While I wait for access to a 2013 article on pornography and women from my library, I thought I’d share with you a few of my favourite nonfiction books on sexuality, sociology, and the like. 
- Love in the Time of Algorithms by Dan Slater
- You get a great history of online dating, which has its electronic beginnings in the computers of the 60s, and, of course, before that in matchmaking and newspaper ads.
- The Dating Race: An Undercover Report from the Frontlines of Modern-Day Romance by Stacy Kravetz.
- This is a quick and fun book to read about 21st century romance, sharing the ins and outs of everything from online dating and speed dating to meeting matchmakers.
- Love: A History by Simon May
- Tracing over 2,500 years of human thought and history, May shows how our ideal of love developed from its Hebraic and Greek origins alongside Christianity until, during the last two centuries. May explores the very different philosophers and writers, both skeptics and believers, who dared to think differently.
- Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire by Jennifer Wright Knust.
- Knust addresses questions that pop up in debate regarding sex and the Bible, relying on critical scholarship, her own knowledge, and discusses misinterpretations and mistranslations. She covers political motives and historical contexts in which the Bible was written, translated, and interpreted over time.
- Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation by Simon LeVay
- This is an easy-to-read text in which a clear explanation of where our science is today, offering information on genetics, endocrinology, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, and family demographics. He discusses hormone manipulation during animal development that can cause same sex animals to mate preferentially, and also discusses homosexual behaviour among animals in the wild.
- Pleasure Bound: Victorian Sex Rebels and the New Eroticism by Deborah Lutz
- This piece of nonfiction regards the Victorians and the pre-Raphelites, and how they were the “hippies” of their generation–regarding gender and sex in different ways, as well as art. “These bohemians formed two loosely overlapping societies—the Cannibal Club and the Aesthetes—to explore their fascinations with sexual taboo, from homosexuality to the eroticization of death.”
Explicit Academics 