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Trina Read

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Best selling author and Canadian Sexologist, Dr. Trina Read, wrote the award winning self-help-fiction "The Sex Course" that went to #1 in it's Amazon category three days after launch. As well as the award-winning companion workbook "Sex Boot Camp."

Dr. Trina's funny, sharp and observant writing style pulls the curtain back on the way sex really is: complicated, messy but also something that brings us closer.

She is a proud mom of two teen boys, the Sensational Sex Podcast co-host, a go-to media expert, magazine columnist, spokeswoman and award winning, international speaker.
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Trina Read I get to write the sex scenes I want to read. And I sincerely hope women get to see themselves and feel normal when they read my sex scenes.

For twenty…more
I get to write the sex scenes I want to read. And I sincerely hope women get to see themselves and feel normal when they read my sex scenes.

For twenty five years, every time I read or watched a sex scene where the moment a penis enters a vagina, and the woman explodes into a rapturous orgasm--I shake my head, cringe, and want to set the record straight.

Too many times my poor husband (who wants to watch the show) has to listen to my (unasked for) commentary. "It must be a male director doing a male-centric sex scene, perpetuating a toxic sex myth. Doesn't he understand this gives unrealistic expectations and sets women up for failure!??!"

The Sex Course was my way of pulling back the curtain on the reality of sex. It's messy and complicated but it also can bring us a lot of pleasure and joy. I especially enjoyed writing Amy, who is my sex-positive character, sex scenes. It shows women what sex can be.

What surprised me the most was how tricky it is to write a sex scene. Describing body parts, how they move, what a person is feeling and why, is complicated. I thought being a Sexologist would make it easier but, somehow, it made it more difficult.(less)
Trina Read I'm (scrambling) to finish Sex Boot Camp, which is the workbook companion to The Sex Course. It's for women who want to do the five-step course while …moreI'm (scrambling) to finish Sex Boot Camp, which is the workbook companion to The Sex Course. It's for women who want to do the five-step course while she reads The Sex Course.

I'm also working on the second draft of The Sex Show. (Hint: Are you an ARC or BETA reader? Let me know.) It is book #2 of this trilogy, where the four women go to The Taboo Sex show--which is a (real) all-about-sex trade show. Each character learns something about herself at the show which helps deepen her sexual self-esteem.(less)
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