Welcome to Sex

Name: Welcome to Sex
Brand: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing
SKU: 9781760509538
Price: 27.99 NZD
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Your no-silly-questions guide to sexuality, pleasure and figuring it out

By Yumi Stynes and Dr. Melissa Kang

Series: Welcome To You

3.5

( 86 ratings, 30 reviews)

Summary

Welcome to Sex by Yumi Stynes and Dr. Melissa Kang is an informative guide designed to educate teenagers about sex and relationships. It offers practical advice, demystifies myths, and promotes healthy attitudes towards sexual health and consent. This book aims to empower readers with knowledge and confidence as they navigate their sexual lives.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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You might like this book if you're looking for a straightforward, approachable guide to understanding sex and relationships. It provides clear, honest information that is both educational and empowering, perfect for those seeking to learn more about their bodies and sexuality in a respectful, inclusive manner.

Welcome to Sex

This introductory guide to sex and sexuality for readers who are 14+ is age-appropriate, frank, shame-free and fun. It will help young readers navigate their developing sexual debuts with confidence!

Description

Every household needs a copy of Welcome to Sex, the multi-award-winning, #1 best-selling, age-appropriate guide to sex and sexuality for teens of all genders, from the authors of Welcome to Your Period, Welcome to Consent, and Welcome to Your Boobs!

★WINNER: 2024 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year for Young Adults ★
★WINNER: 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for Older Children ★
★SHORTLISTED: 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Young Adult Literature ★
★SHORTLISTED: 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards Social Impact Book of the Year ★
★SHORTLISTED: 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards Audiobook of the Year ★
★SHORTLISTED: 2024 BookPeople Book of the Year ★

This essential guide by 'Dolly Doctor' Dr Melissa Kang and journalist Yumi Stynes (Ladies, We Need to Talk) offers honest, relatable advice aimed at helping teens navigate the intricate and often overwhelming questions regarding sex and sexuality. Loaded with practical insights, Welcome to Sex delves into topics ranging from identifying when you're ready for sex, understanding the importance of consent, and reasons to abstain, to exploring personal pleasure and dealing with awkward moments.

Welcome to Sex is all about fostering open and meaningful conversations, offering clear, candid information about becoming sexually intimate, maintaining safety, and effectively communicating about sex—including how to talk to your parents about it. The book is designed to dispel myths and remove the stigma often associated with these discussions, ensuring that teens can make informed decisions without shame.

Emphasising inclusivity, intersectionality, and multicultural perspectives, this guide is a reassuring resource that celebrates keeping sex fun, real, and shame-free. With a wealth of case studies, first-person accounts, and real questions from teens covering a broad spectrum of gender, sexuality, and ability, Welcome to Sex empowers its readers to approach their sexual development with confidence and understanding.

Critically acclaimed and impactful, the book has received numerous awards and accolades for its contribution to young adult literature and social impact:

'An informative, entertaining, and potentially life-saving book that should find a place in every home.' – Prime Minister's Literary Awards
‘It’s a glorious thing that a book like this exists.’ – Pedestrian
'A brilliant and accessible book … Sexual abusers and predators [rely] on shame to silence [their targets]. The more information we can give children and teenagers about their bodies, [the] better.’ – The Age

Welcome to Sex covers an extensive range of age-appropriate content for teens, including:

What Is Sex?
Parents and Carers and Awkward Conversations
Getting Intimate With Myself
Orgasms
Labels: Sexual and Gender Identities
What The Outside World Is Telling Us About Sex
Myths About Sex
Reasons To Not Have Sex
How It Begins: Feelings, Flirting And Falling In Love
What Can Actually Happen With Another Person?
Wobbly Starts
Relationships
Looking After Myself And My Partner
Pregnancy Lowdown
Awkward Sex Moments And Other Challenges
Is Something Wrong?
Keeping Safe

Read more in the multi-award-winning Welcome To series by Dr Melissa Kang and Yumi Stynes:

Welcome to Your Period: Your easy, no-silly-questions guide to handling it like a boss
Welcome to Your Boobs: Your easy, no-silly-questions guide to your breast friends
Welcome to Consent: How to say no, when to say yes and everything in between
Welcome to Sex: Your no-silly-questions guide to sexuality, pleasure and figuring it out

Series: Welcome To You

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Welcome to Sex

By Yumi Stynes and Dr. Melissa Kang

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$27⁹⁹

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Welcome to Consent

By Yumi Stynes and Dr. Melissa Kang

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Welcome to Sex is praised for its fearless and comprehensive approach to sex education for young people, offering inclusive language and content for all sexual orientations, identities, and cultures. The book is noted for its warm, friendly, and approachable tone. It is highly recommended as an essential resource for homes with teenagers, providing better education than most traditional means. The book's accessible information is seen as vital for young people to understand their bodies and form healthy relationships, and it has garnered significant acclaim and success in sales.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781760509538

Publisher: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 May 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Hardie Grant Children's Publishing

Edition: First Edition, Paperback

Illustration: Full Colour

Contributors:

Illustrated by Jenny Latham

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 180.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 304

Collections

Dr. Melissa Kang Fiction LGBTQ+ Series: Welcome To You Young Adult Yumi Stynes

About the Author

Dr Melissa Kang and Yumi Stynes are the best-selling, award-winning authors of four books together: Welcome to Your Period, Welcome to Your Boobs, Welcome to Consent and Welcome to Sex.

Most people know Dr Melissa Kang as the longest-serving expert behind the iconic Dolly Doctor column, but she’s also a practising medical doctor for marginalised young people and has academic roles at the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Sydney. She is fifth-generation Malaysian-Chinese Anglo-Australian, which makes specialising in adolescent sexuality and sexual health all the more interesting. She continues to speak about these topics in the mainstream media.

Yumi Stynes is a second-gen Japanese-Australian TV and radio presenter who, like a lot of us, had to ‘unlearn’ period shame. She’s currently the host of Ladies, We Need to Talk, an award-winning podcast that explores all the trickiest topics and taboos about women’s health, including periods, discharge, difficult motherhood, and whether or not your vagina is weird.