Sexual Lives: A Reader on the Theories and Realities of Human Sexualities

Learning to Think Critically about Sexuality:: An Introduction

Part One:: Sexuality in Historical, Religious and Cultural Perspective

Introduction

1. Sexual Journeys::- Becoming a Woman, “Patricia”- My Awakening, “Josh”

2. The Social Constructionist’s Essential Guide to Sex, Liahna E. Gordon & Sharon A. Abbott

3. The Invention of Sexuality, Jeffrey Weeks

4. The Role of Religion in our Sexual Lives, Ira L. Reiss and Harriet M. Reiss

5. Cultural and Historical Influences on Sexuality in Hispanic/Latin Women, Oliva M. Espin

6. Sexuality Research in the United States, Diane di Mauro

Part Two:: Becoming Sexual:: How We Learn About Sex (or Don’t)

Introduction

7. The Kotex Diaries, Laurel Black

8. Becoming Sexual:: Differences Between Child and Adult Sexuality, Fred Rothbaum, Avery Grauer, & David Rubin

9. I Just Want to be Normal:: Initiation into Heterosexual Dating, Sophia Demasi

10. Where’d You Learn That? Ron Stodghill II

11. Blow Jobs and Other Boring Stuff, Susannah Indigo

12. Daughters with Disabilities:: Defective Women or Minority Women?, Harilyn Rousso

13. Do Women Choose Their Sexual Identity? Carla Golden

14. Student stories::- So…Honestly Gay, Eric Leadbetter- Wheres Taylor When I Need Him, Rachel-Storm Heasley

15. Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual Students:: The Impact of School on Sexual Identity Development, Melinda S. Miceli

Part Three:: Gendered Sexuality

Introduction

16. Sisters, Jamie Buki

17. Sexual Desire and Gender, Pepper Schwartz & Virginia Rutter

18. The Four Boxes of Gendered Sexuality:: Good Girl/Bad Girl &Tough Guy/Sweet Guy, Betsy Crane & Jesse Crane-Seeber

19. Reconstructing Black Masculinity, bell hooks

20. Ritualizing Heterosexuality:: Weddings as Performance, Chrys Ingraham

21. Country Music and Women’s Sexuality:: What Do Women Want?, Judith Barker

22. Dismantling Gender Polarization and Compulsory Heterosexuality:: Should We Turn the Volume Down or Up? Sandra Lipsitz Bem

23. Same Closet, Different Door:: A Heterosexual Sissy’s Coming-Out Party, Allan Hunter

24. Transgender Warriors:: Making History, Leslie Feinberg

Part Four:: Sex and the Body

Introduction

25. The Kindest Un-Cut:: Feminism, Judaism, and My Son’s Foreskin, Michael S. Kimmel

26. A Story of Sexuality and Gender in Three Parts, L. Maurer & M. Kelly

27. Medicine, Morality, and the Public Management of Sexual Matters, Leonore Tiefer

28. Hands Off! The Taboo Around Males’ First Ejaculation, Loren Frankel

29. Socially Camouflaged Technologies:: The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator, Rachel Maines

30. The Orgasm Industry:: Drug Companies Search for a Female Viagra, Sonia Shah

31. Don’t Give Up on Sex After 60, Helen Gurley-Brown

32. The Five Sexes, Revisited, Anne Fausto-Sterling

33. To Be Poor and Transgender, Kai Wright

34. Re-defining Sex and Intimacy:: The Sexual Self-Images, Outlooks, and Relationships of Gay Men Living with HIV/AIDS, Kent L. Sandstrom

Part Five:: Sexualities:: Orientations and Relationships

Introduction

35. Desire. Love. Sex. Friendship. Jerome E. Ng

36. Heterosexuality and Social Theory, Diane Richardson

37. Becoming 100 Percent Straight, Michael Messner

38. Bi Any Other Name, Loraine Hutchins & Lani Kaahumanu

39. I am a Queer Heterosexual, Sharon Kelly

40. Heterosexual Questionnaire, Martin Rochlin

41. From Holiness to Wholeness:: My Sexual Journey, Josiah Gromley

42. The “Straight” Jacket of My Homophobia, Benjamin B. Herold

43. Sexualities in Community:: Past and Present- Sexuality and Relationships in the Shaker, Oneida, and Mormon Communities, Lawrence Foster- A Smorgasboard of Alternatives, Ivy Bresson- Infilling with the Spirit at Christiansbrunn Kloster, Brother Johannes Renatus Zinzendorf

Part Six:: Commodified Sex:: The Buying and Selling of Sex

Introduction

44. Voices of Sex Workers- Confessions of a Priestesstute, Donna Marie Niles- What It Cost, T. R.- Leaving the Streets, Gloria Lockett

45. The Social Consequences of Unchastity, Gail Pheterson

46. The Sex Exploiter:: Theme Paper for the Second World Congress Against Commercial Exploitation of Children, Julia O’Connell Davidson

47. Pornography:: Not For Men Only, Mariana Valverde

48. Pornography and the Alienation of Male Sexuality, Harry Brod

49. Towards a Feminist Erotica, Kathy Myers

Part Seven:: Sexual Abuse and Rape

Introduction

50. Two Poems::- Teacher, Scott - Last Chance, Mary Reilly

51. The Alchemy of Healing:: Transforming from Victim to Victor & Lullaby, Regina Rivers

52. Men, Women, and Rape, Susan Brownmiller

53. The Day My Life Changed, British Medical Journal

54. Demands From the Women of Antioch, Kristine Herman (with Antioch College Sexual Offense Policy)

55. Breaking the Silence, Making Laughter:: Testimony of an Asian-American Sister, Luoluo Hong

56. Male Rape Victims in Prison Get Little Empathy, Contemporary Sexuality

57. Men on Rape:: What They Have to Say about Sexual Violence, Timothy Beneke

Part Eight:: Sex, Politics, and Policies

Introduction

58. Contraceptive Policy and Ethics:: Illustrations from American History, Kathleen E. Powderly

59. Rights; Treatment of Sexual Minorities a Global Shame, Marwaan Macan-Markar

60. Not My Daughter, Sally Armstrong

61. Report from a Study Tour:: Teen Sexuality Education in the Netherlands, France and Germany, Maureen Kelly & Michael McGee

62. The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior, David Satcher

Part Nine:: Possible Sexualities:: Images of Sexuality beyond Oppression

Introduction

63. Cuntist Mystique, Inga Muscio

64. My Sexual Odyssey:: A Father’s Reflections, H. J. Randolph

65. Heteroflexibility, Laurie Essig

66. Sex:: The Sensual Man, Mick Cooper & Peter Baker

67. Sex (American Style), Thomas Moore

68. The Tantric Vision, Margo Anand

69. Student Voices::- Something New:: Let’s Talk about Dirty, Summer Killian - I Have a Dream, Dave Justice