Welcome to Sex

Every household needs a copy of Welcome to Sex, the multi-award-winning, #1 best-selling, age-appropriate guide to sex and sexuality for teens of all genders, from the authors of Welcome to Your Period, Welcome to Consent and Welcome to Your Boobs!

★WINNER: 2024 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year for Young Adults ★
★WINNER: 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for Older Children ★
★SHORTLISTED: 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Young Adult Literature ★
★SHORTLISTED: 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards Social Impact Book of the Year ★
★SHORTLISTED: 2024 Australian Book Industry Awards Audiobook of the Year ★
★SHORTLISTED: 2024 BookPeople Book of the Year ★

This introductory guide by 'Dolly Doctor' Dr Melissa Kang and journalist Yumi Stynes (Ladies, We Need to Talk) is packed with honest advice on everything you need to know about sex: how to know when you're ready, reasons not to have sex, and exploring pleasure on your own – as well as frank, clear information about becoming sexually intimate with others, staying safe, and how to communicate (including talking to your parents about sex – this is really important). Plus everything you've ever wondered about wobbly starts and awkward moments!

Welcome to Sex is inclusive, intersectional, multicultural, reassuring and all about keeping sex fun, real, and shame-free. With plenty of case studies, first-person accounts and questions from real teens – covering a wide range of gender, sexuality and dis/ability – Welcome to Sex will help readers navigate their sexual debuts with confidence!

• 'An informative, entertaining, and potentially life-saving book that should find a place in every home.' –Prime Minister's Literary Awards
• ‘It’s a glorious thing that a book like this exists.’ –Pedestrian
• 'A brilliant and accessible book … Sexual abusers and predators [rely] on shame to silence [their targets]. The more information we can give children and teenagers about their bodies, [the] better.’ –The Age

Welcome to Sex covers a wide range of age-appropriate content for teens, including:

• What Is Sex? 
• Parents and Carers and Awkward Conversations 
• Getting Intimate With Myself 
• Orgasms 
• Labels: Sexual And Gender Identities 
• What The Outside World Is Telling Us About Sex 
• Myths About Sex 
• Reasons To Not Have Sex 
• How It Begins: Feelings, Flirting And Falling In Love 
• What Can Actually Happen With Another Person? 
• Wobbly Starts 
• Relationships 
• Looking After Myself And My Partner 
• Pregnancy Lowdown 
• Awkward Sex Moments And Other Challenges 
• Is Something Wrong? 
• Keeping Safe