Books On Human Sexuality

General References | Biological Issues | Gender Issues | History

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General References

Barnhouse, Tiffany and Urban T. Holmes, III. 1976. Male and female: Approaches to Sexuality. New York:Seabury Press. 274pp. LC CARD:75042380, ISBN:0816421188, OCLC:02288469, GRSN:00294726.

Brusendorff, Ove. 1963-1967. A history of eroticism. New York:L. Stuart. Contents: Antiquity, The Middle Ages and the Gallant Period, From the time of Marquis de Sade, Victorianism, Twentieth century, Our own time. LC CARD:66053672, OCLC:00220641, GRSN:00058992.

Constantine, Larry. 1981. Children and sex: New findings, new perspectives. Boston: Little, Brown. 288pp. ISBN:0316153311, OCLC:08158247, GRSN:00426851

Crawley, Alfred Ernest. Studies of savages and sex. London:Methuen and Co., Ltd. 300pp. OCLC:00919719, GRSN:00197649.

Crooks, Robert. 1993. Our sexuality. Redwood City, Calif.:Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co. 762pp. LC CARD:92023485, ISBN:0805302123, OCLC:26361928, GRSN:00732307
De Lauretis, Teresa. 1994. The practice of love: Lesbian sexuality and perverse desire. Bloomington:Indiana University Press. 331pp. LC CARD:93044453, ISBN:0253316812, OCLC:29429226, GRSN:00737724.
Ellis, Havelock. 1938. Psychology of sex: A manual for students. New York:Emerson books, Inc.
Ficher, Miguel. 1984. Sexual arousal: New concepts in basic sciences, diagnosis, and treatment. Springfield, Ill.: C.C. Thomas. 271pp. LC CARD:83024211, ISBN:0398049629, OCLC:10273872, GRSN:00466038.
Francoeur, Anna K. 1974. Hot and cool sex: Cultures in conflict. New York:Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 220pp. LC CARD:74010984, ISBN:0151421730, OCLC:01231861, GRSN:00231372 .
Fisher, Helen E. 1982. The sex contract: The evolution of human behavior. New York:W. Morrow. 253pp. LC CARD:81011120, ISBN:068800640X, OCLC:07614714, GRSN:00416036.
Giddens, Anthony. 1992. The transformation of intimacy: Sexuality, love, and eroticism in modern societies. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 212pp. LC CARD:92080406, ISBN:0804720908, OCLC:26788509, GRSN:00721070 .
Greer, Germaine. 1984. Sex and destiny: The politics of human fertility. New York:Harper and Row. HQ21.G6713 1984 Haeberle, Erwin J. 1981. The sex atlas. New York:Continuum. 538pp. LC CARD:81012604, ISBN:0826401783, OCLC:07734828, GRSN:00417895.
Hearn, Jeff. 1987. Sex at work: The power and paradox of organization sexuality. New York:St. Martin's Press. 210pp. LC CARD:86027997, ISBN:0312004621, OCLC:14692268, GRSN:00632815.
Heath, Stephen. 1984. The sexual fix. New York:Schocken Books. 191pp. LC CARD:83002967 ISBN:0805238603, OCLC:09197940, GRSN:00446057.
Katchadourian, Herant A. 1989. Fundamentals of human sexuality. Fort Worth:Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 747pp. LC CARD:88028440, ISBN:0030140684, OCLC:18558073, GRSN:00665808.
Kaufman, Sherwin A. 1981. Sexual sabotage: How to enjoy sex in spite of physical and emotional problems. New York:Macmillan. 328pp. LC CARD:80027132, ISBN:0025607405, OCLC:06981804, GRSN:00404648.
Kohl, James Vaughn. 1995. The scent of eros: Mysteries of odor in human sexuality. New York:Continuum. 275pp. LC CARD:94037584, ISBN:0826406777, OCLC:31289201, GRSN:00763916.
Ladas, Alice Kahn. 1982. The G spot and other recent discoveries about human sexuality. New York:Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. 236pp. LC CARD:82003129, ISBN:0030618312, OCLC:08387680, GRSN:00431201 .
LeVay, Simon. 1993. The sexual brain. Cambridge, Mass.:MIT Press. 168pp. LC CARD: 92044691, ISBN:0262121786, OCLC:27187577, GRSN:00728433.
Lewinsohn, Richard. 1958. A history of sexual customs. New York: Bell.
Levine, Stephen B. 1992. Sexual life: A clinician's guide. New York:Plenum Press. 234pp. LC CARD:92028033, ISBN:0306442876, OCLC:26309320, GRSN:00720927.
Lewis, David. 1985. Loving and loathing: The enigma of personal attraction. London: Constable.
Manson, William C. 1994. Riddles of Eros: Exploring sex, psyche, and culture. Lanham, Md.:University Press of America. 118pp. LC CARD:93038164, ISBN:0819193690, OCLC:29223205, GRSN:00737436.
Masters, William H. 1986. Masters and Johnson on sex and human loving, 2nd ed. Boston:Little, Brown. 598pp. LC CARD:85023950, ISBN:0316549908, OCLC:12969792, GRSN:00503508.
Phillips, Debora. 1980. Sexual confidence. Boston:Houghton Mifflin. 227pp. LC CARD:80014853, ISBN:0395294797, OCLC:06277728, GRSN:00393636.
Rathus, Spencer A. 1992. Human Sexuality in a diverse world. Needham Heights, Mass.:Allyn and Bacon. 728pp. LC CARD:92032273, ISBN:0205138825, OCLC:26586461, GRSN:00746897.
Reinisch, June Machover. 1990. The Kinsey Institute new report on sex: What you must know to be sexually literate. New York:St. Martin's Press. 540pp. LC CARD:90041444, ISBN:0312052685, OCLC:22117510, GRSN:00698715.
Ridley, Matt. 1994. The Red Queen: Sex and the evolution of human nature. New York:Macmillan Pub. Co. 405pp. LC CARD:93005049, ISBN:0026033402, OCLC:28337617, GRSN:00736286.
Rothblatt, Martine Aliana. 1995. The apartheid of sex: A manifesto on the freedom of gender. New York:Crown Publishers. 178Pp. LC CARD:94020941, ISBN:051759997X, OCLC:30671451, GRSN:00750734.
Shoham, S. Giora. 1983. Sex as bait: Eve, Casanova, and Don Juan. St. Lucia [Queensland]:University of Queensland Press. 226pp. LC CARD:82017386, ISBN:0702217034, OCLC:08847197, GRSN:00440315.
Tamba, Yasuyori. 1989. The Tao of sex: The essence of medical prescriptions (Ishimpo), 3rd ed. Lower Lake, California:Integral Publishing. 241pp. ISBN:0941255441, OCLC:21122964, GRSN:00686553.
Tiefer, Leonore. 1995. Sex is not a natural act and other essays. Boulder, Colo.:Westview Press. 232pp. LC CARD:94033592, ISBN:0813316588, OCLC:31133499, GRSN:00756702.
Wall, Otto Augustus. 1979. Sex and sex worship in the world. Delhi:Inter-India Publications. 608pp. OCLC:06928129, GRSN:00403987.
Wellesley, Gordon. 1973. Sex and the occult. New York:Bell Publishing Co. 224pp. LC CARD:74078084, OCLC:03352733, GRSN:00337497.
Wilson, Glenn D. 1982. The Coolidge effect: An evolutionary account of human sexuality. New York:Morrow. 252pp. [Originally published under title: Love and instinct.] LC CARD:81016760, ISBN:0688010237, OCLC:07837649, GRSN:00420374.
Yaffe, Maurice. 1982. The Influence of pornography on behaviour. London, New York:Academic Press. 276pp. LC CARD:82071234, ISBN:0127678506, OCLC:09266419, GRSN:00446919.

Biological Issues

Fifth International Workshop on Sex Chromosome Anomalies, 1989. 1991. Children and young adults with sex chromosome aneuploidy: Follow-up. New York: Wiley-Liss. 312pp.
Limandri, Barbara J. and Daniel J. Sheridan. 1995. Sex chromosome abnormalities in children: Longitudinal studies assessing dangerousness, violence by sexual offenders, batterers. Thousand Oaks, Calif.:Sage Publications.
Theilgaard, Alice. 1984. A psychological study of the personalities of XYY- and XXY-men. Copenhagen:Munksgaard. 133pp. ISBN:8716062884, OCLC:15631481, GRSN:00703233.
Wachtel, Stephen S. 1983. H-Y antigen and the biology of sex determination. New York:Grune and Stratton. 302pp. LC CARD:82049249, ISBN:0808915142, OCLC:09244517, GRSN: 00446585.

Gender Issues

Bornstein, Kate. 1994. Gender outlaw: On men, women, and the rest of us. New York:Routledge. 245pp. LC CARD:93046979, ISBN:0415908973, OCLC:29565497, GRSN:00737927.
Feldman, Jessica Rosalind. 1993. Gender on the divide: The dandy in modernist literature. LC CARD:92026193, ISBN:0801427908, OCLC:26363746, GRSN:00728114.
Lothstein, Leslie Martin. 1983. Female-to-male transsexualism: Historical, clinical, and theoretical issues. Boston:Routledge and Kegan Paul. 336pp. LC CARD:83003254, ISBN:0710094760, OCLC:09323872, GRSN:00447950.
Moberly, Elizabeth R. 1982. Psychogenesis, the early development of gender identity. London, Boston:Routledge and Kegan Paul. 111pp. LC CARD:82016526, ISBN:0710092717, OCLC:08764418, GRSN:00438769.
Payne, Judith A. 1992. Ambiguity and gender in the new novel of Brazil and Spanish America. Iowa City:University of Iowa Press. New York:Plenum Press.
Tully, Bryan. 1992. Accounting for transsexualism and transhomosexuality: The gender identity careers of over 200 men and women who have petitioned for surgical reassignment of the sexual identity. London:Whiting and Birch. 292pp. ISBN:1871177081, OCLC:26886515, GRSN:00722634.
Walters, William A. 1986. Transsexualism and sex reassignment. Oxford, New York:Oxford University Press. 191pp. ISBN:0195544625, OCLC:14076589, GRSN:00512761.

History

Cunter, Hubert. 1940. A short history of sex-worship. London:Watts and Co. NOCIRC.
Eisler, Riane Tennenhaus. 1995. Sacred pleasure: Sex, myth, and the politics of the body. San Francisco:Harper San Francisco. 495pp. LC CARD:95005861, ISBN:006250293X, OCLC:32087290, GRSN:00762615.
Marcus, Greil. 1989. Lipstick traces: A secret history of the twentieth century. Cambridge, Mass.:Harvard University Press. 496pp. LC CARD:88024678/MN, ISBN:0674535804, OCLC:18496517, GRSN:00658212.

Stoller, Robert J. 1991. Porn: Myths for the twentieth century. New Haven:Yale University Press. 228pp. LC CARD:91013623,ISBN:0300050925, OCLC:23463091, GRSN:00704342.

Sex Instruction

Gochros, Harvey L. 1980. Treat yourself to a better sex life. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.:Prentice-Hall. 396pp. LC CARD:79018111, ISBN:0139306854, OCLC:05239533, GRSN:00382512.
Hopper, C. Edmund. 1980. Sex education for physically handicapped youth. Springfield, Ill.:Thomas. 130pp. LC CARD:79014050, ISBN:0398039356, OCLC:05051622, GRSN:00545825.
The Human Rights Foundation, Inc. 1984. Demystifying homosexuality: A teaching guide about lesbians and gay men. New York:Irvington Publishers. 175pp. LC CARD:83004369, ISBN:0829012737, OCLC:09371151, GRSN:00448867.
Knopf, Jennifer. 1990. ISD: Inhibited sexual desire. New York: W. Morrow. 300pp. LC CARD:89012970, ISBN:0688085334, OCLC:20219246, GRSN:00675610.
Wells, Carol G. 1989. Right brain sex: Using creative visualization to enhance sexual pleasure. New York:Prentice Hall Press. 238pp. LC CARD:89022811, ISBN:0137808186, OCLC:20218200, GRSN:00672327.

Sex Offenders

Coleman, S. Margretta Dwyer. 1992. Sex offender treatment : psychological and medical approaches. New York:Haworth Press. 233pp. LC CARD:92048795, ISBN:1560244380, OCLC:26856223, GRSN:00730390.
Greer, G, Joanne. 1983. The sexual aggressor: Current perspectives on treatment. New York:Van Nostrand Reinhold. 369pp. LC CARD:82024709, ISBN:0442228554, OCLC:09110393, GRSN:00696585.
Knauss, Lottie R. 1994. Treatment or incarceration for sex offenders: What do the experts have to say? 146pp. Thesis (M.S.)--California State University, Northridge, 1994. OCLC:32300784, GRSN:00754180.
O'Connell, Michael A. 1990. Working with sex offenders: Guidelines for therapist selection. Newbury Park, Calif.:Sage Publications. 131pp. LC CARD:89024243, ISBN:0803937547, OCLC:20528491, GRSN:00676400.

Sex and Religion

Carns, Donald Everett. 1969. Religiosity, premarital sexuality and the American college student: An empirical study. Bloomington. 217pp. OCLC:01082272, GRSN:00216148.
Durkin, Mary G. 1983. Feast of love: Pope John Paul II on human intimacy. Chicago:Loyola University Press. 248pp. ISBN:0829404430, OCLC:10501404, GRSN:00469537.
Hanigan, James P. 1982. What are they saying about sexual morality? New York: Paulist Press.
Johnson, Edwin Clark. 1983. In search of God in the sexual underworld: A mystical journey. New York:Morrow. 238pp. LC CARD:83000943, ISBN:068801478X, OCLC:09195900, GRSN:00445751.
Parrinder, Edward Geoffrey. 1980. Sex in the world's religions. New York: Oxford University Press. 263pp. ISBN:0195201930, OCLC:06518887, GRSN:00732249.
Corbett, Nancy. 1988. The sacred prostitute: Eternal aspect of the femininty. Toronto:Inner City Books. 171pp. ISBN:0919123317, OCLC:16982884, GRSN:00646864.
Savramis, Demosthenes. 1974. The satanizing of woman; religion versus sexuality. Garden City, N.Y.:Doubleday. 226pp. LC CARD:72096232, ISBN:0385044852, OCLC:00827745, GRSN:00188296.
Steinmetz, Urban G. The sexual Christian. 98pp. LC CARD:72085374, OCLC:00539973, GRSN:00143089.

Sex and Christianity

Alcorn, Randy C. 1985. Christians in the wake of the sexual revolution: Recovering our sex. Portland, Or.:Multnomah Press. 326 pp. LC CARD:85004959, ISBN:0880700955, OCLC:11842127, GRSN:00489371.
Gardella, Peter. 1985. Innocent ecstasy: How Christianity gave America an ethic of sexual pleasure. New York:Oxford University Press. 202pp. LC CARD:84027253, ISBN:0195036123, OCLC:11548269, GRSN:00485252.
Heyward, Carter. 1989. Touching our strength: Yhe erotic as power and the love of God. San Francisco:Harper and Row. 195pp. LC CARD:89045244, ISBN:0062503960, OCLC:20094618, GRSN:00664590.
Ide, Arthur Frederick. 1986. Evangelical terrorism: Censorship, Falwell, Robertson, and the seamy. Irving, Texas: Scholars Books. 193pp. LC CARD:86022013, ISBN:0938659014, OCLC:14188872, GRSN:00513741.
Kelsey, Morton T. and Barbara Kelsey. 1986. Sacrament of sexuality. arwick, N.Y.: Amity House. 312pp. ISBN:0916349063, CLC:14874048, GRSN:00516031.
Nelson, James B. 1983. Between two gardens: Reflections on sexuality nd religious experience. New York:Pilgrim Press. 193pp. LC CARD:83011119, ISBN:0829806814, OCLC:09687181, GRSN:00457069.
White, John. 1993. Eros redeemed: Breaking the stranglehold of sexual sin. Downers Grove, Ill.:InterVarsity Press. 285pp. LC CARD:93036197, ISBN:0830816593, OCLC:28963008, GRSN:00765009.

Social Issues

Lewis, Howard R. 1986. The electronic confessional: A sex book of the 80's. New York:M. Evans. 272pp. LC CARD:86008928, ISBN:0871314789, OCLC:13318686, GRSN:00506977.
Manca, Luigi and Alessandra Manca. eds. 1994. Gender and utopia in advertising: A critical reader. Lisle, IL:Procopian Press. 168pp.
Reynolds, Helen. 1985. The economics of prostitution. Springfield, Ill.:C.C. Thomas. 206pp. LC CARD:85012557, ISBN:0398051615, OCLC:12134870, GRSN:00493490 .

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