Sex matters: the sexuality and society reader

An interview with Marisol Asencio

Are we having sex now or what? / Greta Christina

How do heterosexual undergraduate students define having sex? / Kelsey K. Sewell and Donald S. Strassberg

"Bring intersexy back": intersexuals and sexual satisfaction / Georgiann Davis

The perils and pleasures of sex for trans people / Harper Jean Tobin

I am gay, but I wasn't born this way / Brandon Ambrosino

Queer: identity and praxis / Maura Ryan

Bud-sex: constructing normative masculinity among rural straight men that have sex with men / Tony Silva

Bisexuality and bi identity / PJ McGann

"Straight girls kissing?": understanding same-gender sexuality beyond the elite college campus / Jamie Budnick

Sexual orientation versus behavior: different for men and women? / Eliza Brown and Paula England

An interview with Mignon R. Moore

Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Report / Vern L. Bullough

Large-scale sex: methods, challenges, and findings of nationally representative sex research / Amanda M. Jungels and Stacy Gorman Harmon

Doing it differently: women's and men's estimates of their number of lifetime sexual partners / Mindy Stombler and Dawn M. Baunach

Racism and research: the case of the Tuskegee syphilis study / Allan M. Brandt

Sexing up the subject: methodological nuances in researching the female sex industry / Teela Sanders

Funding sex research / Mindy Stombler and Amanda M. Jungels

An interview with Joshua Gamson

Sexy like a girl and horny like a boy: contemporary gay "western" narratives about gay "Asian" men / C. Winter Han

What teenagers are learning from online porn / Maggie Jones

Virtual reality gets naughty / Alyson Krueger

Race and masculinity in gay porn / Desmond F. Goss

Out of line: the sexy femmegimp politics of flaunting it! / Loree Erickson

Constructing victims: the erasure of women's resistance to sexual assault / Jocelyn A. Hollander and Katie Rodgers

An interview with Jessica Fiels

The death of the stork: sex education resources for children and parents / Wendy Simonds and Amanda M. Jungels

Sex-positive parenting, or we don't touch our vulvas at the table / Lea Grover

Talking to teens about sex: parent-asolescent communication about sex and sexuality / Mona Malacane and Jonathon J. Beckmeyer

Let's talk about sex: how parents of color communicate with teens / Lauren Fannin

Conflicted identification in the sex education classroom / Elizabeth A. Williams and Robin E. Jensen

The case for starting sex education in kindergarten / Saskia de Melker

LGBTQ youth need inclusive sex education / Human Rights Campaign, in collaboration with Advocates for Youth, Answer, GLSEN, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S. (SIECUS)

Disability and sexuality mythbusting: non-normative sex liberates us all / Bethany Stevens

Sex, love, and autonomy in the teenage sleepover / Amy T. Schalet

"Put me in, coach, I'm ready to play": sexuality education for adults at Good Vibrations / Jessica A. Nodulman

An interview with Leonore Tiefer

The G-spot and other mysteries / Elisabeth O. Burgess and Amy Palder

Female genital mutilation and male circumcisio: toward an autonomy-based ethical framework / Brian D. Earp

The politics of acculturation: female genital cutting / Lisa Wade

"When there's no underbrush the tree looks taller": a discourse on the analysis of men's online groin shaving talk / Matthew Hall

"Basically, it's sorcery for your vagina": unpacking western representations of vaginal steaming / Tycho Vandenburg and Virginia Braun

Human nature: on fat sexual identity and agency / Cat Pausé

An interview with Michael Reece

The pursuit of sexual pleasure / B.J. Rye and Glenn J. Meaney

Teen sex in the United States / Chris M. Vidmar

God's case for sex / Orit Avishai and Kelsy Burke

A qualitative exploration of the "coming out" process for asexual individuals / Nicolette Zangari, Katheryn Graff Low, and Anna N. Query

Adventures with the "Plastic man": sex toys, computsory heterosexuality, and the politics of women's sexual pleasure / Breanne Fahs and Eric Swank

Grandma does WHAT!?: perceptions about older adults and sex / Christina Barmon, Alexis A. Bender, and Elisabeth O. Burgess

A sexual culture for disabled people / Tobin Siebers

Becoming a practitioner: the biopolitics of BDSM / Margot Weiss

The privilege of perversities: race, class, and education among polyamorists and kinksters / Elisabeth Sheff and Corie J. Hammers

An interview with Héctor Carrillo

Secondary prevention of sexually transmitted infections: treating the couple and community / Adam Songield

STDs at record high / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

- Venereal disease: sin versus science / Elizabeth Fee

HIV among people aged 50 and over / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

- Damaged goods: women managing the stigma of STDs / Adina Nack

HPV and vaccines / Evelina Sterling and Wendy Simonds

"Proper sex without annoying things": anti-condom discourse and the "nature" of (hetero)sex / Virginia Braun

PrEO for HIV prevention: community controversy and generational sexualities / Griff Tester and Jennifer Rosen

America's hidden HIV epidemic / Linda Villarosa

An interview with Amin Ghaziani

The new pariahs: sex, crime, and punishment in America / Roger N. Lancaster

Too young to consent? / Elizabeth Cabalier and Elisabeth O. Burgess

Sick sex / Elroi J. Windsor

Birthright: a history of Planned Parenthood / Jill Lepore

From contraception to abortion: a moral continuum / Wendy Simonds

Choice or coercion?: abortion and black women / Zakiya Luna

No brokeback for black men: pathologizing black male (homo)sexuality through down low discourse / C. Winter Han

Unequal pleasures / Lisa Wade

"How you bully a girl": sexual drama and the negotiation of gendered sexuality in high school / Sarah A. Miller

Out in the country / Mary L. Gray

LGBTQ politics in America: an abbreviated history / Marik Xavier-Brier and Chet Meeks

"How could you do this to me?": how lesbian, bisexual, and queer latinas negotiate sexual identity with their families / Katie Acosta

An interview with Kevin Swartout

"I wasn't raped, but ... ": revisiting definitional problems in sexual victimization / Nicola Gavey

Rampant or rare?: the conundrum of quantifying rape and sexual assault on college campuses and beyond / Megan M. Tesene

I was raped by a woman / Caroline Catlin

The rape-prone culture of academic contexts: fraternities and athletics / Patricia Yancey Martin

Sexual coercion among athletes / Jake New

The sexual victimization of men in America: new date challenge old assumptions / Lara Stemple and Ilan H. Meyer

Everything you need to know about consent that you never learned in sex ed / Zhana Vrangalova

Rape and war: fighting men and comfort women / Joane Nagel

An interview with Kari Lerum

What male-for-male internet excorts say about what they do / Kevin Walby

Can we "cure" the men who pay for sex? / Brooke Jarvis

Strip clubs and their regulars / Katherine Frank

Overcome: the money shor in pornography and prostitution / Lisa Jean Moore

Autonomy and consent in sex work / Kimberly Kay Hoang

Performing without a net?: safer sex in porn / Wendy Chapkis

Sex matters: future visions for a sex-positive society / Elroi J. Windsor, Jasmine Suryawan, and Elisabeth O. Burgess.