Notable Alumni
Meet Some of Our Most Notable Somatica Alumni – Movers, Shakers, and Influencers Striving to Make the World a Better, Sexier Place – One Day at a Time.
Books by Our Alumni
Smart Sex: How to Boost Your Sex IQ and Own Your Pleasure
By Emily Morse
Smart Sex by Dr. Emily Morse is an inclusive, practical guide to improving pleasure, communication, and sexual confidence. Looking at both research and her experience as a sex educator, Morse offers tools for understanding desire, overcoming sexual blocks, communicating more openly with partners, experiencing more satisfying orgasms, and becoming a more attentive and collaborative lover.
The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure: Erotic Exploration for Men and Their Partners
By Charlie Glickman
The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure by Charlie Glickman, Ph.D., and Aislinn Emirzian is an accessible, sex-positive guide to exploring the prostate as a source of pleasure. Written for both beginners and those already experienced with prostate play, it offers practical guidance, reassurance, and encouragement for men and their partners who want to expand their sexual possibilities.
Living An Orgasmic Life: Heal Yourself and Awaken Your Pleasure
By Xanet Pailet
Living an Orgasmic Life by Xanet Pailet is a practical guide for women who want to heal their relationship with sex and reconnect with their sexuality. Drawing on her work as an intimacy coach, Pailet explores how shame, trauma, body image, and fears of intimacy can interfere with desire and pleasure, and offers tools for rebuilding sexual confidence, reigniting libido, and creating a more fulfilling intimate life.
The Sex & Intimacy Repair Kit: How to Enhance Communication and Create a Lifetime of Passionate Intimacy
By Xanet Pailet
The Sex & Intimacy Repair Kit by Xanet Pailet helps couples repair emotional distance, improve communication, and rekindle sexual connection. Using real coaching examples, exercises, and intimacy practices, Pailet guides partners in rebuilding trust, discussing sex more openly, understanding erotic styles, and creating greater pleasure, authenticity, connection, and lasting passion.
Shameless Sex: Choose Your Own Pleasure Path to Unlock the Sex Life You’ve Been Waiting For
By Amy Baldwin and April Lampert
Shameless Sex by Amy Baldwin and April Lampert is an inclusive guide to understanding your desires and creating a more exciting sex life. Answering real questions from their popular podcast and sharing insights from hundreds of sexuality experts, the authors offer tools for communicating what you want, becoming a better lover, deepening sexual and emotional connection, and navigating sex after trauma or physical changes.
Desire Makes Me Brave
By April Hirschman
Desire Makes Me Brave by April Hirschman is a candid memoir of bisexual awakening, erotic exploration, and the search for lasting love. Blending sex memoir, romance, and travel, Hirschman traces her experiences across relationships, cultures, and sexual communities while exploring the tension between her desire for stability and her longing for novelty, freedom, and adventure.
Best Breakup Ever!: Bouncing back from your breakup with humor and dignity
By April Hirschman
Best Breakup Ever! by April Hirschman is a humorous, compassionate guide to healing after heartbreak. Bringing in tools from her work as a life coach and her wisdom as a tarot reader, Hirschman combines practical tools, unconventional exercises, and playful ideas to help readers regain a sense of perspective and rebuild confidence with dignity, resilience, and hope.
The Pleasure Protocol: A Contemporary Guide to BDSM
By Shelby Devlin
The Pleasure Protocol by Shelby M. Devlin, M.A., is a no-nonsense, accessible guide to exploring BDSM with confidence, skill, and care. Through the lens of more than two decades of experience, Devlin offers guidance on power exchange, boundaries, consent, safety, scene-building, aftercare, and hands-on BDSM practices, helping both beginners and experienced readers create deeper trust, intimacy, and pleasure.
Buying Love in India
By Aili Seghetti
Buying Love in India explores how India’s digital dating revolution is reshaping love, sex, masculinity, and intimacy. By exploring real client cases, Aili Seghetti humanizes and deconstructs men navigating paid relationships, open marriage, consent, loneliness, and changing expectations. The book examines desire, shame, patriarchy, and abuse while arguing that genuine intimacy ultimately depends on empathy, emotional connection, and communication.
The House with No Mirrors
By Tania Choi
The House With No Mirrors argues that the Self develops through being seen and understood in childhood. When that reflection is missing, children adapt to preserve connection, becoming achievers, caretakers, truth-tellers, invisible, or accommodating. Tania Choi calls these patterns the Mirror Children and explores how they obscure the Self, and how Relational Repair can help it reemerge.