Sexual Behaviour

This is an acclaimed study of the understanding of sex and gender in the early modern period, examining in particular Milton's interventions in the...

Through a sensitive use of a wide variety of imaginative and didactic texts, Ruth Karras shows that while prostitutes as individuals were marginali...

Haliczer's timely work uses a wealth of actual cases to document the eroticizing of the confessional between 1530 and 1819. Trial evidence left by ...

Changes in biological processes, relationships, and community interactions influence the emergence of sexuality in all young people. The process is...

What is the current state of psychological knowledge about lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals? This book presents definitive treatments of both curre...

The essays in this volume explore the psychological dimensions of lesbian, gay, and bisexual identities from puberty to adulthood. The essays focus...

Over the last fifteen years, psychological research regarding sexual orientation has seen explosive growth. In this book, Anthony R. D'Augelli and ...

Over the last two decades, a rich, diverse, yet sometimes contradictory body of research has been gathered under the general rubric of 'psychology ...

Sexuality has always been an obsessive human concern; it has often been the real subject of cultural, religious, and political discourses that did ...

Between the first and second decade of the millennium, women across the world reconsidered the sexual roles they had been playing under patriarchy....

Why have we failed so badly to end men’s violence against women? What can we actually do about it? This insightful, provocative and practical handb...

The first all encompassing self-help book about the oldest and most infamous industry in the world ///// A book for escorts, their clients and any...

"Sex" emerged as an independent field of study during the New Culture Movement (1915-21). The anatomy of the reproductive system, the physiology of...

'Desire, sexuality and biology appear to be inextricably linked. Not simply because we exist "as", "with" and "in" our bodies , but because our sex...

Individuals sometimes derive sexual pleasure from submission to cruel discipline. While that predilection was noted as early as the sixteenth centu...

In the years after the Second World War, economic and social factors combined to produce an intense concern over the sexual development and behavio...

Why do males and females frequently differ so markedly in body size and morphology?^lSex, Size, and Gender Roles is the first book to investigate t...

Laura is a bright and ambitious language student at a top university in France. She is also broke. Surfing the internet one evening, she stumbles a...

Brenda Almond throws down a timely challenge to the liberal consensus about personal relationships. She maintains that the traditional family is fr...

In this compelling follow-up to the "New York Times" bestseller "Survival of the Sickest", Dr. Sharon Moalem takes readers on a trip from prehistor...

Using both scientific and feminist approaches in its analysis, Sex and Gender: A Biopsychological Approach provides a current and comprehensive und...

Using both scientific and feminist approaches in its analysis, Sex and Gender: A Biopsychological Approach provides a current and comprehensive und...

In spite of its central importance in human relationships, the study of sexuality has been somewhat neglected by social psychologists. This reader ...

Transvestites are women and men who feel reluctant and even refuse to dress in the clothing of their own sex. For them, the inherent drive to cross...

In spite of its central importance in human relationships, the study of sexuality has been somewhat neglected by social psychologists. This reader ...

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By carefully examining the biological, genetic, evolutionary, and psychological evidence, a noted biologist finds a shocking lack of substance behi...

SEX IN HISTORY chronicles the pleasures- and perils- of the flesh from the time of mankind's distant ancestors to the modern day; from a sexual act...

The Black Lace Book of Women's Sexual Fantasies reveals the most private thoughts of hundreds of women. Here are sexual fantasies which on first si...

'A positive step-by-step guide to... help readers resolve their sexual difficulties. It empowers couples to set goals to meet their needs.' Nursing...

Subtitled THE SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX, LOVE AND MARRIAGE this groundbreaking and controversial book is a massively informed yet highly entert...

At the curtain call of her thirties, Lucy Dent finds herself in a marriage where meaningful communication, sexual contact and friendship have all b...

What makes a woman ‘bad’ is commonly linked to certain ‘qualities’ or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. In Ba...

How natural history made sex scientific in the eighteenth century.If sexology—the science of sex—came into being sometime in the nineteenth century...

In this book, Dr Stoller describes patients with marked abberrations in their masculinity and feminity--primarily transsexuals, transvestites and p...

This book presents the findings of two important research projects in which men who admitted to a sexual interest in children were interviewed. The...

Talk on the Wilde Side focuses on the formation of a new `type' of sexual category in the newpaper reports of the trials of Oscar Wilde, relating ...

Sexuality is a complex and multifaceted domain – encompassing bodily, contextual and subjective experiences that resist ready categorisation. To cl...

This memoir features as its subject childhood molestation and sexual addiction. It is a portrait of the artist as a young pervert, containing intim...

Woman's Relationship with Herself explores the relationship women have with themselves and demonstrates how this relationship is often dominated by...

The last decade has seen the emergence of an increasingly high profile and politically active asexual community, united around a common identity as...

In presenting an innovative theory of sex differences in the social context, this volume applies social-role theory and meta-analytic techniques to...

Everyone knows that left-handers are more creative (Leonardo da Vinci), smarter (Ben Franklin), funnier (Carol Burnett), tougher (Billy the Kid), m...