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Edited by Paul R. Abramson and Steven D. Pinkerton

Sexual Nature/Sexual Culture

434 pages, 8 halftones, 28 line drawings, 14 tables  6 x 9  © 1995
Series: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society

Cloth $85.00

ISBN: 9780226001814   Published June 1995

Paper $37.50

ISBN: 9780226001821   Published July 1995

Preface
1: Introduction: Nature, Nurture, and In-Between
Paul R. Abramson, Steven D. Pinkerton.
2: Sexual Nature: What Can We Learn from a Cross-Species Perspective?
Mary S. McDonald Pavelka
3: Sex as an Alternative to Aggression in the Bonobo
Frans B. M. de Waal
4: The Evolution of Female Sexual Desire
Kim Wallen
5: Beauty Is in the Adaptations of the Beholder: The Evolutionary
Psychology of Human Female Sexual Attractiveness
Donald Symons
6: Sex Hormones and Sexual Behavior
Jean D. Wilson
7: Psychoneuroendocrinology and Sexual Pleasure: The Aspect of Sexual
Orientation
Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg
8: The Genetics of Sexual Orientation: From Fruit Flies to Humans
Angela M. L. Pattatucci, Dean H. Hamer.
9: The Cultural Management of Adolescent Sexuality
Alice Schlegel
10: Sexuality, Infertility, and Sexually Transmitted Disease among Farmers
and Foragers in Central Africa
Robert C. Bailey, Robert V. Aunger.
11: The Pleasures of Homosexuality
David F. Greenberg
12: Discourse, Intercourse, and the Excluded Middle: Anthropology and the
Problem of Sexual Experience
Donald Tuzin
13: The Pleasures of Castration: The Postoperative Status of Hijras,
Jankhas, and Academics
Lawrence Cohen
14: The Pursuit of Pleasure and the Sale of Sex
Lenore Manderson
15: Sexuality and the Experience of Love
Thomas Gregor
16: Model-Based Representations of Human Sexual Behavior
Edward H. Kaplan
17: Sexual Activities as Told in Surveys
Richard Berk, Paul R. Abramson, Paul Okami.
Appendix: Theorizing Sexuality
Paul Okami, Laura Pendleton.
Contributors
Index
Subjects



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