sex and health

Come As You Are: Revised and Updated

The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life

By: Emily Nagoski
Narrated by: Emily Nagoski
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

A revised and updated edition of Emily Nagoski’s game-changing New York Times bestseller Come As You Are, featuring new information and research on mindfulness, desire, and pleasure that will radically transform your sex life.

For much of the 20th and 21st centuries, women’s sexuality was an uncharted territory in science, studied far less... Read more

Pussy

By: Regena Thomashauer
Narrated by: Regena Thomashauer
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

"Required reading for every woman who longs to step into her power and live with pleasure and purpose." - Kris Carr, New York Times best-selling author Author, educator, and School of Womanly Arts founder Regena Thomashauer has been working with women for the past 25 years, and what began as just a few women in her living room has since grown... Read more

Essential Labor

Mothering as Social Change

By: Angela Garbes
Narrated by: Angela Garbes
Length: 6 hours 21 minutes

From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change.The Covid-19 pandemic shed fresh light on a long-overlooked truth: mothering is among the only essential work humans do. In response to the increasing weight placed on mothers and... Read more

Like a Mother

A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

By: Angela Garbes
Narrated by: Roxana Ortega & Angela Garbes
Length: 7 hours

What to read after What to Expect . . . .  A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes in their lives.Like most first-time mothers, Angela... Read more

Pussypedia

A Comprehensive Guide

By: Zoe Mendelson
Narrated by: Mercedes White, Zoe Mendelson, Maria Conejo & Heather Corinna
Length: 11 hours 29 minutes

Written by the creators of the popular website, this accessible, and fully illustrated guide is “a hilarious, ridiculously informative and absolutely necessary atlas for people with pussies” (Roxanne Gay).

There is a shocking lack of accurate, accessible information about pussies out there. If the clitoris and penis are the same size on average,... Read more

What Fresh Hell Is This?

Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You

By: Heather Corinna
Narrated by: Heather Corinna & Aria Baci
Length: 12 hours 21 minutes

What to Expect When You’re Not Expected to Expect Anything Anymore
 
Did you see the title and flame-filled cover of this book, and did your weary, sweaty, confused, and exasperated soul scream, That one! That is the book for me!!? If so, I’d first like to extend my deepest sympathies, an ice pack, and some of these very helpful edibles. If it’s... Read more

The Menopause Manifesto

Own Your Health With Facts and Feminism

By: Dr. Jen Gunter
Narrated by: Jen Gunter
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

The only thing predictable about menopause is its unpredictability. Factor in widespread misinformation, a lack of research, and the culture of shame around women's bodies, and it's no wonder women are unsure what to expect during the menopause transition and beyond.



Menopause is not a disease—it's a planned change, like puberty. And just like... Read more

The Vagina Bible

The Vulva and the Vagina-Separating the Myth from the Medicine

By: Jen Gunter, MD
Narrated by: Jen Gunter
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

Does eating sugar cause yeast infections?



Does pubic hair have a function?



Should you have a vulvovaginal care regimen?



Will your vagina shrivel up if you go without sex?



What's the truth about the HPV vaccine?



So many important questions, so much confusing, contradictory misinformation! In this age of click bait, pseudoscience, and... Read more

Period Repair Manual

Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods, 2nd edition

By: Lara Briden, ND
Narrated by: Norah Tocci
Length: 11 hours 58 minutes

Period Repair Manual is your guide to better periods using natural treatments such as diet, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, and bioidentical hormones. It contains advice and tips for women of every age and situation. If you have a period (or want a period), then this book is for you.



Topics include:



● How to come off hormonal birth... Read more

Give Birth Like a Feminist

By: Milli Hill
Narrated by: Milli Hill
Length: 9 hours 9 minutes

As featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live Selected as one of the Independent’s 10 best pregnancy books for expectant parents Birth is a feminist issue. It’s the feminist issue nobody’s talking about. For too long... Read more

Why Did No One Tell Me This?

The Doulas' (Honest) Guide for Expectant Parents

By: Natalia Hailes & Ash Spivak
Narrated by: Jillian Yetter
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes

Full of honest advice and inclusive options, Why Did No One Tell Me This? is the funny, personality-filled, illustrated guide to pregnancy, birth, and beyond that modern parents have been waiting for.
Pregnancy and childbirth are full of big questions -- what if my baby is enormous? Will my water break naturally? What even goes into a 'birth... Read more

Getting It

A Guide to Hot, Healthy Hookups and Shame-Free Sex

By: Allison Moon
Narrated by: Allison Moon & Reid Mihalko
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

An empowering guide to casual sex and hooking up from sex educator and Girl Sex 101 author Allison Moon.

A comprehensive and fun-to-listen guidebook for people of all sexual identities and experience levels, Getting It covers all the bases of hook-up culture from first moves and sex etiquette to navigating nonmonogamy and sexual health. In an era... Read more

Been There, Done That

A Rousing History of Sex

By: Rachel Feltman
Narrated by: Rachel Feltman
Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

A rollicking, myth-busting history of sex that moves from historical attempts at birth control to Hildegard von Bingen’s treatise on the female orgasm, demystifying plenty of urban legends along the way.

Roman physicians told female patients they should sneeze out as much semen as possible after intercourse to avoid pregnancy. Historical... Read more

"You Just Need to Lose Weight"

And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Myths Made in America: Book #13

By: Aubrey Gordon
Narrated by: Aubrey Gordon
Length: 7 hours 10 minutes

“I am so onboard with everything about this book, and I wish everyone would read it. It has been impeccably researched, yet is presented in an incredibly approachable volume. Fat activist Aubrey Gordon discusses things like the intersections of fatness and desirability politics and why 'fatphobia' isn’t the best word to describe the oppression of... Read more

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

By: Aubrey Gordon
Narrated by: Samara Naeymi
Length: 7 hours 21 minutes

From the creator of Your Fat Friend and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people.

Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied... Read more

Inflamed

Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice

By: Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
Narrated by: Raj Patel & Rupa Marya
Length: 13 hours 32 minutes

This program is read by the authors.

Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world.

The Covid... Read more

Period

The Real Story of Menstruation

By: Kate Clancy
Narrated by: Kate Clancy
Length: 8 hours

This audiobook narrated by Kate Clancy shares a bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual's period as useless and some... Read more

Belly of the Beast

The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

By: Da'Shaun L. Harrison
Narrated by: Da'Shaun L. Harrison
Length: 3 hours 29 minutes

**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction**
Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing.

To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for... Read more

The Myth of Normal

Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté, MD & Daniel Maté
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

“A must read for fans of The Body Keeps the Scoreand anyone interested in the science and literature of trauma (should be us all!), The Myth of Normal is a moving, groundbreaking, and holistic exploration of just how sick 'normal' is, the connection between the mind, personality, experiences, culture and the body, and ways to move forward and... Read more

Come Together

The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

By: Emily Nagoski, PhD
Narrated by: Emily Nagoski, PhD
Length: 12 hours 1 minute

From the New York Times bestselling author of Come as You Are and co-author of Burnout comes an illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship.

“Emily Nagoski is a national treasure—helping us all understand how to finally build true, joyful, confident sex lives.”—Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed

In Come... Read more