This entry identifies common adult misunderstandings about childhood sexuality and the consequent inadequacy of most children’s learnings about sexuality. It describes the psychosocial, cognitive, and… Read More »Childhood sexuality
Adolescents engage with sexual language in many ways. This article discusses how teenagers develop and express their identity and peer group through sexual language. Adolescence… Read More »Language, sexuality, and adolescents
Biomedical discourses are uniquely implicated in the constitution of modern sexualities. This entry discusses some of the most significant sites of tension in which biomedical… Read More »Biomedical discourses and sexuality
Individuals and communities around the world hold a plethora of beliefs, practices, emotions, and motivations that mark religious diversity. Such diversity is evident in religious… Read More »World religions and sexuality
More needs to be known about gay men’s sexuality for public and sexual health programs, to understand human sexuality and homosexuality in general, and for… Read More »Gay men’s sexuality
The entry first delineates the related but distinct notions of sexuality and sexual identity before giving a brief overview of the main tenets of conceptual… Read More »Metaphor, sexuality and
Early work in the field of sociophonetics and sexuality attempted to show how the speech of gay men and women was quantitatively different from the… Read More »Sexuality and sociophonetics
Medicalization of sexuality represents the process of growing medical authority over sexual experiences and sensations, which is sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry. Most often, it… Read More »Medicalization of sexuality