Sexuality Now: Embracing Diversity

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With its fresh, fun, and hip approach, SEXUALITY NOW: EMBRACING DIVERSITY, International Edition, helps to teach students what they need and want to know about sexuality while clearly conveying foundational biological and health issues and citing current and classic research. The text continues to be a product of author Janell Carroll's partnership with her students, answering the questions and concerns that students have about themselves and their sexuality with scientific fact, sensitivity, humor, and unmatched candor. Carroll presents the range of sexual orientations and behaviors and takes into account the social, religious, ethnic, racial, and cultural contexts of today's students; this edition includes even more examples and research on sexual diversity both within and across cultures. An excellent resource package supports instructors and students, including videos, an online tutorial featuring diagnostic quizzing and automatic grading, and the PowerLecture™ presentation tool with readymade lecture slides, text images, and questions on slides for use with student response system software and "clickers." Key Feature The text goes beyond simplyproviding a foundation in the biology and psychology of sexuality, connecting with students by exploring contemporary issues, changing practices and behaviors, and their impact. Topics include increased use of tanning beds, tattooing, body and genital piercing, and pubic hair shaving and waxing. The author views cross-cultural and U.S. diversity as integral to understanding human sexuality. Discussions of diversity issues involving sexual attitudes and behaviors appear throughout the text and in "Human Sexuality in a Diverse World" boxes. Topics include cross-cultural age-of-consent laws, foot binding, treatment of sexual dysfunction, and Japanese love hotels. "What Do You Want to Know?" questions (formerly "Sex Talk") address common questions that students are often afraid to ask. Collected from the author's students, her website, and her travels, questions include "Can a male have an orgasm without an ejaculation?" and "How can you stay with one person your whole life and not get bored?" Noticing that "fun facts" spark communication, the author uses a "Real Research" feature (formerly "sexbyte") to introduce little-known tidbits from current sexuality research. Each chapter contains several updated snippets; topics include friends with benefits relationships, gaydar, maternal diet and fetal gender, and physical healthand attachment styles. "Sex in Real Life" boxes provide a "sound bite" review of current trends in sexuality research. Topics include social networks, gender variations, parental anxiety about educating their children about sex, lesbianism on campus, same-sex couple's family, and society's fear of men. Table of Contents 1. Exploring Human Sexuality: Past and Present. 2. Understanding Human Sexuality: Theory and Research. 3. Communication: Enriching Your Sexuality. 4. Gender Development, Gender Roles, and Gender Identity. 5. Female Sexual Anatomy and Physiology. 6. Male Sexual Anatomy and Physiology. 7. Love and Intimacy. 8. Childhood and Adolescent Sexuality. 9. Adult Sexual Relationships. 10. Sexual Expression: Arousal and Response. 11. Sexual Orientation. 12. Pregnancy and Birth. 13. Contraception and Abortion. 14. Challenges to Sexual Functioning. 15. Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS. 16. Varieties of Sexual Expression. 17. Power and Sexual Coercion. 18. Sexual Images and Selling Sex.