At the heart of emotion, mood, and any other emotionally charged event are states
experienced as simply feeling good or bad, energized or enervated. These states--called …

The sex drive refers to the strength of sexual motivation. Across many different studies and
measures, men have been shown to have more frequent and more intense sexual desires …

Objective: Various sources of evidence suggest that men and women differ in their
experience of sexual pleasure. Such gender differences have been attributed to men's …

The Senses in Self, Society, and Culture is the definitive guide to the sociological and
anthropological study of the senses. Vannini, Waskul, and Gottschalk provide a …

An informal yet rigorous exploration of human emotions in all their complexity and subtlety.
Why do we cry at the movies? What is the best way to manage destructive feelings such as …

Paula A. Treichler has become a singularly important voice among the significant theorists
on the AIDS crisis. Dissecting the cultural politics surrounding representations of HIV and …

From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate
every aspect of culture. Striptease Culture explores the'sexualization'of contemporary life …

In response to some recent critiques, we (a) analyze the arguments and data presented in
those commentaries,(b) integrate the findings of several meta-analytic summaries of …

The self-perceived effects of “hardcore” pornography consumption were studied in a large
representative sample of young adult Danish men and women aged 18–30. Using a survey …

The relationship between sociology and the other social sciences is in reality a relationship
between sectors of different disciplines, not between whole disciplines. Sociology is one of …