Sex, Explained
2025The shortest crash course on the science this industry should already know. The fantasies episode made me think harder about who's actually being designed for.
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Library.
What I'm reading, have watched, and queuing next — the references that shape how I think about bodies, products, and who gets left out of the brief.
Wordslut — Amanda Montell
2026The way we talk about women's bodies isn't accidental — it's an inheritance. Useful for anyone designing products where every label and instruction carries that history.
Currently reading — external
The Right to Sex — Amia Srinivasan
2025The essay collection I'd hand to anyone who thinks women's sexuality is a simple subject. Refuses easy answers where they're usually demanded.
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The Feminist Porn Book — Tristan Taormino et al.
2025People inside an industry usually have sharper analysis than outsiders. Changed how I listen to customers and who gets to define "good" in this space.
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Want — Gillian Anderson (ed.)
2025Hundreds of anonymous women on what they actually want. The closest thing to register conversations at work — except without the small talk.
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The Principles of Pleasure
2026The orgasm gap, research neglect, and cultural shame named plainly on screen. Also: the clitoris wasn't fully anatomically understood until 2005; the full nerve network wasn't mapped until 2026.
Watched — external
The Pink Pill
2025How medicine spent decades engineering female desire from the wrong end. A case study in skipping user research and going straight to the molecule.
Watched — external
Invisible Women — Caroline Criado Perez
2026Queued — required reading for anyone designing for, or near, the female body.
Reading next — external
Come As You Are — Emily Nagoski
2026Queued — the science of arousal and desire, told without the shame this category usually wraps around it.
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