Sexual Lives: A Reader

I cast this dissertation as a sacred sex working,
dedicated to the sexual healing
of our culture as a whole,
in the tradition of my peoples;
the queer-friendly, neo-pagan, feminist tribes of Wicca.

Preface

Learning to Think Critically About Sexuality: An Introduction

    Part One
    In the Beginning: Sexuality in Historical, Religious and Cultural Perspective
    Introduction

  1. Sexual Journeys, Undergraduate students
  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 DiMauro

    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, Harilyn Rousso
  13. Do Women Choose Their Sexual Identity? Carla Golden
  14. Student stories:
  15. GLB 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 and 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 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 Electronic 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, Relationships of Gay Men Living with HIV/AIDS, Kent L. Sandstrom

    Part Five
    Sexualities: Orientations and Relationships
    Introduction

  35. Desire, Sex, Love, Friendship, Jerome E. Ng
  36. Heterosexuality and Social Theory, Diane Richardson
  37. Becoming 100% Straight, Michael Messner
  38. Bi Any Other Name, Loraine Hutchins and 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. The Social Basis of Homophobia: An Empirical Illustration, Jammie Price and Michael G. Dalecki
  44. Sexualities in Community: Past and Present, Lawrence Foster, Ivy Bresson, & Brother Johannes Renatus Zinzendorf

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

  45. Voices of Sex Workers
  46. The Social Consequences of Unchastity, Gail Pheterson
  47. The Sex Exploiter: Theme Paper for the Second World Congress Against Commercial Exploitation of Children, Julia O'Connell Davidson
  48. Pornography: Not For Men Only, Mariana Valverde
  49. Pornography and the Alienation of Male Sexuality, Harry Brod
  50. Towards a Feminist Erotica, Kathy Myers

    Part Seven
    Sexual Abuse and Rape
    Introduction

  51. Two poems:
  52. The Alchemy of Healing: Transforming from Victim to Victor & Lullaby, Regina Rivers
  53. Mass Psychology of Rape, Susan Brownmiller
  54. The Day My Life Changed, British Medical Journal
  55. Demands From the Women of Antioch, Kristine Herman (with Antioch Sexual Offense Policy)
  56. Breaking the Silence, Making Laughter: Testimony of An Asian- American Sister, Luoluo Hong
  57. Male Rape Victims in Prison Get Little Empathy, Contemporary Sexuality
  58. Men on Rape: What They Have to Say about Sexual Violence, Timothy Beneke

    Part Eight
    Sex, Politics, and Policies
    Introduction

  59. Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality, Gayle Rubin
  60. Contraceptive Policy and Ethics: Illustrations from American History, Kathleen E. Powderly
  61. Who Has Told You to Do This Thing? Toward a Feminist Interpretation of Contraceptive Diffusion in Rhodesia, 1970-1980, Amy Kaler
  62. Rights: Treatment of Sexual Minorities a Global Shame, Marwaan Makan-Makar
  63. Not My Daughter, Sally Armstrong
  64. Report from a Study Tour: Teen Sexuality Education in the Netherlands, France and Germany, Maureen Kelly & Michael McGee
  65. The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior, David Sacher

    Part Nine
    Possible Sexualities: Images of Sexuality Beyond Oppression
    Introduction

  66. Cuntist Mystique, Inga Muscio
  67. My Sexual Odyssey: A Father's Reflections, H. J. Randolph
  68. Heteroflexibility, Laurie Essig
  69. Sex: The Sensual Man, Mick Cooper & Peter Baker
  70. Sex: American Style, Thomas Moore
  71. The Tantric Vision, Margo Anand
  72. Student Voices:
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