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Browse our recommended books to help you discuss the big issues with your child.

Can Everyone Please Calm Down?

Mae Martin - 2019

If there's one area that Mae Martin is 100% anecdotally and personally qualified to tackle, it's sexuality: should there be any such thing as a 'sexuality spectrum', then Mae has probably existed at every point on it at some stage in her life. This book is Mae's attempt to demystify sexuality by narrating her own often humiliating adventures in sex, dating and gender identity.

Can We Talk About Consent?

Justin Hancock - 2021

'Can We Talk About Consent?' takes a fresh, frank, and stylish approach to the topic of relationships and respect, providing essential understanding for readers aged 14+.

Coming Out Stories

Emma Goswell - 2021

An empowering, witty and uplifting collection of coming out stories and advice from LGBTQ+ people from around the world, based on the hugely successful podcast 'Coming Out Stories.'

Honest: Everything They Don't Tell You About Sex, Relationships and Bodies

Milly Evans and Lucia Picerno - 2022

Being a teen is tough enough without having to navigate the minefields of discovering sex, love and bodies. And let's be real: sex education at school doesn't always cut it. Sex educator and journalist Milly Evans is here to help - as a young adult who is still figuring life out, she knows exactly what teens are going through. And she's here with answers to all those questions that aren't in their school textbooks.

How to Understand Your Sexuality

Meg-John Barker, Alex Iantaffi and Jules Scheele - 2021

The book explores the topic through a social, cultural and historical lens, with reflection points and activities throughout. Covering a diverse range of sexualities and relationship structures, the authors invite the reader to reflect on their own experience and explore their identity.

It's Totally Normal! An LGBTQIA+ Guide to Puberty, Sex and Gender

Monica Gupta Mehta - 2023

Monica and Asha Mehta work together to answer your most pressing questions. Forget the penis-in-vagina basics - this is a queer friendly guide that'll have you rethinking the very definition of sex. Combining expert advice with the personal experiences of teens all over the world, prepare to plunge into the topics they don't cover in sex ed.

Queer Up: an Uplifting Guide to LGBTQ+ Love, Life and Mental Health

Alexis Caught - 2022

With chapters on coming out, families and friends, pride and allyship, this is an insightful, thoughtful and reassuring book - essential reading for any questioning teen and their allies looking to support them.

Sex Ed: An Inclusive Teenage Guide to Sex and Relationships

The School of Sexuality Education - 2021

Here is an engaging and non-judgemental guide for teenagers, publishing in the wake of major updates to the national Relationships and Sex Education curriculum. This positive, practical, and empowering guide tackles sex and relationships in an inclusive and non-judgemental way.

Sex Education: A Guide to Life

2021

Covering everything from understanding your anatomy, feeling confident about how you look and understanding how you feel, to consent, sexuality and the minefield that is modern love - this guide answers all the questions you're too scared to ask, in a language you understand.

The Awesome Autistic Guide for Trans Teens

Yenn Purkis and Sam Rose - 2022

Yenn Purkis and Sam Rose set out honest advice and strategies to help autistic trans and/or gender divergent teens to thrive exactly as they are. Covering a huge range of topics including coming out, masking, building a sense of pride and much more, it is an essential resource for living happily and authentically.