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1. Introduction: Reflections on Sexuality Repositioned -- LORAINE GELSTHORPE -- Part 1: Sexuality and Society -- 2. The Rights and Wrongs of Sexuality -- JEFFREY WEEKS -- 3. Social Worlds, Social Change and the Rise of the New Sexualities Theories -- KEN PLUMMER -- 4. New Battlegrounds: Genetic Maps and Sexual Politics -- LYNNE SEGAL -- 5. Sexuality, Desire and Embodied Performances in the Workplace -- LINDA MCDOWELL -- 6. Sexuality and Same-Sex Relationships in Law -- CRAIG LIND -- 7. Intersecting Oppressions: Ending Discrimination Against Lesbians, Gay Men and Trans People in the UK -- ZOË-JANE PLAYDON -- Part 2: The Development of Sexuality: Contemporary Debates -- 8. A Biological Perspective on Human Sexuality -- MARTIN H. JOHNSON -- 9. Men, Women, People: The Definition of Sex -- PAK-LEE CHAU AND JONATHAN HERRING -- 10. The Development of Sexuality -- JULIE A. JESSOP -- 11. Sexual Health and Young People: the Contribution and Role of Psychology -- ROGER INGHAM -- Part 3: 'Problematic' and Prohibited Sexuality -- 12. Reforming the Law on Sexual Offences -- ANDREW BAINHAM AND BELINDA BROOKS-GORDON -- 13. Unnatural Acts: Sexuality, Film, and the Law -- ANDREW WEBBER -- 14. The Sexual Abuse of Children -- MICHAEL FREEMAN -- 15. The Care Standards Tribunal: The Correct Balance -- DAVID PEARL -- 16. The Sexual Zone Between Childhood and the Age of Majority: Claims to Sexual Freedoms Versus Protectionist Policies -- KERRY PETERSEN -- 17. Regulating Sex: Young People, Prostitution and Policy Reform -- JOANNA PHOENIX -- 18. Sexual Offenders: A Systematic Review of Psychological Treatment Interventions -- BELINDA BROOKS-GORDON, CHARLOTTE BILBY AND TRACEY KENWORTHY

El propósito central de este artículo es adelantar un proyecto político y normativo para el establecimiento internacional de los derechos sexuales como derechos humanos. Debido a la organización social del sexo y del género en nuestras sociedades contemporáneas, consideramos que son urgentes las demandas por diseñar y establecer normas para proteger la diferencia sexual y auspiciar la afirmación de la diversidad sexual. Por un lado, identificamos la necesidad de establecer algunos derechos sexuales negativos capaces de proteger la integridad sexual de ciertos individuos que históricamente han sido marginados y de algunos grupos que suelen ser blanco de la violencia heterosexista. Por el otro, consideramos necesario promover derechos sexuales positivos que afirmen la diversidad sexual y auspicien vidas sexuales llenas de placer.Sostenemos que para la justificación y aceptación de los derechos sexuales negativos sólo se requiere una política y una ética de la tolerancia. En cambio los derechos sexuales positivos exigen la adopción de un paradigma político y ético diferente, basado en el reconocimiento. El proyecto político de los derechos sexuales positivos busca, en última instancia, destruir la hegemonía masculina sobre la práctica y el discurso de la sexualidad, y pretende asimismo descentrar la heterosexualidad. Pese a los límites de los movimientos sociales basados en la identidad sexual, su impacto social y cultural ha sido profundo. Por ello opinamos que los derechos sexuales negativos son hoy un proyecto más que factible. Más aún, hemos desarrollado la idea de que la posibilidad de concretar el proyecto de los derechos sexuales positivos resulta de la combinación creativa de dos fuerzas. Primero, los potenciales emancipatorios de los movimientos sociales basados en la identidad sexual que han permitido mantener un cuestionamiento constante de la actual organización social de la sexualidad. Segundo, las transformaciones profundas en teoría social y filosofía que nos lleva a pensar y experimentar la sexualidad (y sus identidades) de manera no esencialista, descentrada, relacional, interactiva y fluida. Finalmente, esto abre la posibilidad de desestabilizar los efectos que las relaciones de poder tienen sobre el sexo, la sexualidad y la identidad sexual. AbstractThe main aim of this article is to promote a political and normative project for the international establishment of sexual rights as human rights.Due to the social organization of sex and gender in contemporary societies, we believe that there is an urgent demand to design and establish norms to protect sexual difference and encourage the affirmation of sexual diversity. On the one hand, we identify the need for negative sexual rights capable of protecting the sexual integrity of historically marginalized individuals and groups that have become the target of heterosexist violence. On the other hand, we explain the need to promote positive sexual rights that affirm sexual diversity and encourage pleasurable sex lives.We hold that the justification and acceptance of negative sexual rights merely requires a politics and ethics of tolerance. Conversely, positive sexual rights demand a different political and ethical paradigm, based on recognition. The political project of positive sexual rights ultimately seeks to destroy male hegemony over the practice and discourse of sexuality and to remove heterosexuality from the center. Despite the limits of social movements based on sexual identity, we believe that they have had a profound social and cultural impact, which is why we argue that negative sexual rights are now an extremely feasible project. Moreover, we develop the idea that the possibility of undertaking a project of positive sexual rights is based on the creative combination of two forces. The first is the emancipatory forces of social movements based on sexual identity that have permitted the continuous questioning of the current social organization of sexuality. The second is the profound transformations of social theory and philosophy that enable us to conceive of and experience sexuality (and its identities) in a nonexistentialist, decentered, relational, interactive and fluid manner. In the end, we believe that this opens up the possibility of destabilizing the effects that power relations have on sex, sexuality and sexual identity.

This paper reports on a follow-up of a sample of 303 adolescent male sex of fenders from New South Wales, Australia. Adult rearrest and reconviction data were obtained for 292 of these individuals. The mean observation period between their adjudication as adolescents and their follow-up as adults was 7.3 years. Seventy-five (25%) received further convictions for sexual offenses prior to their 18th birthday. As adults, 25 (9%) came to the attention of police for further alleged sexual offenses, including 14 (5%) who received convictions for these offenses. Of these, 11 (79%) also received new convictions for nonsexual offenses. Overall, 61.3% of subjects received convictions for nonsexual offenses as adults. Results suggest considerable diversity and persistence in delinquent and criminal behavior, and challenge assumptions about high transition rates from adolescent to adult sexual offending.

Abstract: We examine how the issues of gender and sexual orientation have been addressed in family therapy and identify critical issues as the field defines itself in a postmodern, inclusive era. We show how unintentional bias and creation of the category of "other" persist throughout the history of clinical practice despite a rise of interest in diversity. We suggest that family therapy approaches have been based on a view of sex‐gender that creates dichotomous categories, confounds gender and sexual orientation, and limits flexibility. A postgender approach organized around a relationship model based on equality rather than gender is advocated. Obstacles to postgender practice are identified, and guidelines for practice and challenges for the future are discussed.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- The culture of matter -- The matter of culture -- Conceptions of matter -- Science and patriarchy -- Signposting the narrative -- Suggested readings -- 2 Making Sex, Making Sexual Difference -- Introduction -- Pre-Enlightenment and the discourse of "one sex -- The Enlightenment and the discourse of "two-sexes -- The contemporary sex/gender binary -- The missing link - heteronormativity -- Suggested readings -- 3 The Body of Sexual Difference -- Introduction -- The "essence" of sexual difference -- Skeletons -- Gametes -- Hormones -- Genes -- Conclusions -- Suggested readings -- 4 New Materialism, Nonlinear Biology, and the Superabundance of Diversity -- Introduction -- Evolutionary theory -- Sociobiology and sexual selection -- New materialism and nonlinear biology -- Nonlinearity and self-organization -- Contingency -- Variation and diversity -- Feminists intra-acting with matter -- Conclusions -- Suggested readings -- 5 The Nonlinear Evolution of Human Sex -- Introduction -- Reproducing bodies -- Interacting bodies -- Evolving bodies -- Reproducing bodies -- Sexual reproduction and kinship -- All in the family -- Boundaries - inclusion and exclusion -- Conclusions -- Suggested readings -- 6 Sex Diversity in Nonhuman Animals -- Introduction -- Sex complementarity -- Sex diversity -- Intersex -- Transsex -- Transvestism -- Sexual diversity -- Family values -- Homosexuality -- Transspecies sexuality -- Conclusions -- Suggested readings -- 7 Sex Diversity in Human Animals -- Introduction -- The variability of sex -- A short history of intersex -- Monsters and society -- Rendering sex diversity harmless: the development of medicine and the reconstitution of monsters.

Abstract The sexual exchange of girls and women embodies deep cultural practices and is historically embedded in many family and kinship systems. Contemporary trafficking operations transform traditional bride wealth and marriage exchanges (prestations) by treating women's sexuality and bodies as commodities to be bought and sold (and exchanged again) in various Western capitals and Internet spaces. Such operations are also global with respect to scale, range, speed, diversity, and flexibility. Propelling many trafficking exchanges are political economic processes, which increase the trafficking of women in times of stress, such as famine, unemployment, economic transition, and so forth. However, the disparity between the global market operations, which organize trafficking, and the late nineteenth century social/public welfare system of counter‐trafficking suggests why the latter do not effectively address women's risks and may even expose them to increased levels of violence and stress. Drawing on historical accounts, anthropological theory, and ethnographic work in Viet Nam and Bosnia and Herzegovina, this essay examines how specific cultural practices embedded in family and kinship relations encourage and rationalize sexual trafficking of girls and young women in times of stress and dislocation. The essay also analyses how technologies of power inform both trafficking and counter‐trafficking operations in terms of controlling women's bodies, sexuality, health, labour, and migration. By analysing sexual trafficking as a cultural phenomenon in its own right, such an analysis seeks to inform and address the specific situations of girls and young women, who suffer greatly from the current migration regimes.

This thesis is a study of the original plays of the contemporary Irish dramatist Frank McGuinness. McGuinness was bom in Buncrana, County Donegal, Ireland in 1950. His first play, The Factory Girls, was produced in 1984. For the past twenty years he has consistently produced plays in Ireland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Besides his original plays he has written versions of classical drama, mostly nineteenth century realism. Besides being an award winning playwright of international standing he is also a published poet and academic. I have chosen in this study to focus on original plays for the purpose of uncovering what I describe as the 'queer' elements of his dramaturgy. In utilising the term queer I engage a wide variety of theoretical tools and philosophical positions for my analysis. The theoretical term queer has emerged out of the poststructuralist project, with its attention to the deconstruction of essentialist notions 'truth' and 'nature'. It has also been influenced by feminism and its concurrent attention to issues of gender and politics in society and culture. Perhaps most directly, however. Queer Studies has grown out of gay and lesbian studies and their considerations of issues of sexual diversity and homogenous systems of gender construction and political and social exclusion. The theoretical use of queer theory challenges all previous assumptions about gender and sexual identity politics articulated by feminism and gay and lesbian studies in order to flirther challenge established ideologies. ; TARA (Trinity?s Access to Research Archive) has a robust takedown policy. Please contact us if you have any concerns: rssadmin@tcd.ie

Deconstructing Heterosexism in the Counseling Professions uses the personal narratives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual counseling psychologists and counselor educators to deconstruct the heterosexist discourse in the counseling professions, envision a discourse of sexual orientation equity, and make practical suggestions for addressing sexual orientation in professional life. The narrative approach encompasses a diversity of stories and experiences including an emphasis on racial and cultural contexts. These narratives and their analyses serve as a means for the individual and coll