Book Awards

2023

AASECT Sexuality Book Award
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on our Sex-Obsessed Culture! by Sherronda J. Brown

AASECT Book Award for Children under 18 years old (audience focus)
Vaginas and Periods 101: A Pop-Up Book by Kristen Lilla and Christian Hoeger You Know, Sex by Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth

AASECT Book Award for Sexuality Professionals (professional focus)
Gender Trauma by Alex Iantaffi

AASECT Book Award for General Audience (audience focus)
Whole Body Sex by Melissa Walker

2022

AASECT Book Award for General Audience
Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives Edited by Bruce Owen Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini

AASECT Book Award for Sexuality Professionals:
Trans Sex by Lucie Fielding

AASECT Book Award for General Audience
Queering Your Therapy Practice by Julie Tilsen

AASECT Book Award for Children under 18 years old
Your Whole Body: From Your Head to Your Toes, and Everything in Between! By Lizzie DeYoung Charbenneau and Misha Iver (illustator)

2021

AASECT Book Award
The Leather Couch: Clinical Practice with Kinky Clients by Stefani Goerlich

AASECT Book Award for Sexuality Professionals – audience focus
Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy by Kathryn Hall & Irv Binik

AASECT Book Award for General Audience – audience focus
The Consent Guidebook by Erin Tillman

AASECT Book Award for Children under 18 years old – audience focus
The Every Body Book: The LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids About Sex, Gender, Bodies & Families by Rachel Simon

AASECT Past Book Awards

(2020) Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You 1st Edition by Kathryn Gonzales, MBA and Karen Rayne, PhD

(2019) Richard Siegel, PhD, LMHC, CST, CSTS & James Wadley, PhD, CST, CSTS for The Art of Sex Therapy Supervision

(2018) Zoe D. Peterson, PhD for The Wiley Handbook for Sex Therapy

(2017) Gerald Weeks, PhD, ABPP, CST, CSTS; Nancy Gambescia, PhD, RN, CST, CSTS & Katherine Hertlein, PhD for A Clinician's Guide to Systemic Sex Therapy

(2016) Eli Green, PhD, CSE & Luca Maurer, MS, CSE, CSC, CSES for The Teaching Transgender Toolkit: A Facilitator's Guide to Increasing Knowledge, Decreasing Prejudice and Building Skills

(2016) Linda Gromko, MD for Where's MY Book? A Guide to Transgender and Genger Non-Conforming Youth, Their Parents and Everyone Else

(2015) Carl Frankel, JD for Secrets of the Sex Masters

(2015) Alexandra Katehakis, MFT, CST, CSSP & Tom Bliss for Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

(2014) Gina Ogden, PhD, LMFT, DST, CSSP, DST for Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy: An Integrative Model for Exploring Desire and Intimacy

(2013) Peggy J. Kleinplatz, PhD, CSE, DST, CSSP for New Directions in Sex Therapy: Innovations and Alternatives, 2nd Edition

(2013) Bill Taverner, MA, CSE; Susan Milstein, PhD, CSE, MCHES; Sue Montfort, MAT, CHES for Teaching Safer Sex, 3rd edition