Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

This survey of sexual practices in the United States has been combed by the media for items of interest to the public: monogamous sex is much more widespread in this country than has been thought; infidelity is less frequent than presumed; vaginal intercourse is the defining experience of heterosexual behavior; watching one's partner undress is stimulating to many people; married couples have more sex than single people (unmarried, cohabiting couples have the most sex of all); the majority of couples experience sex twice a week to several times a month; 2.8% of men identify themselves as homosexual and 1.4% of women do so, but a higher percentage of people consider a same-gender experience to have some appeal; 75% of men always experience orgasm compared with 28.6% of women, but more nearly equal numbers of men and women declare themselves satisfied with their sexual experiences. The book is, in fact, a

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

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Men and Women of the Corporation

American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Douglas S. Massey , Nancy A. Denton

The discussion in these few pages could not possibly indicate the totality of the vast canvas that Castells paints in his new text. It is a work of some 300,000 words. The methodological appendices, endnotes and bibliography alone cover 100 pages. The substance of the book presents case studies of historical and contemporary urban movements and urban social movements, ranging from the revolution of the Communidades in sixteenth-century Castille, to the 1871 Paris Commune, to the Glasgow Rent Strike in 1915, the protests in the Parisian Grandes Ensembles in the 1960s and 1970s, the cultural movements and gay communities in San Francisco, the Madrid Citizens’ Movement of the 1970s, and much more besides. At the end of all this Castells’s new theoretical perspective is summed up into a ‘cross-cultural theory of urban social change’.

The City and the Grassroots

In this paper we use data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) to ascertain and analyze patterns of asexuality in the United States. We endeavor to extend the earlier work of Bogaert (2004) on this topic, which focused on patterns of asexuality in Great Britain. Using a social constructionist perspective to study asexuality, we conceptualize and measure the phenomenon in several ways, according to behavior, desire, and self-identification. We use the NSFG respondent sampling weights to produce several sets of unbiased estimates of the percentages of persons in the U.S. population, aged 15-44, who are asexual; each set is based on one or more of the various definitions of asexuality. Finally, we describe some of the characteristics of the asexual population using logistic regression. 1. Introduction In recent years there has been an increase in demographic studies of sexuality. The resulting research has provided insights into broader population patterns of sexual behaviors, desires, and identities, and has emphasized the complexities inherent in the analysis of sexual outcomes. But with very few exceptions, none of the sexuality analyses have focused on asexuality, hence overlooking a sexuality dimension that may well characterize a not insignificant percentage of the population. In this article, we examine data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) dealing with the prevalence and characteristics of asexual persons. Our research highlights the measurement and interpretation challenges that accompany demographic analyses of sexuality in general, and asexuality in particular. Recent research about sexual behaviors, desires, and identity has found that a small, but notable, number of individuals do not appear to fall clearly into the heterosexual, gay, or bisexual categories in terms of their sexuality. Rather, they report that they are not engaging in sexual activity, that they experience no sexual desire, and/or that they self-identify as asexual (Bogaert 2004; Laumann et al. 1994). Asexuality has gained modest attention in the popular media as a sexual orientation (Sohn 2005; Jay 2005), but little quantitative and generalizable information is available about the prevalence of asexual identity or behavior in human populations or the characteristics associated with asexual persons. In the one quantitative study of which we are aware, Bogaert (2004) conducted a study of asexuality using nationally representative data, concluding that around 1.1 percent of the sampled British population provided an asexual response to a survey question on sexual desire. Drawing on 2002 NSFG data, we seek to extend Bogaert's analysis in two ways. First, we explore whether similar patterns of asexuality are exhibited in the U.S. population as in the British population. In addition, and more importantly in terms of broader demographic studies of sexuality, we incorporate multiple dimensions of asexuality, in contrast to the single dimension permitted by Bogaert's data. The limited literature on asexuality presents three kinds of definitions dealing with the phenomenon, namely, definitions based on one's behavior, one's desires, and one's self-identification. Our analysis of asexuality across these three dimensions highlights the manner in which both the prevalence and implications of asexuality vary depending on the dimension employed. Further, our analysis demonstrates some of the challenges faced by demographers using survey data on sexuality, as well as in crafting questions to explore population sexuality. 2. Background There is a limited social science literature on asexuality. This is due in part to the presumed low levels of asexuality in human and nonhuman populations. Asexuality is thought by some to be low because "one would expect strong selection pressures against such nonreproductive tendencies" (Bogaert 2004: 279). But the fact that a behavior has "nonreproductive tendencies" does not necessarily mean that it will have a low prevalence. …

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Patterns of Asexuality in the United States

I. Introduction to the Demography of Sexuality: 1: Introduction: The Demography of Sexuality (Amanda K. Baumle, University of Houston).- 2: Sexual Behavior and Practices: Data and Measurement (Stuart Michaels, University of Chicago).- 3: Best Pratices: Collecting and Analyzing Data on Sexual Minorities (Laura Durso and Gary Gates, The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law).- II. Sexual Practices: The Global Picture: 4: Sexual Behavior, Sexual Identity, and Sexual Attraction in the United States: Data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth (Anjani Chandra, Casey E. Copen, and William D. Mosher, National Center for Health Statistics).- 5: Sexual practices of Latin America and the Caribbean (Cecelia Gayet, FLACSO Mexico Fatima Juarez, El Colegio de Mexico and Michel Bozon, INED).- 6: Sexual Practices in Africa (Yanyi K. Djamba, Auburn University Montgomery).- 7: Sexuality in China (Nicole Farris, University of West Alabama Lei He, Texas A&M University Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Texas A&M University Carol S. Walther, Northern Illinois University Chris Russell, Texas A&M University Heather Kincannon, Texas A&M University).- III. Sexual Practices Across the Life Course.- 8: Sex in Committed Relationships (Pepper Schwartz, Brian J. Serafini, and Ross Cantor, University of Washington).- 9: Adolescent Sexual Experiences (Jennifer Pearson, Wichita State University Lindsey Wilkinson, Portland State University).- 10: Sexuality Among Older Adults (Osmo Kontula, Population Research Institute).- IV. Sexual Identities.- 11: The Prevalence of Gay Men and Lesbians (Christopher Scott Carpenter, UC Irvine).- 12 : Geography of the LGBT Population (Gary Gates, The Williams Institute, UCLA).- 13: The Demography of Sexuality and the Labor Market (Amanda K. Baumle, University of Houston).- 14: The Family and Gay Men and Lesbians (D'Lane R. Compton, University of New Orleans).- 15: The Demography of Asexuality (Anthony Bogaert, Brock University).- 16: The Demographics of the Transgender Population (Stacey Lawrence Colton Meier, University of Houston Christine M. Labuski, University of Arkansas): V. Applied Demography of Sexuality: Perspectives on Policy.- 17: Patterns of Relationship Recognition by Same-Sex Couples in the United States (M.V. Lee Badgett, University of Massachusetts-Amherst Jody Herman, Williams Institute, UCLA).- 18: Sexuality in the Military (Karen De Angelis, Michelle Sandhoff, Kimberly Bonner, and David R. Segal, University of Maryland).- 19: Demographics of Gay and Lesbian Adoption and Family Policies (Mary Ann Davis, Sam Houston State University).- 20: Same-Sex Couples' Construction of Census Categories (Carol S. Walther, Northern Illinois University).- VI: Conclusion.- 21: The Future of the Demography of Sexuality (Amanda K. Baumle, University of Houston).

International handbook on the demography of sexuality

This article builds on earlier studies that have examined "the economic cost of homosexuality," by using data from the 2000 U.S. Census and by employing multilevel analyses. Our findings indicate that partnered gay men experience a 12.5 percent earnings penalty compared to married heterosexual men, and a statistically insignificant earnings penalty compared to partnered heterosexual men, when both individual- and state-level characteristics are taken into account. Partnered lesbians experience about a 3.5 percent earnings advantage compared to married heterosexual women, and a 9 percent earnings advantage compared to partnered heterosexual women. Although individual-level characteristics are the primary determinants of their earnings, we find that some contextual characteristics affect the earnings of partnered gay men and lesbians, relative to partnered heterosexuals, and that these effects vary by sex.

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