Curated by Jane Borges, Heena Khandelwal, Nidhi Lodaya and Yusra Husain

This book is the kind you would be leaving around your home for teenagers to find, if we didn’t live in a time when they are Googling every question already. Nonetheless, The Sex Book: The Joyful Journey of Self-discovery by Leeza Mangaldas (HarperCollins, Rs 399) is a comprehensive and non-judgemental book on the subject: It covers anatomy (and addresses questions about seeming irregularities), disorders and diseases, types of sexuality, the act itself and its variations, and the morality and ethics of consent, monogamy, polyandry, and pleasure and its implements. The book is essentially a compilation of her posts and interactions on social media. The subjects are covered through definitions, as in a textbook, and in the form of questions (a bit racier than what would be allowed to a sex expert in a newspaper). There is explanation about sexual slang and terms, and demystification about position. It’s advice from your non-binary gay biology teacher with a PhD in Kamasutra, but with the dry vocabulary of science. While all of this information is undoubtedly out there, to have it methodically arranged and addressed makes all the difference. It came out last month and ideally, should be on the shelves of school libraries or on their curriculum. 
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