The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality
The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality
Editors: Whelehan, Patricia and Bolin, Anne
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Wiley
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-40-519006-0
Category: Social Sciences - Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Image Count:
85
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This Encyclopedia is a comprehensive A-Z reference that defines sexuality from a broad biocultural perspective and shows the diversity of human sexual behavior and belief systems.
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Table of Contents
- About the Editors
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- A
- Abolitionism (international)
- Abortion
- Abstinence
- Abuse, sexual, by religious leaders
- Abuse, sexual, in war
- Abuse, sexual, of children
- Adolescence and sexual orientations
- Adolescence and sexuality
- Adolescent sex play
- Adult film, current perspectives on
- Adult film, golden age of
- Adult industry
- Adultery (biocultural aspects)
- Adultery and fidelity
- Advertisements
- Advertising, sexuality and language of
- Age of consent
- Aging, sexuality and
- Agriculture, beginnings of
- AIM clinics
- Allomothers
- Amazons
- Amputation
- Anal bleaching
- Anatomy, female
- Anatomy, male
- Androcentrism
- Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
- Androgyny
- Androgyny, archaeology of
- Anime and manga
- Anthropology
- Anthropology and sexology
- Aphrodisiacs
- Archaeological field work, sexuality in
- Arousal, sexual
- Arousal, sexual, disorder
- Asexual
- Asexual reproduction
- Attractivity
- AVN (Adult Video News)
- B
- Bakla (Philippines)
- BDSM (bondage, discipline, domination, submission, sadomasochism)
- Beauty or physical attractiveness
- Beauty pageants
- Beauty standards
- Benjamin, Harry (1885–1986)
- Bestiality
- Biology of sexual orientation
- Biomedical discourses and sexuality
- Biparental care
- Bipedalism and sex
- Birth (human)
- Birth (primates)
- Birth control and sexology
- Bisexuality
- Bisexuality and language
- Bloch, Iwan (1872–1922)
- Body integrity identity disorder
- Bodily senses
- Body building
- Body image
- Body modification, archaeology of
- Body modifications
- Bollywood
- Bonobos
- Breast cancer
- Breast enlargement
- Breast ironing
- Breast reduction
- Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding and intimacy
- Breasts (infants vs. sex objects)
- Bright, Susie (1958–)
- Bullough, Vern Leroy (1928–2006)
- Butler, Judith (1956–)
- C
- Calderone, Mary Steichen (1904−1998)
- Capitalism
- Castration
- Celibacy
- Celibacy, archaeology of
- Chastity
- Chastity belts
- Child sexual grooming
- Childbirth
- Childhood sexuality
- Childhood, archaeology of
- Chimpanzees
- Circumcision, female, as sexual therapy
- Circumcision, male
- Class and sexual identity
- Cohabitation
- Colonialism and sexuality
- Coming out
- Coming out stories
- Companionate marriage
- Compulsory heterosexuality
- Conception
- Consensual sex
- Contraception
- Contraception/conception, archaeology of
- Coolidge effect, the
- Corseting
- Cosmetic surgery
- Covert allusions to sexuality
- Craft specialization
- Cross‐dressing
- Cuckoldry (human and nonhuman)
- Culture and reproduction
- Culture and sexuality
- D
- Desire versus “sexual identity” debate
- Desire, sexual
- Diamond, Milton (1934–)
- Discursive construction of sexuality
- Disease and bodily change
- Dominance rank (primates)
- Domination and submission (D&S)
- Dominatrix
- Double standard
- Drag (linguistically defined)
- Drag kings
- Drag queens
- Dress (clothing and adornment)
- Dry sex
- E
- Ejaculation, female
- Ejaculation, premature
- Ellis, Albert (1913–2007)
- Ellis, Havelock (1859−1939)
- Endometriosis
- Erectile dysfunction
- Erection
- Erogenous zones
- Erotic art
- Erotica vs. pornography
- Erotica, female‐friendly
- Erotica: cuckold
- Erotica: phone sex
- Erotica: romance novels
- Ethnicity and sexual identity in the United States
- Ethnic minorities
- Eugenics and sexology
- Eunuchs
- Evolution and sexology
- Evolutionary psychology
- Exhibitionism
- F
- Fantasy, sexual
- Female choice
- Female genital cosmetic surgery
- Female genital cutting debates
- Female genital cutting: controversies and responses
- Female to male trans person (FtM)
- Femininity
- Feminism
- Feminist archaeology
- Fertility and fecundity
- Fetish
- Figurines: Europe
- Figurines: Mesoamerica
- First intercourse
- Fitness
- Flo family (chimpanzee)
- Fluctuating asymmetry
- Foot‐binding
- Free love
- Freud, Sigmund (1856–1939)
- Freund, Kurt (1914–1996)
- Frotteurism
- G
- G spot
- Gagnon, John (1931–)
- Gay and lesbian language: historical perspectives
- Gay men
- Gay men's sexuality
- Gay spaces
- Gay men's communities
- Gebhard, Paul H. (1917–)
- Geisha
- Gender
- Gender dysphoria
- Gender identity and role
- Gender identity and role: clinical‐psychological aspects
- Gender performativity
- Gender role nonconformity
- Genital cutting, female
- Genital cutting, male
- Genital power, mystical
- Gerontophilia
- Gibbons
- Gimbutas, Marija (1921–1994)
- Globalization
- Goddesses
- Gorillas
- Gräfenberg, Ernst (1881–1957)
- Grandmothering
- Greek love: classical
- Greek love: post‐classical perspectives
- Group selection
- Gynecologic surgery
- Gynecology
- H
- Hair
- Hair removal
- Haire, Norman (1892–1952)
- Hay, Henry “Harry,” Jr. (1912–2002)
- Head hair
- Hebephilia
- Hegemonic masculinity
- Herdt, Gilbert (1949–)
- Heteronormative
- Heteronormativity
- Heterosexuality, invention of
- Hijras
- Hirschfeld, Magnus (1868–1935)
- Historical archaeology
- Hite, Shere (1942–)
- HIV/AIDS
- Hollander, Xaviera (1943–)
- Homophile movement
- Homosexual panic
- Homosexuality and Islam
- Homosexuality and sexology
- Homosexuality cross‐culturally
- Homosexuality in nonhuman primates and in humans
- Hooker, Evelyn (1907–1996)
- Hooking up
- Hormone Replacement Therapy
- Hormones (primate sexuality)
- Hormones and human sexuality
- Hormones, puberty‐delaying
- Households
- Human papilloma virus (HPV)
- Human sexual response: biological perspectives
- Human sexual response: cultural perspectives
- Foraging
- Hymen reconstruction
- I
- Incest
- Infanticide
- Infidelity
- Intercourse, frequency
- Intergenerational sex, male
- Internalized transphobia
- Internet, sex and the
- Intersex
- Intersex (Disorders of Sex Development)
- Intersex: socio‐cultural perspectives
- Intersexual competition
- Intimacy
- Intrasexual competition
- Inversion
- J
- Jealousy (evolution)
- Jorgensen, Christine (1926–1989)
- K
- Kathoey
- Kellogg, John Harvey (1852–1943)
- Kin selection
- Kinsey Institute
- Kinsey Reports, The
- Kinsey, Alfred Charles (1894–1956)
- Kissing
- Krafft‐Ebing, Richard Freiherr von (1840–1902)
- L
- Labial elongation
- Lactation
- Landscape archaeology
- Language and sexuality in education
- Language and the politics of gender
- Language of sexuality in religion
- Language planning (gender and sexuality issues)
- Language, sexuality, and adolescents
- Lavender language
- Lesbian
- Lesbian and gay rights movement, United States
- Lesbian communities
- Lesbian feminism
- LGBT/queer sexuality, history of, Europe
- LGBT/queer sexuality, history of, North America
- Life history theory
- Literature, gay men's
- Literature, lesbian
- Loss of estrus
- Love
- Love and sex after 50
- M
- Mail order brides
- Male genital cosmetic surgery
- Male‐to‐female trans person (MtF)
- Malinowski, Bronislaw (1884–1942)
- Marquis de Sade, Donatien Alphonse François (1740–1814)
- Marriage
- Martin, Dorothy Louise “Del” (1921–2008), and Phyllis Anne Lyon (1924–)
- Masculinities
- Masculinities and language
- Masculinity, archaeology of
- Masters and Johnson (the work)
- Masters, William H. (1915–2001), and Virginia E. Johnson (1925–2013)
- Masturbation
- Masturbation (nonhuman primates)
- Mating effort
- Matlock, David (Dr.)
- Mattachine Society
- McIlvenna, Robert Theodore (Ted)
- Mead, Margaret (1901–1978)
- Media and sex
- Medicalization of homosexuality
- Medicalization of sexuality
- Menopause
- Menopause (evolution)
- Menopause (primates)
- Menstrual synchrony
- Menstruation
- Metaphor, sexuality and
- Metrosexual(ity)
- Migration
- Military and sexuality, the
- Mizer, Robert (Bob) Henry (1922–1992)
- Moche Sex Pots
- Moll, Albert (1862–1939)
- Morality
- Mortuary rituals
- N
- Native American Two Spirits
- Natural selection
- Neurology and sex
- Nudism
- O
- Onabe
- Online dating
- Oophorectomy
- Orangutans
- Organized crime and sexuality
- Orgasm
- Orgasm (evolution)
- Orgasm (primates)
- Ovulation
- Ovulation, concealed
- P
- Packing
- Paleolithic art
- Pansexuality
- Paraphilias
- Parental investment
- Parents of lesbians and gays
- Parenting effort
- Parenting, gay and lesbian
- Parent–offspring conflict
- Passionate love and sexual desire
- Paternal care
- Pedophilia
- Pelvic examination
- Penile enhancement
- Penile implants
- People with disabilities and sexuality
- Performance anxiety
- Personal ads
- Perversions and sexology
- Pheromones
- Piercing
- Pimp
- Pink triangle
- Polari
- Politics of labeling
- Pollution, sexual
- Polyamory
- Pompeii
- Pornification
- Pornography (child)
- Pornography and gender
- Pornography and violence
- Pornography use as a clinical issue
- Pornography, addiction to (“con”)
- Pornography, addiction to (“pro”)
- Pornography, Bukkake
- Pornography, definition of
- Pornography, feminist awards
- Pornography, feminist views of
- Pornography, gay male
- Pornography, genres of
- Pornography, history of
- Pornography, laws regarding
- Pornography, the narrative of public health
- Pornography: female directors
- Pregnancy
- Pregnancy: relationships advice
- Pregnancy: relationships and miscarriage
- Primate mating systems
- Primate sexuality
- Pro‐choice and pro‐life
- Prostitution
- Prostitution (child)
- Prostitution (female)
- Prostitution (male)
- Prostitution (transgender)
- Prostitution and sexology
- Prostitution and sexuality
- Prostitution, archaeology of, classical world
- Prostitution, archaeology of, North America
- Proximate explanation and ultimate explanation
- Psychoanalysis
- Psychosexual functioning and adjustment
- Pubic hair
- Q
- Queer
- Queer linguistics
- Queer theory
- Queer theory, archaeology of
- R
- Race and sexology
- Rape fantasies
- Rape, nonhuman
- Reform movements, sexual
- Reiss, Ira L. (1925–)
- Religion and homosexuality
- Religion, sex and
- Representation: museums and publications
- Repression, sexual
- Reproduction
- Reproductive fat
- Reproductive health
- Reproductive suppression
- Reproductive technologies
- Researcher/informant relationships
- Rest and recreation (R&R)
- Rights, sexual and reproductive
- Rites of passage: female
- Rites of passage: male
- Rock art
- Royalle Candida (1950–)
- Rubin, Gayle (1949–)
- S
- Sadomasochism
- Safer sex
- Same‐sex couples
- Same‐sex marriage
- Sanger, Margaret Higgins (1879–1966)
- Sapphism and Lesbos
- Satisfaction, sexual
- Scarification and branding
- Seduction
- Serial monogamy
- Sex and drugs
- Sex and politics
- Sex and the human skeleton
- Sex coaching
- Sex differences and sexology
- Sex laws
- Sex offender, treatment
- Sex offenders
- Sex ratio
- Sex reassignment
- Sex research
- Sex research ethics
- Sex scandals
- Sex therapy
- Sex tourism (female)
- Sex tourism (male)
- Sex toys and aids
- Sex work
- Sex workers’ rights
- Sexist language and sexuality
- Sexology and feminism
- Sexting
- Sexual communication
- Sexual dimorphism
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexual fluidity
- Sexual Health Model
- Sexual identities in the workplace
- Sexual identity and sexual orientation
- Sexual magic
- Sexual periodicity
- Sexual response cycle
- Sexual selection
- Sexual stereotypes about ethnic minorities in the United States
- Sexual stigma
- Sexual violence
- Sexual violence, language of
- Sexualities, Africa
- Sexualities, Asia and the Pacific
- Sexualities, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Sexualities, Middle East
- Sexualities, South Asia
- Sexuality and sociophonetics
- Sexuality and talk‐in‐interaction
- Sexuality education
- Sexuality in “primitive” society
- Sexuality: ancient China
- Sexuality: ancient Egypt
- Sexuality: ancient Europe
- Sexuality: ancient indigenous Australia
- Sexuality: ancient Near East (except Egypt)
- Sexuality: ancient North America
- Sexuality: ancient Andean South America
- Sexuality: classical world
- Sexually transmitted diseases and infections
- Sexuopharmaceuticals
- Shamanism, archaeological representations of
- Shaving
- Sissies and tomboys
- Situational homosexuality
- Social complexity, gender and
- Social construction theory
- Social hygiene
- Social purity
- Sociobiology
- Spanking
- Socio‐sexual response cycle
- Sprinkle, Annie M. (1954–)
- St. James, Margo (1937–)
- Standards of Care, transgender health
- Stein, Gertrude, and Alice B. Toklas
- Steroids
- Stone tools
- Stopes, Marie Carmichael (1880–1958)
- Striptease
- Surgery on ambiguous genitalia
- T
- Tantric sex
- Taormino, Tristan (1971–)
- Tattoos
- Teenage pregnancy
- Testosterone
- Theories of conception and paternity
- Third gender
- Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991)
- Tomboi (Indonesia)
- Tom‐dee (Thailand)
- Tongzhi
- Trafficking, sex
- Trans* bodies
- Transgender
- Transgender in Polynesia
- Transgender surgery
- Transsexual
- Transvestic fetishism
- Travestis (Brazil)
- Trial marriage
- U
- Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich (1825–1895)
- Unwed mothers
- V
- Vagina dentata
- Vaginal lubricants, cross‐cultural perspectives
- Vaginal lubrication
- Vaginismus
- Van de Velde, Theodoor Hendrik (1873–1937)
- Vasectomy
- Venereal disease, history of
- Vibrators
- Virginity and virginity pledges
- Virginity proof
- Voyeurism
- Vulval modification
- Vulvectomy
- Vulvodynia, medical‐biological perspective
- Vulvodynia: socio‐cultural perspectives
- W
- Waxing
- Westermarck, Edvard Alexander (1862–1939)
- Wilde, Oscar (1854–1900)
- Woman marriage, Africa
- World Congress Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents
- World religions and sexuality
- X
- Xanith (Oman)