Table of Contents

Learning to Think Critically About Sexuality: An Introduction

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

1. Sexual Journeys,
   - Becoming a Woman, "Patricia"
   - My Awakening, "Josh"
2. The Social Constructionist’s ‘Essential’ Guide to Sex, Liahna E. Gordon and 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, and 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: Defective Women or Minority Women?, Harilyn Rousso
13. Do Women Choose Their Sexual Identity? Carla Golden
14. Student stories:
    - So--Honestly Gay, Eric Leadbetter
    - Where's Taylor When I Need Him, Rachel-Storm Heasley
15. Gay, Lesbian, & Bisexual 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 and Tough Guy/Sweet Guy, Betsy Crane and 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 and 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 Electromechanical 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, Love, Sex, Friendship, Jerome E. Ng
36. Heterosexuality and Social Theory, Diane Richardson
37. Becoming 100 Percent 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. Sexualities in Community: Past and Present
    - Sexuality and Relationships in the Shaker, Oneida, and Mormon Communities, Lawrence Foster
    - A Smorgasboard of Alternatives, Ivy Bresson
    - Infilling with the Spririt at Christiansbrumm Kloster, Brother Johannes Renatus Zinzendorf

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

45. Voices of Sex Workers
    - Confessions of a Priestesstute, Donna Marie Niles
    - What It Cost, T. R.
    - Leaving the Streets, Gloria Lockett
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:
    - Teacher, Scott
    - Last Chance, Mary Reilly
52. The Alchemy of Healing: Transforming from Victim to Victor and Lullaby, Regina Rivers
53. The Day My Life Changed, British Medical Journal
54. Demands From the Women of Antioch, Kristine Herman (with Antioch Sexual Offense Policy)
55. Breaking the Silence, Making Laughter: Testimony of An Asian- American Sister, Luoluo Hong
56. Male Rape Victims in Prison Get Little Empathy, Contemporary Sexuality
57. Men on Rape: What They Have to Say about Sexual Violence, Timothy Beneke

Part Eight: Sex, Politics, and Policies
Introduction

59. Contraceptive Policy and Ethics: Illustrations from American History, Kathleen E. Powderly
60. Rights: Treatment of Sexual Minorities a Global Shame, Marwaan Makan-Makar
61. Not My Daughter, Sally Armstrong
62. Report from a Study Tour: Teen Sexuality Education in the Netherlands, France and Germany, Maureen Kelly and Michael McGee
63. 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 and Peter Baker
70. Sex (American Style), Thomas Moore
71. The Tantric Vision, Margo Anand
72. Student Voices:
    - Something New: Let’s Talk about Dirty, Summer Killian
    - I Have a Dream, Dave Justice