Choosing Unsafe Sex

Choosing Unsafe Sex
Author: E. J. Sobo
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0812200373

Choosing Unsafe Sex focuses on the ways in which condom refusal and beliefs regarding HIV testing reflect women's hopes for their relationships and their desires to preserve status and self-esteem. Many of the inner-city women who participated in Dr. Sobo's research were seriously involved with one man, and they had heavy emotional and social investments in believing or maintaining that their partners were faithful to them. Uninvolved women had similarly heavy investments in their abilities to identify or choose potential partners who were HIV-negative. Women did not see themselves as being at risk for HIV infection, and so they saw no need for condoms. But they did recommend that other women, whom they saw as quite likely to be involved with sexually unfaithful men, use them.

Sex and Sexuality

Sex and Sexuality
Author: M. Michele Burnette
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 982
Release: 2006-05-30
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 031304919X

An unprecedented source of information about sex and sexuality at the start of the 21st century, these volumes include research, current events and new developments in subjects ranging from hypersexuality, sex for the aged, and sex therapy, to orgasmic disorders, sexual fetishism and sadism. Controversial subjects such as pornography, nude dancing and prostitution are explored, as are dysfunctions, from lack of sexual desire to gender identity disorder. Pedophilia and other crimes are also addressed. The remarkable team of contributing authors includes psychologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, medical doctors and public health officials. They provide fresh insights on sex in America today, on sexual development in childhood, midlife and the senior years, and on the influence of media and the family in the social construction of sex and sexuality. The books also offer insights into the psychology of sexual arousal and the effects medication can have on sexual function, and they shed light on such little-heralded studies as those on sex and race, and sex and religion.

A Courtship after Marriage

A Courtship after Marriage
Author: Jennifer Hirsch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2003-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520935837

From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6. Such changes are part of a larger transformation explored in this book, a richly detailed ethnographic study of generational and migration-related redefinitions of gender, marriage, and sexuality in rural Mexico and among Mexicans in Atlanta.

Beyond Sexuality

Beyond Sexuality
Author: Tim Dean
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2000-09
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780226139340

Beyond Sexuality points contemporary sexual politics in a radically new direction. Combining a psychoanalytic emphasis on the unconscious with a deep respect for the historical variability of sexual identities, this original work of queer theory makes the case for viewing erotic desire as fundamentally impersonal. Tim Dean develops a reading of Jacques Lacan that—rather than straightening out this notoriously difficult French psychoanalyst—brings out the queer tensions and productive incoherencies in his account of desire. Dean shows how the Lacanian unconscious "deheterosexualizes" desire, and along the way he reveals how psychoanalytic thinkers as well as queer theorists have failed to exploit the full potential of this conception of desire. The book elaborates this by investigating social fantasies about homosexuality and AIDS, including gay men's own fantasies about sex and promiscuity, in an attempt to illuminate the challenges facing safe-sex education. Taking on many shibboleths in contemporary psychoanalysis and queer theory—and taking no prisoners—Beyond Sexuality offers an antidote to hagiographical strains in recent work on psychoanalysis, Foucault, and sexuality.

Sex in College

Sex in College
Author: Richard McAnulty
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012-03-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0313383847

Experts address key issues—from attitudes and behaviors to harassment and homophobia—related to sexuality among college students. With essays by a wide range of knowledgeable contributors, Sex in College: The Things They Don't Write Home About draws on recent research to examine just about every aspect of its intriguing subject. The book begins with general chapters that offer historical, cross-cultural, and theoretical perspectives on college students' sexual attitudes and behaviors. One chapter offers a framework for understanding the unique developmental perspective of young adults. Another chapter explores the research methods used to study college students' sexual practices. Subsequent chapters cover: dating and intimacy on campus, the perspective of young adults about love, sexuality education and classes, and sexual orientation. The darker side of college sexuality is also examined in chapters centering on such topics as infidelity in college dating relationships, homophobia and sexual harassment on campus, sexual risk-taking and sexually transmitted infections, sexual problems and dysfunction among young adults, and sexual assault among college students.

The Social Context of Birth

The Social Context of Birth
Author: Caroline Squire
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2009
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1846192536

Providing an understanding of the impact of social circumstance on women giving birth, their babies and families in the 21st century, this title explains to midwives and other health professionals how social issues, such as domestic violence, race and poverty, can affect the birth progress.

The Political Economy of AIDS

The Political Economy of AIDS
Author: Merrill Singer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2018-12-20
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1351841114

Features a collection of seven research-based articles on AIDS. This work seeks to cut through popular misunderstanding and conventional ideas about the spread and impact of AIDS by employing a political economic perspective in the analysis of the epidemic in diverse settings.

Choosing Happiness

Choosing Happiness
Author: Rico Ituarte
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 92
Release: 2017-02-06
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1504360974

You opened this book, because you were curious about how you can be HAPPY or HAPPIER than what you are now. Well let me tell you right now, DON"T BELIEVE ANYTHING I SAY just apply or do some of the exercises I recommend and IF, just if, you become happier, then start applying and using these principles EVERY DAY. Something inside me from a very young age was telling me that I either wanted, desired, was able to, had to be, had already inside of me, THE POSSIBILITY OF BEING HAPPY. And you too, have the same possibility of being HAPPY. So why am I qualified to write about happiness? Well from my childhood, I started practicing being happy for no reason. I have read books, I have gone to seminars, I have studied NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming; a science of the subconscious mind) and I have practiced what I have learned. Because of the practice of these principles that I am going to describe in this book, I have been able to create happiness moment by moment even in the most difficult moments of my life.

Persuading People To Have Safer Sex

Persuading People To Have Safer Sex
Author: Richard M. Perloff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 167
Release: 2000-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1135665443

This volume explores the application of persuasion theory and research to HIV/AIDS prevention, focusing on changing attitudes and behaviors. It is intended for students and scholars applying theory to health or AIDS prevention.