- Published
- February 2025
- Page Count
- 922
- ISBN (Digital)
- 979-8-88794-155-4
Sexuality and Our Diversity: Integrating Culture with the Biopsychosocial
Version 3.0
By Marcus Tye
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Key Features
- Contemporary focus on interactions of biological, individual psychological, social, and cultural factors that underpin human sexuality and sexual expression
- Over 60 embedded links to streaming videos and over 300 websites engage students, reinforce or augment topics, and enrich online and hybrid courses
- Written for learners with varying levels of preparation and interest in the subject to build a solid foundation and nuanced understanding
- Global/comparative coverage, such as drawing parallels between gender roles, economic circumstances, and health in many countries, including the United States
- Infuses LBGTQIA+ cultural variations, inclusion, and equity throughout the main narrative, not as marginalized feature boxes or in a single “diversity” chapter
- Sex positive perspective for kink, poly, and other communities, while including content that also represents monogamy, asexuality, and voluntary celibacy
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Supportive learning features
- “Learning Objectives” preview each main head section and help focus the reader’s attention
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“Key Terms” help students understand and become comfortable with important vocabulary and phrasing
“Key Takeaways” at the end of each main section reflect the corresponding Learning Objectives and summarize key ideas in bullet-point fashion. Key Takeaways enable the learner to pause and consolidate the information just read or experienced into a “chunk.” This process enables the reader to better understand and retain the section’s content and its key concepts - “Exercises/Discussions” at the end of every main section stimulate discussion, help students apply content to real-world situations, facilitate flipped-classroom assignments, and support online and asynchronous courses. Answer guidelines are included in the instructor’s manual
- “Recommended Resources” include references to websites, books, and films that expand students’ understanding of the chapter’s topics
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Sexuality and Our Diversity: Integrating Culture with the Biopsychosocial is suitable for courses called Human Sexuality, Sexuality, Gender and Sexuality studies, or similar titles courses taught in psychology departments, human development, family studies, nursing/allied health, personal health, and sociology departments. Appropriate for courses taught at the undergraduate and master’s levels at two- and four-year colleges and universities.
Sexuality and Our Diversity: Integrating Culture with the Biopsychosocial takes an integrated approach to exploring the complex dimensions of biology, culture, psychology, sociology, history, and philosophy that explain human sexual diversity. The author contextualizes specific topics, such as sexually transmitted infections, in a broader picture of comprehensive sex education and public policy, access to healthcare, and economic equality. Topics build from basic to advanced to support less well-prepared students while keeping those with prior coursework fully engaged.
New in This Version
- Every chapter reflects substantial research updates while preserving references to important, classic studies
- Curated videos and references to websites updated overall and to specifically include structural racism in health
- Updated use of language to better reflect equality overall, particularly preferences of transgender persons
- Increased emphasis on the social determinants of health and health inequities, access to contraception and abortion, and maternal and infant mortality including racial disparities
- Reflects the current, endemic state of the COVID-19 virus
- New information on mpox (“human monkeypox”)
- Impact of overturning Roe v. Wade on legal restrictions on reproductive freedom and transgender-affirming medical care
- Title IX regulation changes regarding evidentiary standards for cases of sexual assault on college campuses
- New research in genetics and neuroscience
- Discussions on sexual dysfunction now include the DSM-5-TR and the final version of the ICD-11
- Global trends in public policy and law, sexlessness in young adults, LGBTQIA+ equality and civil rights, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) definitions of social determinants of health (SDOH) compared to The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and WHO’s explicit emphasis on socioeconomic and political factors including societal values
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Preface
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Chapter 1: Perspectives on Sexuality in a Cultural and Historical Context
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Chapter 2: Studying Sexuality: Research Methods and Challenges
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Chapter 3: Sexual Bodies: Anatomy and Physiology
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Chapter 4: Gender Identity and Sex Development
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Chapter 5: Attraction, Arousal, Response, and Sexual Orientation
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Chapter 6: Sexual Relationships, Love, and Communication
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Chapter 7: Sexual Behavior Across Cultures
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Chapter 8: Gender and Sexuality Across the Lifespan
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Chapter 9: Variations in Sexual Behavior: Kinks, Fetishes, and Paraphilias
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Chapter 10: Fertility, Contraception, and Abortion
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Chapter 11: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Parenthood
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Chapter 12: Sexual Difficulties, Dysfunctions, and Treatments
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Chapter 13: Sexually Transmitted Infections and Prevention
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Chapter 14: Sexual Aggression and Coercion
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Chapter 15: Sex as a Commodity and the Regulation of Sexuality

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