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In the new 4-COLOR third edition of Choices in Sexuality, the authors once again provide students with a valuable tool for learning about human sexuality, in society and in their own lives. The choices theme is integrated throughout the text, beginning in the first chapter, with information on the nature of choices and decision-making skills, and in the rest of the chapters, with Personal Choices sections that give students an opportunity to think about how they might respond in different situations. The third edition includes two new chapters, one on love and attachment and the other on the commercialization of sex, and it has been thoroughly updated with the most current research available.
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Gender and Sexual Agency considers how heterosexual Latin American, Asian American, and Caucasian American youth negotiate sexual encounters. In particular, this book examines sexual agency, exploring the question of why some young people assertively pursue what they want in a sexual encounter, while others go along with sexual activity they do not want. By comparing both young men and young women, Heather Powers Albanesi offers a unique perspective on how an individual's emotional experience of gender informs his or her willingness to exercise sexual agency. Using interviews to support her theoretical argument, Albanesi offers profiles of eleven different types of sexual agency, ranging from having strong convictions about their sexual decisions to abdicating responsibility to their partner. As the expressers of sexual agency, the voices of these youth from primarily working-class backgrounds come through to take us into their sexual decisions as they understand and experience them within the context of their lives. Ultimately, regardless of the decision, the book shows that it is young people's experience of gender that both shapes and allows them to make sense of these sexual choices. Book jacket.
A major new look at the evolution of mating decisions in organisms from protozoans to humans The popular consensus on mate choice has long been that females select mates likely to pass good genes to offspring. In Mate Choice, Gil Rosenthal overturns much of this conventional wisdom. Providing the first synthesis of the topic in more than three decades, and drawing from a wide range of fields, including animal behavior, evolutionary biology, social psychology, neuroscience, and economics, Rosenthal argues that "good genes" play a relatively minor role in shaping mate choice decisions and demonstrates how mate choice is influenced by genetic factors, environmental effects, and social interactions. Looking at diverse organisms, from protozoans to humans, Rosenthal explores how factors beyond the hunt for good genes combine to produce an endless array of preferences among species and individuals. He explains how mating decisions originate from structural constraints on perception and from nonsexual functions, and how single organisms benefit or lose from their choices. Both the origin of species and their fusion through hybridization are strongly influenced by direct selection on preferences in sexual and nonsexual contexts. Rosenthal broadens the traditional scope of mate choice research to encompass not just animal behavior and behavioral ecology but also neurobiology, the social sciences, and other areas. Focusing on mate choice mechanisms, rather than the traits they target, Mate Choice offers a groundbreaking perspective on the proximate and ultimate forces determining the evolutionary fate of species and populations.
A critical review of the debate over the still-hypothetical possibility of prenatal intervention by parents to select the sexual orientation of their children. Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their child's sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their child's sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some commentators fear that any scientific efforts to understand the origins of homosexuality could mean the end of gay and lesbian people, if parents shy away from having homosexual children. Others defend parents' rights to choose the traits of their children in general and see no reason to treat sexual orientation differently. In this book, Timothy Murphy traces the controversy over prenatal selection of sexual orientation, offering a critical review of the literature and presenting his own argument in favor of parents' reproductive liberty. Arguing against commentators who want to restrict the scientific study of sexual orientation or technologies that emerge from that study, Murphy proposes a defense of parents' right to choose. This, he argues, is the only view that helps protect children from hurtful family environments, that is consistent with the increasing powers of prenatal interventions, and that respects human futures as something other than accidents of the genetic lottery.
Why do men and women approach sex and romance differently? Anthropologist Heather Remoff employs a scientist's precision and a woman's wit to expose the bilogical rules behind the mating game. Women can use these insights to control their romantic destinies. The L.A. Times calls Sexual Choice "splendid...charming." People Magazine calls it "thoughtfully provocative." Women call it empowering.
The true role of biology in determining sexual orientation is an oft-debated issue in both the popular media and scientific communities, and evaluating the literature on the topic can be daunting. Nature’s Choice: What Science Reveals About the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation offers both a comprehensive review of the scientific literature and a fresh perspective on this complex and politically charged subject. Respected researcher, speaker, and author Dr. Cheryl Weill offers readers of all backgrounds an enlightening analysis of findings from over twenty years of research on the factor of biology in the determination of sexual orientation. Nature’s Choice: What Science Reveals About the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation brilliantly distills complicated studies and research findings dealing with brain anatomy, genetics, sex-typical behavior in children, auditory, startle reflex, and many other areas. Spanning a wide range of important topics including human sexual development and the effects of hormones, Ellis and Ames’ Gestational Neurohormonal Theory, the ins, outs, and implications of how scientific research is funded, and model of the role of testosterone in determining human sexuality, Nature’s Choice: What Science Reveals About the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation is an exciting book to educate and inspire readers from scientific and non-scientific backgrounds equally.
Are you tired of those religious books about overcoming same-sex attraction? Or wondering if you can choose your sexuality? Then, I Had to Choose might be just the book on sexual orientation you’ve been seeking. Author David A. Robinson shares a riveting memoir about his journey through same-sex attraction and seeing it as a choice he had to make. As people saw the same-sex attraction signs in his life, some said he was gay. So, do what other people say confirm your sexual orientation? This is one of those books on sexual orientation or same-sex attraction that recognizes people can have gay urges, but it doesn’t always mean they want to live a gay life. It's the story of an ordinary man that chose his romantic destiny, moving past urges of same-sex attraction and into the realm of possibility and choice. Of course, a muscular man and woman can convey beauty and appeal, but you can choose to love whom you choose, even amid same-sex attraction. Some in that situation might consider the choice to love someone of the opposite sex as living a lie, but David Robinson knows better and wants to help others through his story. This book is not about promoting conversion therapy. Instead, it’s a unique look at one man’s road down a path less traveled that led to a fruitful marriage with a woman. If you have gay tendencies or same-sex attraction, you too can choose who you fall in love with, even someone of the opposite sex. Perhaps you’ve wondered, is it a choice to be gay? Or is it a choice to be straight? Author David Robinson opens and shares how he made a choice when others said there was no choice.