This volume explores how women experience and express their sexuality from childhood through old age. Moving beyond a traditional focus on sexual functioning, the book emphasizes the complex interaction of psychological, social, cultural, and biological influences.
Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance
A timely study of the troubling links between religion, morality, and sex and the tendancies of secular institutions to use religion to regulate sexual life.
Ward, Laws and Hudson are among the world's leading authorities in the area of understanding and treating sex offenders. They address the biological, developmental, cultural, and learning factors in the genesis and development of sexual deviancy and links those theories to interventions with sex offenders. Sexual Deviance examines why sex offences ......
What does social science research tell us about homosexuality? Does this knowledge affect public policy? Despite scholarly research, homosexuality continues to be the subject of an intense, and often bitter, debate. This volume summarizes academic knowledge about homosexuality and its relevance for public policy. Topics addressed include the nature and causes of sexual orientations; the reasons homosexuality is not an illness; the ethics of various mental health approaches to homosexuality; the effects of social and legal discrimination; newer biological and psychological understandings of homosexuality; homosexuals as parents; and the implications of the AIDS epidemic.
Explains that much of our behaviour can be traced back to the ancient evolved motives of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Drawing on the mating behaviour of various animals, this book finds illuminating comparisons that help to explain human actions and reactions.
This is the book that will provide pastors and congregational leaders the tools to identify the assumptions, behaviors and structures that promote, while masking, sexual shame and to begin healing sexual shame both individually and corporately.
A wide-ranging anthology on feminist sexual theology. Noting that Jesus, while being declared divine, took human form, this volume questions what happens when the flesh, rather than the word, is placed at the centre of theological reflection.
A wide-ranging anthology on feminist sexual theology. Noting that Jesus, while being declared divine, took human form, this volume questions what happens when the flesh, rather than the word, is placed at the centre of theological reflection.
Demonstrates how and why 20- and 30-something women have evolved to act and think more like men sexually, while also creating their own distinct sexual patterns and appetites. Based on more than one hundred interviews with women across the country, this book reports the real story of today's enhanced sexual expectations and choices.
