New Features:

• The most up-to-date human sexuality statistics, data, and information. This text is a major revision, featuring extensive updates throughout and new coverage of important topics such as the prevention and treatment of AIDS, new methods of contraception, the causes and treatment of sexual disorders, and legal decisions related to the rights of gays and lesbians in Canada.
  
• Canadian legal information in every chapter. Information from former Chapter 22, "Sex and the Law" now appears in conjunction with relevant human sexuality topics. For example, Canadian legal information on prostitution now appears in Chapter 18, "Sex for Sale."
  
• Integration with PowerWeb - Provides Web Search and Web Reading icons in the margins that lead students to relevant articles and a powerful search engine housed in the PowerWeb section of the text's Online Learning Centre.
  
• More inclusive approach - Employs inclusive language that respects diversity and does not assume any particular lifestyle or life choices.
  

Retained Features:

• Focus boxes - In every chapter, up to three highlight research and issues of particular interest to Canadian students. Topics include the history of birth control and abortion in Canada, the sexual behaviour of Canadian students on holiday, and attitudes of Canadians toward sexual health education.


• Integration - Canadian multicultural and regional diversity regarding sexual attitudes and behaviour throughout.


• Focus on sexuality and the Media throughout the text, including a section on media content analysis in Chapter 3, provides a resource for teaching and learning media literacy.


• Built-in learning tools help your students succeed. Each chapter concludes with a summary, Review Questions, Questions for Thought, Discussion and Debate, Suggestions for Further Reading, and Web Resources.