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Sexual Interactions successfully combines a solid research base with practical applications and takes an interdisciplinary approach to research, integrating biological, psychological, social, religious, ethical, legal, emotional, and cross-cultural perspectives throughout the text.

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• 1 Sexual Interactions: Realities and Myths
• Sexual Interactions Realities and Myths
• Beliefs About the Need to Control
• Sexual Expression Highlight: Mark Twain on Masturbation
• Highlight: Contemporary Beliefs in Witches Beliefs
• About Fertility and Development
• Dating and Mating Research
• Spotlight: What Do You Look for in a Partner?
• Highlight: Valencia Declaration on Sexual Rights
• 2 Contemporary Explanations of Sexuality
• Evolutionary Approaches
• Psychoanalytic Approaches
• Learning Approaches
• Sociological Approaches
• Highlight: A Polygynous African Tribe
• Theories, Politics, and Morality
• 3 Research on Sexuality
• The Rise of Science
• The Impact of Societal Beliefs, Political Attitudes, and Ethical
• Issues on Research Research
• Spotlight: Ethical Principles and the Tuskegee Study
• Understanding the Process of Sex Research
• Measurement in Sex Research
• Evaluating Results of Studies of Sexuality
• 4 Sexual Anatomy and Physiology Sexual Anatomy
• Highlight: Testes Self-Examination
• Highlight: Kegel Exercises
• Highlight: Breast Self-Examination
• Hormones and the Endocrine System
• The Nervous System
• 5 Sexual Behavior
• Sources of Sexual Pleasure
• Sexual Responses
• Highlight: Physical Reactions During Sexual Response
• Research Spotlight: Whose Is It?
• Varieties of Orgasm
• 6 Arousal and Communication
• Learning to Be Aroused Sources of Arousal
• Research Spotlight: Do You Feel Guilty
• About Your Sexual Feelings?
• Communication About Sexuality
• Highlight: Negotiating a Sexual Relationship
• 7 Loving Sexual Interactions
• Being Loved: Early Experience Self-Love
• Loving Others
• Love as Dependency, Jealousy, and Other Unlovely Feelings
• Research Spotlight: Dating Infidelity
• Highlight: Intimate Terrorism
• Loving Sexual Interactions
• Highlight: Make Love, Not War
• 8 Sexual Differentiation and Development Fertilization
• Sex Chromosomes and Genetic Sex Prenatal Development
• Typical Sexual Differentiation
• Highlight: The Major Sex Hormones
• Atypical Sexual Differentiation
• Secondary Sexual Characteristics
• Highlight: Meanings of Menarche
• Sexual Differentiation and Gender Identity
• 9 Pregnancy and Birth Pregnancy
• Highlight: Tests for Identifying Fetal Abnormalities
• Labor and Birth
• Highlight: A Personal Account of Childbirth
• Postpartum Events and Decisions
• 10 Contraception
• The Development and Use of Modern Contraceptives
• Highlight: Sponge-Worthy?
• Methods of Contraception Sterilization
• Contraceptive Techniques of the Future
• 11 Resolving Unwanted Pregnancy
• Unintended Pregnancy Abortion: A Human Dilemma Research
• Spotlight: Abortion Case Histories
• Highlight: The Legal Status of Abortion in the United States
• Abortion: The Process Unintended Parenthood
• 12 Sexuality in Childhood and Adolescence
• Understanding Childhood
• Sexuality Theories About the Development of Gender and Sexuality Research
• Spotlight: Children's Sexual Knowledge--
• An Immoral Research Topic?
• Infancy Early Childhood
• Preschool Years Middle to Late Childhood Research
• Spotlight: The Relationship Between the Provision of Sex and Contraceptive
• Education and Unwanted Pregnancies in Western Nations
• Adolescence
• Gender Role
• Identification in Adolescence
• 13 Sexuality in Adulthood
• Young Adulthood
• Marriage and Long-Term Commitments
• Long-Term Relationships
• Research Spotlight: The Relationship of Equity to Likelihood of Having Extramarital Sex Midlife
• Sexuality Old Age
• 14 Variations in Sexual Orientation
• What Is Sexual Orientation?
• Highlight: Variations in Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
• Highlight: Rigid Versus Fluid
• Definitions of Orientation Homosexual Behavior and Gay Identity
• Explanations of Sexual Orientation
• Sexual Orientation and Adjustment
• Highlight: Turning the Tables
• Discrimination and Gay Liberation Bisexuality
• 15 Sexual Dysfunctions and Therapy
• Sexual Dysfunction: Contributing Factors
• Highlight: Disorders, Diseases, and Other Factors That Can Affect Sexual Functioning
• Types of Sexual Dysfunction
• Sex Therapy
• Research Spotlight: A Treatment Program for Orgasmically Inhibited
• Women Highlight: Systematic Desensitization Hierarchy for Inhibited Ejaculation
• 16 Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Attitudes Toward Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Highlight: How Accurate Is Your Knowledge of HIV/AIDS?
• Bacterial Infections Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
• Highlight: An Epidemic of Stigma
• Highlight: Being Tested for HIV Antibodies
• Other Viral STDs
• Parasitic Infections
• Safer-Sex Practices: Reducing the Risk of Contracting STDs
• 17 Atypical Sexual Activity
• The Paraphilias The Noninvasive Consensual Paraphilias
• Highlight: Pain and Sexual Arousal
• The Invasive Paraphilias
• Highlight: Uncommon Paraphilias Treatment of the Invasive Paraphilias
• 18 Sexual Harassment
• Sexual Harassment: What Is It?
• Highlight: Examples of Sexual Harassment?
• Research Spotlight: Variations in Judgments of Sexual Harassment
• Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
• Sexual Harassment in Educational Settings
• Highlight: Dealing with Sexual Harassment by an Instructor
• Sexual Harassment in Therapeutic Settings
• Sexual Harassment in the Military Sexual
• Harassment in Religious Life
• Reducing Sexual Harassment
• 19 Sexual Assault and Abuse Sexual Assault
• Highlight: Male Rape
• Highlight: Was He Asking for It?
• Child-Adult Sexual Contacts
• Long-Term Correlates of Child-Adult
• Sexual Contacts Research
• Spotlight: Memories of Sexual Abuse
• During Childhood Sex for Profit
• Varieties of Sexual Products
• Highlight: Romance Novels--Erotica for Women?
• Erotica and the Law
• The Effects of Erotica
• Highlight: Public Policy and Erotica Prostitution (Commercial Sex Work)
• Highlight: Prostitution Across Cultures