Internet Sexuality Resources for Parents
- The Sex Positive Parent
- The Guttmacher Institute
- Gender Spectrum
- Sexplainer
- Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)
- Our Bodies, Ourselves Blog
- Birds + Bees+ Kids
- Healthy Children
- Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Online Educational Sessions
Internet Sexuality Resources for Young People (and their families!)
- Scarleteen
- Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- International Planned Parenthood Federation (International)
- FHI (International)
- Bish (UK)
- Brook (UK)
- Sex, Etc. (US)
- Websites from Advocates for Youth (US)
- Sexualityandu.ca (CAN)
- Options for Sexual Health (CAN)
Books For Parents, Young People, or Both About Sexuality and Related Issues
- S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College, Heather Corinna
- GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Teens, Kelly Huegel
- Doing it Right: Making Smart, Safe, and Satisfying Choices about Sex, Bronwen Pardes
- Our Bodies, Ourselves, the Boston Women's Health Collective
- Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex, Amy T. Schalet
- Breaking the Hush Factor: Tips for Talking to Teens About Sex, Dr. Karen Rayne
- For Goodness Sex: Changing the Way We Talk to Teens about Sexuality, Values, and Health, Al Vernacchio
- Talk to Me First: Everything You Need to Know to Become Your Kids' "Go-To" Person About Sex, Deborah Roffman
- Venus in Blue Jeans: Why Mothers and Daughters Need to Talk About Sex, Nathalie Bartle
- Harmful to Minors: Perils of Protecting Children from Sex, Judith Levine
- The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls, Lynn Ponton
- The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do, Lynn Ponton
- Kids Gone Wild: From Rainbow Parties to Sexting, Understanding the Hype Over Teen Sex, Joel Best and Kathleen A. Bogle
- Challenging Casanova: Beyond the Stereotype of the Promiscuous Young Male, Andrew P. Smiler, Ph.D.
- Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, CJ Pascoe
- Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson
- The Secret Lives of Teen Girls: What Your Mother Wouldn't Talk About but Your Daughter Needs to Know, Evelyn Resh, CNM, MPH
- Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti (editors)
- Your Daughter's Bedroom: Insights for Raising Confident Women, Joyce T. McFadden
- Sex Smart: How Your Childhood Shaped Your Sexual Life and What to Do About It, Aline P. Zoldbrod, Ph.D.
- It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, Danah Boyd
Sexuality Books for Pre-Teens or Younger Children
- Doing it Right: Making Smart, Safe, and Satisfying Choices about Sex, Bronwen Pardes
- It's Perfectly Normal, It's So Amazing and It's Not the Stork, Robie Harris
- Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU, Cory Silverberg
Books on Learning, Communication and Relationships with Teens
- Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks
- Instead of Education and Learning All the Time, John Holt
- How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk, Adele Faber
- Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Kerry Patterson
- The Usual Error: Why We Don't Understand Each Other and 34 Ways to Make It Better, Pace and Kyeli
- Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, Daniel J. Siegel, MD
- Parenting Teens With Love And Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood, Foster Cline and Jim Fay
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