ABSTRACT
Sexual development is a vital but multifaceted part of human experience. Human sexuality reflects shifts in gender relations, ongoing cultural diversification, ambivalence towards erotic expression, and current globalization of sexual information. Various responses to sexuality and sexual expression are manifest in response to an array of dialectical tensions that arise within a complex global cultural ecology: e.g., sexual freedom or restraint, conformity or diversity of sexual behavior, and eroticism as pleasure or danger (Maddock, 1997).
