Table Of Content1. History, the Historian, and Sex, Vern L. Bullough. 2. Why Would Anyone Conduct Research on Sexual Behavior?, Donn Byrne. 3. Sex Psych Prof Taking Heat: Fear and Loathing on the Research Trail, William A. Fisher. 4. Doing Research on Adolescents, J. Richard Udry. 5. The Science of Sexual Signaling, Monica M. Moore. 6. She Should Be Young and Beautiful, He Should Be Older and Successful: Gender Differences in Mate-Selection Preferences, Michael W. Wiederman. 7. A Feminist Activist in Sexology, Leonore Tiefer. 8. Reconciling Sexual Orientation, Michael R. Stevenson. 9. Social Psychology, Jealousy, and Extradyadic Sex, Bram P. Buunk. 10. "Not Now, Darling, I'm on the Pill": Researching Oral Contraception, Cynthia A. Graham. 11. Preventing Sexual Violence, Gene G. Abel. 12. A Few Minutes with Venus, A Lifetime with Mercury, William W. Darrow. 13. Breaking in to Prison: The Story of a Study of Sexual Coercion of Incarcerated Men and Women, Cindy Struckman-Johnson. 14. My Life in Prostitution, Jacqueline Boles. 15. No More Dr. Nice-Gal: Finding a Public Voice as a Feminist Sexologist, Gina Ogden.
SynopsisThis unique supplemental text provides a collection of interdisciplinary research "stories" by leading expert researchers in human sexuality. Appropriate to a wide range of courses, The Sex Scientists provides lively, compelling first person narratives on a broad range of topics that closely parallel major sections of human sexuality textbooks.