Books & Research Works on Sex and Sexology

PRECARITY AND DATA Although some gender and sexuality data are relatively easy to track, others are more difficult. Such difficulties often spring from contexts of… Read More »Houston/Harris County gender & sexuality data: Initial report

Drawing on an intersectional perspective, this chapter documents the many ways in which sexuality and migration inform each other. At the macrostructural level, the chapter… Read More »Sexuality and Migration

In this chapter, we examine interdisciplinary sexualities work from a global perspective to highlight how religion has impacted the social construction of sexuality in various… Read More »Sexuality and Religion

Drawing on research from the social sciences, and in particular psychology, this chapter explores sexuality socialization. This chapter examines the processes of acquiring knowledge, norms,… Read More »Sexuality and Socialization

This chapter is concerned with conceptualizing school‐based sexuality education research undertaken around the world in the last 10 years. This conceptualization is guided by two… Read More »Sexuality Education

Sexual minority/minorities refers to people who identify, or are identified, as distinct from a presumed dominant and thereby normativized population in terms of their sexual… Read More »Sexual Minorities

Biochemistry uses molecular methods to study chemical processes in organic systems. Physiology is the study of integrated function among organisms, organs, cells, and molecules in… Read More »Biochemistry and Physiology

This entry provides an overview of sex and sexuality in older adult women. Current prevalence rates within the United States, including details about facilitators and… Read More »Senior Women and Sexuality in the United States

The touching or other stimulation of one’s own genitals or other erogenous zones for sexual purposes, masturbation has a long and complex history as a… Read More »Masturbation