Intimacy Resources

Strengthening sexual health and body awareness talks within families with information that is honest, shame-free, inclusive, and empowering.

How does a baby begin? What makes a baby male or female? How is a baby born? Children have plenty of questions about reproduction and babies—and about sex and sexuality, too. It’s So Amazing! provides the answers—with fun, accurate, comic-book-style artwork and a clear, lively text that reflects the interests of children age seven and up in how things work, while giving them a healthy understanding of their bodies. Created by the author and illustrator of It’s Perfectly Normal, this forthright and funny book has been newly updated for its fifteenth anniversary.

Dr Tina joins Candice and Katie of Free Sex Podcast for a fun interview where they talk about ‘all things sex’ – sexual shame, masturbation in marriage, transactional sex, who is entitled to what, knowing what you want in the bedroom and many other topics.

This is a series of very informative videos on different consent scenarios

While the media has focused—often to sensational effect—on the rise of casual sex and the prevalence of rape on campus, in Girls & Sex Peggy Orenstein brings much more to the table. She examines the ways in which porn and all its sexual myths have seeped into young people’s lives; what it means to be the “perfect slut” and why many girls scorn virginity; the complicated terrain of hookup culture and the unfortunate realities surrounding assault. In Orenstein’s hands these issues are never reduced to simplistic truths; rather, her powerful reporting opens up a dialogue on a potent, often silent, subtext of American life today—giving readers comprehensive and in-depth information with which to understand, and navigate, this complicated new world.

Today Paula Stone Williams is a pastoral counselor and woman — but for the first 60 years of her life, Williams identified as male. After coming out as transgender in December 2012, Williams was swiftly fired from a position as an evangelical Christian leader. In this talk, she reflects about the male privilege she once had and how she's being treated now as a woman.

Negative and sexual media depictions of women are assailed by an array of prominent women, including Katie Couric, Jane Fonda, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Cal.), Margaret Cho, Lisa Ling, Rachel Maddow, former PBS president Pat Mitchell and Gloria Steinem, and several men, including Newark, N.J., mayor Cory Booker and California lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom, the husband of director Jennifer Siebel Newsom.

In Intimacy and Desire: Awaken the Passion in Your Relationship, Dr. Schnarch explains why couples in long term relationships have sexual desire problems, regardless of how much they love each other or how well they communicate. Through case studies of couples he worked with, Dr. Schnarch shows why normal marital conflict can be the cause of desire problems. He creates a road map for how you can transform marital conflict into a stronger relationship and a source of new and powerful desire for each other

Dr. Tina joins Jessa Zimmerman to discuss the profound impact of sexual shame. Here she reveals the first operational definition of sexual shame and how this is reinforced by our socio-political climate. She discusses an evidence based four-part model for reversing sexual shame and how clinicians can support their clients. She also discusses sex positive sacred mystic stories that can bolster the spiritual life of those clients that feel discouraged by the sex negative impact of sexual shame that came from traditional patriarchal Christian teachings.

Dr Tina joins Paula Stone Williams, Megan DeFranza, and Isaac Archuletta on stage in a panel discussion on how the Christian progressive church is in the midst of a 500 year shift that is opening up opportunities for both transformation and conflict and how this is affecting both sexual minority populations and progressive Christian populations.

Dr. Tina interviews Dr. Emily Nagoski on the state of sexual health in America today

Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.