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Table of Contents:

• Alfred Kinsey / Vern L. Bullough
• Masters and Johnson / Vern L. Bullough
• The social organization of sexuality / Edward O. Laumann ... [et al.]
• Sex among the Americans / Joseph Adelson
• Origins of mating behavior / David M. Buss
• Human sexual development / John D. DeLamater and William N. Friedrich
• Current religious doctrines of sexual and erotic development in childhood / Robert T. Francoeur
• Early childhood exposure to parental nudity and scenes of parental sexuality / Paul Okami ... [et al.]
• Forbidden fruit / Mark D. Regnerus
• Negotiations of first sexual intercourse among Latina adolescent mothers / Pamela I. Erickson
• Sexual attitudes and behavior at four universities / J. Kenneth Davidson, Sr. ... [et al.]
• Hooking up / Kathleen A. Bogle
• Virginity lost / Laura M. Carpenter
• Communicating with new sex partners / Nelwyn B. Moore and J. Kenneth Davidson, Sr.
• What turns women on? / Katrenia Y. Reed Hughes and Veanne N. Anderson
• Premarital sex, premarital cohabitation and the risk of subsequent marital dissolution among women / Jay Teachman
• Passionate marriage / David M. Schnarch
• Physical women, emotional men / Laura M. Carpenter, Constance A. Nathanson and Young J. Kim
• Sexual behavior in later life / John DeLamater and Sarah M. Moorman
• The new virility / Barbara L. Marshall

• Race, gender and class in sexual scripts / Jenna Mahay, Edward O. Laumann and Stuart Michaels
• Sexual desire and gender / Pepper Schwartz and Virginia E. Rutter
• Venus in furs / Natalie Angier
• Truth and consequences / Michele G. Alexander and Terri D. Fisher
• Sexuality in marriage, dating and other relationships / F. Scott Christopher and Susan Sprecher
• Web of love / Helen Fisher
• The close relationships of lesbians and gay men / Letitia Anne Peplau and Adam W. Fingerhut
• Adult attachment, sexual satisfaction and relationship satisfaction / Bethany Butzer and Lorne Campbell
• Human sexual orientation has a heritable component / Richard C. Pillard and J. Michael Bailey
• Why we cannot conclude that sexual orientation is primarily a biological phenomenon / William M. Byne
• Do parents influence the sexual orientation of their children / Susan E. Golombek and Fiona L. Tasker
• Using queer theory to explore lesbian college students' multiple dimensions of identity / Elisa S. Abes and David Kasch
• Female bisexuality from adolescence to adulthood / Lisa M. Diamond
• Asexuality / Nicole Prause and Cynthia A. Graham
• Silence speaks volumes / Janna L. Kim and L. Monique Ward
• Condom use with a casual partner / Antonia Abbey ... [et al.]
• HIV/AIDS protective factors among urban American Indian youths / Flavio F. Marsiglia, Tanya Nieri and Arlene Rubin Stiffman
• Damaged goods / Adina Nack
• Depression and sexual functioning in minority women / Roseanne D. Dobkin ... [et al.]
• The relationship between childhood sexual abuse and adult mental health among undergraduates / M. Scott Young ... [et al.]
• Conceptualizing the wantedness of women's consensual and nonconsensual sexual experiences / Zoe D. Peterson and Charlene L. Muehlenhard
• Tactics of sexual coercion / Cindy J. Struckman-Johnson, David L.Struckman-Johnson and Peter B. Anderson
• Heterosexual fronteras / Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez
• Effects of cybersex addiction on the family / Jennifer P. Schneider
• Naked capitalists / Frank Rich
• Temporarily yours / Elizabeth Bernstein
• Community / Judity Levine
• Sex education and the news / Felicia E. Mebane, Eileen A. Yam and Barbara K. Rimer
• Finding a match / Terrance D. Olson.

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Contributors:

Moore, Nelwyn B.

Davidson, J. Kenneth

Fisher, Terri D.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Sex

Sex (Psychology)

Sexual health

Interpersonal relations

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 663 pages ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

HQ21 .S6244 2010

ISBNs:

9780195389494 (alk. paper)
0195389492 (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2009002632

OCLC Numbers:

300463013