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"Sex work has always attracted policy, public and prurient interest. Currently, legal frameworks in developed countries range from prohibition, through partial legalisation to active regulation. Globalisation has increased women's mobility between developing and developed countries at the same time as women's employment opportunities in the developed world are shifting. Family and intimate relationships are being transformed by changing demographics, shifting social mores and new intersections between intimate lives and global markets. Sex work is located at the nexus of new intimacies, shifting employment patterns and changing global mobilities. This volume examines the working lives of contemporary sex workers; their practices, their labour market conditions and their engagement with domestic and international regulatory frameworks. It locates the voices and experiences of workers in Melbourne, Australia, at the centre of the sexual services industry as they reflect on brothels and independent escort work, on working conditions and managers, and on the relationships they form with clients. It offers a new account of sex work where women's labour and mobility is understood as central in local and global imperatives to offer sexual services. It examines how these new imperatives intersect with, challenge and exceed existing regulatory frameworks for sex work. Sex work: labour, mobility and sexual services draws together the everyday practices of sex workers and the broader global markets in which workers negotiate employment. In bringing together these two important intersecting areas, it offers a grounded and innovative account of sex work which will be of interest to academics and policy makers concerned with sex work, gender studies and the sociology of labour."--Publisher.

Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions, and pious denunciations, of sodomy, bestiality, transvestitism, and incest, abound in Western travel narratives, missionary accounts, and ethnographies. But what constituted indigenous sexual morality, and how was this influenced by Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Islam, and Christianity over ti.

Against the late nineteenth-century European trend of theoretical elaborations of negative homosexual stereotypes and the legal persecution of homosexuals, German sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) introduced a scientific and humanistic approach to homosexual emancipation. Radical from the outset, his pioneering theorizations of gender overturned the dual sex system and revealed the artificiality of gender. Beyond destabilizing traditional concepts of masculinity and femininity and substantiating the naturalness of such phenomena as homosexual, intersexed, and transgendered identities, Hirschfeld deployed his theories to serve as the basis of a steadfast and influential campaign for the decriminalization of homosexuality and an international sexual freedom movement that championed the principal causes of the women's movement and the rights of all sexual minorities. Integrating the predominant cultural, scientific, and political discourses during Hirschfeld's lifetime, Elena Mancini illuminates his cosmopolitan and classical liberal political and cultural stance, showing him as more than a homosexual theorist and activist.€This fascinating study shows how his opposition to fascism and to all forms of sexual and racial hierarchies makes him a humanist for our times and an inspiration for those who strive for social and political inclusion and tolerance.

"In Sexual Revolutions in Cuba Carrie Hamilton delves into the relationship between passion and politics in revolutionary Cuba to present a comprehensive history of sexuality on the island from the triumph of the Revolution in 1959 into the twenty-first century. Drawing on an unused body of oral history interviews as well as press accounts, literary works, and other published sources, Hamilton pushes beyond official government rhetoric and explores how the wider changes initiated by the Revolution have affected the sexual lives of Cuban citizens. She foregrounds the memories and emotions of ordinary Cubans and compares these experiences with changing policies and wider social, political, and economic developments to reveal the complex dynamic between sexual desire and repression in revolutionary Cuba. Showing how revolutionary and prerevolutionary values coexist in a potent and sometimes contradictory mix, Hamilton addresses changing patterns in heterosexual relations, competing views of masculinity and femininity, same-sex relationships and homophobia, AIDS, sexual violence, interracial relationships, and sexual tourism. Hamilton's examination of sexual experiences across generations and social groups demonstrates that sexual politics have been integral to the construction of a new revolutionary Cuban society."--Book details

Concrete and Dust focuses on the performative nature of sexualized identity in Hollywood, the people that live in its underbelly and surrounding valleys, the sexual geographies of the place, and the ways in which sexual agency is mapped on the body and in consciousness. The cultural turn in ethnography has expanded the scope of ethnographic research methods, which now include innovative techniques that recognize and value sensuous scholarship (ethnographic works that incorporate visual, aural, and sensory texts). Hollywood has often been a focus in critical cultural theory; absent.

"What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s? Often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety, this book provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in marriage in the early and mid twentieth century. Based on vivid, compelling and frank testimonies from a socially and geographically diverse range of individuals, these award-winning authors look beyond the conventions of silence among the respectable majority to challenge stereotypes of ignorance and inhibition. The book explores a spectrum of sexual experiences, from learning about sex and sexual practices in courtship, to attitudes to the body, marital ideals and birth control, demonstrating that whilst the era's emphasis on silence and strict moral codes could for some be a source of inhibition and dissatisfaction, for many the culture of privacy and innocence was central to fulfilling and pleasurable intimate lives"--Provided by publisher

Get more answers to your burning questions with this carnal crash course from the most popular women's magazine in the world. Cosmo's 200 Naughtiest Sex Questions 2 is your quickie guide to the boldest and most essential info about sex-serving up each response in twenty words or less.

Foreword / Tony and Lois Evans -- 1. In the secret place -- 2. What is sex? -- 3. The male anatomy -- 4. The female anatomy -- 5. The sexual response cycle -- 6. The wedding night and beyond -- 7. Questions about varying levels of interest -- 8. Questions about orgasm -- 9. Other questions couples ask -- 10. What is marriage? -- 11. A word to husbands -- 12. A word to wives -- 13. A call to integrity -- 14. Protect your sexuality -- 15. Develop a loyal heart -- 16. When delight becomes obsession : sexual addiction -- 17. Sexuality and aging -- 18. Questions from our readers -- 19. Relational intimacy in marriage -- 20. Some final thoughts.

Introduction: development, global governance, and sexual subjectivities / Amy Lind -- Part I. Querying/Queering Development: Theories, Representations, Strategies -- 1. Why the development industry should get over its obsession wtih bad sex and start to think about pleasure / Susie Jolly -- 2. Transgender development: reframing hijras and development / Jyoti Puri -- 3. Querying feminist economics' straight path to development: household models reconsidered / Suzanne Bergeron -- Part II. Negotiating Heteronormativity in Development Institutions -- 4. World Bank's GLOBE: queers in/queering development / Andil Gosine -- 5. NGOs as erotic sites / Ara Wilson -- 6. Promoting exports, restructuring love: the World Bank and the Ecuadorian flower industry / Kate Bedford -- 7. "Headless families" and "detoured men": off the straight path of modern development in Bolivia / Susan Paulson -- Part III. Resisting Global Hegemonies, Struggling for Sexual Rights and Gender Justice -- 8. Spelling it out: from alphabet soup to sexual rights and gender justice / Sangeeta Budhiraja, Susana T. Fried and Alexandra Teixeira -- 9. Disrupting gender normativity in the Middle East: supporting gender transgression as a development strategy / Petra Doan -- 10. Behind the mask: developing LGBTI visibility in Africa / Ashley Currier -- 11. Queer Dominican moves: in the interstices of colonial legacies and global impulses / Maja Horn.

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