The Sex Scientists

by Brannigan, Gary G.; Allgeier, Elizabeth Rice; Allegeier, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780321011398
• ISBN10: 0321011392
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-10
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

This unique supplemental text provides a collection of interdisciplinary research "stories" by leading expert researchers in human sexuality. Appropriate to a wide range of courses, The Sex Scientists provides lively, compelling first person narratives on a broad range of topics that closely parallel major sections of human sexuality textbooks.

Table of Contents

Preface	v	(2)
Introduction	vii	(2)
About the Editors	ix
1 History, the Historian, and Sex	1	(14)
Vern L. Bullough
2 Why Would Anyone Conduct Research on Sexual Behavior?	15	(16)
Donn Byrne
3 Sex Psych Prof Taking Heat: Fear and Loathing on the Research Trail	31	(18)
William A. Fisher
4 Doing Sex Research on Adolescents	49	(12)
J. Richard Udry
5 The Science of Sexual Signaling	61	(15)
Monica M. Moore
6 She Should Be Young and Beautiful, He Should Be Older and Successful: Gender Differences in Mate-Selection Preferences	76	(12)
Michael W. Wiederman
7 A Feminist Activist in Sexology	88	(12)
Leonore Tiefer
8 Reconciling Sexual Orientation	100	(13)
Michael R. Stevenson
9 Social Psychology, Jealousy, and Extradyadic Sex	113	(13)
Bram P. Buunk
10 "Not Now, Darling, I'm on the Pill": Researching Oral Contraceptives	126	(14)
Cynthia A. Graham
11 Preventing Sexual Violence	140	(16)
Gene G. Abel
12 A Few Minutes with Venus, A Lifetime with Mercury	156	(15)
William W. Darrow
13 Breaking In to Prison: The Story of a Study of Sexual Coercion of Incarcerated Men and Women	171	(14)
Cindy Struckman-Johnson
14 My Life in Prostitution	185	(16)
Jacqueline Boles
15 No More Dr. Nice-Gal: Finding a Public Voice as a Feminist Sexologist	201
Gina Ogden