Guide to Extended Massive Orgasm is a 2002 sex manual by Steve Bodansky and Vera Bodansky. The book illustrates different stimulation techniques to increase pleasure during sexual intercourse. Steve and Vera Bodansky are researchers of pleasure, and authors of multiple books on Extended Massive Orgasm. Such as the book also discusses, both doctors even offer courses that teach about different techniques in method, communication, and sensuality.
WThe International Encyclopedia of Sexuality is a four-volume reference work on human sexuality, organized by country. It is also available online. It was published between 1997 and 2001 and was edited by Robert T. Francoeur and Raymond J. Noonan with contributions from academics worldwide including Ramsey Elkholy. An updated one-volume version was published in 2004 under the title The Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality (ISBN 0826414885) and was hosted on The Kinsey Institute's website.
WThe Joy of Gay Sex is a sex manual for men who have sex with men by Charles Silverstein and Edmund White. The book was first published in 1977. Silverstein was White's therapist; the book was partially dedicated to the writer and activist Chris Cox. The original print run was for 75,000 copies.
WLady Bumtickler's Revels is a pornographic book written as a spoof libretto for a comic opera on the theme of flagellation. It was written and published by John Camden Hotten in 1872 in his series The Library Illustrative of Social Progress. It purports to have been "performed at Lady Bumtickler’s private theatre in Birch Grove, with unbounded applause". The characters, Master Lovebirch and Lady Belinda Flaybum, praise the delights of masochism, for example: "the male sex may taste something exquisitely sweet in a whipping from the hands of a woman".
WLove and Sex with Robots by David Levy, first published in 2007, is a book about the future development of sex robots: robots that will have sex with humans. Levy claims that this practice will be routine by 2050.
WMake Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History is a 2001 book by David Allyn.
WMaking Chastity Sexy: The Rhetoric of Evangelical Abstinence Campaigns is a 2011 book by Christine Gardner, a professor at Wheaton College. In it, Gardner states that sexual abstinence teachings by evangelicals are currently "using sex to sell abstinence" by promising more satisfying sexual activity within marriage for those who abstain from premarital sex; she argues that this rhetoric reinforces selfish desires for gratification, sets people up for divorce and dissatisfaction with marriage, and simply adapts "secular forms for religious ends".
WMasters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love is a 2009 biography by Thomas Maier. The book chronicles the early lives and work of two American sexologists, Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, who studied human sexuality from 1957 to the 1990s. The 2013 Showtime television series Masters of Sex, starring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, is based on the book.
WA Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis is a non-fiction book by New York-based columnist and author David M. Friedman that details the history of the human penis.
WThe Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders is a non-fiction book by Colin Wilson first published in 1988. The book expounds on the nature of fiction, drama, and the novel in its relationship to sexual imagination and sex crimes. The book contains biographies of the Marquis de Sade, D. H. Lawrence, A. C. Swinburne, James Joyce, Yukio Mishima, Henry Miller, Paul Tillich, Arthur Koestler, Percy Grainger, Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Charlotte Bach.
WMore Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory is a non-fiction book about consensual non-monogamous relationships, written by Franklin Veaux and Eve Rickert. The foreword is written by Janet Hardy, co-author of The Ethical Slut. The book shares the same name as Veaux's website MoreThanTwo.com, which he launched in 1997 as a resource about polyamory.
WMy Secret Garden: Women’s Sexual Fantasies is a 1973 book compiled by Nancy Friday, who collected women's fantasies through letters and taped and personal interviews. After including a female sexual fantasy in a novel she submitted for publishing, her editor objected, and Friday shelved the novel. After other women began writing and talking about sex publicly, Friday began thinking about writing a book about female sexual fantasies, first collecting fantasies from her friends, and then advertising in newspapers and magazines for more. She organized these narratives into "rooms", and each is identified by the woman's first name, except for the last chapter, "odd notes", which is presented as the "fleeting thoughts" of many anonymous women. The book revealed that women fantasize, just as men do, and that the content of the fantasies can be as transgressive, or not, as men's. The book, the first published compilation of women's sexual fantasies, refuted many previously accepted notions of female sexuality.
WThe Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People is a 2001 book by psychologist David P. Barash and psychiatrist Judith Eve Lipton.
WNatural Law, or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy is a book by Robert Anton Wilson published in 1987. Much shorter than most of his other works it is widely available on the internet as a .pdf file.
WOragenitalism is a book by the American folklorist Gershon Legman, published by the Julian Press in 1969. The book describes various types of oral sex. The book is intended as "instruction manual, conduct guide, and household advice book". The author claimed that it was the earliest book of its kind on the subject, and for a long time the only one. Its contents are divided into four sections: "Cunnilinctus" written under the pen-name Roger-Maxe de la Glannege and published by Jacob Brussel of New York in 1940; the three remaining sections "Fellatio", "Irrumation", and "Sixty-Nine" were not published until 1969.
WOrdeal is a 1980 autobiography by the former pornographic actress Linda Lovelace, star of the film Deep Throat, a seminal 1972 film at the forefront of the Golden Age of Porn. In the autobiography, Lovelace recounts that she was raped during her career in the porn industry.
WPolysexuality is the tenth issue of the journal Semiotext(e), designed to illustrate "the plural aspects of sexuality." Edited by Canadian psychoanalyst François Peraldi, it was first published in 1981. The work reproduces images of genocide, massacre, and political disaster. The second edition of the book noted that Peraldi had died of AIDS in 1993.
WPornified: How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families is a 2005 book by American writer Pamela Paul, discussing the impact of ready access to pornography on Americans.
WQueers in History is an encyclopedia written by Keith Stern of historically prominent people who were lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT).
WReader's Digest Guide to Love and Sex is a 1998 sex manual edited by Amanda Roberts and Barbara Padgett-Yawn and published by Reader's Digest. The book contains graphs, charts, and diagrams.
WReefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market is a book written by Eric Schlosser and published in 2003. The book is a look at the three pillars of the underground economy of the United States, estimated by Schlosser to be ten percent of U.S. GDP: marijuana, migrant labor, and pornography.
WThe Sensuous Man is a book written by an author initially known as "M", later revealed to be Joan (Terry) Garrity, John Garrity, and Len Forman. First published in 1971 by both L. Stuart and W. H. Allen, by Corgi in 1972 and again in 1982 by Dell Publishing, Murphy Books, The Sensuous Man is a detailed instruction manual on male sexuality. The book was written to correspond with a similar book by author "J" titled The Sensuous Woman, published in 1969. "J" stands for "Joan" Garrity.
WThe Sensuous Woman is a book written by Terry Garrity and issued by Lyle Stuart. Published first during 1969 with the pseudonym "J", it is a detailed instruction manual concerning sexuality for women.
WSex in Video Games is a nonfiction book by Brenda Romero about the history of human sexual behavior in video games.
WSex Offenders: An Analysis of Types is a 1965 book about sex offenders by the anthropologist Paul Gebhard, the sociologist John Gagnon, the sexologist Wardell Pomeroy, and Cornelia Christenson. It was a publication of the Institute for Sex Research.
WThe Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia is a 1929 book by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski. The work is his second in the trilogy on the Trobrianders, with the other two being Argonauts of the Western Pacific (1922) and Coral Gardens and Their Magic (1935).
WSexual Violence: Opposing Viewpoints is a 2003 book edited by Helen Cothran. It presents selections of contrasting viewpoints on four central questions about sexual violence: what causes it; whether it is a serious problem; how society should address it; and how it can be reduced. The book is part of the Opposing Viewpoints series.
WStreetlife: The Untold History of Europe's Twentieth Century is a 2011 book by the British academic Leif Jerram.
WSztuka kochania published in English as A Practical Guide to Marital Bliss) is a popular sex manual written by the pioneering Polish sexologist Michalina Wisłocka, first published in 1978. The book has achieved great publishing success. About 7 million copies were sold in Poland, not including pirated reprints.
WThy Neighbor's Wife is a non-fiction book by Gay Talese, published in 1981 and updated in 2009.
WThe Velvet Underground is a paperback by journalist Michael Leigh that reports on paraphilia in the USA, published in September 1963.
WThe Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for All of Us is a 1999 book about lesbian sexual practices by the sex educator Felice Newman.
WWhy Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality is a 1997 book about the evolution of human sexuality by the biologist Jared Diamond.
WWoman Hating: A Radical Look at Sexuality is a 1974 book by the American radical feminist author and activist Andrea Dworkin.
WWomen on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Sexual Fantasies is a 1991 book by Nancy Friday. In it she continues her research into women's sexual fantasies, following on from My Secret Garden and Forbidden Flowers. The book is divided into three sections: A "Report from the erotic interior", a section on masturbation, and the fantasies themselves. The fantasies in turn are divided into three chapters:Seductive, Sometimes Sadistic, Sexually Controlling Women Women With Women Insatiable Women: The Cry For "More!"