Here's what some very groovy women say about Dr. Trina's books.
Host on The Social & author of Find Your Pleasure
Praise for The Sex Course:
As a long-time supporter of women's sexual pleasure, I look forward to diving into The Sex Course.
Praise for Till Sex Do Us Part:
A must read for couples who want to kick start a lackluster sex life. Dr. Trina's book shows why your sex and intimacy went flat, how to get it back on track, plus what to do to make sex fabulous.
Author, Becoming Cliterate & A Tired Woman's Guide To Passionate Sex
Praise for You. Me. Bed. NOW!
You. Me. Bed. NOW! will turn sex from a chore you feel obligated to do into something you feel comfortable and confident to engage in.
The Taboo Show is a sexy, funny, deeply human novel about four real women — messy, smart, hilarious, complicated — who attend a sex show together and discover that the most taboo thing of all isn't anything on the trade show floor.
It's wanting more.
It's actually saying so.
Dr. Trina Read — Sexologist, bestselling author, and the woman who started the conversation your book club has been too polite to have — has crafted a story that's part fiction, part fiction, part self-help to every woman who's ever wanted more.
The Taboo Show is the sequel of The Sex Course. You don't have to read the first book to fall in love with this one. (But you will want to after.)
"Dr. Trina is your best, funniest friend telling a story that's bracingly honest, sexy, heartbreaking, fearless, and provocative. It's the conversations you're too afraid to have, but need to hear."
"Yes, The Taboo Show is hilarious, but each character's sexual challenges are real, serious, and complex. Dr. Trina brings depth to self-help-fiction, and I was rooting for the four characters."
"A brave, unflinching look inside the messy reality of modern marriage and friendship."
The Taboo Show follows four best friends as they navigate one wild Sunday at the Taboo Sex Show. Each woman wants something she can't say out loud. Each one finds it in the most unexpected way.
Isabella is the woman who writes about sex … but can’t quite manage it in her marriage. A part-time columnist for Femme and a full-time mom, she showed up at the Taboo Sex Show in heels from another life, second-guessing herself, and seconds away from leaving.
But she didn’t.
She doesn’t want perfection. She doesn’t need fixing. She just wants her marriage to feel electric again. And for the first time, Isabella is questions: What if the problem isn’t her… but the way she’s been taught to see herself?
Claire is the smartest person in the room. The lawyer. The strategist. The woman who doesn’t leave things to chance. Since The Sex Course, something inside her cracked open. Now she’s in an in-between place, where she wants something different but can't say what she wants.
She came to the Taboo Sex Show with a plan, a purpose. But desire doesn’t follow logic. And relationships don’t respond to control.
Claire has to learn that real communication is awkward, emotional, and sometimes wildly inconvenient. And for a woman used to certainty, stepping into the unknown might be the most powerful move she’s ever made.
Jeanette never wanted to be here. A devoted Christian, she arrived at The Taboo Show arms crossed, eyes wide, and a firm "what am I doing here?" on repeat.
And yet she stayed.
Jeanette’s story isn’t about rebellion, it’s about reckoning. The slow, internal shift that happens when what you’ve been taught no longer matches what you feel.
It’s tender. It’s confronting. It’s deeply human. And it will break your heart open just enough to let something new in.
Amy is the reason they’re all here. Bold, charismatic, and unapologetically sex-positive, she lives by one rule: pleasure is your birthright. She talks about it. Teaches it. Embodies it. But when it comes to her own life?
Even Amy has her blind spots.
Beneath the confidence is a question she can’t avoid anymore: Why can't she be in a happy relationship? At the Taboo Sex Show, Amy isn’t leading the experience, she’s being pulled into it. What she discovers challenges everything she thought she already had figured out.
The Taboo Show is the book club pick that finally gets people talking. Not around the edges. Right into the middle of it.
Dr. Trina is available to join your book club — virtually — for a conversation that will be equal parts enlightening and unforgettable. Live Q&A with a Sexologist who has zero interest in making you feel awkward and every interest in helping you feel empowered.
Think: drag queens handing out programs. Pole dancing demonstrations. Tantric Sex seminars. Hundreds of vibrators. A sex swing display. A communication workshop run by the most stunning sexologist you've ever encountered. And four women trying to act completely casual about all of it.
The Taboo Show (the trade show inside the book) is exactly as chaotic, colorful, and surprisingly moving as it sounds. It's a world where every booth holds a mirror up to what you've been longing to explore — and what you've been quietly telling yourself you don't need.
Dr. Trina didn't just write a book set at a sex show. She wrote a book about what happens when women finally give themselves permission to be curious.
Dr. Trina Read has spent decades as a sexologist, speaker, and author doing the one thing most people avoid: starting the real conversation about sex, intimacy, and what women actually want.
Her previous book, Till Sex Do Us Part, was called "a must-read for couples" by international bestselling author Marian Keyes. It was praised by TV hosts, journalists, and couples therapists alike — because it was real.
The Sexy Universe series is her most ambitious project yet: fiction that reads like your best friend finally stopped holding back. Smart, warm, wickedly funny, and full of insights that will stay with you long after the last page.
Dr. Trina categorizes The Taboo Show as fiction that works like a self-help book — because the best stories don't just entertain. They change you.
Nope! The Taboo Show is written so that new readers can jump right in and feel completely at home with the characters. That said — once you meet Isabella, Claire, Jeanette, and Amy here, you'll want to go back and read where it all started. Consider it a gift to your future self.
The Taboo Show is available on Amazon, Kobo, Apple Books, and Smashwords. Grab your copy wherever you love to shop for books!
Dr. Trina calls it fiction that works like self-help — and that's exactly right. The story is completely fictional, but the insights are real. You will recognize yourself in these women. You will feel things. You will probably text someone a passage at midnight. That's the goal.
No — but it is sexy. The Taboo Show is women's fiction with a deeply sex-positive heart. Think: frank conversations about desire, real talk about what happens in long-term relationships, and characters who are figuring out their pleasure without shame. There's heat here, but the real heat is in the honesty.
This book was practically made for book clubs. The rotating POV chapters make it easy to pick a character and talk about her arc. Dr. Trina is available to join your club virtually or in person for a live Q&A. Reach out through the contact form on this page.
Completely. The Taboo Show doesn't shame. It doesn't judge. It doesn't tell you what to want or how to want it. It shows four very different women — with very different comfort levels, values, and starting points — finding their own way to more. Whatever "more" looks like for you is exactly right.
The Taboo Show is for the woman who's curious and finally giving herself permission. For the couple who loves each other and is ready to start really talking. For the book club that's been waiting for the right book to crack it all open.
For anyone who's ever thought, quietly, in the dark:
I want more. And I'm finally ready to say it.
Dr. Trina wrote this book for you. The women in it are you. And if you let them, they'll show you something true about yourself — wrapped in laughter, a little awkwardness, and a whole lot of heart.
Your permission slip awaits.
