The Sex Myth
Page 25
———. “Branding and discourse: the case of Cosmopolitan.” Discourse & Society 14 (July 2003), 443–71.
Marrone, Katherine. “Sex: Excessive pornographic exposure can screw you in the sack.” DailyEmerald.com, June 6, 2013. http://dailyemerald.com/2013/06/06/sex-the-dark-side-of-pornography/. Accessed October 29, 2014.
Martin, Karin, and Emily Kazyak. “Hetero-romantic love and heterosexiness in children’s G-rated films.” Gender & Society 23 (June 2009), 315–36.
Martinez, G., C. E. Copen, and J. C. Abma. “Teenagers in the United States: Sexual activity, contraceptive use, and childbearing, 2006–2010 National Survey of Family Growth.” Vital and Health Statistics 23, no. 31 (October 2011). http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_23/sr23_031.pdf. Accessed October 11, 2014.
Miller, Korin. “Why Taken Guys Seem Sexier.” Cosmopolitan.com, May 4, 2010. http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/relationship-advice/why-taken-guys-are-sexier. Accessed October 6, 2014.
Mitchell, Kaye. “Raunch versus prude: Contemporary sex blogs and erotic memoirs by women.” Psychology and Sexuality 3 (January 2012), 12–25.
Moore, Molly. “As Europe Grows Grayer, France Devises a Baby Boom.” Washington Post, October 18, 2006. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/17/AR2006101701652.html. Accessed October 7, 2014.
Moore, Tracy. “Happiness Is Not Just Getting Laid, It’s Getting the MOST Laid.” Jezebel, April 20, 2013. http://jezebel.com/happiness-is-not-just-getting-laid-its-getting-the-mos-476483024. Accessed October 28, 2014.
“Morals: The Second Sexual Revolution.” Time, January 24, 1964. http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,875692-1,00.html. Accessed October 3, 2014.
Morgan, Elizabeth M., and Eileen L. Zurbriggen. “Wanting sex and wanting to wait: young adults’ accounts of sexual messages from first significant dating partners.” Feminism & Psychology 17 (November 2007), 515–41.
Morrison, Todd G., Travis A. Ryan, Lisa Fox, Daragh T. McDermott, and Melanie A. Morrison. “Canadian university students’ perceptions of the practices that constitute ‘normal’ sexuality for men and women.” Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 17, no. 4 (2008), 161–71.
Moses, Lucia. “Millennial Guys Are Turning to Makeup: Survey Finds Masculinity Isn’t What It Used to Be.” AdWeek.com, June 19, 2013. http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/millennial-guys-are-turning-makeup-150313. Accessed October 7, 2014.
Moynihan, Ray. “The Making of a Disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction.” British Medical Journal 326 (January 4, 2003), 45–47.
Muehlenhard, Charlene L., and Sheena K. Shippee. “Men’s and Women’s Reports of Pretending Orgasm.” Journal of Sex Research 47, no. 6 (2010), 552–67.
Murphy, Kevin. “Kansas set to enact life-starts-‘at fertilization’ abortion law.” Reuters, April 6, 2013. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/06/us-usa-kansas-abortion-idUSBRE93501220130406. Accessed October 28, 2014.
Myers, Kristen, and Laura Raymond. “Elementary School Girls and Heteronormativity: The Girl Project.” Gender & Society 24 (April 2010), 167–88.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. That’s What He Said: What Guys Think About Sex, Love, Contraception and Relationships. January 2010. https://thenationalcampaign.org/resource/thats-what-he-said. Accessed October 11, 2014.
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention. “Sexual Violence: Facts at a Glance.” 2012. http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/pdf/SV-DataSheet-a.pdf. Accessed October 28, 2014.
Naughton, Julia. “The Summer (Sex) Bucket List.” Cosmopolitan (Australia), December 2012, 31.
Nikunen, Kaarina. “Cosmo Girls Talk: Blurring Boundaries of Porn and Sex.” In Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture, ed. Susanna Paasonen, Kaarina Nikunen, and Laura Saarenmaa. Oxford: Berg, 2007, 73–85.
NUS. That’s What She Said: Women Students’ Experiences of “Lad Culture” in Higher Education (London: NUS, 2013).
Outreach Programme on the Rwanda Genocide and the United Nations. “Background Information on Sexual Violence Used as a Tool of War.” http://www.un.org/en/preventgenocide/rwanda/about/bgsexualviolence.shtml. Accessed October 28, 2014.
Parr, Nick. “The baby bonus failed to increase fertility, but we should still keep it.” The Conversation, December 4, 2011. https://theconversation.com/the-baby-bonus-failed-to-increase-fertility-but-we-should-still-keep-it-4528. Accessed October 7, 2014.
Pascoe, C. J. “ ‘Dude, You’re a Fag’: Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse.” Sexualities 8 (July 2005), 326–48.
Patrick, Donald L., et al. “Premature Ejaculation: An Observational Study of Men and Their Partners.” Journal of Sexual Medicine 2 (May 2005), 358–67.
Pew Research Center. “Changing Attitudes on Gay Marriage.” March 2014. http://features.pewforum.org/same-sex-marriage-attitudes/slide2.php. Accessed October 10, 2014.
Plummer, Ken. Telling Sexual Stories: Power, Change and Social Worlds. London: Routledge, 1995.
Populus. “Gay Couples’ Rights Survey.” March 2012. http://www.populus.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/OmGay_Rights.pdf. Accessed October 10, 2014.
Potts, Annie. The Science/Fiction of Sex: Feminist Deconstruction and the Vocabularies of Heterosex. Sussex: Routledge, 2002.
Przybylo, Ela. “Crisis and safety: The asexual in sexusociety.” Sexualities 14 (August 2011), 446.
Rabin, Roni Caryn. “Nearly 1 in 5 Women in US Survey Say They Have Been Sexually Assaulted.” New York Times, December 14, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/health/nearly-1-in-5-women-in-us-survey-report-sexual-assault.html. Accessed October 11, 2014.
Regnerus, Mark. “Sex Is Cheap: Why Young Men Have the Upper Hand in Bed, Even When They’re Failing in Life.” Slate, February 25, 2011. http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2011/02/sex_is_cheap.html. Accessed October 3, 2014.
Regnerus, Mark, and Jeremy Uecker. Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think About Marriage. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Rodriguez-Larralde, Alvaro, and Irene Paradisi. “Influence of genetic factors on human sexual orientation.” Journal of Clinical Investigation 50 (September 2009), 377–91.
Roiphe, Katie. “Spanking Goes Mainstream.” Newsweek, April 16, 2012. http://mag.newsweek.com/2012/04/15/working-women-s-fantasies.html. Accessed October 11, 2014.
Rosenbaum, Janet Elise. “Patient Teenagers? A Comparison of the Sexual Behavior of Virginity Pledgers and Matched Nonpledgers.” Pediatrics 123 (January 2009), 110–20.
Rosin, Hanna. “Boys on the Side.” Atlantic, August 22, 2012. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/09/boys-on-the-side/309062/. Accessed October 13, 2014.
Roy, Jessica. “ ‘Spreadsheets’ App Measures How Loud You Moan to Determine If You’re Good at Sex.” Betabeat, August 12, 2013. http://betabeat.com/2013/08/spreadsheets-app-measures-how-loud-you-moan-to-determine-if-youre-good-at-sex/. Accessed October 15, 2014.
Rubin, Gayle. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” In Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, ed. Carole S. Vance, 267–319. London, UK: Routledge, 1984.
Ryan, Christopher. “On Older Men, Younger Women, and Moralistic Claptrap.” Psychology Today, June 14, 2013. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-dawn/201306/older-men-younger-women-and-moralistic-claptrap. Accessed October 15, 2014.
Sanders, Stephanie A., et al. “Misclassification bias: Diversity in conceptualizations about having ‘had sex.’ ” Sexual Health 7 (March 2010), 31–34.
Saulny, Susan. “Young in G.O.P. Erase the Lines on Social Issues.” New York Times, August 8, 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/09/us/politics/young-republicans-erase-lines-on-social-issues.html?hp&_r=0. Accessed October 10, 2014.
Savage, Dan. “Asexuality for Beginners.” Stranger, September 1, 2009. http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2009/09/01/asexuality-for-beginners. Accessed October 10, 2014.
&nbs
p; Schalet, Amy T. “Caring, Romantic, American Boys.” New York Times, April 6, 2012. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/07/opinion/caring-romantic-american-boys.html. Accessed October 11, 2014.
Scott, Catherine. “Thinking Kink: Is Vanilla Sex Boring? Who Gets to Decide?” Bitch, July 16, 2012. http://bitchmagazine.org/post/thinking-kink-vanilla-sex-bdsm-feminist-magazine-sexuality. Accessed October 15, 2014.
Serna, Joseph. “Federal judge rules Arkansas abortion law unconstitutional.” Los Angeles Times, March 14, 2014. http://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/14/nation/la-na-nn-arkansas-abortion-law-unconstitutional-20140314. Accessed October 28, 2014.
“78 countries where homosexuality is illegal.” Erasing 76 Crimes. http://76crimes.com/76-countries-where-homosexuality-is-illegal/. Accessed October 28, 2014.
“Sex App That Measures Your Performance in a Spreadsheet Is Surely the Least Sexiest Thing?” Huffington Post UK, August 13 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/08/13/sex-app-performance-spreadsheet_n_3748999.html. Accessed October 15, 2014.
Sherfey, Mary Jane. “The evolution and nature of female sexuality in relation to psychoanalytic theory.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 14 (January 1966), 28–128.
Siebold, Carmel. “Factors Influencing Young Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health.” Contemporary Nurse 37 (February 2011), 124–36.
Simmonds, Alecia. “When did it stop being OK for men to hold hands?” Daily Life, March 13, 2013. http://www.dailylife.com.au/news-and-views/dl-opinion/when-did-it-stop-being-ok-for-men-to-hold-hands-20130313-2g098.html. Accessed October 11, 2014.
Simotas, Alexandra. “Female Sex Drive Linked to Emotions.” Houston Chronicle, September 6, 2006. http://blog.chron.com/herhealth/2006/09/female-sex-drive-linked-to-emotions/. Accessed October 11, 2014.
Smiler, Andrew P. Challenging Casanova: Beyond the Stereotype of the Promiscuous Young Male. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2013.
Souter, Fenella. “Generation Sex.” Good Weekend, Sydney Morning Herald, February, 11, 2006.
Stossel, John, and Gena Binkley. “Gay Stereotypes: Are They True?” ABC News, September 15, 2006. http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2449185. Accessed October 11, 2014.
Streicher, Lauren. “Pain for Pleasure? The O-Shot.” The Oz Blog, March 19, 2014. http://blog.doctoroz.com/oz-experts/pain-for-pleasure-the-o-shot. Accessed October 15, 2014.
Tashman, Brian. “E. W. Jackson: Gays and Lesbians Are ‘Very Sick People Psychologically, Mentally and Emotionally.’ ” Right Wing Watch, October 25, 2012. http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jackson-gays-lesbians-very-sick-people-psychologically-mentally-emotionally. Accessed October 28, 2014.
Taylor, Kate. “Sex on Campus: She Can Play That Game Too.” New York Times, July 12, 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/fashion/sex-on-campus-she-can-play-that-game-too.html. Accessed October 13, 2014.
Taylor, Laramie D. “All for Him: Articles About Sex in American Lad Magazines.” Sex Roles 52 (February 2005), 153–63.
Thorn, Clarisse. “The Myth of the Sex-Crazy Nympho Dream Girl.” The Good Men Project, May 20, 2011. http://goodmenproject.com/sex-relationships/myth-sex-crazy-nympho-dream-girl/. Accessed October 15, 2014.
Tiefer, Leonore. Sex Is Not a Natural Act and Other Essays. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2004.
Tolman, Deborah L., Renee Spencer, Tricia Harmon, Myra Rosen-Reynoso, and Meg Striepe. “Getting Close, Staying Cool: Early Adolescent Boys’ Experiences with Romantic Relationships.” In Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood, ed. Niobe Way and Judy Chu. New York: New York University Press, 2004, 235–55.
Turner, Christopher. “Wilhelm Reich: The Man Who Invented Free Love.” Guardian, July 9, 2011. http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/08/wilhelm-reich-free-love-orgasmatron. Accessed October 15, 2014.
Turner, Natasha, ND. “5 unexpected health benefits of orgasms,” Chatelaine.com, December 31, 2014. http://www.chatelaine.com/health/sex-and-relationships/five-unexpected-health-benefits-of-orgasms/. Accessed January 19, 2015.
Valenti, Jessica. The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women. Berkeley: Seal Press, 2009.
Vargas-Cooper, Natasha. “Hard Core.” Atlantic, January/February 2011. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/01/hard-core/308327/. Accessed October 6, 2014.
Wade, Lisa. “College, Fun, and Pluralistic Ignorance.” Sociological Images, September 6, 2012. http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/06/college-fun-and-pluralistic-ignorance/. Accessed October 3, 2014.
Wade, Lisa, and Caroline Heldman. “Hooking Up and Opting Out: Negotiating Sex in the First Year of College.” In Sex for Life: From Virginity to Viagra, How Sex Changes Throughout Our Lives, ed. Laura M. Carpenter and John DeLamater, 128–45. New York University Press: New York, 2012.
Waldinger, Marcel D., et al. “Ejaculation Disorders: A Multinational Population Survey of Intravaginal Ejaculation Latency Time.” Journal of Sexual Medicine 2 (July 2005), 492–97.
Walker, Marcus. “In Estonia, paying women to have babies pays off.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 20, 2006. http://www.post-gazette.com/life/lifestyle/2006/10/20/In-Estonia-paying-women-to-have-babies-pays-off/stories/200610200166. Accessed October 7, 2014.
Walker, Shelley. “Sexting: Young Women’s and Men’s Views on Its Nature and Origins.” Journal of Adolescent Health 52 (June 2013), 697–701.
Waller, Willard. “The Rating and Dating Complex.” American Sociological Review 2 (October 1937), 727–34.
Wilson, Brenda. “Sex Without Intimacy: No Dating, No Relationships.” NPR, June 8, 2009. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?sto-ryId=105008712. Accessed October 3, 2014.
World Health Organization. “Violence against women,” fact sheet no. 239. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs239/en/. Accessed October 28, 2014.
Yew, Lee Kuan. “Warning Bell for Developed Countries: Declining Birth Rates.” Forbes, April 25, 2012. http://www.forbes.com/global/2012/0507/current-events-population-declining-birth-rates-lee-kuan-yew.html. Accessed October 14, 2014.
Yoffe, Emily. “College Women: Stop Getting Drunk.” Slate, October 15, 2013. http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/10/sexual_assault_and_drinking_teach_women_the_connection.html. Accessed October 11, 2014.
Zeilinger, Julie. “Kahnoodle App Makes Reigniting Your Relationship into a Game.” Huffington Post, August 9, 2013. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/09/kahnoodle-app-makes-reigniting-your-relationship-into-a-game_n_3732916.html. Accessed October 15, 2014.
Zirin, Dave. “How Jock Culture Supports Rape Culture, from Maryville to Steubenville.” Nation, October 25, 2013. http://www.thenation.com/blog/176846/how-jock-culture-supports-rape-culture-maryville-steubenville#. Accessed October 11, 2014.
Index
A note about the index: The pages referenced in this index refer to the page numbers in the print edition. Clicking on a page number will take you to the ebook location that corresponds to the beginning of that page in the print edition. For a comprehensive list of locations of any word or phrase, use your reading system’s search function.
abortion, 67, 202
abstinence, 66, 96, 146, 149–51, 179, 194, 204
Adam and Eve, 146
Adams, Adi, 132
advertising, 24, 39, 49–50, 69, 163
Aguilera, Christina, 13
Aladdin (film), 144
Allen, Woody, 35
American Pie (film), 11
Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, 204
anal sex, 3, 39, 135, 147, 183
Anderson, Eric, 131–32
apps (cellphone), 167–68
Armstrong, Elizabeth, 106, 158, 163
asexuality, 40, 63–65, 84, 208, 212, 214
Atlantic magazine, 39, 158
Australia, 14, 16, 53, 74, 94, 109, 116, 125–26, 128, 133–34, 141, 147, 154, 173
BDSM, 13, 46, 58, 62, 65–66, 75, 162, 173, 176–78, 208
beauty, 85–86, 91, 96, 104, 140, 152
, 170
beauty products, 49, 53
Beauty and the Beast (film), 144
Beauvoir, Simone de, 140, 151
being “fun,” 97, 105–6
Belle du Jour (film), 160
Betabeat (blog), 168
Beyoncé, 14
biology, 3, 41–43, 218
birth control pill, 15, 21, 68, 149
bisexuality, 43, 46, 58, 72, 80, 98–99, 136, 196, 201
Bitch (blog), 174
Bledel, Alexis, 98
Blumstein, Philip, 181
Bogle, Kathleen, 4, 6
brain, 114, 186
Braun, Virginia, 119
Bridesmaids (film), 155
“bro” culture, 120–24
Cameroon, 201
Canner, Elizabeth, 189
casual sex, 4, 7, 14, 17, 20, 37, 68, 84, 97, 101, 103, 156–59, 162–63, 169, 203–4, 210
Caverject, 190
celibacy, 6, 28, 79, 103, 137, 170, 208–9
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 86, 138
Challenging Casanova (Smiler), 127
Christianity, 3, 14, 38, 73, 179, 204
class, 24–25, 30, 75, 146, 158, 162, 164
Clement of Alexandria, 3
Clueless (film), 148
College Republicans, 67
condoms, 76, 149, 184
Connell, Erin, 24
Connell, Raewyn, 111, 136
consumer culture, sex and, 50–53
contraception, 15, 66, 68, 151
Cosmopolitan magazine, 1, 139, 143, 156, 162, 170, 172, 176, 178
Cox, Tracey, 178
crushes, 143
Cyrus, Miley, 13, 50
Daily Mail,14
dating, 15, 28, 36, 86–88, 93–94, 101–3, 118
de Beauvoir, Simone, 140, 151
desirability
attractiveness and, 36–37
biology and, 42
consumer sex and, 50–51
culture and, 53
identity, 47–48
norms and, 8, 22, 32, 56–57, 82
see also desire
desire
control and, 100–103
horniness and, 95–99