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Perspectives on Human Sexuality -- Studying Human Sexuality -- Practically Speaking assessing sexual satisfaction -- Sexuality, Popular Culture, and the Media -- Media Portrayals of Sexuality -- Television -- Feature-Length Films -- Gay Men, Lesbian Women, Bisexual and Transgender People in Film and Television -- Online Social Networks -- Think About It Before Pressing "Send": Trends and Concerns About Texting, Sexting, and Dating -- Sexuality Across Cultures and Times -- Sexual Interests -- Sexual Orientation -- Gender -- Societal Norms and Sexuality -- Think About It Am I Normal? -- Natural Sexual Behavior -- Normal Sexual Behavior -- Think About It Declaration of Sexual Rights -- Sexuality Behavior and Variations -- Think About It "My Genes Made Me Do It": Sociobiology, Evolutionary Psychology, and the Mysteries of Love -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 2. Studying Human Sexuality -- Sex, Advice Columnists, and Pop Psychology -- Information and Advice as Entertainment -- Practically Speaking evaluating pop psychology -- The Use and Abuse of Research Findings -- Thinking Critically About Sexuality -- Value Judgments Versus Objectivity -- Opinions, Biases, and Stereotypes -- Common Fallacies: Egocentric and Ethnocentric Thinking -- Sex Research Methods -- Research Concerns -- Clinical Research -- Survey Research -- Practically Speaking Answering a Sex Research Questionnaire: Measure of Sexual Identity Exploration and Commitment -- Observational Research -- Experimental Research -- The Sex Researchers -- Richard von Krafft-Ebing -- Sigmund Freud -- Havelock Ellis -- Alfred Kinsey -- William Masters and Virginia Johnson -- Contemporary Research Studies -- Think About It Sex Research: A Benefit to Individuals and Society or a Threat to Morality? -- The National Health and Social Life Survey -- The National Survey of Family Growth -- The Youth Risk Behavior Survey -- The National College Health Assessment -- The National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior -- Emerging Research Perspectives -- Feminist Scholarship -- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Research -- Directions for Future Research -- Ethnicity and Sexuality -- African Americans -- Latinos -- Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders -- Middle Eastern Americans -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 3. Female Sexual Anatomy, Physiology, and Response -- Female Sex Organs: What Are They For? -- External Structures (the Vulva) -- Internal Structures -- Practically Speaking Performing a Gynecological Self-Examination -- Other Structures -- The Breasts -- Female Sexual Physiology -- Reproductive Hormones -- The Ovarian Cycle -- The Menstrual Cycle -- Practically Speaking vaginal and menstrual health care -- Female Sexual Response -- Sexual Response Models -- Think About It Sexual Fluidity: Women's Variable Sexual Attractions -- Desire: Mind or Matter? -- Think About It The Role of Orgasm -- Experiencing Sexual Arousal -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions For Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 4. Male Sexual Anatomy, Physiology, and Response -- Male Sex Organs: What Are They For? -- External Structures -- Think About It The Penis: More Than Meets the Eye -- Internal Structures -- The Breasts and Anus -- Male Sexual Physiology -- Sex Hormones -- Practically Speaking Sexual Health Care: What Do Men Need? -- Spermatogenesis -- Practically Speaking Male Body Image Self-Consciousness Scale -- Semen Production -- Homologous Organs -- Male Sexual Response -- Erection -- Ejaculation and Orgasm -- Practically Speaking Can An Erection Be Willed? -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 5. Gender and Gender Roles -- Studying Gender an Gender Roles -- Sex, Gender, and Gender Roles: What's the Difference? -- Sex and Gender Identity -- Masculinity and Femininity: Opposites or Similar? -- Gender and Sexual Orientation -- Gender-Role Learning -- Theories of Socialization -- Gender-Role Learning in Childhood and Adolescence -- Gender Schemas: Exaggerating Differences -- Contemporary Gender Roles and Scripts -- Traditional Gender Roles and Scripts -- Think About It The Purity Standard: Defining Women by Their Sexuality -- Changing Gender Roles and Scripts -- Androgyny -- Gender Variations -- The Transgender Phenomenon -- Disorders of Sexual Development/Intersex -- Think About It A New Approach to Addressing Disorders of Sexual Development or Intersex -- Unclassified Form of Abnormal Development -- Gender Identity Disorder -- Transsexuality -- Coming to Terms With Differences -- Think About It Sex Reassignment -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 6. Sexuality in Childhood and Adolescence -- Sexuality in Infancy and Childhood (Ages 0 to 11) -- Infancy and Sexual Response (Ages 0 to 2) -- Childhood Sexuality (Ages 3 to 11) -- The Family Context -- Sexuality in Adolescence (Ages 12 to 19) -- Psychosexual Development -- Adolescent Sexual Behavior -- Think About It The "Origins" of Homosexuality -- Practically Speaking First Sexual Intercourse Reaction Scale -- Teenage Pregnancy -- Sexuality Education -- Think About It Abstinence-Only Versus Comprehensive Sexuality Programs: It's a New Day -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 7. Sexuality in Adulthood -- Sexuality in Early Adulthood -- Developmental Concerns -- Think About It Life Behaviors of a Sexually Healthy Adult -- Establishing Sexual Orientation -- Think About It Bisexuality: The Nature of Dual Attraction -- Being Single -- Think About It Why College Students Have Sex: Gender Differences, or Not? -- Cohabitation -- Sexuality in Middle Adulthood -- Developmental Concerns -- Sexuality in Established Relationships -- Divorce and After -- Sexuality in Late Adulthood -- Developmental Concerns -- Stereotypes of Aging -- Sexuality and Aging -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 8. Love and Communication in Intimate Relationships -- Friendship and Love -- Love and Sexuality -- Men, Women, Sex, and Love -- Love Without Sex: Celibacy and Asexuality -- Think About It Are Gay/Lesbian Couples and Families any Different from Heterosexual Ones? -- How Do I Love Thee? Approaches and Attitudes Related to Love -- Styles of Love -- The Triangular Theory of Love -- Love as Attachment -- Think About It The Science of Love -- Unrequited Love -- Jealousy -- Defining Jealousy -- Think About It The Passionate Love Scale -- Managing Jealousy -- Extradyadic Involvement -- Making Love Last: From Passion to Intimacy -- The Nature of Communication -- The Cultural Context -- The Social Context -- The Psychological Context -- Nonverbal Communication -- Sexual Communication -- Sexual Communication in Beginning Relationships -- Sexual Communication in Established Relationships -- Initiating Sexual Activity -- Developing Communication Skills -- Talking About Sex -- Practically Speaking Communication Patterns and Partner Satisfaction -- Conflict and Intimacy -- Practically Speaking lessons from the love lab -- Sexual Conflicts -- Conflict Resolution -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 9. Sexual Expression -- Sexual Attractiveness -- A Cross-Cultural Analysis -- Evolutionary Mating Perspectives -- Think About It "Hooking Up" Among College Students -- Views of College Students -- Sexual Desire -- Sexual Scripts -- Cultural Scripting -- Intrapersonal Scripting -- Interpersonal Scripting -- Autoeroticism -- Sexual Fantasies and Dreams -- Masturbation -- Practically Speaking assessing your attitude toward masturbation -- Sexual Behavior with Others -- Most Recent Partnered Sex -- Couple Sexual Styles -- Think About It You Would Say You "Had Sex" If You ... -- Touching -- Kissing -- Oral-Genital Sex -- Think About It giving and receiving pleasurable touch: "Gears of Connection" -- Think About It The First Kiss: A Deal-Breaker? -- Sexual Intercourse -- Anal Eroticism -- Health Benefits of Sexual Activity -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 10. Variations in Sexual Behavior -- Sexual Variations and Paraphilic Behavior -- What Are Sexual Variations? -- What Is Paraphilia? -- Think About It "Sexual Interest Disorder": A Viable Alternative to Paraphilia or a Radical Departure? -- Sexual Variations Among College Students -- Sexual Variation: Domination and Submission -- Noncoercive Paraphilias -- Fetishism -- Transvestism -- Practically Speaking Sexual Sensation Seeking Scale -- Coercive Paraphilias -- Zoophilia -- Voyeurism -- Think About It Would You Watch? College Students and Voyeurism -- Exhibitionism -- Telephone Scatologia -- Frotteurism -- Think About It "Sexual Addiction": Repressive Morality in a New Guise? -- Necrophilia -- Pedophilia -- Sexual Sadism and Sexual Masochism -- Origins and Treatment of Paraphilias -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 11. Contraception, Birth Control, and Abortion -- Risk and Responsibility -- Women, Men, and Birth Control: Who Is Responsible? -- Family Planning Clinics -- Think About It Risky Business: Why Couples Fail to Use Contraception -- Methods of Contraception and Birth Control -- Birth Control and Contraception: What's the Difference? -- Choosing a Method -- Sexual Abstinence -- Hormonal Methods -- Barrier Methods.

Note continued: Practically Speaking Tips for Effective Condom Use -- Practically Speaking Correct Condom Use Self-Efficacy Scale -- Spermicides -- The IUCs (Intrauterine Contraceptives) -- Fertility Awareness-Based Methods -- Lactational Amenorrhea Method (LAM) -- Sterilization -- Emergency Contraception (EC) -- Abortion -- Methods of Abortion -- Safety of Abortion -- Women and Abortion -- Men and Abortion -- The Abortion Debate -- Research Issues -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 12. Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth -- Fertilization and Fetal Development -- The Fertilization Process -- Development of the Conceptus -- Think About It A Matter of Choice -- Being Pregnant -- Preconception Care -- Pregnancy Detection -- Changes in Women During Pregnancy -- Think About It Sexual Behavior During Pregnancy -- Complications of Pregnancy and Dangers to the Fetus -- Diagnosing Fetal Abnormalities -- Pregnancy Loss -- Infertility -- Female Infertility -- Male Infertility -- Emotional Responses to Infertility -- Infertility Treatment -- Giving Birth -- Labor and Delivery -- Choices in Childbirth -- Think About It the question of male circumcision -- Practically Speaking Making a Birth Plan -- Breastfeeding -- Practically Speaking Breast Versus Bottle: Which Is Better For You and Your Child? -- Becoming a Parent -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 13. The Sexual Body in Health and Illness -- Living in Our Bodies: The Quest for Physical Perfection -- Eating Disorders -- Think About It "Oh to Be Bigger": Breast and Penis Enhancement -- Body Image and Its Impact on Sexuality -- Anabolic Steroids: A Dangerous Means to an End -- Alcohol, Drugs, and Sexuality -- Alcohol Use and Sexuality -- Other Drug Use and Sexuality -- Sexuality and Disability -- Physical Limitations and Changing Expectations -- Vision and Hearing Impairment -- Chronic Illness -- Developmental Disabilities -- The Sexual Rights of People With Disabilities -- Sexuality and Cancer -- Women and Cancer -- Practically Speaking Breast Self-Examination -- Men and Cancer -- Practically Speaking Testicular Self-Examination -- Think About It Female Genital Cutting: Mutilation or Important Custom? -- Anal Cancer in Men and Women -- Additional Sexual Health Issues -- Toxic Shock Syndrome -- Vulvodynia -- Endometriosis -- Lesbian Women's Health Issues -- Prostatitis -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 14. Sexual Function Difficulties, Dissatisfaction, Enhancement, and Therapy -- Sexual Function Difficulties: Definitions, Types, and Prevalence -- Defining Sexual Function Difficulties: Different Perspectives -- Prevalence and Cofactors -- Disorders of Sexual Desire -- Practically Speaking Sexual Desire: When Appetites Differ -- Sexual Arousal Disorders -- Think About It Is Intercourse Enough? The Big "O" and Sexual Behaviors -- Orgasmic Disorders -- Sexual Pain Disorders -- Other Disorders -- Physical Causes of Sexual Function Difficulties and Dissatisfaction -- Physical Causes in Men -- Physical Causes in Women -- Psychological Causes of Sexual Function Difficulties and Dissatisfaction -- Immediate Causes -- Conflict Within the Self -- Relationship Causes -- Sexual Function Enhancement -- Developing Self-Awareness -- Think About It "Good Enough Sex": The Way to Lifetime Couple Satisfaction -- Think About It Sexual Turn-Ons and Turn-Offs: What College Students Report -- Intensifying Erotic Pleasure -- Changing a Sexual Relationship -- Treating Sexual Function Difficulties -- Masters and Johnson: A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach -- Kaplan: Psychosexual Therapy -- Other Nonmedical Approaches -- Medical Approaches -- Think About It The Medicalization of Sexual Function Problems -- Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Sex Therap -- Practically Speaking seeking professional assistance -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 15. Sexually Transmitted Infections -- The STI Epidemic -- STIs: The Most Common Reportable Infectious Diseases -- Who Is Affected: Disparities Among Groups -- Factors Contributing to the Spread of STIs -- Practically Speaking Preventing STIs: The Role of Male Condoms and Female Condoms -- Practically Speaking STI Attitude Scale -- Consequences of STIs -- Principal Bacterial STIs -- Chlamydia -- Gonorrhea -- Urinary Tract Infections -- Syphilis -- Think About It the Tuskegee Syphilis Study: A Tragedy of Race and Medicine -- Principal Viral STIs -- HIV and AIDS -- Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection -- Genital Herpes -- Viral Hepatitis -- Vaginal Infections -- Bacterial Vaginosis -- Genital Candidiasis -- Trichomoniasis -- Other STIs -- Ectoparasitic Infestations -- Scabies -- Pubic Lice -- STI and Women -- Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) -- Cervicitis -- Cystitis -- Preventing STIs -- Avoiding STIs -- Treating STIs -- Practically Speaking safer and unsafe sex practices -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 16. HIV and AIDS -- What Is AIDS? -- Conditions Associated With AIDS -- Think About It The Stigmatization of HIV and Other STIs -- Symptoms of HIV Infection and AIDS -- Understanding AIDS: The Immune System and HIV -- The Virus -- AIDS Pathogenesis: How the Disease Progresses -- The Epidemiology and Transmission of HIV -- The Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in the United States -- Myths and Modes of Transmission -- Sexual Transmission -- Injection Drug Use -- Mother-to-Child Transmission -- Factors Contributing to Infection -- Aids Demographics -- Minority Races/Ethnicities and HIV -- The Gay Community -- Women and HIV/AIDS -- Children and HIV/AIDS -- HIV/AIDS Among Youth -- Older Adults and HIV/AIDS -- Geographic Region and HIV -- Practically Speaking HIV Prevention Attitude Scale -- Prevention and Treatment -- Practically Speaking Health Protective Sexual Communication Scale -- Protecting Ourselves -- Saving Lives Through Prevention -- Think About It "Do You Know What You Are Doing?" Common Condom-Use Mistakes Among College Students -- HIV Testing -- Treatments -- Living With HIV or AIDS -- If You Are HIV-Positive -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 17. Sexual Coercion: Harassment, Aggression, and Abuse -- Sexual Harassment -- What Is Sexual Harassment? -- Flirtation Versus Harassment -- Harassment in School and College -- Harassment in the Workplace -- Harassment and Discrimination Against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People -- Heterosexual Bias -- Prejudice, Discrimination, and Violence -- Think About It Public Opinion About Gay and Lesbian Issues and Rights -- Ending Anti-Gay Prejudice and Enactment of Antidiscrimination Laws -- Sexual Aggression -- The Nature and Incidence of Rape -- Myths About Rape -- Practically Speaking Preventing Sexual Assault -- Forms of Rape -- Think About It Date/Acquaintance Rape Drugs: An Increasing Threat -- Motivations for Rape -- The Aftermath of Rape -- Practically Speaking Helping Someone Who Has Been Raped -- Child Sexual Abuse -- Forms of Intrafamilial Sexual Abuse -- Children at Risk -- Effects of Child Sexual Abuse -- Treatment Programs -- Preventing Child Sexual Abuse -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading -- 18. Sexually Explicit Materials, Prostitution, and Sex Laws -- Sexually Explicit Material in Contemporary America -- Pornography or Erotica: Which Is It? -- Sexually Explicit Material and Popular Culture -- Sexually Explicit Materials on the Internet -- Think About It College Students and the Viewing of Sexually Explicit Materials -- The Effects of Sexually Explicit Material -- Censorship, Sexually Explicit Material, and the Law -- Prostitution -- Females Working in Prostitution -- Think About It Human Trafficking: International Child and Teen Prostitution -- Males Working in Prostitution -- Prostitution and the Law -- The Impact of HIV/AIDS and Other STIs -- Sexuality and the Law -- Legalizing Private, Consensual Sexual Behavior -- Same-Sex Marriage -- Think About It An Expanding Definition of "Family": A Trend Leading to Further Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage? -- Advocating Sexual Rights -- Final Thoughts -- Summary -- Questions for Discussion -- Sex and the Internet -- Suggested Websites -- Suggested Reading.