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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• PART 1 Laying the foundations
• 1 Welcome to the new sexuality studies
• 2 Construction as a social process
• 3 The shifting lines of sexual morality
• 4 Trans categories and the sex/gender/sexuality system: how transforming understandings of sex and gender can shift sexuality
• 5 Unthinking compulsory sexuality: introducing asexuality
• 6 The dos and don’ts of dating: heterosexual and LGBTQ dating rituals as sexual scripts
• 7 Why sexual identities, behaviors, and attractions do not always “match”
• 8 Method matters: discovering how early motherhood, monogamy, and social class shape young women’s sexuality
• 9 Suicide is only part of the story: telling wounded truths about LGBTQ youth
• 10 Sex positivity: a Black feminist gift
• PART 2 Bodies and behaviors
• 11 The social meanings of sexual intercourse
• 12 Polishing the pearl: discoveries of the clitoris
• 13 But can you ever win? Genital cosmetic procedures
• 14 The social meanings and practices of orgasm
• 15 Anal sex: phallic and other meanings
• 16 Rethinking dick pics
• 17 Reconceiving unintended pregnancy: considering context in sexual and reproductive decision making
• 18 Sex in later life: beyond dysfunction and the coital imperative
• 19 “There’s really no reason to settle”: size acceptance as a path to sexual empowerment
• PART 3 Relating and relationships
• 20 Romance and other threats to our future
• 21 One is not born a bride: weddings and the heterosexual imaginary
• 22 Yes, no, maybe so? Inequalities in sexual consent and sexual pleasure for young adults
• 23 What do vulnerability, shame, and mindfulness have to do with intimacy?
• 24 Interracial romance: the logic of acceptance and domination
• 25 Romantic apartheid: digital sexual racism in online dating
• 26 Sexualized othering in multiracial women’s experiences with sex and romance
• 27 Gay racism: the institutional and interactional patterns of racism in gay communities
• 28 Gender labor, racework, and trans pleasure: transgender individuals’ experiences in intimate relationships
• 29 “We were on a BREAK!”: men chasing masculinity and women seeking pleasure in affairs
• 30 Polyamory, mononormativity, and polyqueer kinship
• PART 4 Sex, gender, and sexuality
• 31 Intersexy, but fat: on the selective celebration of bodily differences
• 32 Trans sexualities: identities, relationships, and desires
• 33 Adolescent girls’ sexuality: sexual agency and the renovated sexual double standard
• 34 “There is no such thing as a slut”: creating and destroying the “good girl” in Taylor Swift’s musical persona
• 35 “Guys are just homophobic”: rethinking adolescent homophobia and heterosexuality
• 36 Not “straight,” but still a “man”: negotiating nonheterosexual masculinities
• 37 Straight men and women: hegemonic and counter-hegemonic straightness
• 38 How “regular sex” contributes to the gender gap in orgasms
• 39 Sacred and beastly sex: abstinence pledges and masculinity
• 40 Heteroflexibility
• PART 5 Social structures and institutions
• 41 The economy and American marriage: change and continuity
• 42 The marriage contract: the legal context of marriage
• 43 The elusive goal of sexual health
• 44 Medicine and the making of a sexual body
• 45 The feminization of “responsive” desire
• 46 The coloniality of sexuality
• 47 “I am God’s creation”: religion as a positive force in the lives of LGBTQ+ persons of faith
• 48 The politics of sexuality and gender expression in schools
• 49 Sex education and its failures: from social inequalities to intimate possibilities
• PART 6 Navigating inequalities and oppressions
• 50 The body, disability, and sexuality
• 51 The intersection of sexuality and intellectual disabilities: shattering the taboo
• 52 Disrupting dichotomies: nonbinary sexual identities
• 53 Creando una familia: LBQ Latinas facilitating bonds through shared race/ethnicity
• 54 “Heterosexual families do not have to explain themselves”: heteronormativity in the lives of LGBTQ+ children and parents
• 55 Intersected lives: race, class, and gender in lesbian- and gay-affirming Protestant congregations
• 56 “The thorn in my side”: how ex-gays, ex-ex-gays, and celibate gays negotiate their religious and sexual identities
• 57 The racial and sexual stereotypes of the “down low”
• 58 Unspoiling identity: combating racial and sexual stigma
• PART 7 Sexual cultures, places, and scenes
• 59 Sexual capital and social inequality: the study of sexual fields
• 60 Belonging in gay neighborhoods and queer nightlife
• 61 Queering the sexual and racial politics of urban revitalization
• 62 “We will always remember”: reactivating queer places as expressions of grief, solidarity, and protest after Pulse
• 63 The changing role of gay bars in American LGBTQ+ life
• 64 Learning to be queer: college women’s sexual fluidity
• 65 Critical consent: negotiating consent in trans-les-bi-queer BDSM communities
• 66 Nurturing through normalizing, endangering through dramatizing: approaches to adolescent sex and love
• PART 8 Sexual labor and commerce
• 67 The sexual economy and Nevada’s legal brothels
• 68 Inclusive pleasure: feminist sex shops
• 69 Looks for sale: the impact of aesthetic labor on the self-concepts of men who strip
• 70 Intimate labor in the adult film industry
• 71 Migrant sex work and trafficking: sorting them out
• 72 Sex work, the victim, and the anti-trafficking movement
• 73 Sex workers’ rights activism in the United States: navigating the internet in an age of s*x work censorship, state, and corporate surveillance
• 74 Challenging the controlling images of vamps and victims: sex worker activism in India
• PART 9 Sexual politics, social movements, and empowerment
• 75 Sexuality, state, and nation
• 76 Anti-homosexuality legislation and religion viewed from a transnational frame
• 77 The Religious Right, same-sex marriage, and LGBTQ+ rights activism
• 78 The evolution of same-sex marriage politics in the United States
• 79 The politics of race, class, and gender in queer safer sex
• 80 Children’s sexual citizenship
• 81 War and the politics of sexual violence
• 82 The history of activism against sexual violence and the modern #MeToo movement
• 83 A public health approach to campus sexual assault prevention: sexual citizenship, sexual projects, and sexual geographies
• 84 The ally paradox
• Index