Informing
readers is the shared objective of the many educators, medical specialists,
therapists, healthcare experts, and editors who contributed to this collection
of 254 articles on the profound and popular subject of sex. Moving beyond a
partial view of only biology and psychology, this work also examines the wide
sociological dimensions of sex, looking at various types of relationships,
complex family issues, parenting, the equality of women and men, and the
challenge of making good personal choices during times when bodies mature,
cultures collide, and values emerge.
Arrangement
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3 volumes arranged
alphabetically including volume indexes
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320 pages per
volume
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More than 400 full-color
photographs and drawings
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254 signed
articles
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Focus on the body and its
development, behaviors that are produced, and ideas about sex in emotional,
medical and legal terms
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Offers a look at sex from
many different angles and provides information on how to make educated personal
decisions
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Topics developed around 6
themes:
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Human Anatomy and
Physiology
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Sexual Behaviors, Practices,
Disorders, and Diseases
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Health, Education, and Medicine
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Relationships
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Legal Issues
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Social and Cultural
Perspectives
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Entries include:
- Brief definition of the
subject
- Color-coding by category of
interest
- Color photographs, diagrams
and tables
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Cross-references
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Resources for further study
in every volume
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Volume glossary
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Volume index
Scope
From the body
and its development to the behaviors it produces, from attitudes and ideas about
sex to standards of morality and law, from personal choices to their medical,
emotional, and legal consequences—no topic associated with sex or gender
or the social frameworks they generate escapes inclusion in this wide-ranging
collection of up-to-date discussions.
Index Volume
3 contains:
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Comprehensive
glossary
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Comprehensive index
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Subject indexes
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Comprehensive resources for
further study
Benefits
Mindful of the need to
advise readers young and old to stay safe from ignorance, prejudice, sexual
abuse, violence, and disease, as well as reminding them of the option to delay
sexual intercourse on personal grounds, this work nonetheless reports frankly on
each of its subjects, avoiding the reticence often associated with the
dissemination of ideas about human sexuality.
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