Table of Contents

Part I. Theorizing Sex
Ch.1 Sex, Symbolic Interactionism, and Social Constructionism by Chris Brickell
Ch.2 Muscle and Blood: Erotic Fantasy in Theory and Practice by Don Kulick
Ch.3 Stating Desire: Sexuality, the State, and Social Control by Misty Luminais
Ch.4 Scripting Sexual Practice in Differing Social Contexts: Young Women Negotiating Mothers′ Expectations in Hong Kong and Britain by Stevi Jackson and Petula Sik Ying Ho
Ch.5 Sex as Theater: Action, Character and the Erotic by Charles Edgley
Part II. Constructing Sexual Meanings
Ch.6 Talking Sex: Parents, Schools, and Sexuality by Sinikka Elliott and Josephine Ngo McKelvy
Ch.7 Techno-sexuality: The Sexual Pragmatists of the Technological Age by Dennis D. Waskul
Ch.8 Painting Desire Pink: Meaning-Making at a Romance Sex Store by Alison Better
Part III. Negotiating Sexual Selfhood
Ch.9 "′Somewhere between Evangelical and Queer′: Sexual-Religious Identity Work in an LGBT Christian Church by J. Edward Sumerau
Ch.10 Negotiating Promiscuity: Straight Edge (sXe), Sex, and the Self by Jamie L. Mullaney
Ch.11 The Challenges of Identity Formation for Bisexual-Multiracial Women of Asian/White Descent by Beverly Yuen Thompson
Ch.12 "Give Me a Dominant of Any Gender Over Any Kind of Non-Dominant": Sexual Orientation Beyond Gender by Brandy L. Simula
Part IV. Sex, Emotion, and Identity
Ch.13 "Bittersweet" Emotions, Identities, and Sexualities: Insights From a Lesbian Community Space by Clare Forstie
Ch.14 Not Necessarily Broken: Redefining Success When Polyamorous Relationships End by Elisabeth Sheff
Ch.15 A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Asexuality by Susie Scott, Matt Dawson, and Staci Newmahr
Part V. Sexual Stories
Ch.16 The Unfortunate Adventures of a Girl in the Know by Stella Meningkat
Ch.17 Backroom "Dance" by Ruby Pearson
Ch.18 A Conflicted Mind by John P.
Ch.19 On Confessing One′s Kink in a Sexuality Textbook by Tanya Bezreh
Ch.20 Intersections of Vampirism and Sexuality: A Narrative Description of a Vampire Feeding by D J Williams
Ch.21 Adjusting the Inner Face by Giselle Ridgeway

About the Author

Dr. Weinberg is the author or editor of four books (two monographs and two edited volumes). He is Associate Editor of Ethnographic Studies and Sexuality & Culture and a referee for the Journal of Sexual Medicine.  He is a contributor to The Routledge Handbook of Deviant Behavior, edited by the late Clifton Bryant (2012). Dr. Weinberg is currently working with data gathered from a sample of sadomasochists, who were interviewed about their coming-out experiences. Dr. Newmahr is an ethnographer and the author of Playing on the Edge: Sadomasochism, Risk and Intimacy (Indiana University Press, 2011), an ethnography of an SM community that theorizes risk-taking and emotion from an interactionist perspective. She is Associate Editor of Symbolic Interaction (Wiley-Blackwell). She has published several papers in sociology and interdisciplinary journals. Most recently, she completed an invited chapter for the anthology Life as Performance: A Dramaturgical Handbook (Ashgate, expected 2012) and an article on the eroticism of Renaissance Faire.  She is also a contributor to The Routledge Handbook of Deviant Behavior (2012).  She is currently working on her second monograph.