ABSTRACT
Sex and sexuality can be daunting in terms of the sheer bulk of references to them in both general psychology and cross-cultural psychology. On the biopsychological side, sexuality connects to cognitive processing differences, genetically linked behaviors across species including specific courtship rituals, and evolutionarily determined mating strategies. Probably the most pressing issue in sexuality within culture currently is the conflict between thinking of sex and sexuality as expressions of an underlying mutually exclusive gender dichotomy between male and female and thinking in terms of gender fluidity within a proliferating range of intermediate forms of both gender membership and sexual expression. Obviously, real interactive education in the physical dimensions of sexuality would be difficult to specify in a series of lesson plans. More positively, the concept of intimacy may be a good place to start a discussion that indirectly contacts the more physical dimensions of sexuality.
