Embracing Diversity

Featuring a fresh, extremely relatable approach, Sexuality Now: Embracing Diversity, Third Edition, helps to teach students what they need and want to know about sexuality while clearly conveying foundational biological and health issues and citing current and classic research. The text continues to be a product of author Janell Carroll’s partnership with her students; answering the questions and concerns that students have about themselves and their sexuality with scientific fact, sensitivity, humor, and candor. Carroll also emphasizes diversity issues, presenting the range of sexual orientations and behaviors and taking into account the social, religious, ethnic, racial, and cultural contexts of today’s students.

Each chapter opens with a personal story (for example, dealing with polycystic ovarian syndrome, gender transition, and coming out), new feature boxes throughout (on topics such love hotels in Japan, foot binding, and gender variations), and extensive updates on same-sex relationships (including cohabitation both inside and outside the U.S, marriage and domestic partnerships, and same-sex divorce).

This edition strengthens its emphasis on sexual diversity within the U.S. and across cultures, particularly with respect to gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) sexual orientations. Topics include civil unions, ex-gay movements, same-sex parenting, and fertility treatments for gays and lesbians. A new GLBT Theme Index appears in the preface. Discussions of diversity issues involving sexual attitudes and behaviors also appear in Human Sexuality in a Diverse World boxes.