My pick is Ruby Rare’s gorgeously pink book, Sex Ed: A Guide for Adults, illustrated beautifully by Sofie Birkin. Rare opens by telling us “I love having sex,” and this open, sex-positive joy is carried on through the rest of the book. The illustrations show us so many types of queer relationships, and the book is more than inclusive for every kind of body and identity that may be reading this. Something I love about Sex Ed: A Guide for Adults is that it gives actual tips about how to have good sex, which isn’t something you learn about in the pleasure-avoidant sex education most of us are familiar with. I learnt so much from reading this, and think it is a perfect example of a book showing healthy queer sex lives.
The illustrations show us so many types of queer relationships, and the book is more than inclusive for every kind of body and identity
I will also give a shout-out to the honourable mention of Flo Perry’s sex education book How To Have Feminist Sex. The book is equally silly, playful and informative, and I loved going through it with Perry’s amazing illustrations.