Human Sexuality: Meeting Your Basic Needs

by Miracle, Tina S.; Miracle, Andrew W.; Baumeister, Roy F.

• ISBN13: 9780130326584
• ISBN10: 0130326585
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

For courses in Human Sexuality found in departments of psychology, health, biology, nursing, physical education, sociology, and anthropology. This text provides an accessible, comprehensive introduction to human sexuality as it relates to basic human needs in five different categories: Physical Needs, Social Needs, Emotional Needs, Spiritual Needs, and Cognitive Needs. Major concepts discussed are neither over simplified, nor overly technicalallowing instructors the flexibility to stimulate student curiosity and imagination. In addition, a variety of visually appealing, pedagogical aids reinforce the major points of the text.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1
Considerations Which Need Is Being Met?	4	(12)
Exploring Sexuality Online Sex Research Online	16	(14)
Chapter 2
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Genital Mythology	30	(4)
Considerations Private Proportions	34	(5)
Cross-Cultural Prespectives Curses	39	(1)
Considerations Eliminating ``The Curse''	40	(4)
Sexual Health and you The Gynecological Exam	44	(3)
Sexual Health and you There Are No Stupid Questions	47	(3)
Considerations Clinical Trials	50	(5)
Sexual Health and you Breast Self-Examination	55	(8)
Considerations How Big Is Enough?	63	(4)
Sexual Health and you Digital Rectal Exam	67	(1)
Considerations Going Nuts	68	(1)
Sexual Health and you Testicular Self-Exam	69	(7)
Chapter 3
Considerations Prime Mates	76	(2)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Sex Scents	78	(1)
Considerations Aural Sex	79	(4)
Considerations ``Roid'' Rage	83	(1)
Considerations High ``T''	84	(9)
Considerations Faking It	93	(1)
Exploring Sexuality Online Virtual Orgasm	94	(1)
Considerations Rx: More Orgams	95	(3)
Considerations The Orgasm Pill	98	(8)
Chapter 4
Considerations Love Potion #9: Aphrodisiacs	106	(1)
Sexual Health and You Sensate Focus Exercises	107	(3)
Exploring Sexuality Online Can You Become Addicted to Online Sex?	110	(1)
Considerations A President: Sex Addict or Philanderer?	110	(2)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Honey, I Shrunk My Genitals	112	(7)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Mangaia	119	(1)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Inis Beag	120	(6)
Exploring Sexuality Online Online Sexual Therapy	126	(3)
Considerations Sex Surrogates or Hookers?	129	(8)
Chapter 5
Considerations Double Duty	137	(4)
Considerations Morning Sickness: It's Not a Sickess and It Doesn't Just Happen in the Morning	141	(9)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Expectant Fathers	150	(1)
Considerations Pregnant Fathers?	151	(2)
Considerations So Smart It Hurts	153	(4)
Considerations Mother Nature	157	(3)
Considerations Multiplying the Odds, Multiplying the Risks	160	(1)
Considerations Beating the Biological Clock	161	(1)
Exploring Sexuality Online How Do You Want Your Eggs?	162	(1)
Considerations Getting By With a Little Help From Your Friends	162	(2)
Considerations Hello Dolly	164	(5)
Chapter 6
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Birth Control and Breastfeeding	169	(1)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Worldwide Contraceptive Use	170	(2)
Considerations Deciding on a Contraceptive Method	172	(2)
Sexual Health and You The Correct Method of Using a Condom	174	(1)
Exploring Sexuality Online Online Condoms	175	(1)
Sexual Health and You The Correct Method of Using a Female Condom	176	(1)
Sexual Health and You The Correct Method of Using a Diaphragm	177	(3)
Considerations ``Spongeworthy?''	180	(12)
Considerations What Doesn't Work	192	(11)
Chapter 7
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Folk Remedies	203	(1)
Considerations The Tuskegee Tragedy	204	(8)
Exploring Sexuality Online Computer Viruses	212	(9)
Considerations A Controversial Approach to AIDS	221	(24)
Chapter 8
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Of Penis Sheaths and Foreskin Ties	245	(2)
Considerations Skirt Lenghts Go Up as The Stock Market Goes Down	247	(1)
Considerations Seven Dirty Words	248	(2)
Considerations Mutilation of Women by Women	250	(1)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Male Genital Mutilation	251	(1)
Considerations Bad to the Bone	251	(1)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives The Sun Dance of the Cheyenne in the 19th Century	252	(2)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Just Say No	254	(2)
Exploring Sexuality Online A Society Without Control?	256	(1)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives The Single Standard	257	(12)
Chapter 9
Considerations As American as Apple Pie	269	(1)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Thin Isn't In	270	(17)
Considerations The Effect of Divorce on Children	287	(7)
Chapter 10
Cross-Cultural Perspectives `` I Brought My Little Brother to the Infirmary and I Was Going Back Home With a Sister''	294	(5)
Considerations Nature or Nurture?	299	(6)
Exploring Sexuality Online Gender Identity Online	305	(10)
Considerations Gender Identity and Society	315	(2)
Considerations And You Think You've Had an Interesting Life: Dawn Langley Simmons (1922--2000)	317	(7)
Chapter 11
Cross-Cultural Perspectives The Sambia of New Guinea	324	(3)
Considerations Having It Both Ways	327	(5)
Considerations The Fickle Finger of Fate?	332	(1)
Considerations Nature of Nurture?	333	(5)
Considerations The Sound of Music	338	(1)
Considerations Self Hatred	339	(4)
Considerations Coming Out in Public	343	(1)
Considerations Outing	343	(1)
Exploring Sexuality Online Connecting Online	344	(8)
Chapter 12
Exploring Sexuality Online Online Fantasy	352	(1)
Considerations Listen to Our Elders	353	(3)
Considerations Fatal Masturbation: A Case of Asphyxophilia	356	(2)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Take Your Time	358	(4)
Considerations A Thousand Times More Complicated	362	(4)
Considerations Take It or Leave It?	366	(12)
Chapter 13
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Taking On The Man	378	(1)
Considerations Just Kidding?	379	(3)
Considerations An ``A'' for a Lay	382	(2)
Considerations What Part of ``No'' Don't You Understand?	384	(1)
Considerations He Said, She Said	384	(2)
Considerations Rape Prone Societies	386	(1)
Considerations Sisterhood	387	(4)
Exploring Sexuality Online Cyber-rape	391	(1)
Considerations Criminal Relationships	392	(1)
Considerations The Morning After	393	(10)
Sexual Health and You What to Do if You've Been Raped	403	(4)
Exploring Sexuality Online The Pedophile Playground	407	(8)
Chapter 14
Considerations Sex Licensing	415	(1)
Considerations ``We Are Merely Haggling About the Price!''	415	(6)
Considerations Come and Go	421	(5)
Considerations In Like Flynt	426	(1)
Considerations Artistic License	427	(8)
Exploring Sexuality Online The Business of Cyberporno	435	(1)
Considerations Here's to You Mrs. Robinson	436	(11)
Chapter 15
Cross-Cultural Perspectives The Eye of the Beholder	447	(5)
Considerations Black Is Beautiful	452	(5)
Exploring Sexuality Online Clicking Online	457	(13)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives The Look of Love	470	(1)
Sexual Health and You Working on Relationships	471	(8)
Chapter 16
Considerations Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder or Out of Sight, Out of Mind?	479	(9)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives The Green Eyed Monster	488	(21)
Chapter 17
Exploring Sexuality Online Cyberreligion	509	(5)
Considerations Religious Declaration on Sexuality, Morality, Justice, and Healing	514	(12)
Chapter 18
Considerations Two-Parent Families	526	(3)
Considerations The Dilemma of Mandatory HIV Testing	529	(7)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Universal Life	536	(1)
Considerations Who Has Abortions?	537	(3)
Exploring Sexuality Online Free (Cyber) Speech	540	(4)
Considerations Nambia	544	(1)
Considerations When Dave Met Cheryl	544	(7)
Chapter 19
Considerations Just Say NO	551	(4)
Cross-Cultural Perspectives Revolutionary Sex Ed	555	(2)
Considerations Valuing Sex	557	(2)
Exploring Sexuality Online Searching for Sex	559	(1)
Considerations The Talk	560	(1)
Considerations Straight Talk	561	(1)
Sexual Health and You How to Talk to Your Children About Sex	561	(7)
Chapter 20
Considerations What Are Your Value Orientations?	568	(3)
Considerations Reflections on the Sexual Values Scale	571	(2)
Considerations Doing the Right Thing	573	(2)
Considerations Reflections on Belliotti's Five Tiers	575	(11)
Considerations Ethical Considerations	586