Reading About Sexual and Intimate Health: Where to Start
A guide to our Sexual & Intimate Health shelf — ten anthologies of first-person testimony, from low libido and sexual pain to recovery after prostate treatment.
March 5, 2026 · By The Editors, Healing Stories Network · 1 min read
No corner of health is discussed less honestly than this one. Sexual difficulties are nearly universal at some point in a life, yet each person meets them convinced they are alone — too embarrassed for the doctor, too private for friends. The fifty voices in each of these volumes decided the silence helped no one, and their frankness is itself a kind of medicine.
Here is the Sexual & Intimate Health shelf, mapped.
Desire and function
- Desire Returned: Women's Low Libido Stories
- Finding Pleasure: Orgasm Disorder Treatment Stories
- Implanted Confidence: Penile Implant Stories
- The Shot: O-Shot and P-Shot Stories
Pain and recovery
- Pain to Pleasure: Sexual Pain Recovery Stories
- Opening Up: Vaginismus Recovery Stories
- Floor Work: Pelvic PT Success Stories
- Renewed: Vaginal Rejuvenation Stories
After diagnosis and treatment
From the Reading Room
Companion pieces include an honest companion to ED and menopause and perimenopause.
The whole shelf lives in our Sexual & Intimate Health collection; related men's volumes are shelved under Men's Health.
These books are companion reading, not sexual-medicine advice. Most conditions on this shelf are common and treatable — a frank conversation with a clinician is usually the shortest road, and these voices may make it easier to start.
The Reading Room publishes personal stories and editorial notes from our press. Everything here is companion reading — never medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For guidance about your own health, please speak with a qualified clinician.