Ongoing political controversies around the world exemplify a long-standing and widespread
preoccupation with the acceptability of homosexuality. Nonheterosexual people have seen�…

The sex drive refers to the strength of sexual motivation. Across many different studies and
measures, men have been shown to have more frequent and more intense sexual desires�…

Where did we come from? What is our connection with other life forms? What are the
mechanisms of mind that define what it means to be a human being? Evolutionary�…

Sexual and asexual reproduction are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms.
Asexual reproduction has its advantages, chief among which is that it does not require the�…

Being born a girl or a boy has implications that carry considerably beyond chromosomal,
hormonal, and genital differences. In this chapter, we consider the developmental processes�…

Gay, straight, bisexual: how much does sexual orientation matter to a teenager's mental
health or sense of identity? In this down-to-earth book, filled with the voices of young people�…

Louann Brizendine, MD, is a neuropsychiatrist whose professional career has been devoted
to studying the female brain and writing and lecturing to both the public and professionals�…

The current research used two 8-wave longitudinal studies spanning the first 4–5 years of
207 marriages to examine the potential bidirectional associations among marital�…

The Sociosexual Orientation Inventory (SOI; Simpson & Gangestad 1991) is a self-report
measure of individual differences in human mating strategies. Low SOI scores signify that a�…

The book is as comprehensive as possible within the confines of one text. The adolescent is
discussed within the context of contemporary society. Material includes both theory and life�…