1. Sexual Interactions: Realities and Myths Sexual Interactions Realities and Myths Beliefs About the Need to Control Sexual Expression Highlight: Mark Twain on Masturbation Highlight: Contemporary Beliefs in Witches Beliefs About Fertility and Development Dating and Mating Research Spotlight: What Do You Look for in a Partner? Highlight: Valencia Declaration on Sexual Rights 2. Contemporary Explanations of Sexuality Evolutionary Approaches Psychoanalytic Approaches Learning Approaches Sociological Approaches Highlight: A Polygynous African Tribe Theories, Politics, and Morality 3. Research on Sexuality The Rise of Science The Impact of Societal Beliefs, Political Attitudes, and Ethical Issues on Research Research Spotlight: Ethical Principles and the Tuskegee Study Understanding the Process of Sex Research Measurement in Sex Research Evaluating Results of Studies of Sexuality 4. Sexual Anatomy and Physiology Sexual Anatomy Highlight: Testes Self-Examination Highlight: Kegel Exercises Highlight: Breast Self-Examination Hormones and the Endocrine System The Nervous System 5. Sexual Behavior Sources of Sexual Pleasure Sexual Responses Highlight: Physical Reactions During Sexual Response Research Spotlight: Whose Is It? Varieties of Orgasm 6. Arousal and Communication Learning to Be Aroused Sources of Arousal Research Spotlight: Do You Feel Guilty About Your Sexual Feelings? Communication About Sexuality Highlight: Negotiating a Sexual Relationship 7. Loving Sexual Interactions Being Loved: Early Experience Self-Love Loving Others Love as Dependency, Jealousy, and Other Unlovely Feelings Research Spotlight: Dating Infidelity Highlight: Intimate Terrorism Loving Sexual Interactions Highlight: Make Love, Not War 8. Sexual Differentiation and Development Fertilization Sex Chromosomes and Genetic Sex Prenatal Development Typical Sexual Differentiation Highlight: The Major Sex Hormones Atypical Sexual Differentiation Secondary Sexual Characteristics Highlight: Meanings of Menarche Sexual Differentiation and Gender Identity 9. Pregnancy and Birth Pregnancy Highlight: Tests for Identifying Fetal Abnormalities Labor and Birth Highlight: A Personal Account of Childbirth Postpartum Events and Decisions 10. Contraception The Development and Use of Modern Contraceptives Highlight: Sponge-Worthy? Methods of Contraception Sterilization Contraceptive Techniques of the Future 11. Resolving Unwanted Pregnancy Unintended Pregnancy Abortion: A Human Dilemma Research Spotlight: Abortion Case Histories Highlight: The Legal Status of Abortion in the United States Abortion: The Process Unintended Parenthood 12. Sexuality in Childhood and Adolescence Understanding Childhood Sexuality Theories About the Development of Gender and Sexuality Research Spotlight: Children's Sexual Knowledge--An Immoral Research Topic? Infancy Early Childhood Preschool Years Middle to Late Childhood Research Spotlight: The Relationship Between the Provision of Sex and Contraceptive Education and Unwanted Pregnancies in Western Nations Adolescence Gender Role Identification in Adolescence 13. Sexuality in Adulthood Young Adulthood Marriage and Long-Term Commitments Long-Term Relationships Research Spotlight: The Relationship of Equity to Likelihood of Having Extramarital Sex Midlife Sexuality Old Age 14. Variations in Sexual Orientation What Is Sexual Orientation? Highlight: Variations in Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Highlight: Rigid Versus Fluid Definitions of Orientation Homosexual Behavior and Gay Identity Explanations of Sexual Orientation Sexual Orientation and Adjustment Highlight: Turning the Tables Discrimination and Gay Liberation Bisexuality 15. Sexual Dysfunctions and Therapy Sexual Dysfunction: Contributing Factors Highlight: Disorders, Diseases, and Other Factors That Can Affect Sexual Functioning Types of Sexual Dysfunction Sex Therapy Research Spotlight: A Treatment Program for Orgasmically Inhibited Women Highlight: Systematic Desensitization Hierarchy for Inhibited Ejaculation 16. Sexually Transmitted Diseases Attitudes Toward Sexually Transmitted Diseases Highlight: How Accurate Is Your Knowledge of HIV/AIDS? Bacterial Infections Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) Highlight: An Epidemic of Stigma Highlight: Being Tested for HIV Antibodies Other Viral STDs Parasitic Infections Safer-Sex Practices: Reducing the Risk of Contracting STDs 17. Atypical Sexual Activity The Paraphilias The Noninvasive Consensual Paraphilias Highlight: Pain and Sexual Arousal The Invasive Paraphilias Highlight: Uncommon Paraphilias Treatment of the Invasive Paraphilias 18. Sexual Harassment Sexual Harassment: What Is It? Highlight: Examples of Sexual Harassment? Research Spotlight: Variations in Judgments of Sexual Harassment Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Sexual Harassment in Educational Settings Highlight: Dealing with Sexual Harassment by an Instructor Sexual Harassment in Therapeutic Settings Sexual Harassment in the Military Sexual Harassment in Religious Life Reducing Sexual Harassment 19. Sexual Assault and Abuse Sexual Assault Highlight: Male Rape Highlight: Was He Asking for It? Child-Adult Sexual Contacts Long-Term Correlates of Child-Adult Sexual Contacts Research Spotlight: Memories of Sexual Abuse During Childhood 20. Sex for Profit Varieties of Sexual Products Highlight: Romance Novels--Erotica for Women? Erotica and the Law The Effects of Erotica Highlight: Public Policy and Erotica Prostitution (Commercial Sex Work) Highlight: Prostitution Across Cultures