#books on sexuality

[littlematchagirlll]

hi i need some help!

i am going to be attending a christian university in the fall. this school is funded by a religion that believes in very traditional gender roles, as well as marriage being between one man & one woman. it's bad enough that you can be expelled if you are found to be dating someone of the same sex.

with that, i know i will not be able to take any classes on gender and sexuality that don't align with those beliefs. but as a closeted queer person myself, i so desperately want to learn more about those subjects. i just have to do it outside the school setting.

if any of you have recommendations for books, textbooks, video essays, free lecture series, etc., on gender, sexuality, or queerness in general that you recommend, i would so greatly appreciate it!!

#gender studies #queer studies #sexuality #feminism #university #college #help #thank you in advance #queer #queer books #feminist #feminist books #trans books #books on sexuality #books on gender #book recs pls #book recs wanted #book recommendations #gender non conforming

[asexual-entries]

Books on asexuality pt 1

#asexuality #asexual #books on sexuality #book rec list #aromantic #ace

[parshallison]

In June, I was watching a YouTube video about asexuality when someone mentioned that asexual people aren't subjected to conversion therapy. This didn't sit right with me at all. A quick fact-check Google search quickly sent me down a rabbit hole about how a lack of sexual attraction is often treated as a medical problem to be fixed.

Many interviews and 6 months later, I covered science and medicine's changing attitudes toward asexuality it in a feature article in Scientific American's January 2024 issue! I'm so grateful to everyone who lent their expertise to the article 💜

"... Over the past two decades psychological studies have shown that asexuality should be classified not as a disorder but as a stable sexual orientation akin to homosexuality or heterosexuality. Both cultural awareness and clinical medicine have been slow to catch on. It's only recently that academic researchers have begun to look at asexuality not as an indicator of health problems but as a legitimate, underexplored way of being human."

#asexual #asexuality #lgbtq+ #sexuality #science #the magazine is sold at barnes & noble and hudson news and books a million #and I think also walmart? #if you want to check it out in print :) #kudos to marcos chin for the absolutely phenomenal illustrations

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I ABSOLUTELY ADORE YOUR SQQ HE LOOKS SO FUCKINH DONE WITH LIFE

The recipe for SQQ is: calm on the outside, screaming on the inside.

#poorly drawn svsss #svsss #shen qingqiu #ask #No joke I'm pretty sure he is my favourite 'guy gets transporte'd to another world' character #I recently rewatched the (sadly never to be continued) animated version of SVSSS and I cant get over how perfect he is for the role #He is *so* done with everything going on around him. Forced to be calm and mean. Born to scream and be kind. #The gap between the internal and external dialogue is one of my fav character/writing quirks. #The personification of the 'he lied' dialogue tag. #Love how deep the SVSSS meta and literary analysis community gets with him. Piosplayhouse has opened my eyes to trans SQQ #what is the system is *not* a metaphor for pressure to adhere to societal norms of gender and sexuality? #I really need to finish the books...that is probably my biggest burning hole in my 'DNF' pile. I liked it! I just got busy.

[francy-sketches]

Whenever people talk about lack of media literacy they always bring up people who think a character doing bad things=the author endorsing said bad things which are very annoying but I feel like we're ignoring the opposite, equally annoying side of the discourse who think if you criticize the inclusion/depiction of dark/sensitive topics in any way it’s bc you’re a dumb baby who can’t separate fiction from reality. and it's like no I know I’m not supposed to clap and cheer at violence against women I’m criticizing how much of it there is. Idiot

#.txt #also sometimes a work DOES reflect the author's bigoted views lol #why are we acting like that's unherad of #anyway I thought about when I argued with d&d apologists over the way they adapted loras now I’m mad again #‘it’s not like the religious zealots were portrayed as good people what’s the issue’ #the issue is that storyline wasn’t in the book they went out of their way to make the one gay character be tortured for his sexuality #'why are you upset that bad things are happening to the characters' book loras got deepfried that's not what i have a problem with

[chaotic-emo-pigeon]

love my friends and their gay little classics. tag your sexuality and favorite old novel.

#ill start #idk my sexuality but i like gatsby #books #classic literature #classic lit #the great gatsby #the portrait of dorian gray #maurice #hamlet

[dad-galaxy]

🐊🦩

#dofuwani #sir crocodile #donquixote doflamingo #monkey d. luffy #okay inside joke but if one of my b0bad1n followers likes dofuwani. These two idiots are reading a certain tin can helmets fanfic (?) #because im old and do I still rp with my gf and sometimes I draw the scenes and we were joking about ...so what its doffy reading? #“well dear hes reading this book about a knight in his personal exploration about religion. sexuality. beliefs. concepts of love. family...” #my gf inmediate response: HES READING[...] Gf again: of course he's not reading it completely for the story he's reading for the sexy parts #hatta art #my art

[utane]

Sannet, chief curator of Solemnace Sassmaster extraordinaire and short king

#warhammer 40k #the infinite and the divine #Sannet #trazyn the infinite #necrons #40K Sannet #cryptek #his humor is so dry and he sasses Trazyn so much in the book it's great #art tag #also cursed knowledge: people tagged the writer of the book on tweeter and he liked the initial Sannet sketch #so he has absolutely seen me sexualize this mans #I live in fear that he went through my timeline and saw me drawing the other robutts ::^D

[lemonzestedtea]

i know everyone is allowed to have their own headcanons but there is just something about people ignoring neil's demisexuality that puts me off. this boy won't find anyone attractive at first sight, even if it is andrew. in fact, in the books he hated andrew at first, remember? he wasn't even into andrew until well into their truth for a truth game, he needs a strong emotional connection to someone for attraction to even come into the equation, so can we stop ignoring that?

#did we read the same books :/ #as smn on the aro spectrum #the erasure of neil's demisexuality makes me upset #yes everyone is allowed to have their own headcanons!!! #but why do we need to erase a character's canon sexuality for that? #neil josten #all for the game #the foxhole court #tfc #aftg #aftg rant

[makingqueerhistory]

Queer Book Recommendations

Every once in a while I like sharing some queer book recommendations on here as I read a lot and I get requests to share some of the books I love, so here we go! 

Tell Me I'm Worthless: Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends Ila and Hannah. Since then, things have not been going well. Alice is living a haunted existence, selling videos of herself cleaning for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself to sleep. She hasn’t spoken to Ila since they went into the House. She hasn’t seen Hannah either.

Our Wives Under The Sea: Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah has carried part of it with her, onto dry land and into their home. 

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career.

Silver Under Nightfall: Remy Pendergast is many things: the only son of the Duke of Valenbonne (though his father might wish otherwise), an elite bounty hunter of rogue vampires, and an outcast among his fellow Reapers. His mother was the subject of gossip even before she eloped with a vampire, giving rise to the rumors that Remy is half-vampire himself. Though the kingdom of Aluria barely tolerates him, Remy’s father has been shaping him into a weapon to fight for the kingdom at any cost.

Disintegrate/Dissociate: In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis. In these spare yet powerful poems, she explores, with both rage and tenderness, the parameters of grief, trauma, displacement, and identity. Weaving together a past made murky by uncertainty and a present which exists in multitudes, Arielle Twist poetically navigates through what it means to be an Indigenous trans woman, discovering the possibilities of a hopeful future and a transcendent, beautiful path to regaining softness. 

The Perks of Loving a Wallflower: As a master of disguise, Thomasina Wynchester can be a polite young lady—or a bawdy old man. She’ll do whatever it takes to solve the cases her family takes on. But when Tommy’s beautiful new client turns out to be the highborn lady she’s secretly smitten with, more than her mission is at stake . . . 

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror: Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. Common tropes—such as the circumspect and resilient “final girl,” body possession, costumed villains, secret identities, and things that lurk in the closet—spark moments of eerie familiarity and affective connection. Still, viewers often remain tasked with reading themselves into beloved films, seeking out characters and set pieces that speak to, mirror, and parallel the unique ways queerness encounters the world. 

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture: Everything you know about sex and asexuality is (probably) wrong. The notion that everyone wants sex–and that we all have to have it–is false. It’s intertwined with our ideas about capitalism, race, gender, and queerness. And it impacts the most marginalized among us. For asexual folks, it means that ace and A-spec identity is often defined by a queerness that’s not queer enough, seen through a lens of perceived lack: lack of pleasure, connection, joy, maturity, and even humanity.

#refusing compulsory sexuality #it came from the closet #the perks of loving a wallflower #disintigrate/dissociate #silver under nightfall #you made a fool of death with your beauty #our wives under the sea #tell me im worthless #queer book recommendations #queer books #lgbt books #queer history

[2001hz]

The Pillow Book Directed By: Peter Greenaway (1996)

Maison Martin Margiela was a costume designer for the pillow book, the film tells a woman (Nagiko) with a body writing obsession where ones life story is written or calligraphed on the skin. Nagiko grows up she finds a powerful link between calligraphy, human flesh, poetry, and sexuality.

#the pillow book #1996 #peter greenaway #maison martin margiela #sexuality #body #body art #calligraphy #poetry #lovecore #film #stills #japan

[piosplayhouse]

I've said this before but I think one of the reasons scum villain occupies such a unique niche of queer representation is because it's one that interrogates society's expectations on gender and sexuality, but within a world where there's no strict ramifications for queerness. Instead the expectations and constraints on queerness are carried solely through Shen Yuan's internalized issues, which are so deeply set they motivate many of his decisions within the book, but aren't enforced by any direct outside forces in PIDW. It's a great critique on how the effects of internalization can persist even when someone isn't in an environment where they're being directly oppressed, and how it can take years and years to unpack and unlearn.

#i retyped this like 3 times and it still doesnt sound right but whatever #its like midnight someone whos more awake take my spirit and carry my words #or whatnot #anyway i like sv a lot i think its a GOOD book i think it has GOOD tjints to say about gender norms and sexuality and queerness and coming #to terms with who you are in the moment while knowing sort of bittersweetly that it will likely be a lifelong journey to fully accept it #svsss

[femmefatalevibe]

Femme Fatale Booklist: Seduction, Allure, & Sensuality

Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power by Kasia Urbaniak 

Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer 

Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power by Carolyn Elliott

Yes, Mistress: Why Men Crave Female Domination by Alicia Zadig

Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski 

Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke 

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan 

Be Your Own Brand of Sexy: A New Sexual Revolution for Women  by Susan L. Edelman 

All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks

For Yourself: The Fulfillment of Female Sexuality by Lonnie Barbach 

VIVE LA DIFFERENCE: A FRENCHMAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON AMERICAN WOMEN, LOVE, RESPECT AND RELATIONSHIPS by Guy Blaise

Rethinking Prestige Branding: Secrets of the Ueber-Brands by Wolfgang Schaefer and JP Kuehlwein (you are the luxury brand)

The Luxury Strategy: Break the Rules of Marketing to Build Luxury Brands by Jean-Noël Kapferer (Author), Vincent Bastien 

The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win by Maria Konnikova 

#femme fatale #dark feminine energy #dark femininity #bookblr #book rec list #book rec #booklover #art of seduction #robert greene #sexuality #sex and relationships #sex education #sensuality #seduction #female power #female excellence #feminine energy #female manipulator #the feminine urge #female writers #self reflection #higher self #high value woman #ideal self #personal growth #sex advice #boundaries #level up #glow up #self confidence

[danceswithsalmon]

They're an older couple who who have a very rampant, interesting, maybe perverse sex life.

Cronenberg: Yes.

Which is quite a taboo subject isn't it - older people having sex? Why did you want to address that?

Cronenberg: I'm old, and I have sex. So maybe that's why.

An interview with David Cronenberg on his debut novel Consumed

#still thinking about that posts immoral implications in acknowledging the sexuality of old people #consumed #david cronenberg #i put the book down part way through to finish something else but he really fired his warning shots right off the bat its great #freaks only #not that old people having sex is freaky but there is in fact cannibalism involved #blogging

[razberrypuck]

holding finn tidestrider in my hands. why are you SUCH a whore.

#i mean i know why (born and raised in a society that enforces strictly monogamous relationships by punishment of death -- #--and coming to the surface was really the first opportunity hes ever had to openly explore himself and his sexual/romantic preferences) #but also why have you written and published more than one book on this. what possessed you to do so. #jrwi riptide #jrwi #just roll with it #finn tidestrider #jrwi finn #i love shitposting about finn and then putting my actual character analysis in the tags. its a fun treat for me.

[contagious-watermelon]

so what is it with people being incapable of talking about, thinking about, raising awareness for aromanticism without bringing up asexuality. why are we acting as if aromanticism is just some special status buff for aces

#aromantic #aro #aroace #aroallo #lgbt #sorry I'm not even aroallo ive just gotten fed up with people not being able to shut up about asexuality when I'm trying to find aro stuff #to relate to #or books to read #or even trying to find aro advocacy stuff #technically i probably am aroace but tbh i really dont want to call myself that largely bc of this #I'm aromantic and thats the important part #my sexuality (or lack thereof) just isnt relevant and people keep trying to make it be