Sexual orientation, Sexology, Sex, Social aspects, Sex and law 

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previously published under title: New sexuality studies.

Pt. 1. Sex as a social fact. Theoretical perspectives / Steve Seidman -- The social construction of sexuality / interview with Jeffrey Weeks -- Surverying sex / interview with Edward Laumann.

Pt. 2. Sexual meanings. Popular culture constructs sexuality / interview with Joshua Gamson -- Sexual pleasure / Kelly James -- Purity and pollution : sex as moral discourse / Nancy Fischer -- Sex and power / Kristen Barber -- Sexual politics in intimate relationships : sexual coercion and harassment / Lisa K. Waldner -- Gay and straight rites of passage / Chet Meeks.

Pt. 3. Sexual bodies and behaviours. Medicine and the making of a sexual body / Celia Roberts -- The body, disability and sexuality / Thomas J. Gerschick -- Sexualizing Asian male bodies / Travis S.K. Kong -- Sex and the senior woman / Meika Loe -- Polishing the pearl : discoveries of the clitoris / Lisa Jean Moore -- Orgasm / Juliet Richters -- Anal sex : phallic and other meanings / Simon Hardy -- Sexual intercourse / Kerwin Kaye -- Viagra and the coital imperative / Nicola Gavey.

Pt. 4. Gender and sexuality. Unruly bodies : intersex variations of sex development / Sharon E. Preves -- Transgendering : challenging the 'normal' / Kimberly Tauches -- Transsexual, transgender, and queer / interview with Viviane Namaste -- Gender and heterosexism in rock-n-roll / interview with Mimi Schippers -- Adolescent girls' sexuality : the more it changes, the more it stays the same / Deborah L. Tolman -- Not 'straight', but still a 'man' : negotiating non-heterosexual masculinities in Beirut / Ghassan Moussawi -- How not to talk about Muslim women : patriarchy, Islam and the sexual regulation of Pakistani women / Saadia Toor -- 'Guys are just homophobic' : rethinking adolescent homophobia and heterosexuality / C.J. Pascoe -- Mis-conceptions about unintended pregnancy : considering context in sexual and reproductive decision-making / Jennifer A. Reich.

Pt. 5. Intimacies. Romantic love / interview with Eva Illouz -- Gender and the organization of heterosexual intimacy / Daniel Santore -- Shopping for love : online dating and the making of a cyber culture of romance / Sophia DeMasi -- Covenant marriage : reflexivity and retrenchment in the politics of intimacy / Dwight Fee -- Interracial romance : the logic of acceptance and domination / Kumiko Nemoto -- Lesbian and gay parents : situated subjects / Yvette Taylor -- Partners of transgender people / Carey Jean Sojka.

Pt. 6. Sexual identities. Straight men / James J. Dean -- Sexual narratives of 'straight' women / Nicole LaMarre -- Lesbians / interview with Tamsin Wilton -- The disappearance of the homosexual / interview with Henning Beck -- Gay men and lesbians in the Netherlands / Gert Hekma and Jan Willem Duyvendak -- The bisexual menace revisited : or, shaking up social categories is hard to do / Kristen G. Esterberg -- Bisexualities in America / interview with Paula Rodriguez Rust -- Multiple identities : race, class, and gender in lesbian and gay affirming Protestant congregations / Krista McQueeney.

Pt. 7. Sexual institutions and sexual commerce. One is not born a bride : how weddings regulate heterosexuality / Chrys Ingraham -- Change and continuity in American marriage / Erica Hunter -- The political economy of sexual labor / interview with Elizabeth Bernstein -- Sex sells, but what else does it do? The American porn industry / Chris Pappas -- Sex workers / interview with Wendy Chapkis -- Conflicts at the tubs : bathhouses and gay culture and politics in the United States / Jason Hendrickson -- Queering the family / Mary Burke and Kristine Olsen -- Pleasure for sale : feminist sex stores / Alison Better.

Pt. 8. Sexual cultures. Sexual liberation and the creative class in Israel / Dana Kaplan -- Internet sex : the seductive 'freedom to' / Dennis Waskul -- The time of the sadomaschoist : hunting with(in) the 'tribus' / Darren Langdridge -- Secret sex and the down low brotherhood / Justin Luc Hoy -- Wait... Hip Hop sexualities / Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Gay men dancing : circuit parties / Russell Westhaver.

Pt. 9. Sexual regulation and inequality. Sexuality, state and nation / Jyoti Puri -- Iran's sexual revolution / Pardis Mahdavi -- Christianity and the regulation of sexuality in the United States / Joshua Grove -- The marriage contract / Mary Bernstein -- Healing disorderly desire : medical-therapeutic regulation of sexuality / P.J. McGann -- Schools and the social control of sexuality / Melinda Miceli -- Law and the regulation of the obscene / Phoebe Christina Godfrey.

Pt. 10. Sexual politics. Gay marriage. Why now? Why at all? / Reese Kelly -- The US Supreme Court and the politics of gay and lesbian rights / Gregory Maddox -- The politics of AIDS : sexual pleasure and danger / Jennifer Gunsaullus -- The pro-family movement / Tina Fetner -- Politics of sex education / interview with Janice M. Irvine -- Gender and sexual politics : American gay rights and feminist movements / Megan Murphy -- Sexual dissent : a post-identity culture of sexual resistance in the case of Lebanese nonheterosexuals / Steven Seidman -- War and the politics of sexual violence / Margarita Palacios and Silvia Posocco.

Pt. 11. Global and transnational sexualities. Condoms in the global economy / Peter Chua -- Sexual tourism / interview with Julia O'Connell Davidson -- Migrant sex work and trafficking : sorting them out / Laura Agustin -- The public and hidden sexualities of Filipina women in Lebanon / Hayeon Lee -- Mexican immigrants, hetersexual sex and loving relationships in the United States / interview with Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez -- Gender, sexuality, and the Lebanese diaspora : global identities and transnational practices / Dalia Abdelhady.