We hope that the material presented here and elsewhere in our book will help differentiate legitimate scientific sex research from the many frivolous nonscientific polls and opinion surveys that are widespread in the contemporary media. Even when you are exposed to the results of serious investigations, it is wise to maintain a critical eye and […]
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Human Sexuality: Theory and Research
Theories About Sexuality Psychological Theories Biological Theory Evolutionary Theory Sociological Theories Feminist Theory Queer Theory ■ SEX IN REAL LIFE What Questions Would They Ask? Sexuality Research: Philosophers, Physicians, and Sexologists Early Sex Research Recent Studies on Sexuality Sexuality Researchers Early Promoters of Sexology Sexuality Research Moves to the United States ■ PERSONAL VOICES The […]
Gender is something we do: from symbolic interactionism to gender performativity
There are three ways in which gender can be thought of as something we ‘do’.The first argues that to do gender is to perform it, as an actor performs a role. Secondly, to ‘do’ gender can mean that we have to work at it. This tends to emphasize that doing gender is more like work […]
Ethical Guidelines for Human Sex Research
Researchers in a range of investigative fields, including sexology, share a common commitment to maintaining the welfare, dignity, rights, well-being, and safety of their human subjects. Detailed lists of ethical guidelines have been prepared by a number of professional organizations, including the American Psychological Association (APA), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Society for […]
Gender as structure: gender is done to us
This book will return often to explanations of how gender is done to us, or imposed on individuals, via social structures. Connells (2002: 55) defines social structures as ‘the enduring or extensive patterns among social relations’. Chapter 1 outlined Walby’s (1986; 1990) argument that gender is determined and gender inequalities are perpetuated through six structures: […]
First Sex Records
► The oldest sex manuals date a moral ritual of shared pleasure from about 2,500bc, thanks to Huang-Ti, the Yellow Emperor, and were way ahead of the West’s efforts. ► The first educational literature on sexual intercourse was written in India. The most ancient texts were the Vedas, in which sex wasbetween married couples. ► […]
Criticisms of gender socialization theories
Oakley’s efforts to get away from conventional thinking about women that focused on their bodies were important but she tended to see sexed bodies as a kind of blank slate on which social gender was written (Gatens, 1991).This distinction between sex as a clear ‘natural’ fact and gender as a shifting set of social meanings […]
Sex Research in Cyberspace
As the Internet has rapidly evolved into a common household technology, opportunities have emerged to conduct sex research using this technology (Mustanski, 2001; Parks et al., 2006; Rhodes et al., 2003). Traditionally, the Internet has been used by scientists to distribute research information rather than to collect data. Today, the Internet provides access to a […]
The importance of an inner perspective
This ethnographic account stands in sharp contrast to the Western public debate on female circumcision, according to which the practice is to be understood in terms of male domination, mutilation, and sexual control.[63] The discrepancy between the Western and the Jola cultural understandings of excision presents the researcher with an ethical problem. As an anthropologist […]
Gay Liberation
Following World War II was a period of challenge to homosexuals. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who became famous for trying to purge America of communists, also relentlessly hunted homosexuals. Homosexuals were portrayed as perverts, lurking in schools and on street corners ready to pounce on unsuspecting youth, and many were thrown out of work or imprisoned […]