Social Psychology and Human Sexuality

Table of Contents/ List of Topics Covered:
Part 1: Gender and Sexual Behavior
- Reading 1: Gender differences in sexuality: A meta-analysis
- Reading 2: Gender differences in receptivity to sexual offers

Part 2: Nature and Culture
- Reading 3: Sexual Strategies Theory: An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Mating
- Reading 4: Gender Differences in Erotic Plasticity: The Female Sex Drive as Socially Flexible and Responsive

Part 3: Virginity
- Reading 5: 'Was It Good For You, Too?': Gender Differences in First Sexual Intercourse Experience

Part 4: Sex and the Peer Group
- Reading 6: Patterns of Adolescent Friendship and Effects on Social Behavior
- Reading 7: Casual Sex on Spring Break: Intentions and Behaviors of Canadian Students

Part 5: Homosexuality and Homophobia
- Reading 8: Exotic Becomes Erotic: A Development Theory of Sexual Orientation
- Reading 9: Is Homophobia Associated with Homosexual Arousal?

Part 6: Rape and Harassment
- Reading 10: Twelve Reasons Why Rape is not Sexually Motivated: A Skeptical Examination
- Reading 11: Date Rapists: Differential Sexual Socialization Deprivation
- Reading 12: Adjustment to Rape
- Reading 13: Attractiveness of the Underling

Part 7: Infidelity
- Reading 14: Sex Differences in Jealousy: Evolution, Physiology, and Psychology
- Reading 15: Extradyadic Relations During Courtship

Part 8: Paraphilias
- Reading 16: Masochism as Escape from Self

Part 9: Pornography and Desire
- Reading 17: Sex Differences in Response to Erotica? Love Versus Lust