The Summer Solstice
Resource List

The gold standard for accessible, shame-free sex education. Emily meets you where you are and brings clinical knowledge without clinical distance. Start anywhere — the back catalog is a treasure.

Intimate, thoughtful, and deeply human. Shan holds conversations about love and desire the way a good therapist holds space — with curiosity and without agenda.

Pleasure as a practice, a framework, and a right. Dr. Kennedy brings rigor and warmth in equal measure — exactly the energy this brand was built on.

Foundational. Ogden centers women's erotic experience not as a problem to solve but as a wholeness to inhabit. Required reading for anyone building a relationship with their own desire.

Mindfulness and sexuality woven together in a way that actually makes sense. Graham makes the case that presence is the most erotic thing you can bring to any encounter.

Ancient Taoist wisdom meets modern anatomy. A serious, body-forward exploration of female sexual energy and what becomes possible when you actually understand your own body.

On loving without fear and relating without losing yourself. The erotic life is impossible without this kind of clarity about how we love and why.

The body is the first erotic site. Pilates as a practice of returning to and inhabiting yourself — precision, breath, and the profound aliveness of a body that is known and tended to.

Slowness as erotic practice. Tai chi as a way of cultivating presence, flow, and an intimate relationship with your own energy — which is exactly what fostering eroticism asks of us.

The senses are the doorway. The relationship between scent, memory, and desire is one of the most underexplored erotic territories there is.

A guided exploration of eroticism across the human lifespan — from the embodied curiosity of childhood through the deepening wisdom of elderhood. How desire evolves, what each stage asks of us, and why understanding our developmental history is one of the most erotic things we can do.