With compassion, humour, erudition and a touch of the erotic, Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele shine a light through the darkness and unmask the monsters in this illustrated guide.
From sexual identities to having sex, to desire, consent and relationships, we’ll explore the invention of sex as we know it and imagine sex as it could be.
Along the way, we’ll move past thinking of sex as meaning just one thing, defined by the genders of those doing it, instead making space for lots of different types of attraction, desire, relationship and act.
Paperback
Published: February 2021
This amazing book was created by Meg-John Barker, an absolute legend in LGBTQ+ activism, who has worked as an academic, a therapist, and now as a fulltime writer of accessible, insightful books about diversity in sexuality, gender, relationships and more. This book is one of a series of graphic guides to the history of key concepts in this area. This one looks at Sexuality, but the other two on Queer and Gender are also amazing. When you read these books, you really are getting a crash course in the history of all of the important people and movements and ideas that have brought us to where we are today. These books are written for anyone to read, but are respected by those working in sexuality research as covering all of the most important ideas. Such an incredible resource, and so easy to read in this format! Highly recommended.