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This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material--medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues--in a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic exploration of Ottoman sexual thought and practices from the heyday of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Following on the work of Foucault, Gagnon, Laqueur, and others, the premise of the book is that people shape their ideas of what is permissible, define boundar

1. Beyond Vocabulary -- 2. Sex and Gender -- 3. Birth of the Research Project at Hand -- 4. Findings About Sexual Orientation in MTF Transgender People -- 5. Approaches to Therapy With Transgender Clients -- 6. Transgender Children and Transgender Parents -- 7. Wives and Partners -- 8. Some Further Comments on Transgender and Findings of the Current Research -- 9. Where Do We Go From Here? -- Appendix A. Mental Health Evaluation Checklist for Transgender Clients -- Appendix B. Basic Data Sheet -- Appendix C. More About Methods -- Appendix D. More About Data and Findings -- Appendix E. Internet Resources

The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how Christianity changed the ethics of sexual behavior from shame to sin, and shows how the roots of modern sexuality are grounded in an ancient religious revolution.

A fully updated edition of one of the first books published in the "It Happened to Me" series, Sexual Decisions: The Ultimate Teen Guide, Second Edition includes expanded information on: Sexuality and Gender Orientations Sexually Transmitted Infections and Diseases and Seeking Treatment Contraceptives Intimate Partner Violence Sex and TechnologyThis resource will help young people navigate the decisions they will face regarding sex in their adolescence.

Get answers to all your burning questions with this carnal crash course from the most popular women's magazine in the world. Cosmo's 200 Naughtiest Sex Questions is your quickie guide to everything from titillating trivia to hands-on bedroom techniques-each in 20 words or less.

In this lively and engaging work, Carolyn Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early years of the Cold War. She argues that many doctors believed that a satisfying sexual relationship with very specific attributes and boundaries was the foundation of a successful marriage, a fundamental source of happiness in the American family, and a crucial building block of a secure nation. Drawing on hundreds of articles and editorials in medical journals as well as other popular and professi.

This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theories about the intersection of sexuality with other markers of difference, and gender in particular. The outcome will productively upset equations of heterosexuality with heteronormativity and accounts that cast heterosexuality in "sex critical, sex as danger" terms. Queer/feminist 'pro-sex' perspectives have become prevalent in analyses of sexuality, but in these approaches queer becomes the site of subversive, transgressive, exciting and pleasurable sex, while heterosex, if mentioned at all, c.

Here is the most comprehensive empirical study ever published about male prostitutes and their clients. Written by one of the most distinguished international scholars in psychiatry and criminal justice, this book provides a carefully designed presentation of in-depth interviews with several hundred London "rent boys." The interviews included a large sample of one-to-one conversations in a private room tape-recorded with the consent of the interviewees. Dr. West and his colleague, Mr. de Villiers, bring you squarely into the everyday lives of male prostitutes and cover little known details of

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One Yes or No -- Chapter Two The Practical Stuff -- Chapter Three Getting Physical -- Chapter Four Breakups -- Chapter Five Dating and Friends -- Chapter Six Tough Stuff -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover