Sex Matters: The Sexuality and Society Reader, 3rd Edition

This anthology of almost 60 readings--from contemporary scholarly literature, trade books, popular media, as well as contributed articles-- examines the many ways in which human sexuality is socially constructed and regulated behavior, and how it is studied by social scientists.

 COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS

* New to this Edition

Chapter 1: Categorizing Sex

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Raewyn Connell*

1          Greta Christina, Are We Having Sex Now or What?

            Stephanie A. Sanders and June Machover Reinisch, Would You Say You “Had Sex” If... ?

2          Kate Haas, Who Will Make Room for the Intersexed?

            Suzanne Kessler, Defining Genitals: Size Does Matter

3          Jamison Green, Sex and the Trans Man

4          Jane Ward, Straight Dude Seeks Same: Mapping the Relationship between Sexual Identities, Practices, and Cultures

5          Gary Greenberg, Gay by Choice?  The Science of Sexual Identity*

6          Kirsten McLean, Hiding in the Closet? Bisexuals, Coming Out and the Disclosure Imperative*

Chapter 2: Investigating Sexuality

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Julia R. Heiman

7          Vern L. Bullough, Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Report

8          Edward O. Laumann, John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michael, Survey of Sexual Behavior of Americans

            Mindy Stombler and Dawn M. Baunach, Doing It Differently: Women’s and Men’s Estimates of Their Number of Lifetime Sexual Partners (revised)

9          Allan M. Brandt, Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study

10        Denise Donnelly, Elisabeth O. Burgess, and Wendy Simonds, Sexuality and Social Theorizing

11        Teela Sanders, Sexing Up the Subject: Methodological Nuances in Researching the Female Sex Industry*

            Mindy Stombler and Amanda M. Jungels, Challenges of Funding Sex Research (revised)

Chapter 3: Representing Sex

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Joshua Gamson

12        Dionne P. Stephens and April L. Few, Hip Hop Honey or Video Ho: African American Preadolescents’ Understanding of Sexual Scripts*

13        Chong-suk Han, Geisha of a Different Kind: Gay Asian Men and the Gendering of Sexual Identity*

14        Jeffrey Escoffier, Gay-for-Pay: Straight Men and the Making of Gay Pornography

            Clive M. Davis and Naomi B. McCormick, What We Know about Pornography

15        Loree Erickson, Out of Line: The Sexy Femmegimp Politics of Flaunting It!*

16        Carmine Sarracino and Kevin M. Scott, The Porning of America*

Chapter 4: Learning about Sex

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Ritch C. Savin-Williams (revised)

17        Wendy Simonds and Amanda M. Jungels, The Death of the Stork: Sex Education Books for Children (revised)

            Sol Gordon and Judith Gordon, What Do I Say to My Children?

18        Karen Sternheimer, Fear of Sex: Do the Media Make Them Do It?

19        Melinda Miceli, In the Trenches: LGBT Students Struggle with School and Sexual Identity*

20        Amy M. Fasula, Kim S. Miller, and Jeffrey Wiener, Sexual Risk and the Double Standard for African American Adolescent Women*

21        Susan Rose, Going Too Far? Sex, Sin and Social Policy

            Heather Boonstra, Preventing STIs

Chapter 5: The Sexual Body

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Leonore Tiefer

22        Elisabeth O. Burgess and Amy Palder, The G-Spot and Other Mysteries (revised)

            Scott Poulson-Bryant, Hung: A Meditation on the Measure of Black Men in America

23        Robert Darby, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Why Can’t We Stop Circumcising Boys?

            Elisabeth O. Burgess, Female Genital Cutting

24        Meika Loe, Fixing the Broken Male Machine

25        Virginia Braun, In Search of (Better) Sexual Pleasure: Female Genital “Cosmetic” Surgery*

26        Peter Hennen, Bear Bodies, Bear Masculinity: Recuperation, Resistance, or Retreat?*

27        Ina May Gaskin, The Pleasures of Childbirth

28        Lenore Manderson, Boundary Breaches: The Body, Sex and Sexuality after Stoma Surgery*

Chapter 6: Sexual Practices

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Elisabeth Sheff*

29        B.J. Rye and Glenn J. Meaney, The Pursuit of Sexual Pleasure*

            William D. Mosher, Anjani Chandra, and Jo Jones, Sexual Behavior and Health

30        Laura Kipnis, Against Love: A Treatise on the Tyranny of Two

            Melissa Travis, Asexuality (revised)

31        Catherine Jean Nash and Alison Bain,  “Reclaiming Raunch”? Spatializing Queer Identities at Toronto Women’s Bathhouse Events*

32        Kathleen Bogle, The Hookup Culture on Campus*

            Donna Walton, What’s a Leg Got to Do with It?

33        Amy C. Steinbugler, Visibility as Privilege and Danger: Interracial Intimacy in the 21st Century*

34        Sumie Okazaki, Influences of Culture on Asian Americans’ Sexuality

35        John D. DeLamater and Morgan Sill, Sexual Desire in Later Life

36        M. Alfredo González, Latinos on Da Down Low: The Limitations of Sexual Identity in Public Health*

            Keith Boykin, 10 Things You Should Know about the DL

37        Rebecca F. Plante, Sexual Spanking, the Self, and the Construction of Deviance*

Chapter 7: Sexual Disease

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Claire Sterk

38       Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,  Tracking the Hidden Epidemics (revised)

39        Elizabeth Fee, Venereal Disease: Sin versus Science

40        Adina Nack, Damaged Goods: Women Managing the Stigma of STDs

            Kathleen Dolan and Phillip W. Davis, Lesbian Women and Sexually Transmitted Infections

41        Jacob Levenson, Showdown in Choctaw County

            Nora Ellen Groce, HIV/AIDS and People with Disability

42        Joia S. Mukherjee, Structural Violence, Poverty and the AIDS Pandemic*

            David M. Latini and David W. Coon, Aging and HIV--The Changing Face of AIDS

Chapter 8: Social Control of Sexuality

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Roderick Ferguson*

43        Jeffery S. Mullis and Dawn M. Baunach, The Social Control of Adult-Child Sex

            Elizabeth Cavalier and Elisabeth O. Burgess, Too Young to Consent?*

44        Patricia Hill Collins, The Sexual Politics of Black Womanhood

45        Dorothy E. Roberts, Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy

            Wendy Simonds, From Contraception to Abortion: A Moral Continuum (revised)

46        C.J. Pascoe, Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School*

47        Steven Seidman, In the Closet

            Chet Meeks, LGBTQ Politics in America: An Abbreviated History

48        Heather Hartley, The “Pinking” of Viagra Culture: Drug Industry Efforts to Create and Repackage Sex Drugs for Women*

Chapter 9: Sexual Violence

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Diana E. H. Russell (revised)

49        Nicola Gavey, “I Wasn’t Raped, But...” Revisiting Definitional Problems in Sexual Victimization

            Denise Donnelly, BDSM or Intimate Violence: How Do You Tell the Difference?

            Mattilda Sycamore Bernstein, All That Sheltering Emptiness*

50        Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton, and Brian Sweeney, Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape*

            Mindy Stombler and Marni Kahn, Linking Sexual Aggression and Fraternities (revised)

51        Jayne Walker, John Archer, and Michelle Davies, Effects of Rape on Men: A Descriptive Analysis*

            Denise Donnelly, Women Raping Men

52        Joane Nagel, Rape and War

Chapter 10: Commercial Sex

Spotlight on Research: An Interview with Jacqueline Boles

53        Elizabeth Bernstein, Sex Work for the Middle Classes*

            Katherine Frank, Strip Clubs and Their Regulars

54        Lisa Jean Moore, Overcome: The Money Shot in Pornography and Prostitution*

55        Alice Leuchtag, Human Rights, Sex Trafficking, and Prostitution

            Cynthia Enloe, Sexuality and Militarism

*56. Barbara G. Brents and Kathryn Hausbeck, Marketing Sex: U.S. Legal Brothels and Late Capitalist Consumption

*57. Elroi J. Windsor and Elisabeth O. Burgess, Sex Matters: Future Visions for a Sex-Positive Society

Name Index

Subject Index