ABSTRACT
First Published in 1994. The purpose of an encyclopedia is to gather in one place information that otherwise would be difficult to find. Bring together a collection of articles that are authoritative and reflect a variety of viewpoints. The contributors come from a wide range of disciplines— from nursing to medicine, from biology to history— and include sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, political scientists, literary specialists, academics and non-academics, clinicians and teachers, researchers and generalists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |605 pages
The encyclopedia
letter |53 pages
A
entry |5 pages
Abortion
entry |1 pages
Addiction: Sex Addiction
entry |5 pages
Adultery
entry |4 pages
Aging and Sexuality
entry |8 pages
AIDS and HIV Infection
entry |5 pages
AIDS, Religion, and Sexual Orientation
entry |2 pages
Ambisexuality
entry |2 pages
Anal Sex
entry |3 pages
Anatomy and Physiology
entry |3 pages
Anorgasmia
entry |9 pages
Anthropology: Influence of Culture on Sex
entry |3 pages
Aphrodisiacs and Anaphrodisiacs
entry |8 pages
Art: Painting, Sculpture, and other Visual Art
entry |4 pages
The Arts and Sexuality
entry |1 pages
Asexual Reproduction
entry |3 pages
Autoeroticism
letter |17 pages
B
entry |1 pages
Benjamin, Harry
entry |4 pages
Berdache and Amazon Roles among American Indians
entry |4 pages
Bestiality
entry |2 pages
Bisexuality
entry |1 pages
Bloch, Iwan
entry |3 pages
Body Imagery and Guided Imagery
entry |1 pages
Bondage
entry |3 pages
Bookselling in the Field of Sexology
entry |2 pages
Buddhism and Sex
entry |3 pages
Butch and Femme, Top and Bottom, in a Gay World
letter |86 pages
C
entry |1 pages
Calderone, Mary S.
entry |6 pages
Cancer and Sexuality
entry |5 pages
Canon Law and Sex
entry |2 pages
Casanova; Casanovism
entry |2 pages
Castration
entry |4 pages
Catholic Attitudes Toward Sexuality
entry |15 pages
Censorship and Sex
entry |3 pages
Center for Marital and Sexual Studies
entry |1 pages
Cervical Cap
entry |1 pages
Chastity Girdles
entry |5 pages
Children and Sex
entry |6 pages
Children and Sex, Part II: Childhood Sexuality
entry |4 pages
China and Sex
entry |4 pages
Circumcision: Male—Effects upon Human Sexuality
entry |1 pages
Climacteric
entry |5 pages
Clinical Intervention with Transgendered Clients and Their Partners
entry |3 pages
Coercion: Sexual Coercion
entry |4 pages
Coital Positions
entry |5 pages
Communication and Sexuality
entry |3 pages
Compulsion: Sexual Compulsion
entry |3 pages
Comstock, Anthony; Comstockery
entry |1 pages
Condom
entry |2 pages
Confucianism and Sex
entry |7 pages
Contraception: Birth Control
entry |7 pages
Counseling: Sexuality Counseling
entry |1 pages
Courtesans
entry |4 pages
Courtship
entry |2 pages
Couvade
entry |5 pages
Cross-Dressing
letter |16 pages
D
entry |4 pages
Dance and Sexuality
entry |3 pages
Date Rape; Acquaintance Rape
entry |1 pages
Davis, Katharine Bement
entry |2 pages
Dickinson, Robert Latou
entry |6 pages
Disabilities and Sexuality
entry |4 pages
The Double Standard and Sex
letter |23 pages
E
entry |4 pages
Education: Sexuality Education in the United States
entry |3 pages
Ejaculation
entry |1 pages
Ellis, Albert
entry |1 pages
Ellis, Havelock
entry |7 pages
Embryology: Development of Sexual and Generative Organs
entry |2 pages
Eroticism
entry |4 pages
Ethology and Sexology
entry |2 pages
Eugenics
entry |6 pages
Extramarital Sex
letter |28 pages
F
entry |2 pages
Fantasies and Sex
entry |4 pages
Fashion, Clothing and Sex
entry |4 pages
Female Genital Mutilation
entry |5 pages
Feminism and Sexology
entry |5 pages
Festivals and Sex
entry |1 pages
Flagellation
entry |3 pages
Foreplay
entry |4 pages
Fraud: Sex Fraud
entry |2 pages
Freud, Sigmund
entry |5 pages
Friendship: Female-Male Friendship
entry |2 pages
Frotteurism
letter |35 pages
G
entry |3 pages
G Spot and Female Pleasure
entry |1 pages
Gebhard, Paul H.
entry |6 pages
Gender
entry |6 pages
Gender: Psychological Measurements of Masculinity and Femininity
entry |4 pages
Gender Dysphoria
entry |4 pages
Genetics and Sex
entry |2 pages
German Sex Researchers
entry |2 pages
Gonads
entry |1 pages
Graefenberg, Ernst
entry |5 pages
Graffiti
entry |7 pages
Greeks: Sexual Customs of the Ancient Greeks
entry |3 pages
Guilt: Sex Guilt
letter |29 pages
H
entry |1 pages
Haire, Norman
entry |6 pages
Hermaphrodites
entry |4 pages
Hinduism
entry |3 pages
Hirschfeld, Magnus
entry |3 pages
Homophobia
entry |7 pages
Homosexuality
entry |5 pages
Homosexuality and Lesbianism: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
entry |4 pages
Hormones: The Endocrine System
entry |2 pages
Humor and Sex
entry |2 pages
Hymen
letter |25 pages
I
entry |3 pages
Impotence
entry |1 pages
Incest
entry |2 pages
Incubus and Succubus
entry |4 pages
Indians: Native North Americans
entry |3 pages
Infant Sexuality
entry |7 pages
Infertility
entry |3 pages
Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
entry |2 pages
Intimacy
entry |2 pages
Intrauterine Device: Development
entry |6 pages
Islam: Sexual Relations In the Muslim World
letter |11 pages
J
entry |1 pages
Johnson, Virginia E.
entry |1 pages
Jorgensen, Christine
entry |4 pages
Journals: Sexuality Journals
entry |6 pages
Judaism and Sexuality
entry |2 pages
Jus Primus Noctis
letter |7 pages
K
entry |6 pages
Kinsey, Alfred C.
entry |2 pages
Kirkendall, Lester A.
entry |1 pages
Krafft-Ebing, Richard Von
letter |36 pages
L
entry |3 pages
Language and Sex
entry |4 pages
Intimate Language
entry |8 pages
Laws and Sex
entry |3 pages
Learning Theories and Sexuality
entry |2 pages
Lehfeldt, Hans
entry |4 pages
Lesbianism
entry |1 pages
Lief, Harold
entry |2 pages
Limerence
entry |9 pages
Literature: Erotic Themes
entry |5 pages
Love and Sex
entry |4 pages
Lovemaps
letter |39 pages
M
entry |1 pages
Martin, Clyde E.
entry |3 pages
Masochism
entry |2 pages
Masters, William Howell
entry |5 pages
Masturbation
entry |2 pages
Masturbatory Insanity
entry |5 pages
Mate Selection
entry |1 pages
Menarche
entry |3 pages
Menopause
entry |3 pages
Menstruation
entry |2 pages
Miscegenation
entry |1 pages
Misogynist, Misogyny
entry |2 pages
Moll, Albert
entry |2 pages
Money, John William
entry |2 pages
Monogamy
entry |4 pages
Morality: Sexual Morality
entry |2 pages
Morrow, Prince A., and the Social Hygiene Movement
entry |1 pages
Mosher, Clelia Duel
entry |9 pages
Movies: Sexuality in Cinema
entry |2 pages
Multiorgasm
entry |3 pages
Music and Sex
letter |6 pages
N
entry |3 pages
Nazis and Sex
entry |3 pages
Nudism
entry |1 pages
Nymphomania
letter |11 pages
O
entry |2 pages
Obscene Telephone Calls
entry |3 pages
Onanism
entry |3 pages
Oral-Genital Sex
entry |3 pages
Organizations: Professional
entry |4 pages
Orgasm
letter |72 pages
P
entry |3 pages
Paraphilias
entry |2 pages
Parthenogenesis
entry |2 pages
Pederasty in Ancient and Early Christian History
entry |3 pages
Petting
entry |2 pages
Pheromones
entry |8 pages
Philosophy and Sex
entry |2 pages
Phobias
entry |7 pages
Physical Disabilities and Sex
entry |1 pages
Pimp
entry |8 pages
Pleasure: Sex and Pleasure
entry |4 pages
Political Theory: Sex and Political Theory
entry |2 pages
Polyandry
entry |1 pages
Polygamy
entry |2 pages
Polygyny
entry |2 pages
Pomeroy, Wardell Baxter
entry |8 pages
Pornography
entry |7 pages
Pregnancy
entry |3 pages
Premarital Sexuality
entry |4 pages
Premature Ejaculation
entry |1 pages
Prince, Virginia
entry |6 pages
Prisons: Sex in Prisons
entry |2 pages
Prostate
entry |6 pages
Prostitution
entry |4 pages
Psychoanalytic Theories
entry |5 pages
Psychological Theories of Sexuality
letter |17 pages
R
entry |5 pages
Race, Sex, and Myths: Images of African American Men and Women
entry |4 pages
Rape
entry |7 pages
Religion and Sexuality
entry |3 pages
Religious Influence on Sexual Attitudes and Functioning
entry |2 pages
Runden, Charity Eva
letter |49 pages
S
entry |2 pages
Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Ritter von
entry |2 pages
Sade, Marquis de (DonatienAlphonse-François, Comte de Sade)
entry |2 pages
Sadism
entry |2 pages
Sanger, Margaret
entry |2 pages
Satyrs, Satyriasis; Sexual Addiction
entry |8 pages
Science and Sexology
entry |3 pages
Sexological Examination
entry |3 pages
Sexual Dysfunction
entry |5 pages
Sexual Orientation
entry |4 pages
Sexual Revolution
entry |5 pages
Sexual Values and Moral Development
entry |8 pages
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
entry |4 pages
Sociobiology
entry |4 pages
Sociological Theories of Sexuality
entry |2 pages
Sodom and Sodomy
entry |2 pages
Sterilization
entry |1 pages
Stöcker, Helene
entry |2 pages
Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael
entry |1 pages
Stress and Sexuality
entry |3 pages
Surrogates: Sexual Surrogates
letter |24 pages
T
entry |2 pages
Taoism and Sex
entry |5 pages
Therapy: Sex Therapy
entry |7 pages
Touch and Sexuality
entry |4 pages
Toys: Sex Toys
entry |9 pages
Transsexualism
letter |1 pages
U
entry |1 pages
Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich
letter |5 pages
V
entry |1 pages
van de Velde, Theodoor Hendrik
entry |5 pages
Virility and Machismo
