Speaking of Sexuality : Interdisciplinary Readings Book

* New to the Second Edition

Preface by Pepper Schwartz

Foreword by John D. DeLamater

Part I: Historical, Theoretical, and Research Perspectives on Sexuality

1: The Stalled Sexual Revolutions of This Century, Ira L. Reiss and Harriet M. Reiss

2: Alfred Kinsey, Vern L. Bullough

3: Masters and Johnson, Vern L. Bullough

4: Theoretical Backgrounds: The Social Organization of Sexuality, Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels

5: Sex Among the Americans, Joseph Adelson

6: Kiss and Tell: Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century, Julia A. Ericksen with Sally A. Steffen

*7: Sexuality in Marriage, Dating, and Other Relationships, F. Scott Christopher and Susan Sprecher

Part II: Sexuality and the Life Cycle: Childhood and Adolescence

*8: Human Sexual Development, John D. DeLamater and William N. Friedrich

9: Current Religious Doctrines of Sexual and Erotic Development in Childhood, Robert T. Francoeur

10: Early Childhood Exposure to Parental Nudity and Scenes of Parental Sexuality, Paul Okami, Richard Olmstead, Paul R. Abramson, and Laura Pendleton

11: Negotiation of First Sexual Intercourse Among Latina Adolescent Mothers, Pamela I. Erickson

Part III: Sexuality and the Life Cycle: Young Adulthood

12: College Virgins: How Men and Women Perceive Their Sexual Status, Susan Sprecher and Pamela C. Regan

*13: Communicating With New Sex Partners, Nelwyn B. Moore and J. Kenneth Davidson, Sr.

14: Sexual Infidelity Among Married and CohabitingAmericans, Judith Treas and Deirdre Giesen

15: Pretending Orgasm During Sexual Intercourse, Michael W. Wiederman

Part IV: Sexuality and the Life Cycle: Middle and Later Adulthood

16: Passionate Marriage, David M. Schnarch

*17: Race, Gender, and Class in Sexual Scripts, Jenna Mahay, Edward O. Laumann, and Stuart Michaels

*18: The Impact of Aging on Sexual Function in Women and Their Partners, Sheryl A. Kingsberg

19: Affection and Sexuality in the Presence of Alzheimer's Disease, Lore K. Wright

Part V: Sexual Desire and Gender

20: In the Garden of Tabloid Delight: Notes on Sex, Americans, Scandal, and Morality, Lewis H. Lapham

*21: Sexual Desire and Gender, Pepper Schwartz and Virginia E. Rutter

*22: Venus in Furs: Estrogen and Desire, Natalie Angier

23: Marital Style and Its Effects on Sexual Desire and Functioning, Barry W. McCarthy

24: Sexual Satisfaction and Sexual Drive in Spinal Cord Injured Women, Kimberly Black, Marca L. Sipski, and Susanne S. Strauss

Part VI: Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Abortion

*25: Having an Abortion Using Mifepristone and Home Misoprostol, Stephen L. Fielding, Emme Edmunds, and Eric A. Schaff

*26: Community: Risk, Identity, and Love in the Age of AIDS, Judith Levine

27: Predominant Risk Factors for Genital Papillomavirus Infection, Robert D. Burk, Gloria Y. F. Ho, Leah Beardsley, Michele Lempa, Michael Peters, and Robert Bierman

Part VII: Sexual Orientation

28: Human Sexual Orientation Has a Heritable Component, Richard C. Pillard and J. Michael Bailey

29: Why We Cannot Conclude Sexual Orientation Is a Biological Phenomenon, William M. Byne

30: Do Parents Influence the Sexual Orientation of Their Children?, Susan E. Golombok and Fiona L. Tasker

31: Dating and Romantic Relationships Among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youths, Ritch C. Savin-Williams

*32: The War Over Gay Marriage, Evan W. Thomas

Part VIII: Sexual Victimization and Compulsion

33: Sexual Abuse in a National Survey of Adult Men and Women, David Finkelhor, Gerald Hotaling, I. A. Lewis, and Christine Smith

34: Token Resistance to Sex: New Perspectives on an Old Stereotype, Charlene L. Muehlenhard and Carie S. Rodgers

*35: Tactics of Sexual Coercion, Cindy J. Struckman-Johnson, David L. Struckman-Johnson, and Peter B. Anderson

36: Sexual Aggression Among Asian Americans, Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, Amy K. Windover, and Gloria Gia Maramba

*37: Effects of Cybersex Addiction on the Family, Jennifer P. Schneider

*38: Pathways to a Career in Stripping, Nova D. Sweet and Richard Tewksbury

Part IX: Sexuality and Society: Law, Economics, Religion, and Education

39: SIECUS Looks at States' Sexuality Laws and the Sexual Rights of Citizens, Daniel Daley, Susie Orenstein, and Vivian Wong

*40: Sex, God, & Greed, Daniel Lyons

*41: Naked Capitalists, Frank Rich

*42: Religiosity and Sexual Responsibility: Relationships of Choice, J. Kenneth Davidson, Sr., and Nelwyn B. Moore

43: Where'd You Learn That?, Ron Stodghill, II

*44: Sexuality Education: Philosophies and Practices In Search of a Meaningful Difference, Terrance D. Olson