"Sexology: The Basics" is the contemporary manual of human sexuality, eroticism, and intimate relationships. It takes you to every corner of the human erotic mind and physiological arousal response for a thorough understanding of all the functional parts of our sexualities, including how we bond, love, and have sex from a broad perspective of diversities in sex, gender, are a student or a professional, or want to make sense of our often confusing erotic world.
Sexology: The Basics is the contemporary manual of human sexuality, eroticism, and intimate relationships. It takes you to every corner of the human erotic mind and physiological arousal response for a thorough understanding of all the functional parts of our sexualities, including how we bond, love and have sex from a broad perspective of diversities in sex, gender, and relationships, from monogamy to polyamory, Vanilla to Kink. This book bridges the gaps in our knowledge of sex education. It is the ultimate guide to answering all the questions you never dared to ask, whether you are a student ora professional, or want to make sense of our often confusing erotic world.
Section 1: Sexual Differentiation and Dimorphism -- Sexual Differentiation in the Human Male and Female: Science, Strategies and Politics -- Sexual Dimorphism in Erotic Function: a Psychosocial Approach -- Hormone Dependent Differentiation, Maturation and Function of the Brain and Sexual Behavior -- Sexual Identity and Eroticism -- Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: Erotic Component of Gender Identity in Nine Women -- Pair-Bonding Experience of 26 Early Treated Adrenogenital Females Aged 17–27 -- Erotic Imagery and Male/Female Discordance in Hermaphroditic Siblings -- Postpubertal Psychosexual Function in Males with Hypopituitarism -- The Transvestite/Transsexual: Gender-Identity Continuum and Transposition -- Voice Therapy with a Transsexual -- Effects of Prenatal Hormone Treatment on Mental Abilities -- Section 2: Sexual Dysfunction -- Etiology -- Sexual Functioning Reconsidered -- Male Erectile Impotence -- The Effects of Depression on Sexual Behavior: Preliminary Results of Research -- Sexual Dysfunction in Patients with Neurological Disorders -- Therapy -- Overview -- Effectiveness of Sex Therapy -- Research -- Comparative Studies of Short-Term Treatment Methods for Sexual Inadequacies -- Stimulation Therapy for Sexual Dysfunction -- The Effect of Sexual Fantasy Frequencies on the Outcome of Short-Term Treatment Program for Sexual Inadequacy in Heterosexual Couples -- Vaginismus -- Retarded Ejaculation and Treatment -- Medroxyprogesterone Acetate as an Antiandrogen for the Rehabilitation of Sex Offenders -- Techniques -- The Use of Audio-Visual Materials in Therapy -- The Erotic-Bodily Contact Approach in Sexology -- Microphallus: The Successful Use of a Prosthetic Phallus in a Nine-Year-Old Boy -- Biological Aspects of Sexual Function -- Pliable Penile Prostheses in Treatment of Organic Impotence -- Certification for Sex Therapists -- Section 3: Sexual Response and Fantasy -- Role of Fantasy in Pair-Bonding and Erotic Performance -- Erotic Imagery in Women -- Sexual Behavior in Elderly Danish Males -- Reproductive Hormone Levels and Sexual Behaviors of Young Couples During the Menstrual Cycle -- Finger Temperature as a Measure of Sexual Arousal in Males and Females -- Multiple Orgasm in Males -- Patterns of Sexual Responsiveness during the Menstrual Cycle -- Human Vaginal Fluid, pH, Urea, Potassium and Potential Difference during Sexual Excitement -- Sexual Chemistry in Monkeys: The Effect of Vaginal Secretions on Male Sexuality -- Section 4: Fertility, Infertility, Contraception -- Orgasm and Fertility -- Ovulation Induction -- Infertility in the Unwed -- The Effects of Oral Contraceptives on Sexual Behavior -- Possible Effects of Vasectomy on Sexual Function -- Factors Affecting the Use of Contraception in the Nonmarital Context -- Attitudes of Nurses to Premarital Sex and Their Contraceptive Role Orientation -- Unmarried Youth and Actual Accessibility to Oral Contraceptives and Condoms -- Section 5: Anthropological and Sociological Studies -- Phylogenetic and Ontogenetic Aspects of Human Affectional Development -- Sex Attitudes and Practices in Two Language Groups in South Africa -- Results of the Sex Knowledge and Attitude Test of Medical Students in Israel -- Youth, Sexuality and Politics -- Psychosexual Material in the Stories Told by Children: The Fucker -- Prostitution as an Ecology of Confidence Games: The Scripted Behavior of Prostitutes and Vice Officers -- Sexual Scripts -- Section 6: Sex Education -- Sex Education and the Structure of Moral Judgment: Effectiveness of a Form of Sex Education Based on the Development of Formal Structures of Value Judgment -- Sexual Attitude Reassessment: The Workshop Participant and Attitude Change -- Evaluating a Short-Term Sex Information Program -- History, Objectives, Content of the Sexology Program at Université du Québec à Montréal -- Section 7: Sexology in Three Countries — an Overview -- Sex Education in Mexico -- Current Status of Sex Research and Sex Education in Japan -- Socio-Political Problems of Sexology as a Developing Field in Italy -- Section 8: Conclusion -- Human Sexuality — Battleground or Peaceground? -- List of Contributors.