Jaime M. Grant

Jaime M. Grant, PhD is an activist, researcher, and coach with 30+ years of experience in women’s and LGBTQ+ issues. Grant runs her popular workshop, Desire Mapping, on college campuses and at conferences around the world. She is author of Great Sex: Mapping Your Desire, Polyamory For Dummies, and Kink For Dummies and host of the Just Sex podcast (www.justsexpodcast.com).

Articles & Books From Jaime M. Grant

Kink For Dummies
An exciting, safe, and fun guide to a spicier side of sex. Kink For Dummies is a safe, positive, and easy-to-read roadmap to expanding (and exploring!) your sexual and personal horizons. It walks you through kink basics, shattering stigmas and myths as it goes, and explains how you can integrate these unique-to-you desires into your life using a mutual consent and respect framework.
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Cheat Sheet / Updated 10-06-2025
Despite its loud detractors, kink offers a widely cherished, compelling set of intimate and sexual practices that create ecstatic connections among its devotees. Kink For Dummies can help you figure out whether the desires you may be hiding or struggling with can be joyfully realized through kinky play and relationships.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 12-09-2024
Just as monogamy works for countless people, polyamory is a joyful and generative way to love and make family for many others. Polyamory literally means to love more.Like other forms of open relationships, polyamory involves having multiple lovers simultaneously. But polyamorous people often create deeper bonds than hooking up or friends-with-benefits arrangements.
Polyamory For Dummies
A clear breakdown of polyamory for beginners and the newly polyamorousPolyamory literally means “more love”. Twenty-first century polyamory is the practice of engaging in multiple intimate relationships at the same time, with the full consent of all partners. Polyamory For Dummies gives you the lowdown on this expansive form of consensual non-monogamy, so you can go forth and prosper in whatever ways you choose.
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