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List of contents
Chapter 1: Studying Human Sexuality
Chapter 2: Sexual Anatomy
Chapter 3: The Physiology of Human Sexual Responding
Chapter 4: Love, Intimacy, and Sexual Communication
Chapter 5: Contraception: Planning and Preventing Pregnancy
Chapter 6: Sexual Behaviors: Experiencing Sexual Pleasure
Chapter 7: Sexual Problems and Solutions
Chapter 8: Sexually Transmitted Infections
Chapter 9: Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth
Chapter 10: Gender: Expectations, Roles, and Behaviors
Chapter 11: Sexual Orientation
Chapter 12: Sexual Development throughout Life
Chapter 13: Sexual Aggression and Violence: Rape, Child Sexual Abuse, and Harassment
Summary
Human Sexuality, Third Edition, helps students develop and design their own sexual philosophy.
Every chapter begins with actual student questions from the author's files during nearly 20 years of teaching the human sexuality course. Throughout each chapter the questions are answered and new ones are posed--encouraging students to think critically, analyze, and apply the material in personally relevant ways. Hock takes a psychosocial approach, infused with biological foundations throughout the text. The book focuses on topics that are most critical and of greatest relevance to students' personal lives and their interactions with others, and on how these topics affect them emotionally, psychologically, and interpersonally. This student-centered approach is incorporated into the text's discussions of all areas of sexuality: psychological, social and biological (including medical issues, sexual health, sexual anatomy and sexual physiology). Sensitivity to diverse groups, not only in terms of race and ethnicity, but also in terms if sexual orientation, age, sexual knowledge, and sexual experience allows all students to feel as comfortable and open about sexual topics as possible.
