Resources

Sexuality Education Books for Teens (age 13+)
Take a look yourself to see if you agree with the content- Everyone has their own preference!

• Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships, 3rd ed , Ruth Bell,1998 (13+) encyclopedic book-indexed for locating subjects
• How Can you Tell if you’re Really in Love? Sol Gordon, 2001 (14+)
• Salud: A Latina’s Guide to Total Health (Jane Delgado, PhD., 2002 (14+) *also in Spanish
• GLBTQ: The Survival Guide for Queer and Questioning Teens Kelly Huegel, 2003 (Free Spirit Press (14+)
• What Smart Teenagers Know…About Dating, Relationships and Sex, Deborah Hatchell, 2003 (16+)

GIRLS:

• Girl Talk: All the Stuff your Sister Never Told you, Carol Weston, 2004 4th ed. (age 11-18) honest answers to questions girls feel too awkward to ask
• Girl Stuff: a Survival Guide to Growing up, Margaret Blackstone, Elissa H Guest, 2006 (age 11-16)

BOYS:

• The Guy Book: an Owner’s Manual, Mavis Jukes, 2002 (13+)

Explicit and medically accurate on-line resources for ages 15+

• Go Ask Alice
  Columbia University’s Health Education Program, with searchable database
• Sex, Etc.
  A site by teens for teens. From Rutgers University
• Advocates for Youth
  Improving sexual health and awareness
• I Wanna Know
  About STI’s from American Sexual Health Association
• Birds and Bees
  All about preventing unplanned pregnancy from Pro-Choice Resources
• Teenwire
  Sexuality and relationship information from Planned Parenthood
• Sexetc.org
• Scarleteen.com
• Teenwire.com
• Goaskalice.columbia.edu
• Iwannaknow.org
• Itsyoursexlife.com
• Teencentral.net
• Advocatesforyouth.org
• ScenariosUSA.com
• Stayteen.org
• RHrealitycheck.org
• HIVinsite.ucsf.edu