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The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States Hardcover - 1994

by Edward O. Laumann; John H. Gagnon; Robert T. Michael

Based on interviews with 3,432 Americans between the ages of 18 and 59, this study explores sexual conduct and attitudes by gender, age, marital status, and other characteristics. The results provide an understanding of sexual behavior in American society and help identify specific health needs. An indispenable reference.


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The Social Organization of Sexuality reports the complete results of the nation's most comprehensive representative survey of sexual practices in the general adult population of the United States. This highly detailed portrait of sex in America and its social context and implications has established a new and original scientific orientation to the study of sexual behavior. The most comprehensive U.S. sex survey ever. --USA Today The findings from this survey, the first in decades to provide detailed insights about the sexual behavior of a representative sample of Americans, will have a profound impact on how policy makers tackle a number of pressing health problems. --Alison Bass, The Boston Globe A fat, sophisticated, and sperm-freezingly serious volume. . . . This book is not in the business of giving us a good time. It is in the business of asking three thousand four hundred and thirty-two other people whether they had a good time, and exactly what they did to make it so good. --Anthony Lane, The New Yorker New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year

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The Social Organization of Sexuality, a report on the nation's most comprehensive representative survey of sexual behavior in the general population to date, finally offers that basic information. Conducted by a research team centered at the University of Chicago, the National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS) was designed to determine the incidence and prevalence of sexual practices and to place them in their social contexts. Based on personal interviews with a probability sample of 3,432 American women and men between the ages of 18 and 59, undertaken by the National Opinion Research Center, this study explores the extent to which sexual conduct and general attitudes toward sexuality are influenced by gender, age, marital status, and other demographic characteristics. The results of this survey both allow us to better understand how sexual behavior is organized in American society, and offer significant implications for policymakers struggling with many of the nation's crucial health problems. In exploring the rate of new partner formation, for example, the researchers discovered that about 80% of American adults had only one or no sexual partner in the past year. By concentrating AIDS awareness information on the 20% of the population that had two or more partners. AIDS strategists would be better able to target and persuade this segment of the population to modify their sexual behavior. Other topics covered by the survey include early sexual experiences, masturbation, contraception and fertility, abortion, sexual abuse, coercion, sexual health, satisfaction, and sexual dysfunction. A wide variety of sexual practices and preferences are also explored in the questionnaire, including specific questions on homosexual desire, identity, and behavior, the appeal of various sexual practices, and their frequency and incorporation into sexual lives.

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  • Title The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States
  • Author Edward O. Laumann; John H. Gagnon; Robert T. Michael
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 750
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date October 17, 1994
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780226469577 / 0226469573
  • Weight 2.57 lbs (1.17 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.42 x 1.69 in (23.47 x 16.31 x 4.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex customs - United States, Sexual behavior surveys - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94003736
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.709

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  • Library Journal, 11/15/1994, Page 82
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