ABSTRACT

Revisits and updates the centrality of the social construction of sexuality, especially in the age of Viagra, FSD (female sexual dysfunction) and the media saturation of sex. Leonore Tiefer is one of the foremost sexologists working in the United States today; she is a well-known and respected scholar who writes engagingly and humorously about a wide array of topics in sexuality to appeal to both students and general readers. Revised and updated with new pieces on the medicalization of sex, FSD (female sexual dysfunction) and the politics of sex, as well as classic pieces found in the original edition, such as "Am I Normal?: The Question of Sex."

part one|61 pages

Sex is not a Natural Act: Theme and Variations

chapter 1|10 pages

"Am I Normal?" The Question of Sex

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 2|15 pages

Social Constructionism and the Study of Human Sexuality

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 3|10 pages

Sexual Biology and the Symbolism of the Natural

ByLeonore Tiefer

part two|50 pages

Popular Writings on the Theme

chapter 1|10 pages

Six Months at the Daily News

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 2|8 pages

The Kiss

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 3|6 pages

From Niagara to Viagra: Why it is so Hard to Just Talk About Sex

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 4|8 pages

The Opposite of Sex

ByMoira Brennan, Ms. Magazine

chapter 5|7 pages

The Mcdonaldization of Sex

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 6|6 pages

Doing the Viagra Tango: Sex Pill as Symbol and Substance

ByLeonore Tiefer

part three|66 pages

Feminism and Sexuality

chapter 1|8 pages

An Activist in Sexology

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 3|8 pages

Gender and Meaning in the Nomenclature of Sexual Dysfunctions

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 4|8 pages

Some Harms to Women of Restrictions on Sexually Related Expression

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 5|11 pages

Towards A Feminist Sex Therapy

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 6|20 pages

The Capacity for Outrage: Feminism, Humor, and Sex

ByLeonore Tiefer

part four|64 pages

The Medicalization of Sexuality

chapter 1|3 pages

Sexism in Sex Therapy: Whose Idea is "Sensate Focus"?

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 2|8 pages

Women's Sexuality: Not a Matter of Health

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 3|14 pages

The Medicalization of Impotence: Normalizing Phallocentrism

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 4|9 pages

Pleasure, Medicalization, and the Tyranny of the Natural

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 5|24 pages

Sexology and the Pharmaceutical Industry: The Threat of Co-Optation

ByLeonore Tiefer

part five|37 pages

The Creation of FSD

chapter 3|4 pages

The Selling of "Female Sexual Dysfunction"

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 4|7 pages

Book Review: A New Sexual World—Not!

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter 5|7 pages

The Pink Viagra Story: We have the Drug, but What's the Disease?

ByLeonore Tiefer

chapter |3 pages

Conclusion: We Need Theory, we Need Politics

ByLeonore Tiefer