Evidence, Cases and Materials (University Casebook Series)

Description

Psychiatry Versus Sex Research–Six chapters that focus on the shift in the credibility of opinion about human sexual behavior, from psychiatry to sex research, that peaked in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Experts discuss homophobia, pseudoscience, pair bonding, paraphilia, sadomasochism, transvestism, and transsexualism.
Gay Fantasies, Male Realities, and Bonding–Several chapters explore how sexual identity is manifest in various forms of pair and group bonding–how gay men relate to one another, in couples and collectively, as lovers, Catholics, Jews, and as circumcised and uncircumcised males.
Interviews From the First Two Years of the AIDS Epidemic–Chapters include the first published interviews with leading AIDS researchers and observers and with a person with AIDS.
Gay Youth, Gay History–Among the topics discussed are the homosexual emancipation movement in Germany, the Nazi persecutions of homosexuality, the uses of Nazi imagery in s-m pornography and public display, and the future of the gay liberation movement.

Homosexuality and Sexuality is a major new volume that will be widely read in the gay community–by academicians, scholars, and historians of the gay liberation movement, the AIDS epidemic, and the sexual revolutions of our time. The volume will also be of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, sex researchers, historians, or anyone who treats, counsels, studies, or simply wishes to know more about gay men and lesbians and their experiences.