Book List

Book Resources for Body Electric Alumni

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Part 1 – Books By Body Electric Teachers & Luminaries

Part 2 – Books By Guests On The Erotic Liberation Podcast *In reverse chronological order by episode number

What Is Compersion? (Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships)
Paperback – June 7, 2024 by Marie Thouin (Author)

Sacred Not Sinful: A New Christian Sexual Ethic
By Dr. Kevin Jenson October 18, 2023

This Heart Holds Many: My Life as the Nonbinary Millennial Child of a Polyamorous Family Paperback – March 29, 2019
by Koe Creation (Author), Dr. Elisabeth Sheff (Foreword)

Books by Khanisa Mnyaka
Traveling While Black And Lesbian (memoir)
You Belong Here (self-help)

Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover Paperback – August 17, 2021
by Annie Sprinkle (Author), Beth Stephens (Author), Jennie Klein (Author), Paul B. Preciado (Afterword), Una Chaudhuri (Foreword), Linda Montano (Contributor)

Divine Union of the Masculine & Feminine
Paperback – August 4, 2023 by Katrina Bos (Author)

Tantric Intimacy: Discover the Magic of True Connection Paperback – August 1, 2017
by Katrina Bos (Author)

Stonewall Generation: LGBTQ Elders on Sex, Activism, and Aging Paperback – September 1, 2020
by Jane Fleishman (Author), Kate Bornstein (Foreword), Barbara Carrellas (Foreword)

Sexual Integrity: Finding the Courage to be Yourself Paperback – June 27, 2021
by Steven Davidson (Author)

Notes from a Queer Cripple: How to Cultivate Queer Disabled Joy (and Be Hot While Doing It!) Paperback – April 21, 2025
by Andrew Gurza (Author)

Somacultural Liberation: An Indigenous, Two-Spirit Somatic Guide to Integrating Cultural Experiences Toward Freedom Paperback – February 6, 2024
by Roger Kuhn PhD (Author)

Trans Sex 1st Edition
by Lucie Fielding (Author)

Part 3 – Books That Have Been Great Resources In The Body Electric Tradition

The Multi-Orgasmic Man: How Any Man Can Experience Multiple Orgasms and Dramatically Enhance His Sexual Relationship
by Mantak Chia and Douglas Abrams

Pleasure Activism
by Adrienne Marie Brown

Male Erotic Massage: A Guide to Sex and Spirit
by Kenneth Ray Stubbs, Ph.D.

Erotic Massage: The Tantric Touch of Love
by Stubbs

The Essential Tantra: A Modern Guide to Sacred Sexuality
by Stubbs

Sexual Intelligence
by Marty Klein

Tantra for Gay Men
by Bruce Anderson

The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Sexual Passion and Fulfillment
by Jack Morin, PhD

The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
by Tom Spanbauer

The Red Thread of Passion, Spirituality and the Paradox of Sex
by David Guy

The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love
by Thomas Moore

Two Flutes Playing, A Spiritual Journey Book for Gay Men
by Andrew Ramer

The Spell of the Sensuous
by David Abram

Circle Work: Intuitive Technology, A Leader’s Guide
by Selah Martha

Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
by Inga Muscio

Erotic Massage for Healing and Pleasure
by Caffyn Jesse
https://www.amazon.com/Erotic-Massage-Healing-Pleasure-Pioneering-ebook

Full Exposure: Opening to Sexual Creativity and Erotic Expression
by Susie Bright

Kali Rising: Foundational Principles of Tantra for a Transforming Planet
by Rudolph Ballentine, M.D.

Radical Healing – Integrating the World’s Great Therapeutic Traditions to Create a New Transformational Medicine
by Rudolph Ballentine, M.D.

Red, Hot and Holy
by Sera Beak

Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
by Ester Perel

Science for Sexual Happiness: A Guide to Reclaiming Erotic Pleasure
by Caffyn Jesse

Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What it Means for Modern Relationship
by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha

Sex For One
by Betty Dodson

The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
by Dossie Easten and Catherine A. Liszt

Women’s Anatomy of Arousal
by Sherri Winston

Part 4 – Books That Have Been Or Will Be Featured In The Reading Our Leaves Book Club

Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman, 1855

What Is The Grass: Walt Whitman In My Life by Mark Doty, 2021

De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, 1905

The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

In Praise of Disobedience: The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Writings, 1891

The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women by Edward Carpenter, 1908

Days With Walt Whitman, With Some Notes On His Life and Work, 1905

Edward Carpenter: A Victorian Rebel Fighting for Gay Rights by Brian Anderson, 2021

Death In Venice by Thomas Mann, 1912

The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal, 1948

Palimpsest by Gore Vidal

One Arm and Other Stories by Tennessee Williams, 1948

Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis, 1955

Uncle Mame: The Life of Patrick Dennis by Eric Myers, 2001

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, 1956

Breakfast At Tiffany’s & Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote, 1958

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood, 1964

The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp, 1968

Maurice by E.M. Forster, 1971

The Best Little Boy In The World by Andrew Tobias, 1973

The Faggots And Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell, 1977

Dancer From The Dance by Andrew Halloran, 1978

Faggots by Larry Kramer, 1978

A Boy’s Own Story by Edmund White, 1982

My Lives by Edmund White

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by Edmund White

Farewell My Concubine by Lillian Lee, 1985

The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst, 1988

Angels In America by Tony Kushner, 1991

Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration by David Wojnarowicz, 1991

Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon, 2008

We The Animals by Justin Torres, 2011

Tango by Justin Vivian Bond, 2011

True Homosexual Experiences: Boyd McDonald and Straight To Hell by William E. Jones, 2016

Cruising The Movies: A Sexual Guide To Oldies On TV by Boyd McDonald

Since I Laid My Burden Down by Brontez Purnell, 2017

The Lost Autobiography of Samuel Steward: Recollections of an Extraordinary Twentieth-Century Gay Life, 2018

Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring, 2010

Faltas by Cecilia Gentili, 2022

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